Top 100 Keep Busy Quotes
#1. If I keep myself busy I don't know how lonely I am. I only know how busy I am.
Kate McGahan
#2. On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf's lot to remain merry in the face of torment and adversity. I promised to keep that in mind.
David Sedaris
#3. The poor are so busy trying to survive from one day to the next, they haven't the time or energy to keep score.
Studs Terkel
#4. I'm not going to lay off or quit just because I'm busy. If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit.
Haruki Murakami
#5. The "more" of Christianity is a myth; a deceitful illusion designed to keep you busy and running in circles, always seeking but never finding, always learning but never coming to the knowledge of the Truth - a carrot on a stick, if you will.
D.R. Silva
#6. Keep me preoccupied Keep me busy, busy, busy So I won't have to think I don't want to think Because it only brings me pain I just keep running away from My problems Keep me busy Give me a million things to do So I can keep running away from myself.
Henry Rollins
#7. One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a thousand half-hearted, talkative busy men living frightened, fragmented lives of quiet desperation.
Robert McNamara
#8. I'm try[ing] to catch up on my work and you know I keep my eyes on the road, but I'm a busy man.
Rob Ford
#9. Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#10. I love music, and outside of work my family keeps me very busy, I have five children to keep track of.
Alberto Juantorena
#11. Keep busy, Sandy ... when you're busy you don't have time to brood ... "
"Life should be more than keeping busy."
"Maybe it should be, but for most of us, it's not.
Judy Blume
#12. I love making music so it's important for me to keep doing that even if the schedule is busy.
Michael Kiwanuka
#13. The investment world nevertheless has enough liars, cheaters, and thieves to keep Satan's check-in clerks frantically busy for decades to come.
Benjamin Graham
#14. I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer.
Martin Cruz Smith
#15. He had to keep busy; he had to keep moving so that the sinews connected behind his eyes did not slip loose and spin his eyes to the interior of his skull where the scenes waited for him.
Leslie Marmon Silko
#16. I don't think the Hollywood community is interested in what I can do. That's all right. I've never looked for a job in my life, and I'm not going to start now. I have plenty to keep me busy.
Mercedes McCambridge
#17. The ego will always be able to find ways to keep the aspirant busy in self-improvement, thus binding him or her to the fact that the self is still there behind all the improvements. For why should the ego kill itself?
Paul Brunton
#18. It's important to keep up momentum, when I'm home alone I get stagnant, I go crazy and have to see my therapist. Being on the road keeps me busy. I'm okay when I'm busy.
Gerard Way
#19. I'm a busy guy but I set aside quiet time every morning and every evening to keep my equilibrium centered on my own path. I don't like being swayed by anything that might be negative or damaging.
Donald Trump
#20. The ego is like a kid in the basement: It's best to keep him busy.
Tim Allen
#21. I'm someone who likes to keep busy, especially with projects that I find meaningful and fulfilling.
Niki Taylor
#22. When you didn't have the ocean or mountain to keep you busy, he supposed you hurled pumpkins.
G.P. Ching
#23. To proportion the eagerness of contest to its importance seems too hard a task for human wisdom. The pride of wit has kept ages busy in the discussion of useless questions, and the pride of power has destroyed armies, to gain or to keep unprofitable possessions.
Samuel Johnson
#24. We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still
Henry David Thoreau
#25. I have a lot of energy, and if I don't keep myself busy, I go crazy. I alphabetise the spice rack, separate the Lego from the Playmobile, colour-code the knicker drawers - it's scary! My house loves it when I'm working so the linen cupboard can get a rest. I just don't sit around.
Jerry Hall
#26. I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm not out in the Afghan desert with 70 pounds on my back, away from my family for a year at a time. I keep a good perspective on it.
Gary Sinise
#27. I'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins, I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in.
Warren Zevon
#29. That you do, Tink, but you also gotta keep your eyes open or the right one is going to pass you by because you were too busy looking for the white whale. -Phil
Jay Crownover
#30. I turn my gaze inward. I fix it there and keep it busy. I look inside myself. I continually observe myself.
Michel De Montaigne
#31. I will go to the saints first. Already there is plenty in Bacon's Corner for them to be upset about, plenty to divide them. I will keep them busy censuring and smiting each other, and then their hearts will be far from praying." He
Frank E. Peretti
#32. It's so funny castle, you know, at first I loved that he was so busy. It just, it just gave me the opportunity to keep one foot out the door just on case.
But with one foot out the door, it's hard to know where you stand.
And even if I did what does it mean?
Richard Castle
#33. Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
Don Marquis
#34. To stand strongly, we need three legs: Two legs and a work that will keep us busy!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#35. I don't have much time, I have to haul corpses. I don't have much time, I have to breath, eat, drink, sleep. I don't have much time, I have to keep the gears meshing. I don't have much time, I'm busy living. I don't have much time, I'm busy dying.
Roberto Bolano
#36. I'm not the kind of poet who arranges treasure-hunts to please the academics and keep them busy. Poetry should be surprising in deeper ways.
Michael Longley
#37. If the enemy can keep us occupied, we don't present much opposition.
Dan Davis
#38. I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.
Anthony Doerr
#39. Women are my hobby ... every man needs something to keep his hands busy, and I don't have a guitar like Eddie and Michael, or some drums to bash like Alex, so I have to find some friends.
Diamond D
#40. Joy comes to us in moments - ordinary moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary. Scarcity culture may keep us afraid of living small, ordinary lives, but when you talk to people who have survived great losses, it is clear that joy is not a constant.
Brene Brown
#41. I always keep myself busy. I'm writing. Or I'm creating something. Or I'm doing stuff with the kids. I'm up incredibly early in the morning; I go to bed incredibly late at night.
Natascha McElhone
#42. In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
Lee Iacocca
#43. Schools learned long ago that the way to keep children from thinking is to keep them busy.
Everett Reimer
#44. I juice everything! Whether it's beet, carrot, or apple, I'll juice it. I always keep brown rice in the kitchen. I'll often pack a cooler full of food to have throughout the day when I'm busy.
Misty May-Treanor
#45. Men? Sure, I've known lots of them. But I never found one I liked well enough to marry. Besides, I've always been busy with my work. Marriage is a career in itself and to make a success of it you've got to keep working at it. So until I can give the.
Mae West
#46. I love to keep busy. But I never forget it's the countdown that made it all possible.
Casey Kasem
#49. Keep busy, Granny Sugars used to say, even if with poker, fighting, and fast cars, because idleness will get you in worse trouble.
Dean Koontz
#50. If heaven really exists: then, technically, living is an activity that believers keep themselves busy with - while they wait for their death.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#51. When I finish a book, I get extremely restless; I have to aggressively find ways to occupy myself; going off into the woods alone, doing things that are physically or mentally demanding to keep myself busy until the next big idea comes.
Philipp Meyer
#52. I gotta keep busy. I'm not happy unless I'm working on two, three things.
Alan Arkin
#53. 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
#54. People cling to their rotten memories, to all their misfortunes, and you can't pry them loose. These things keep them busy. They avenge themselves for the injustice of the present by smearing the future inside them with this shit. They're cowards deep down, and just. That's their nature.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#55. I'm not very good at resting on my laurels. I am a bit of a workaholic, and I like to keep busy and active, so I think that's what drives me.
Tricia Helfer
#56. I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#57. Sometimes, when you are busy and children ask funny questions, you don't think so much. You just answer quickly so they will leave you alone. If you don't answer, they will just keep asking or they will go and do something very bad.
Jinat Rehana Begum
#58. Once we become tethered to the network, we really don't need to keep computers busy. THEY KEEP US BUSY.
Sherry Turkle
#59. Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I think that the chances of finding out what's actually going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say, "Hang the sense of it," and keep yourself busy. I'd much rather be happy than right any day.
Douglas Adams
#60. I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.
Cameron Mathison
#61. Being my own boss and working inside an industry that's not really an industry, I need to keep busy and keep working. The only way to make money in music - unless you're managing someone - is to tour, and even that depends on where you are at.
Kyp Malone
#62. I always like to keep busy, otherwise my brain starts ticking.
Nicholas Hoult
#63. I got involved in lots of different areas round about 2007, 2008. Just working with lots of different people and stretching myself in different ways. I was working on art projects and working with other writers, just doing bits and pieces, trying to keep busy.
Stevie Jackson
#64. 'Desperate Housewives' is an ensemble cast, where I played a tertiary character. I made a lot of great friends, but that show didn't keep me very busy.
Nathan Fillion
#65. Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.
Teddy Wilson
#66. Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years.
Charles Hermite
#67. I keep dying and hoping you notice me. But you're too busy living.
F.K. Preston
#68. Tanner: I think that I might kiss you to keep your lips busy with something other than insulting me.
Ella: If you think you can do it without getting lost.
Melissa Lemon
#69. We're able to see how we run and hide and keep ourselves busy so that we never have to let our hearts be penetrated.
Pema Chodron
#70. The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. Keep active, keep busy!
Dale Carnegie
#71. The best fighters don't worry about what the other man may do. And if they keep things moving fast enough, the other man is too busy to do much thinking.
Erle Stanley Gardner
#72. You should - " "Shh... we don't have much time. I need to tell you what happened in my fantasy before you find something else to keep you busy. Now where was I?
Erika Reed
#73. Here's what I've learned about raising boys ... if you keep 'em busy, they're fine. You let 'em get bored, they'll dismantle your house board by board.
Kenny Rogers
#74. I learned to knit in hospital. They give you stuff to do to keep you busy because you're so ill.
Ringo Starr
#75. On the Morning of Christ's Nativity Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.
John Milton
#76. When I was as little as four years old, my mom would give me a pen and paper and tell me to write a story to keep me busy.
Tracie Peterson
#77. To be in the present time, keep yourself busy always or else you will find yourself either in the past or in the future!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#78. Just let them sit in the goddam sun. But the world won't let them because there's nothing more dangerous than letting old farts sit in the sun. They might be thinking. Same thing with kids. Keep 'em busy or they might start thinking.
Frank McCourt
#79. 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
#80. I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.
Danielle Steel
#81. I believe it doesn't matter what it is, as long as you can find something concrete to keep you busy while you are living your meaningless life.
Ruth Ozeki
#82. I really don't care what you do, but maybe it'll keep you busy enough that you'll stop coming over here unannunced and throwing yourself at creatures of darkness.
Richelle Mead
#83. Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather.
Louisa May Alcott
#84. Don't give in, Alex, don't let them win. You beat them once and you can do it again. Don't let this place break you. Keep your mind busy, keep yourself occupied, find things to do. If you're doing things, then you still exist, right?
Alexander Gordon Smith
#85. I always find something to keep me busy.
Amy Sedaris
#86. In England, I was quite struck to see how forward the girls are made
a child of 10 years old, will chat and keep you company, while her parents are busy or out etc.
with the ease of a woman of 26. But then, how does this education go on?
Not at all: it absolutely stops short.
Fanny Burney
#87. My mom devised a plan to get me out of the house and gave me the choice between ballet or skating. She knew both of those sports were time-consuming and would keep me busy with hours of practice.
Ashley Wagner
#88. If the devil can't steal your soul, he'll just keep you busy doing meaningless church work.
Shane Claiborne
#89. Being busy and being productive are not necessarily the same. Many people keep busy to avoid taking action on things they're afraid to pursue.
Lauren Mackler
#90. I'm sorry little bird But that was the way you were made. There will always be distance. But we will make sure your gilded cage Is resplendent. You will live seperate, but we will keep you so busy That you don't know You're not free.
Rex Emerson Jackson
#91. I keep a diary when I have time to. I always know that I'm either having a great time or I'm very busy when there are three weeks of nothing in my diary. But I like to look back because in ten years to the day I can know where I was and what I was doing, and that's a nice feeling.
Olivia Newton-John
#92. What I would really love to happen to me would be if I came upon an idea that would keep me busy until I die so I wouldn't have to go through the business of thinking up a new book. But I wouldn't mind writing a long book which is going to occupy me for the rest of my life.
Philip Roth
#93. Never look back, except for an occasional glance, look ahead and plan for the future. Success is not built on past laurels, but rather on a continuous activity. Keep busy searching out new ideas and, experimentally, keep ahead of the times, or at least up with them.
Dorothy Draper
#94. I have got to do something that makes me focus on one thing, and so I will sit and listen to music, or I will read, or I will go and make ammunition in my workshop. I have just got to keep myself busy.
David Feherty
#95. All along I've thought the best way to keep out all the voices in my head directing my life this way and that was to stay busy, to distract my brain from itself, but it's this profound silence that releases me from worry.
Rachel Friedman
#96. The worlds high on doing and distracting and as result we need to keep doing and it doesn't really matter what we are doing, as long as it is distracting.
Evan Sutter
#97. Ministers are tempted to join the ranks of those who consider it their primary task to keep other people busy ... But our task is the opposite of distraction ... how to keep them from being so busy that they can no longer hear the voice of God who speaks in silence.
Henri Nouwen
#98. I'd make my promises now if I wasn't so busy arranging to keep them.
Orson Welles
#99. I think I'd better do the actual stealing," Hermione continued in a matter-of-fact tone. "You two will be expelled if you get into anymore trouble, and I've got a clean record. So all of you need to do is cause enough mayhem to keep Snape busy for five minutes or so.
J.K. Rowling
#100. When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.
Vince McMahon
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