My Mind Is Busy Quotes

#1. All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate.

Nellie Bly

#2. Success is not a destination: It is a journey. The happiest people I know are those who are busy working toward specific objectives. The most bored and miserable people I know are those who are drifting along with no worthwhile objectives in mind.

Zig Ziglar

#3. Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.

Gautama Buddha

#4. When we think we're multitasking we're actually multiswitching. That is what the brain is very good at doing - quickly diverting its attention from one place to the next. We think we're being productive. We are, indeed, being busy. But in reality we're simply giving ourselves extra work.

Michael Harris

#5. We may be very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in mind.

Stephen Covey

#6. His shirt is rumpled. His fingers, long and slender, are stained yellow at the tips from smoking. His mind is always on something else. My mind is busy, too, reading every cue and signal, keeping track of all the things that cannot be discussed, that must not be remembered, that have to be erased.

Kristen Iversen

#7. In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#8. My mind is so busy thinking about values that I don't have time to experience them.

Aldous Huxley

#9. This, to a busy mind like his, was a truly deplorable situation; and had he not been a man of inflexible morals and regular habits, there would have been great danger of his taking to politics or drinking - both which pernicious vices we daily see men driven to by mere spleen and idleness.

Washington Irving

#10. 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

#11. My mind mellows now, and I sit back, glad to be done with a busy day. Evening's tranquility presents a chance to settle in with myself and with You. It is the time of day that I most often reflect on who I am and what my life means.

Hope Lyda

#12. When you are on the erg your mind is too busy to pay attention to the sounds of the machine; you notice only that they are indeed loud.

Barry S. Strauss

#13. 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

#14. Humble in a humble state and great in greatness, I will work out the divinity that is busy within my mind.

Pindar

#15. I don't mind the dark, and because it's Christmas, we've been busy putting lights up everywhere. High, so everyone knows we're okay.

Mary Ann Rivers

#16. Just keep your conscious mind busy with expectation of the best.

Joseph Murphy

#17. I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry, Whence this excess of joy? What has befallen me? And from within a thrilling voice replies, Thou art in Rome! A thousand busy thoughts Rush on my mind, a thousand images; And I spring up as girt to run a race!

Samuel Rogers

#18. 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

#19. Food is less important to me because I've learned to control my appetite to a great extent, simply by having my mind elsewhere. I find when I'm busy meditating on other aspects of my life I go without eating and I don't miss it.

George Harrison