Busy Quotes

Problem with an old friend who is too busy: he always perceives you as if never changed.

~ Toba Beta

Bless you with the curse to remain busy always.

~ Amit Abraham

I don't envy busy. Busy means having a schedule, not living life. What I really covet is leisure and peace of mind. Those who have both, have it all.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

We each have 24 hours in a given day, how we choose to spend each moment determines how spent we are”! EL

~ Evinda Lepins

Essential to time-management is a change in focus, a change from being ‘busy’ to a focus on outcomes

~ Tony Buon

Never be so busy as not to think of others.

~ Mother Teresa

People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

~ Florence King

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.

~ Erich Fromm

In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is a failure. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.

~ Seth Godin

I love, love, love being an actor - it's still the hardest and scariest thing I do, outside of parenting. But I've always been someone who likes a busy day.

~ Sarah Jessica Parker

Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, 'I work at 'Saturday Night Live,' and that is so cool.

~ Tina Fey

My mom devised a plan to get me out of the house and gave me the choice between ballet or skating. She knew both of those sports were time-consuming and would keep me busy with hours of practice.

~ Ashley Wagner

So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.

~ Dave Eggers

The real reason Jews don't have more Hanukkah music is that, historically, American Jewish singer-songwriters were too busy making Christmas music. 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,' 'Silver Bells' and 'The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting)' were all written by Jews.

~ Matisyahu

One of my favorite traditions is that my sisters and I, we all wear the same pajamas. I've even still got some from when I was 6. Also, I'll always remember cooking together in the kitchen and that no matter how busy our schedules are, we are all together for Christmas.

~ Bailee Madison

I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.

~ Bebe Rexha

Have you ever noticed some people are able to stay organized while getting a massive quantity of work accomplished, while others appear to be busy but never actually produce results? Time management is the key to becoming a successful entrepreneur.

~ Clay Clark

O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

~ Abu Bakr

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

~ Sue Grafton

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

~ Eric Hoffer

We are all busy. It's easy to find excuses for not reaching out to others, but I imagine they will sound as hollow to our Heavenly Father as the elementary school boy who gave his teacher a note asking that he be excused from school March 30th through the 34th.

~ Joseph B. Wirthlin

I went to a school called Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. I went because initially I was very naughty, and my mom thought if I was busy, I'd be better. And I didn't really do acting until later on in the school, with an amazing teacher. I left, went traveling, came back.

~ Daisy Ridley

When I began making electronic music, the only thing I was thinking about was creating music that I really liked. I didn't think about what effect it would have; I was busy doing it.

~ Jean-Michel Jarre

The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

~ Leon Edel

I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.

~ Garrison Keillor

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

~ André Maurois

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

~ Iris Murdoch

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

~ Victor Hugo

My healthiest habit is eating a healthy breakfast every morning. I never miss breakfast. As a busy mom, there will be days when I'm cruisin' along and I'll look at the clock and I haven't eaten lunch. And I'll run downstairs, and I'll start shovelin' stuff down the pie hole, and I'll think, 'That was no lunch at all.'

~ Summer Sanders

I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.

~ Jane Smiley

I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, I'm the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so I'm not taking busy time away from people that I should be spending it with. So I'm just relaxing and enjoying it.

~ Betty White

Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin or a skull, but you don't know what's inside.

~ Mario Botta

Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.

~ Vernon Law

I try to keep it real. I don't have time to worry about what I'm projecting to the world. I'm just busy being myself.

~ Demi Lovato

No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.

~ Mary Kay Ash

I like to be lazy. I do like to be busy and really active, but when that's done, you can be sure I will be a lazy boy. I like to take time and relax and enjoy life.

~ Olivier Theyskens

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?

~ Marie Dressler

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

~ H. Jackson Brown