Busy All The Time Quotes

#1. My family loves to take me out, and we do regular things like go to the movies. My friends do that as well. At the same time, I love work and I want to be busy all the time!

Olivia Holt

#2. I'm busy all the time.

Thalia

#3. Look at your mind dispassionately; this is enough to calm it. When it is quiet, you can go beyond it. Do not keep it busy all the time. Stop it - and just BE.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#4. Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting - or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#5. I discovered that the best thing for me was to be very busy all the time. I can get a lot done, and I can do those tasks well.

Terry J. Lundgren

#6. You look at most artists, the arc of their career, there's a definite decline at the end. And that decline could set in at any time. In your 50s, or your 60s and 70s if you're lucky. Time goes by fast, and you've got to be busy all the time.

Seth

#7. Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.

Terry Pratchett

#8. Sometimes all you need is to keep yourself busy all the time.

Lovely Goyal

#9. Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I've been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity.

Sam Wyly

#10. I Have Learned Why People Work So Hard To Succeed: It Is Because They Envy The Things Their Neighbors Have. But It Is Useless. It Is Like Chasing The Wind ... It Is Better To Have Only A Little, With Peace Of Mind, Than Be Busy All The Time With Both Hands, Trying To Catch The Wind

Anonymous

#11. I remain totally convinced that when children are young, however busy we may be with the practical duties inside the home, themost important thing of all is to devbote enoughh time and care to their needs and problems.

Margaret Thatcher

#12. My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn ... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time.

Bob Feller

#13. I had all the material for a long time, but I was just too busy. Sometimes we'd sit around at home and sing some of these songs at family things, and everyone always said I should record them.

June Carter Cash

#14. Stop trying to be a hero all the time. You're so busy saving everyone else you forget about yourself.

Kate McCarthy

#15. I don't have time to worry about the things that could happen. I am too busy thinking of all the happy things that have happened.

Luke Jensen

#16. L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of an island for me - less intense, less busy; because of time difference and location, it has a calming effect. At least it used to be all that.

Nicolas Berggruen

#17. 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

#18. I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy week. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks.

Gavin MacLeod

#19. The fatted calf, the best Scotch, the hoedown could all have been his too, any time he asked for them except that he never thought to ask for them because he was too busy trying cheerlessly and religiously to earn them.

Frederick Buechner

#20. Most people are too busy to rethink the way they think - or to even spend much time thinking at all.

Steven D. Levitt

#21. The best thing you can do is just keep busy, keep working hard, so you're not dwelling on it all the time. Work is the best antidote for sorrow.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#22. I have a very full and busy life and occasionally I am asked, Scotty, how can you do all that you do? The most telling reply I can give is: Because I spend at least two hours a day doing nothing.

M. Scott Peck

#23. He was too busy checking out and checking in, making and breaking plans, buying and losing cell phones, playing computer games and pool, looking at stock quotes, and living the chaotic life that effectively took up all his energy and time.

Dalma Heyn

#24. 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

#25. People tried to force me to feel better. But the only things that worked were time and distraction. Distract yourself. Stay busy. Count marshmallows, study frogs, whatever it takes. Time heals all wounds. It just does.

Carrie Firestone

#26. There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of workers in the world, the people who do all the work, and the people who think they do all the work. The latter class is generally the busiest, the former never have time to be busy.

Stella Benson

#27. We all have the same 24/7. What we do with our time becomes our priority. Choose what you do with your time and do not lead a life by default

Patt Hollinger Pickett

#28. Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the "Faery Queen."

James Russell Lowell

#29. This world is too fast and the people are so busy they may never get the time to stop and admire you when they pass you by; and I'm afraid this will slowly make you forget how very beautiful you are. Never forget that, love. You're an angel. The most beautiful of all angels.

Adwitiya Borah

#30. I don't really have a type. I just kind of hang out with girls that I think have a good personality, know how to have fun, active and definitely have something going on in their life so they are busy so I'm not stuck all the time hanging out.

Ryan Sheckler

#31. THOUGH you are in your shining days, Voices among the crowd And new friends busy with your praise, Be not unkind or proud, But think about old friends the most: Time's bitter flood will rise, Your beauty perish and be lost For all eyes but these eyes.

William Butler Yeats

#32. I'm all for experimenting with sortition - randomly selected representative bodies of citizens. But I don't favor direct democracy. We're busy. We have lives. There is reddit. Who has time to work out the right answer to the thousand policy choices a gov't must make all the time?

Lawrence Lessig

#33. They all saw her as a little sister, someone cute and sweet to spend time with when they were feeling homesick or their girlfriends were busy. They didn't see her as a woman, as someone worthy of spending time with, someone worth the risk of losing their heart.

R.L. Mathewson

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

Marie Dressler

#35. You're too busy writing the next book to worry about Googling yourself all the time.

Annette Curtis Klause

#36. We all have a one or more gifts inside of us, but a lot of the time we're too busy to unwrap that gift

Steven Aitchison

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

Sylvia Plath

#38. I've tried in my career to do most everything, because it all intrigues me. And I've found the first time I work in a new form, I discover all the things that make that an exciting medium. I've been very busy most of my career. I've had very few vacations.

Rupert Holmes

#39. And so, I will be probably, since I am not involved in all the activity, I will have some spare time to devote to document all this busy part of the flight.

Umberto Guidoni

#40. We are all so busy and so frantic that we don't take the time to appreciate the stuff that surrounds us.

Nick Veasey

#41. What would the world come to if people kept carrying grudges against all reason? That has been the cross of Sicily, where men are so busy with vendettas they have no time to earn bread for their families.

Mario Puzo

#42. Grown-up people seem to be busy by clockwork ... They run their unswerving course from object to object, directed by some mysterious inner needle that points all the time to what they must do next. You can only marvel at such misuse of time.

Elizabeth Bowen

#43. It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps.

William Boyd

#44. I'm sorry if humans mistreated your people in the past, but if we don't join together now, it's time to admit that we're all just keeping busy while we wait for the Earth to die.

Andy Goldman

#45. Our attention span is shot. We've all got Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD or OCD or one of these disorders with three letters because we don't have the time or patience to pronounce the entire disorder. That should be a disorder right there, TBD - Too Busy Disorder.

Ellen DeGeneres

#46. The thing about Magellan is the thing about all these explorers. Most of the time, they're just determined to chase impossible things. And most of them are so busy looking at the horizon that they can't even see what's right in front of them.

Morgan Matson

#47. A busy person is usually the most efficient because they know how to manage their time. That's something I learned through dancing all through school and all throughout my life.

Lindsay Arnold

#48. Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.

William Faulkner

#49. Perhaps, after all, there is something in the theory that only the ultra-busy can find time for everything.

James Agate

#50. I imagine possible relations all the time. All the time. My God, in my teens I was fucking tragic for it. I scarcely existed in the real world at all. I lived in some kind of ... Sex Narnia. My love life was busy, exciting, and totally imaginary.

Caitlin Moran

#51. [W]hen it's slow, they send you home, and when it's busy, they expect you to stay late. They also expect you to be able to come in to cover someone's shift if a co-worker gets sick at the last minute. Basically, they're expecting you to be available to work all the time. Scheduling is impossible.

Linda Tirado

#52. When I first did 'Moby,' I didn't realize how taxing it would be. I was climbing fifty feet up in the air and climbing down. Literally, it's so busy, you feel you're on a ship. You're always moving; you're constantly adding clothes or taking them off, and there are many people on stage all the time!

Stephen Costello

#53. How come I have too many things to do all the time ... ??

Hiroko Sakai

#54. I asked him what his work was. He answered that he devoted all his time to his political activities ... He was undoubtedly busy with the diplomatic relations between his testicles and women's breast.

Marjane Satrapi

#55. He been a good man always, I think, but this tenderness was new. It was the tenderness of an old man who had been busy all his life but now had time to pay attention to useless things. But it was more than that . . . a suffering he neither complained of nor denied.

Wendell Berry

#56. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time; they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next. That is not what people want. People want to be left alone to look after their cattle.

Alexander McCall Smith