Best 604 quotes in «busy quotes» category

You know, I have a kid on my own, and I know how busy it is, the first weeks and the first month.

You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world.

You're never too old or too busy to continue your educatioan!

Your problem is not that you are too busy; your problem is that you don't own your situation.

You've been busy using your breaking and entering skills," I said. "I just enter. I don't usually break." "You broke down Pitch's door." "Lost my temper." -Ranger and Stephanie

You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do.

You were so busy trying to be my savior that you left me all alone.

As women, our ability to multitask can be a blessing, but it becomes a huge liability when we take on too much and then use our busyness as an excuse to get out of our intimacy responsibilities.

Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years.

A little deed done very well is better than a mighty plan kept on paper, undone. Wishes don't change the world; it's actions that do this business!

Approaching the Start of Civil Exams Perhaps I was once a young Chinese scholar approaching the start of civil exams, my mind grown weary and sad from seclusion with books on syntax and poetic style. All that I knew were the mist-covered mountains and sweet white blossoms of mountain apples that grew in the valleys of my province. But I had been gone over six years busy with studies in the Heavenly City empty and thin despite my work. I showed my verses to an older poet who told me a truth I longed to believe: all knowledge is futile and barren which does not open the love of your friends.

Bolts work on nuts; pens work on paper. But you must work on yourself. Go, get working!

Be kind to humanity, she is very lonely, everyone is busy with themselves.

Bless you with the curse to remain busy always.

Busy days galore...thoughts in a kaleidoscope of dervish dances.

Busy hands are better than babbling mouth.

Busy doesn't mean better. I have never envied a busy person – the one who likes to point out their busy lives to others.

Busy people make “to-do” lists when what they need is to reflect and create “stop-doing” lists.

Busy in a bus or lacking luck you poke to pluck a pick-up truck. Utterly shocked you choke in the lock and check if you chuck a buck or if you are stuck in the muck. So you should lurk in a day like this in such a murky lucky way. In a day when you don't know if you laugh or cry... Errands wait for those who are late in the busiest day. Such day that defies all your senses and makes you want to fly... To fly away!

Build your novel one word at a time. Remember that minutes = novels.

Busy is good because it shows you’re alive.

But some relationships aren't meant to last. They are worthy only till the time the two persons involved have time for each other. They do not know eternity. They live for the present, the "now". And when distance plays it part, or life turns out to be busy, they fall apart. And may be that's why they're never termed "LOVE". They simply remain what they were - mere RELATIONSHIPS.

Does it really take a full 9–5 to get our tasks done? Or … do we just “push paper,” masquerading as being productive while we are merely just running down the clock?

Don't allow anyone to hold you back from expressing your feelings. Maybe you just can't stand a chance of losing some friends, but if you must be truly you, you must be you! Nothing else!

Don’t stretch your neck to see who is not doing it; you can do it better! Don’t turn to watch whoever is watching you; everybody is busily watching over his own actions at hand! Go, make your own real; do at the right time. The right time is now; so do it now!

Don't become complacent because 'things could be worse' but rather get busy because 'things could be better'.

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

Dust sleeping on your bookshelf and all your plants are drying out you are too busy to save yourself is your mind heading for burnout? Coffee rings on your bedside table anxiety pills under your pillowcase working round the clock to foot the bill is there no time for breakfast these days? Friends haven't seen you in a while your phone is always out of reach you're slowly forgetting how to smile is your silence a figure of speech? Life can sometimes seem to be unfair but hoping is better than you think send the message in a bottle if you dare is it so hard to not force yourself to sink?

Empty mind is the devil's workshop...and busy mind kills creativity...

Even if you are completely busy at work, you should still have a constant ministry in the church

Everyone is busy, yet we all have access to the same amount of time.

Get out of your mind and become crazy about your future in a creative way!

Find one thing to do," she murmured, reciting the advice Mam had given her when she was a little girl, staring at the teacups, unsure where to start. "Then do it.

For people like us, looking towards the future can feel daunting. It can literally make us feel sick to the stomach and often induces panic attacks. Trust me, I’ve been there; I get it. That’s why the far-future should never be at the top of our “to-plan” list. It’s alright to have goals but to stress ourselves out with plans and options and worries of the future is a good way to drive us crazy. However, there is one time when I want you to consider the future. Always have something to look forward to.

Go, get some work. Keeping yourselves busy could solve many problems.

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.

Had it not been for "Nightline," Morrie would have died without ever seeing me again. I had no good excuse for this, except the one that everyone these days seems to have. I had become too wrapped up in the siren song of my life. I was busy.

He had rid my inherited house of a lustful ghost, opened my eyes to a concealed world of strange forces and arcane knowledge, and buggered me twice.

I dead each day when her call was busy elsewhere.

Idleness is a form of passivity in an active universe.

I had thought that if I kept myself busy, time would move faster, but no matter what I did, every second felt like an hour.

If you are too busy to love, you are too busy to live; if you are too busy to live, you are too busy to love.

If you don't want to be lonely... don't be lonely. 
Fill your days with purpose, work, friends, family, and your own company. 
You'll discover a wonderful new kind of romance with life and you'll be very happy.

I knew what he was doing. He was walking away from his thoughts but his thoughts were staying with him.

In consequence, when the pleasures have been removed which busy people derive from their actual activities, the mind cannot endure the house, the solitude, the walls, and hates to observe its own isolation. From this arises that boredom and self-dissatisfaction, that turmoil of a restless mind and gloomy and grudging endurance of our leisure, especially when we are ashamed to admit the reasons for it and our sense of shame drives the agony inward, and our desires are trapped in narrow bounds without escape and stifle themselves. From this arise melancholy and mourning and a thousand vacillations of a wavering mind, buoyed up by the birth of hope and sickened by the death of it. From this arises the state of mind of those who loathe their own leisure and complain that they have nothing to do, and the bitterest envy at the promotion of others. For unproductive idleness nurtures malice, and because they themselves could not prosper they want everyone else to be ruined. Then from this dislike of others' success and despair of their own, their minds become enraged against fortune, complain about the times, retreat into obscurity, and brood over their own sufferings until they become sick and tired of themselves.

Inevitably we find ourselves tackling too many things at the same time, spreading our focus so thin that nothing gets the attention it deserves. This is commonly referred to as "being busy." Being busy, however, is not the same thing as being productive.

.. I thought about him now and then, the things he had taught me about 'being human' and 'relating to others;, but it was always in the distance, as if from another life.. .. The people who might have told me were long forgotten, their phone numbers buried in some packed-away box in the attic.

In the midst of a busy life don't forget to live.

Nobody is freaking busy in this world. Wonders happen when you renounce that word. -Giridhar Alwar

I've heard it said, "If the Devil can't make us really bad, then he'll try to make us really busy.