Top 62 Busy Person Quotes
#1. If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do. Lucille Ball
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Lucille Ball
#2. Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!
John Dryden
#3. We can see Spirit made visible when people are kind to one another, especially when it's a really busy person, like you, taking care of a needy, annoying, neurotic person, like you.
Anne Lamott
#4. Twenty-four hours is never enough for a busy person and way too much for somebody with nothing to do.
Kathie Lee Gifford
#5. Add a task to a busy person's plate, and it will get done in short order. Add a task to the plate of someone with nothing to do, and it will never get done.
Wes Fesler
#6. I love simple foods as well as grand. Dinners that take a half-hour from skillet to plate are as important as a five-course dinner. A meal that can materialize in an hour and be presented with care, love and pride is something every busy person longs to be able to do.
Anna Pump
#7. I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!
Romola Garai
#8. Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
Andre Maurois
#9. A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
E.W. Howe
#10. I'm busier than a busy person. People aren't scared to play this raucous, harsh music over radio speakers, so I think it's the perfect time to get in with some real serious, heavy bands.
Jason Newsted
#12. You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.
Dorothy Dix
#13. The best person to get something done is a busy person.
Mark Burnett
#14. You have to watch the clock constantly because youre only allowed out of your home for a limited period, and for a busy person, watching the clock and knowing other people are watching the clock is extremely difficult.
Martha Stewart
#15. 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
#16. No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person.
Robert Breault
#17. Be a busy person. People who are active are often much more at peace with themselves than those who are inactive and inert.
Wayne Dyer
#18. We all know that the way to get something done is to give it to a busy person.
Robert D. Putnam
#19. The Patrician of Ankh-Morpork sat back on his austere chair with the sudden bright smile of a very busy person at the end of a crowded day who's suddenly found in his schedule a reminder saying: 7.00-7.05, Be Cheerful and Relaxed and a People Person.
Terry Pratchett
#20. 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
#21. It's hard to feel smart when you're always forgetting things, but Mama Shannon says that's how you can tell a smart person. They're too busy thinking about Big Ideas to worry about little details like tying their shoes or remembering their homework" -Fella
Sarah Dooley
#22. Life is crazy. You travel and you're busy and there's so much going on that it's important to have the moments where you can breathe and you can just be present with the person or the people that you're there with.
Alexander Skarsgard
#23. Nowadays, people don't ask you how you are, they say, 'Are you busy?' meaning, 'Are you well?' If someone actually does ask you how you are, the most cheerful answer, of course, is a robust 'Busy!' to which the person will reply 'Good!'
Jo Ann Davis
#24. You are a unique person so get busy creating your unique position in this world.
Debasish Mridha
#25. I love working. If somebody took away my jobs, I don't know what I would do. I'm just the kind of person who has to stay busy.
Sherri Shepherd
#26. While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. - HENRY C . L I NK
John C. Maxwell
#27. I don't really think of myself as an inspirational person.
Instead, I tend to think of myself as being more like one of those guys standing on a busy street corner, twirling a a big pointed arrow.
Except that my sign points toward Heaven.
Jose N. Harris
#28. While you're busy looking for the perfect person, you'll probably miss the imperfect person who could make you perfectly happy.
John Spence
#29. When the business grows, the person who founded it is incredibly busy. Rapid growth puts an enormous strain on a business. You outgrow your production facilities. You outgrow your management capabilities.
Peter Drucker
#30. A proud person is so busy looking down on others they cannot humble themselves to look up at God.
LeCrae
#32. If one person "wastes" away his day by spending hours connecting with God, and the other person believes he is too busy or has better things to do than worship the Creator and Sustainer, who is the crazy one?
Francis Chan
#33. I'm too busy to be nostalgic, which is one of the reasons to keep busy. I'm not a very sentimental person.
Frederick Wiseman
#35. If I went to somewhere busy, I wouldn't last very long. I can't go to a museum - I'll last 10 or 15 minutes in a museum. The problem is that when one person asks for a photograph, then someone sees a flash goes off, then everyone else sort of ... it's sort of like a domino effect.
Emma Watson
#36. So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don't you will die inside as a person.
Katherine Dunham
#37. I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
Kate Winslet
#38. 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.
Meg Wolitzer
#39. He sat forlorn, feeling as if that most feared enemy of sleep had entered silently on a busy night, the one person whom you must come face to face with someday, who asks you, in the earshot of your oldest customers, to mix a cocktail whose name you have never heard.
Thomas Pynchon
#40. A person can hurry through or sleep walk through life, but whenever they stop to catch their breath or awaken from a long nap, they will find apprehension, disquiet, and fretfulness waiting their directed attention.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#41. No person I have ever met, not even the most righteous or pure of heart, has gone without those times when faith recedes in the busy-ness of life.
Mitt Romney
#42. Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.
Horace
#43. It's a luxury to have so much time, especially with someone so important and busy. You have to get a feel for the person.
Igor Babailov
#44. To me, 'busy' implies that the person is out of control of their life.
Derek Sivers
#45. The only thing I know is that a person who is not busy with others is one who recognizes the truth of existence.
Sadegh M. Angha
#46. I'm the type of person who loves to stay busy, even in my off-season.
Eli Manning
#47. Life could take on any number of shapes while you were busy fighting your own demons. But if you were changing at the same rate as the person beside you, nothing else really mattered. You became each other's constant.
Jodi Picoult
#48. Viscosity and velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of
disinclination, velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer can't tell if a person is silent and
still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.
Susanna Kaysen
#49. I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was accessible to the person who works at Dunkin Donuts or who drives a bus, someone who comes home with their feet hurting like my father, someone who's busy and has too many children, like my mother.
Sandra Cisneros
#50. [ ... ] every time he forces himself to think before acting, it's her voice in his head telling him to slow down. He wants to tell her, but she's always so busy in the medical jet - and you don't just go to somebody and say, I'm a better person because you're in my head.
Neal Shusterman
#51. No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.
Mary Kay Ash
#52. 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
#53. But she was seventeen now and not actually dumb. She knew that you could love somebody more than anything and still not love the person all that much, if you were busy with other things.
Jonathan Franzen
#54. If you are the leader, you don't have the right to say things like "Ugh, didn't eat this week I was so busy." "Haven't slept." I look sideways at those signs of bravado, which are intended to make one feel that the person is working so hard. I don't think that way.
Scott Raab
#55. I'm not really the author, the entrepreneur, the DJ, the martial artist, the teacher, the lecturer, the music producer, or even the person you can talk to when you need. I'm the guy that does what is necessary when everyone is busy talking about it and expressing opinions.
Robin Sacredfire
#56. I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie.
Busy Philipps
#57. My mum was too busy raising four of us to encourage my hopes. But I'm glad I had the upbringing I did. It made me a worrier and a thoughtful, curious person.
Ellie Goulding
#58. Some people never stop working, especially the demanding type of person whom the world never seems to touch, the indomitable person whom is determined to make the world their own place.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#59. Sometimes we're so busy looking at one thing, one ... person ... that we can't see anything else. Maybe - maybe it's time for you to open your eyes and look around.
Aprilynne Pike
#60. She could only wait. But she was not idle while she waited, because she was holding herself in readiness for whatever it was that she would have to do. She was trying not to be frightened in her mind, and she found that that sort of waiting and thinking really keep a person quite busy.
Elizabeth Goudge
#61. She's a good person, but she is a weak person, too. She can't take care of anyone else because she's too busy taking care of herself." I
Patricia Briggs
#62. I do the movies just for myself like an institutionalized person who basket-weaves. Busy fingers are happy fingers. I don't care about the films. I don't care if they're flushed down the toilet after I die.
Woody Allen
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