Quotes About Busy Minds

#1. As you think, so you become ... Our busy minds are forever jumping to conclusions, manufacturing and interpreting signs that aren't there.

Epictetus

#2. Busy hands and idle minds have knitted many a sweater; Busy minds and idle hands have knitted many a brow.

Maryrose Wood

#3. We will travel light and fast to the capitol for the ritual where I will have the privilege of delivering the final blow, for this act holds my loathing, my pain, my hatred ... and my revenge.

Jaime Buckley

#4. When we love there are no barriers, no desires, no needs, no wants.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#5. This was the night bus, not a Journey song. Two strangers were not on a midnight train going anywhere. I was going home, and he was probably going to knock over a liquor store.

Jenn Bennett

#6. We have no need of God to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men are enough, with our help.

Albert Camus

#7. The Princess was never heard to complain, for she was a true Princess with a pure heart. The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe. Thus did the Princess grow up contented.

Kate Morton

#8. 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

#9. Yet we are constantly annoyed, and the legislatures are kept constantly busy, by the people who have made up their minds that it is wise and conducive to happiness to live in a certain way, and who want to compel everybody else to live in their way.

William Graham Sumner

#10. Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of "men of action.

Pearl S. Buck

#11. So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination ... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.

Michel De Montaigne

#12. The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.

Kate Morton

#13. The chain round my neck gleamed in the daylight too. It looked more like gold this morning, but if I stirred it with a finger it had a queer iridescent quality not at all like real gold, not that I had much acquaintance with the stuff. I had always favored plastic and rhinestones.

Robin McKinley

#14. Busy mouths grow on idle heads

Agona Apell

#15. Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy and feel extremely uncomfortable with silence.

Alan Watts

#16. Full minds create chaos.

David W. Jones

#17. We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about.

Richard Peck

#18. The happiest folks are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe.
-The Crone's Eyes

Kate Morton

#19. I like to create.

Bridgit Mendler

#20. Once upon a time I was falling in love, now I'm only falling apart.

Bonnie Tyler

#21. Most people don't remember names, for the simple reason that they don't take the time and energy necessary to concentrate and repeat and fix names indelibly in their minds. They make excuses for themselves; they are too busy.

Dale Carnegie

#22. There is nothing more frustrating than a good example.

Mark Twain

#23. Knows a higher law. One cannot turn back, and must put away graven images.

Florence Scovel Shinn