Top 100 Quotes About Being Busy
#1. Our culture is obsessed with being busy, and I think it's crazy. I don't fill all my time.
Frazey Ford
#2. 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
#3. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions. The options are almost limitless for creating "busyness":
Timothy Ferriss
#4. In my experience, being busy and working hard is the key to sanity/happiness.
Jemima Khan
#5. Life is not enjoyed by being busy over everything in general, but being passionate about one thing in particular. Always focus on that one thing; dream it and live it!
Israelmore Ayivor
#6. It is good to be busy. Being busy takes our mind off being in love at the wrong time, in the wrong place and with the wrong guy.
Melissa De La Cruz
#7. There is a third choice besides being busy and killing time, something profound.
James Rozoff
#8. The fact that you are even here, alive, on this planet is a mathematical miracle, and you should not spend the time that you have being busy being miserable.
Philip DeFranco
#9. If you can remain with absolutely nothing to do for even a short period of time - that's a taste of freedom. Being busy is ok, not being busy is also ok. Not caring whether you're busy or not busy is really ok.
Art Hochberg
#10. If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again.
Haruki Murakami
#12. One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.
Lorne Michaels
#13. 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
#14. Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing
Thomas A. Edison
#16. Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Seneca The Younger
#17. Being busy is not the same as being focused. Being focused means being here.
Augusten Burroughs
#18. Being busy is a distraction and I am sure that doing nothing, resting and sleeping are all good cures for modern life. I am not suggesting we all do nothing but sleep, however, sometimes stopping long enough to 'be' can be very powerful.
Joanna Runciman
#19. Candace doesn't have to worry about me being busy in my world without you, because you are my world.
Vi Keeland
#20. 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
#21. Being busy is better than being bored. Bored left a long time ago. Busy is always around for me.
Tabitha Robin
#22. I like being busy and juggling a lot of things at the same time. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot.
Ellen DeGeneres
#23. Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.
Lao-Tzu
#24. I like to see candidates who are busy finding what they are good at and what they enjoy. I call it being busy with a purpose - WHIM
Garrett Miller
#25. Although our culture seems to worship being busy, constant activity will slowly undermine our perspective on life and kill our souls.
Sally Clarkson
#26. Being productive and being busy are not necessarily the same thing. Doing things won't create your success; doing the right things will.
Jeff Olson
#28. Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?
Jim Rohn
#29. So many people are so busy being busy that they don't spend time on the foundation of their life.
Jairek Robbins
#30. A good man will not waste himself upon mean and discreditable work or be busy merely for the sake of being busy.
Seneca.
#31. 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
#32. Jay became an adult. He got a job, married a wife, and they had a child. Now he had so many things to take care! Like all other grown ups, he talked more of being busy than of being happy. He completely forgot the little bird singing beautiful songs in his heart.
Ilchi Lee
#33. I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, I'm the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so I'm not taking busy time away from people that I should be spending it with. So I'm just relaxing and enjoying it.
Betty White
#34. We don't get paid for being busy, we get paid for being right.
Warren Buffett
#35. I've waited my entire life to be busy. Whenever I hear actors complain about being busy, I think, 'shut up.' Because you do, you wait to be successful or to be able to work.
Steve Carell
#36. Nothing is easier than being busy and nothing more difficult than being effective.
R. Alec MacKenzie
#37. Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
Timothy Ferriss
#38. There is a danger that we can confuse being busy with being entertained and being relaxed with being bored.
David Miller
#39. Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris Murdoch
#40. Don't confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy.
Robin Sharma
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. Ever since I started my career, I have been busy with four to five releases a year. I enjoy being busy.
Akshay Kumar
#44. In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered.
Henri Nouwen
#45. 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
#46. I love being busy, and I love having a lot going on; it's exciting.
Annette Bening
#47. Being busy with work, and as a mum, I'm a big fan of online shopping.
Kirsty Gallacher
#48. Humans can find many ways to hide from themselves in distractions and by being "busy.
David W. Earle
#49. Not being busy is something I worry about, but I think work begets work.
Dominic Monaghan
#50. I have no social life. There is no time for one. Once in a while I may go to dinner with a friend but that is it. However I am much happier travelling and being busy competing in both my sports than having time off.
Liz Halliday
#51. I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.
Armie Hammer
#52. I'm so busy trying to breathe through the pain that I'm breathing through the pain of being with people, and that is no way to spend a life. Eventually, they'll just go away, because you will make them sad. That's something I've proven quite adept at doing over the years.
Adam Duritz
#53. If it's a romantic holiday, the only thing I need is my wife. We love quiet and calm places where we can't be disturbed. Neither of us likes being in busy places; we would much rather stay in our hotel room and enjoy each other's company.
Jean Reno
#54. It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busyness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy - very busy - without being very effective.
Stephen R. Covey
#55. The state of healthcare today is that we are busy in the practice of medicine vs. being in the science of medicine.
Vinod Khosla
#56. I know first-hand the challenges that come with being an on-the-go mom, and I am constantly looking for great products that fit into my busy schedule. I've tried every goop and elixir known to man.
Eva LaRue
#57. 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
#58. The artist, busy and unsettled, can find a moment's peace - and even whole-being rejuvenation - by quietly attuning to a red sky, a gray sky, a black sky, a blue sky.
Eric Maisel
#59. The happiest people I know are people who don't even think about being happy. They just think about being good neighbors, good people. And then happiness sort of sneaks in the back window while they are busy doing good.
Harold S. Kushner
#60. I forget to take care of Angie being so busy taking care of everyone else.
Angie Stone
#61. When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.
Sylvia Plath
#62. 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
#64. Someday we may look back on this era as a time when rational compromises might have enhanced both security and liberty, but those compromises were refused because each side was so busy self-righteously being right.
David Brin
#65. You're wrong, Mama. The world's beautiful, but you're so busy being disappointed in everything you don't see it!!
Beth Hoffman
#66. The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me to invent Mint. I was working 80-hour weeks, and had done enough preliminary work and research to know I had a big idea: To make money management effortless and automated.
Aaron Patzer
#67. 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
#68. In case I get busy in there and don't say it, thank you." "For?" Tate asked as his eyes softened. Logan squeezed his fingers, and as they started walking inside, he answered, "Always being willing to try.
Ella Frank
#69. It was long after midnight and the stars looked damp and chilly; the air was full of the busy silence of the night, which is created by hundreds of small furry things treading very carefully in the hope of finding dinner while avoiding being the main course.
Terry Pratchett
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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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#73. 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
#74. He not busy being born is busy dying
Steve Jobs
#75. I am quite wiling to confide entirely in human being, except that at some moment or another human beings get preoccupied, moody, busy, inattentive, and there come an end to the interest, and this never happens in a journal!
Anais Nin
#76. I was a little busy being shot at." "Busy? Aw, mate. It doesn't take any effort at all to get shot at.
Brandon Sanderson
#77. Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy.
Douglas Adams
#78. 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
#79. It's really hard to hate someone for being different when you're too busy laughing together.
George Takei
#80. 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
#81. Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.
Mark Buchanan
#82. You wasn't made like watch-dogs and house-cats and cows. You was made a fox, and you be a fox, and its queer-like to me, Foxy, as folk canna see that. They expect you to be what you wanna made to be. You'm made to be a fox; and when you'm busy being a fox they say you'm a sinner!
Mary Webb
#83. You're too busy being you that you don't realize how utterly unprecedented you are.
John Green
#84. 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
#85. Being a mom is hard, but I don't want people to feel like they always have to go straight to the TV dinner or go to the fast food because you have a busy, hectic life.
Tia Mowry
#86. 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
#87. My intention had not been to find her, for I had been busy being lonely with someone else.
Ben Marcus
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. We are busy surviving, herding, fixating on what just happened, and being overconfident!
Joel Greenblatt
#91. He was always dependable, she realized. She was usually too busy being irritated by him to notice.
Julia Quinn
#92. You're so busy being you that you have no idea how truly unprecedented you are
John Green
#93. I like being very busy. I think that's the definition of stardom, really. It's energy. It really is.
Faye Dunaway
#94. Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.
Kourtney Kardashian
#95. I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.
Rex Stout
#96. Most often we forget to live our lives by being too busy passing the time.
Debasish Mridha
#97. 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
#98. You're so busy being you, you don't realise how unprecedented you are
John Green
#99. Busy people begrudge the days being short.
I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
Stanley Kubrick
#100. We are sometimes so busy being good angels that we neglect to be good men and women.
Saint Francis De Sales
