Busy Quotes

When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.

~ Sylvia Plath

The best person to get something done is a busy person.

~ Mark Burnett

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

~ Joyce Meyer

No matter how busy I get or how much pressure is on my shoulders, a good workout makes me feel at ease. I come off the treadmill feeling relaxed, full of joy and with a sense of perspective over the issues on my plate.

~ Robin S. Sharma

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

~ Kanye West

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

~ B. C. Forbes

One of the greatest attacks of the enemy is to make you busy, to make you hurried, to make you noisy, to make you distracted, to fill the people of God and the Church of God with so much noise and activity that there is no room for prayer. There is no room for being alone with God. There is no room for silence. There is no room for meditation.

~ Paul Washer

We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

~ T. D. Jakes

The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

~ Jeremy Bentham

In my experience, being busy and working hard is the key to sanity/happiness.

~ Jemima Khan

Skydiving is special because it's almost the closest to an out-of-body experience you can have. We live in such a stimulated, connected, busy world - to be up in the air with nothing but yourself and the landscape is incredibly peaceful.

~ Georgia King

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

~ Dale Carnegie

The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grass roots - create a ceaseless buzz.

~ Gary Wolf

'Crazy-busy' is a great armor, it's a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we're feeling and what we really need can't catch up with us.

~ Brené Brown

Not only are pasta dishes delicious, but they are also great, easy options for a quick dinner during a busy weekday.

~ Marcus Samuelsson

I live in a town called Beerwah, right in the middle of Australia Zoo. It's not hustle and bustle and busy, so that's helpful. We travel all over the world, but I've always been able to come home and run around in the middle of the Australian outback.

~ Bindi Irwin

Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that people don't have contemplative time any more. I worry deeply about this. In fact, I worry about everything all the time. I used to be a punk. All I wanted to do was tear everything down, and that was so much easier.

~ T. C. Boyle

I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.

~ Meryl Streep

The grass is always greener on the other side. We are busy applying fairness creams while people in the West go bare-bodied on the beach to get a tan. Indian girls have ruled the roost when it comes to beauty pageants. I flaunt my complexion, and I am proud to be noticed as an Indian wherever I go.

~ Shilpa Shetty

Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people.

~ Kelly Osbourne

As a busy working mom I'm always pressed for time, so a quick and easy beauty routine is key!

~ Angela Kinsey

Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.

~ James Lipton

I'm too busy thinking what I'm going to say next to remember what I've said, but my staff tells me I'm sometimes funny. Not always on purpose, though.

~ Jared Polis

The typical American citizen is the business man. The typical business man is a bad citizen; he is busy. If he is a 'big business man' and very busy, he does not neglect; he is busy with politics, oh, very busy and very businesslike.

~ Lincoln Steffens

Politics is a tough game. But would I change places with a trauma nurse in an emergency ward on a busy Saturday night? No way. There are lots of jobs in the world that are tougher than politics. And politicians and people who've done it need to remember that.

~ Michael Ignatieff

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

~ Nelson Mandela

Of course, you decide which story you want to tell. For me, it's been very authentic, so sometimes I'm super happy, and I post four pictures one after the other; sometimes I'm busy, and I don't. Sometimes I'm sad, and I post a sad picture.

~ Chiara Ferragni

Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

~ Horace

People are so busy positioning themselves before the screen and talking on the damn cellphones, communicating, that we're not reading, and in fact we're not really communicating, either. We're not talking to each other. There's just all these screens and wires and technology in between.

~ Lee Smith

As I've told Tyler, there's not a really easy place between being single and being married for us now. We're just so busy that the logistics of our career make dating impossible. I think I'll find a girl at some point that makes all of the extra work and effort that needs to be put into it worth it. But for right now, I just date my drums.

~ Josh Dun

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

~ Torquato Tasso

I'm someone who's always on the go and crazy busy, so I like to keep snacks in my car and at the office, and Cracker Jack'd is a really yummy snack that I love. I definitely am a big snacker.

~ Ashley Tisdale

When I received the news of the Nobel Peace Award, I could not believe it. I told my father, 'I think they have the wrong name, Dad. Please, can you talk to this man on the phone? I'm busy cooking!'

~ Betty Williams

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

~ John Lennon

You can really only enjoy life when you're extremely busy.

~ Josephine De La Baume

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

~ Socrates

If it's a romantic holiday, the only thing I need is my wife. We love quiet and calm places where we can't be disturbed. Neither of us likes being in busy places; we would much rather stay in our hotel room and enjoy each other's company.

~ Jean Reno

I proposed to my wife on Brighton Beach, and she said yes. That's pretty romantic. Even though I forgot to go down on one knee because I was too busy trying to compose the question.

~ Robert Webb

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

~ Henry David Thoreau

On tour, you never have a home, you don't get used to anything, and you're always super busy.

~ Travis Barker