Best 604 quotes in «busy quotes» category

The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.

The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.

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

The more you have to do, the more you have only NOW to get it done. That's why busy people get the most done.

The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan.

Then how come everyone's making like everything that isn't important is very important, all the while they're so busy pretending what's really important isn't important at all?

The older I get, the more I realize how much I have missed because I was so busy entertaining that audience and so busy pursuing a career.

The non-artists among us are always terribly busy, but finally disappear without a trace.

The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us (for a brief period, at least) are, 99 times out of a hundred, persons of mere effrontery-in a word, busy-bodies, toadies, quacks.

The only time anyone's admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they're better than me.

The paid Trump surrogates help CNN keep his supporters engaged with their shows, but it also sends their own reporters busy chasing after many of their false claims. That's not a virtuous news cycle. It's an insidious one.

The poor are too busy working to need justice.

The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.

The only option for a creative person was constant motion—a lifetime of busy whirligigging in a generally forward direction, until you couldn’t do it any longer.

There are too many bad policy choices to go into that are being pushed by the Trump Administration, but the relaxation of environmental regulations and corporate and banking regulations alone are enough to keep me busy and should be a big concern for every citizen who isn't a billionaire and likes to breathe air.

There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing.

There has been evolution in my work. In the beginning I was very much busy with the physical body and the limits of the physical body but that somehow naturally led me to the mental body and how I could deal with that. Stillness is so much harder, especially for three months. It was a big challenge. As a performer it is the most difficult experience one can have. And the interactive experience with the public made it even harder.

The road to climate stability is straight and the solutions simple, and yet scientists, economists, industrialists and politicians are busy making them complicated

The road had the lonely times, but I kept myself busy.

There's no time for winking at the men when you're busy bailing the boat.

The saddest things we fail at are fun things we never get to do, so in your busy day be sure to plan fun things too.

The secret of the truly successful ... is that they learned early in life how not to be busy.

The ship is going by a mighty engine, and you are busy rowing.

The truth is that's always when it's the most fun, when you're able to just be wherever you are, be whatever scene it is you're doing, whatever the incredible actors you're with. Being busy is something that I just love and thrive on.

The way to defeat fear: decide on a course of conduct and follow it. Keep so busy and work so hard that you forget about being afraid.

The truly ambitious are always as busy on the landings as they are breathless on the stairs.

They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?

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Those that walk with fear will always be too busy hiding.

This is the United States of America and it's always a busy time.

This game the Persian Magi did invent, The force of Eastern wisdom to express: From thence to busy Europeans sent, And styled by modern Lombards pensive chess.

To be busy is man's only happiness.

Those who are already feeling the effects of climate change don't have time to deny it - they're busy dealing with it.

Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy.

[To the British actor who annoyed her by repeated references to his busy 'shedule':] I think you're full of skit.

Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.

Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.

Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.

Waiting for clarity is like being a sculptor staring at a piece of marble, waiting for the statue within to cast off the unneeded pieces. Do not wait for clarity to spontaneously materialize-gra b a chisel and get busy!

Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or more - a day to write. Some very good things have been written on an hour a day.

We are a culture of people who've bought into the idea that if we stay busy enough, the truth of our lives won't catch up with us.

V'lane: Are you busy tomorrow MacKayla ? Barrons: She's working on old texts with me. V'lane: Ah. Old texts. A banner day at the bookstore. Barrons: We're translating Kama Sutra...with interactive aids.

Walking allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them.

We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.

We are so busy and have become so complex, being simple is actually esoteric.

We are sometimes so busy being good angels that we neglect to be good men and women.

Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

We are busy surviving, herding, fixating on what just happened, and being overconfident!

We don't get paid for being busy, we get paid for being right.

Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.