Quotes About Busy People

#1. 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

#2. Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.

Seneca The Younger

#3. We found that people, when engaged in a mental sprint, may become effectively blind. The authors of The Invisible Gorilla had made the gorilla "invisible" by keeping the observers intensely busy counting passes.

Daniel Kahneman

#4. 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

#5. I Have Learned Why People Work So Hard To Succeed: It Is Because They Envy The Things Their Neighbors Have. But It Is Useless. It Is Like Chasing The Wind ... It Is Better To Have Only A Little, With Peace Of Mind, Than Be Busy All The Time With Both Hands, Trying To Catch The Wind

Anonymous

#6. So many people are insanely busy nowadays, and it's easy to say, 'Ah, I'll workout tomorrow.' But you have to set aside a time and stick to that schedule.

Derek Jeter

#7. People are too busy putting things under microscopes and so forth. Creativity is greater than the sum of its parts.

Maya Angelou

#8. 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

#9. The homes I like the best are totally occupied, busy, and useful, whether it's a tiny little house or a great big one. Rarely do you find a great big house that's used in a good way. So I prefer smaller spaces that are full of books, full of things that people are doing.

Martha Stewart

#10. We must become people who remove barriers to God, instead of people who are busy installing new ones.

Benjamin L. Corey

#11. I'm a busy guy; I just get a lot of people that sound like me to go out and visit them. They don't know the difference and, let's face it, they aren't going to be paying to see my movies anytime soon.

Zach Braff

#12. People are so busy trying to do the right thing that they forget to Live. This robs away all the Excitement life has to offer. Do the right thing , but also Live!

R.v.m.

#13. Today we live in a world that judges its achievements by speed and busyness. ... We are so busy making things happen that we have little time left to think about the value of what is happening. We urgently need people who concentrate on the meaning of life rather than simply the speed.

Joan D. Chittister

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.

Vernon Law

#17. Why do all this? Because there are people out there who need you, and they will be more than willing to give you what you need so you can give them your best, but if you're busy pursuing everyone, or if you're so drained at the end of the day, you won't be able to be your best and give your best.

Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

#18. Our shuttle crew is four people, because we're going to transfer a crew up to station, so all the jobs are divided between four people rather than five or six people. So it's been busy.

Linda M. Godwin

#19. I've heard walking down a busy sidewalk in New York is like swimming in a sea of people. I love to swim and I love people, so of course I would love New York! -

Lisa Schroeder

#20. Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.

George Burns

#21. 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

#22. I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.

John Lasseter

#23. No doubt, some people are quantitatively less busy than others and some much more so, but that doesn't change the shared experience: most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

Kevin DeYoung

#24. A lot of us are too busy focusing on what we think people want to hear, as opposed to just saying what's in our hearts.

Lauryn Hill

#25. Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.

Henry Ford

#26. 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

#27. The air we breathe is still free, but for how much time. I believe someone is busy patenting it to start selling it for profit

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#28. Often, those who bruise easily spend too much time thinking about themselves. I'd go so far as to say that oversensitivity is a privilege of the underoccupied. The majority of people don't have the time to lavish care on emotional wounds - they're too busy getting on with living.

Mariella Frostrup

#29. Most people are so busy living they neglect to take the time to ask why.

Gene Simmons

#30. There are a whole lot of people who are so freakin' busy - they've so cluttered up their lives - they're at their wits' end. And if they'd only just stop for a minute, they could hear the God of the universe whisper to them, I love you.

Mike Yaconelli

#31. Religion is the finger pointing to God. People are too busy licking the finger to notice where it's pointing.

Anthony De Mello

#32. I have become one of those brittle, busy people who emerge from suffering like a tornado, turning so fast that we do not even realize how much self-destruction we're causing. The

Jodi Picoult

#33. It is really so nice here-country-busy-busy with so many different kinds of things- ... I must say I feel far away in another world here- ... always we go to a new place ... the people have a kind of gentleness that isn't usual on the mainland.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#34. I walk the beach to smile at other people
and their busy children, trying to find
another way to save the world.

Thomas Dukes

#35. If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not.

Eric Alterman

#36. People soon forgot about the beautiful places that once existed. But they didn't care. They were too busy dying.

Logan Keys

#37. I had a baby with no pain medicine, mainly because most people I talked to didn't think I'd be able to do it. So there!

Busy Philipps

#38. Too many people, too many demands, too much to do; competent, busy, hurrying people - It just isn't living at all.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#39. Americans must be the most sententious people in history. Far too busy to be religious, they have always felt that they sorely needed guidance.

Saul Bellow

#40. People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#41. A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don't allow the happy moment, because they're so busy trying to get a happy life.

Esther Hicks

#42. I'm so happy for anyone who chooses to get married! I want more people to join the club.

Busy Philipps

#43. Some people are busy working on their pose instead of their purpose.

Saji Ijiyemi

#44. Why are you always filming people?"
"I'm busy documenting a thousand stories about Johannesburg."
"Oral histories?"
"No, stories. People don't always speak the truth.

Harry Kalmer

#45. I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.

Sally Schneider

#46. For a poet the world is always static in the sense that you're a mass observer and you can't afford to care whether people are busy or not. You're a witness.

Iain Sinclair

#47. The only reason it has been inaccessible is that you are either busy or preoccupied with what is happening outside or far too engaged in your own psychological drama. It is just a lack of attention which has denied people the possibility of discovering what lies within. Turning

Sadhguru

#48. 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

#49. I looked at the people, then, and I saw how busy they were - how much industry and energy described their lives.

Gregory David Roberts

#50. If I really want inner peace in my life, then I must not busy myself with what other people do and say.

Sri Chinmoy

#51. We should be holy people eager to greet our Lord when He returns, ready at any moment for the trumpet's call, people of optimism, busy in evangelism, hands to the plow, eyes on the prize.

David Jeremiah

#52. Sunday neurosis, that kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest.

Viktor E. Frankl

#53. It's weird people think my kids will be in therapy because of their names. Guys, my kids will be therapy for LOTS of reasons, I'm sure.

Busy Philipps

#54. Life had since become fast and cruel and unreflective, and people were too busy counting their gains to bother about the idols of their youth.

Ruskin Bond

#55. Nobody is so busy that they can't make time for the people they really care about.

Leila Sales

#56. People are so obsessed with making their careers and having a big house; then you realize that kills your dreams. It even kills what makes your life because you get so busy inside.

Stephanie Szostak

#57. And I like people. I like to know what you're really up to. I'm a bit of a nosey busy body. Why do they do the things they do? Why are they prepared to do the things they do to get what they want? When? Where? Who?

Tom Hardy

#58. People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations.

Daniel Kahneman

#59. Well, I make that one murder victim, one police interrogation and one conversation with a ghost," George said. "Now that's what I call a busy evening."
Lockwood nodded. "To think some people just watch television.

Jonathan Stroud

#60. The same people in the Congress who are busy kicking holes in the social safety net are also those who would sell off the nation's forests for a song, give away its national parks, and trash its wilderness preserves; there is a connection between the two impulses.

Paul Gruchow

#61. Yes, people are busy every day creating new karma for themselves. The reason is they overreact to every slight ... Grace and respect are two signs of a mature spiritual individual, whatever his religion or belief.

Harold Klemp

#62. So many people glorify and romanticize 'busy.' I do not. I value purpose. I believe in resting in reason and moving in passion. If you're always busy/moving, you will miss important details. I like the mountain. Still, but when it moves, lands shift and earth quakes.

Joseph Cook

#63. Most people are too busy working on insignificant projects and pursuing life's frivolities to tap their creative abilities. It's a mistake to be one of them. Striving for excellence where excellence doesn't matter is the stuff misfits are made of.

Ernie J Zelinski

#64. Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Don Marquis

#65. Many people fear the unknown. They busy themselves at motorway speed so to excuse their lack of understanding of the world around them.

Fennel Hudson

#66. Some people are so busy doing 'nothing'. They don't have time for anyone.

Lovely Goyal

#67. What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's.

Agatha Christie

#68. I have the same pet peeve as Anderson Cooper, which is bare feet in public. I hate it. It so grosses me out, especially in New York. Oh my God, New York in the summer with people and their feet in their sandals and their flip-flops, like get it away!

Busy Philipps

#69. 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

#70. With my busy schedule, my friends consist of my immediate family and the people I work with!

Heather Hemmens

#71. He was so busy looking for the good in people, he didn't see the knife they're hiding.

Alexandra Bracken

#72. Broke people are busy with their time, wherein successful people are productive with their time.

Vishwas Chavan

#73. I sort of get tired of myself sometimes. When you're busy, your life becomes relatively small. But I never get tired of talking to other people.

Marc Maron

#74. 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

#75. More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them

Harold J. Smith

#76. Politics is a tough game. But would I change places with a trauma nurse in an emergency ward on a busy Saturday night? No way. There are lots of jobs in the world that are tougher than politics. And politicians and people who've done it need to remember that.

Michael Ignatieff

#77. 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

#78. Respect people who find time for you in their busy schedule... But love people who never look at their schedule when you need them.

Unknown

#79. (Success is about a happy life, and a happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people do not allow the happy moments because they are so busy trying to get a happy life.)

Esther Hicks

#80. Normally I can balance two or three things. The problem is when you're out of work and don't have anything to balance. I think people assume you're always busy. You go through dry spells.

Marvin Hamlisch

#81. You couldn't really tell people you weren't out performing your civic duties because you were too busy raising the dead.

Lish McBride

#82. What would the world come to if people kept carrying grudges against all reason? That has been the cross of Sicily, where men are so busy with vendettas they have no time to earn bread for their families.

Mario Puzo

#83. Toronto's likable, but it could be a lot more, as I think Montreal is, lovable. What we need more than anything, I think, is a great pedestrian promenade. Pick a busy streetscape, close it to cars forever, and it will fill with people enjoying nothing more than the pleasure of their own company.

Andy Barrie

#84. I'm not gonna worry about what people think about me. I'm too busy. I don't give a hoot.

Cyndi Lauper

#85. One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.

Orhan Pamuk

#86. Lonely and isolated people who feel their solitude more intensely within the busy life of the streets. They are what George Gissing called the anchorites of daily life, who return unhappy to their solitary rooms.

Peter Ackroyd

#87. Never be too busy for the people you love. Never allow pursuits or possessions to become bigger priorities than your relationships. Love is what gives meaning to life.

Dave Willis

#88. Some people think I'm completely uninterested. Dismissive. Apathetic ... ."
"Heh." His weight settled atop me. "I don't know how you were with your other lovers, but ... . People see what they want to see. Or completely miss things when they're too busy looking for flaws.

Santino Hassell

#89. among a people hurried and busy and preoccupied, some in the pursuit of riches, some in the pursuit of pleasure, and some, the majority, in the struggle for existence, there arise in every generation, here and there, one or two great souls - men who

Oliver Lodge

#90. People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.

Robert A. Heinlein

#91. Grown-up people seem to be busy by clockwork ... They run their unswerving course from object to object, directed by some mysterious inner needle that points all the time to what they must do next. You can only marvel at such misuse of time.

Elizabeth Bowen

#92. Most single people I know, myself included, have a difficult time even meeting up with the people they like, be it busy schedules, texting games, or whatever.

Aziz Ansari

#93. A lot of people who find out about the things I do immediately figure I'm just a pathetic "druggie" with nothing to say that is worth hearing. They talk endless bull shit of "recovery!" They make it sound like some amazing discovery ... don't they know I'm far too busy trying to recover me?

Ashly Lorenzana

#94. It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps.

William Boyd

#95. I feel like the smartest people in my field are busy reinforcing the old models with new technology.

Douglas Rushkoff

#96. People in the metros are busy making ends meet, but through my films, I like to give the reality of life a skip, and choose concepts which will give audiences a stress-free two-and-a-half hours.

Rohit Shetty

#97. It really surprises me that people in this day and age still write such busy music and fill up every space with layer upon layer of sound ... it's like musical landfill.

James Blake

#98. I'm sorry if humans mistreated your people in the past, but if we don't join together now, it's time to admit that we're all just keeping busy while we wait for the Earth to die.

Andy Goldman

#99. If the players go Christmas shopping, it's not ideal preparation. It may sound silly, but having to fight off the crowds in a busy shopping centre or having people visit can be demanding.

Steve Coppell

#100. 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