Being Too Busy Quotes

#1. After being let go from CBS and looking for a year for work, I will never catch myself complaining about being too busy.

Mika Brzezinski

#2. My idea of perfect is being too busy laughing at yourself to care what you look like

Katie Kacvinsky

#3. What is hell to a writer? Hell is being too busy to find the time to write or being unable to find the inspiration. Hell is suddenly finding the words but being away from your notebook or typewriter. Hell is when the verses slip away through your fingers and they never return again.

R.M. Engelhardt

#4. Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.

Paul Frank Baer

#5. The first important act of self-denial for 21st-century followers of Jesus may be to say no to being too busy to be a disciple.

Thomas Oord

#6. We hurt people by being too busy. Too busy to notice their needs. Too busy to drop that note of comfort or encouragement or assurance of love. Too busy to listen when someone needs to talk. Too busy to care.

Billy Graham

#7. Most often we forget to live our lives by being too busy passing the time.

Debasish Mridha

#8. I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything.

Lydia Lunch

#9. I do think my old fella wasn't much of a ... I don't remember him ever being a 'dad' dad. He was too busy working. It was a hard life, man.

Noel Gallagher

#10. There is magic everywhere around you, but most people are too busy being grownup to notice it.

Sassafras Lowrey

#11. And it's very hard to do this stuff too because there are so many effects movies being done, so many companies busy doing this work and the public just wants to see it. Good work is being done all over the world.

Dennis Muren

#12. I could totally be a ...
whatever."
"Sailor?"
"On a boat?"
"Yep."
"Yeah." He'll sigh all wistfully. "I could be a sailor. But I'm too busy being a fish.

Hannah Moskowitz

#13. I was too busy wallowing in pain and bitterness. Too busy being tragic.

Joe Abercrombie

#14. You forgot how to be awesome because you were too busy being cool

Robyn Schneider

#15. We're too busy being special.

Scott Westerfeld

#16. I grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens, with no money. I was taught not to take anything for granted. If you are too busy being a diva or a freak, then you are not enjoying it.

Lucy Liu

#17. (M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect ... you know ... like being people.

Toni Cade Bambara

#18. So you were talking crap about me? Hm. I missed it. I was too busy being fabulous.

Dan Pearce

#19. I'm not being condescending, I'm too busy thinking about far more important things you wouldn't understand.

Jimmy Carr

#20. Ya called Fargo yet?"
"No, I've been too busy trying to destroy the Guild and corrupt Simon's soul. Being evil is a full-time job.

Jana Oliver

#21. Many people will never learn the lessons meant for them in this lifetime, nor become the person they were meant to be, simply because they are too busy being someone else.

Suzy Kassem

#22. It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.

Katharine Hepburn

#23. A busy life is filled with tremendous emptiness.

Debasish Mridha

#24. Being creative and playing with your content during the holidays is a great idea. But straying too far from your fundamental brand (from address, logo, etc.) can be a dangerous game. Your recipients need to be able to recognize you during this busy time of year.

Paul Ford

#25. When there is no one to teach you life will show you. All you have to do is pay attention.
People unfortunately rarely take the time to sit back and evaluate. Their too busy being busy.

Therone Shellman

#26. The superior man does not mind being in office; all he minds about is whether he has qualities that entitle him to office. He does not mind failing to get recognition; he is too busy doing the things that entitle him to recognition.

Confucius

#27. Are you too busy for improvement? Frequently, I am rebuffed by people who say they are too busy and have no time for such activities. I make it a point to respond by telling people, look, you'll stop being busy either when you die or when the company goes bankrupt.

Shigeo Shingo

#28. If you're too busy being angry at the world, don't be surprised when the world returns serve.

Tony Curl

#29. I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.

Patrick Rothfuss

#30. A few weeks ago, if you had told me that being held in David Stark's arms was one of the nicest things I'd ever feel, I wouldn't have laughed at you. I would've been too busy choking on my own horror.

Rachel Hawkins

#31. It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.

Katharine Hepburn

#32. I barely slept during high school because I was too busy dancing and acting all the time. The plan was to go to my dream college that had one of the best performing arts programs, and then go to LA to follow my dream of being an actress.

Rachele Brooke Smith

#33. Facts are too busy being true to worry about how you feel about them.

Dan Wells

#34. Where some people have a self, most people have a void, because they are too busy in wasting their vital creative energy to project themselves as this or that, dedicating their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like rather than actualizing their potentiality as a human being

Bruce Lee

#35. This town, this country, this world, is full to the brim with clever people, and just look at it. Never been in such awful shape. Clever people don't give a damn about anybody but themselves. Too busy being clever. The world doesn't need anymore clever people. It needs people with wisdom.

Jon Steele

#36. The object is to keep busy being something ... as opposed to doing something. We are all sent here to bring more gratitude, more kindness, more forgiveness and more love into this world. That is too big a job to be accomplished by just a few.

Richard Nelson Bolles

#37. He was always dependable, she realized. She was usually too busy being irritated by him to notice.

Julia Quinn

#38. I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.

Armie Hammer

#39. We haven't been too bad, have we?"
"No, nor enormously good. I suppose that's the trouble - we haven't been much of anything except us, while a big part of the world was busy being lots of awful things.

Ray Bradbury

#40. I'm too busy being the bad guy." It was one of those things that get said in a marriage, something that starts out as a genuine compliment but turns into a criticism without either party noticing or caring all that much.

Sarah Dunn

#41. They were nice enough people and all, but there wasn't much love in them. Because they were too busy being afraid. Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well in a place where it was always dark.

Stephen King

#42. There are some people that don't take jobs because they think that they're too good for them or that they aspire to do something greater than the job that they're being presented with. I've just never been from that school.

Busy Philipps

#43. And if I ever thought Ash held all the power in their relationship, I see it clearly now. Embry holds my husband's heart in his hands and he doesn't even know it. He's too busy looking at the details of Ash's faces to see the expression, too busy being in love to see how loved he is.

Sierra Simone

#44. Don't you know? Adam wondered. He, at least, could still smell diesel fuel on his hands. Don't you know what I am?
But this flock of peacocks was too busy fooling to notice they were being fooled.

Maggie Stiefvater

#45. Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living; now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!

Diablo Cody

#46. It's really hard to hate someone for being different when you're too busy laughing together.

George Takei

#47. Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.

Mark Buchanan

#48. You're too busy being you that you don't realize how utterly unprecedented you are.

John Green

#49. When I was 21 I think I thought I was 31. I was always kind of doing the right thing, and it wasn't until my late twenties that I became just a completely wild asshole. So I should've had that out of my system already and I was too busy being a grown-up.

Ryan Reynolds

#50. It was another one of his enigmatic brainteasers that he never elaborated on. I should have pressed for more, but I was too busy being swallowed up by him. I was distracted from everything, blinded by lust and drowning in his intensity. He completely consumed me.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#51. If you want to know all about the sea ... and ask the sea itself, what does it say? Grumble grumble swish swish. It is too busy being itself to know anything about itself.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#52. Maybe I'm too busy being yours to fall for somebody new.

Alex Turner

#53. I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

Rex Stout

#54. It's strange how many of us choose to stuff our lives with busyness and distractions. When we're too busy, we don't do anything well. Our relationships suffer, our performance at work suffers, and we don't enjoy our lives. Yet being "crazy busy" is a badge of honor for some people.

Bert Jacobs

#55. We've let too much time go by. We've been busy with war instead of being busy with peace. And that's what space travel is all about. It's all about peace and exploration and wonder and beauty.

Ray Bradbury

#56. You're going to be too busy being at my beck and call to worry about doing any driving.

Shawn Keenan

#57. You and I wear the dangerous looseness of doom and find it becoming. Life,for eternal us,is now;and now is much too busy being a little more than everything to seem anything,catastrophic included.

E. E. Cummings

#58. I have to admit, Tanner can be a smart kid. You know, when he's not too busy being completely useless.
(Ryland Ascunse)

Douglas Pershing

#59. There are far too many beautiful women in the world out there who don't get how attractive they are simply because stupid men are too busy being too intimidated to talk to them. Lucky for my girl, I'm a cocky son of a bitch. - Jonathan di Luca

R. Matthews

#60. I'd never looked up and enjoyed the stars for being stars; I'd missed out on the beauty. First I was too afraid and then I was too busy.

Bridget Blackwood

#61. One of the major obstacles impeding any positive future change in our lives is that we are too busy with our current work or activity. Levi quit his tax-work, Peter stopped fishing at lake, Paul ceased being a priest. They all left their jobs because they thought it was necessary.

John Ruskin

#62. I would try being friends with her, but she's too busy being a smartass."

"Now you know how the rest of us feel," Jim said.

Ilona Andrews

#63. Sometimes we can't enjoy the bloom of a rose because we're too busy crying over being pricked by the thorn.

Suzannah Daniels

#64. Not everybody will get it. People will misinterpret you and what you do. They might even call you names. So get comfortable with being misunderstood, disparaged, or ignored
the trick is to be too busy doing your work to care.

Austin Kleon

#65. He was too busy being ghostly to attend to her, however.

Maggie Stiefvater