Quotes About Keeping Busy

#1. 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

#2. A lot of people live much more simply than in the old days. That doesn't bother me. Keeping busy is the problem. Television guest shot fees are going down. You can do a dozen guest shots a year, but you're not making that much money.

Harry Morgan

#3. Keeping busy was the only answer: action had always been his drug of choice.

Robert Galbraith

#4. The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few who can acquire a sense of worth by developing and employing their capacities and talents. The majority prove their worth by keeping busy.

Eric Hoffer

#5. There has to be something other than keeping busy that gives human life value, because our society so often functions as if 'productivity' and/or 'usefulness' are the measures of human value, and - particularly for artists - this is deeply problematic. We shouldn't given in.

Tasha Golden

#6. Keeping busy is the hardest part. When I find myself still, clear of thoughts, I can still feel you holding me.

Karen Quan

#7. Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.

Grandma Moses

#8. One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

Lucille Ball

#9. The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.

Eric Hoffer

#10. 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

#11. We're so busy keeping busy that we fail to see the error of our ways.

Frank Sonnenberg

#12. The secret is keeping busy, and loving what you do.

Lionel Hampton

#13. Activity is not achievement. It is not enough to rush about beginning a lot of things and keeping busy. A well-spent life is one that rounds out what it has begun.

Eknath Easwaran

#14. Keeping busy: This is a problem that you're glad to have.

Michael Winslow

#15. We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is destroying all hope of tranquility ... You have to learn to immerse yourself in the silences between.

Lyall Watson

#16. I just like keeping busy and having ten things on the go.

Peter Hook

#17. In order to enable change, companies have to learn that keeping managers busy is a blunder. If you have busy managers working under you, they are an indictment of your vision and your capacity to transform that vision into reality. Cut them some slack.

Tom DeMarco

#18. The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#19. So I ask you: whose job is it in this country to wake up comatose parents? Someone better do it soon because knowing television's potential for harm and keeping that knowledge to ourselves instead of sharing it with parents amounts to covering up a land mine on a busy street.

Jim Trelease

#20. I tried to keep us together, you were busy keeping secrets

Drake

#21. At least work keeps you from your vices," Win quipped one evening before supper, rubbing his hair affectionately as she joined him in the parlor. "I happen to like my vices," Leo told her. "That's why I went to the trouble of acquiring them."
- Win & Leo

Lisa Kleypas

#22. For God must have more important universal matters to attend to than keeping himself busy with us, people! God is not interested in local matters!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#23. Your shoes aren't nearly as valuable as the experiences you've missed out on because you were too busy keeping them clean.

Dallas Clayton

#24. In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.

Paula Fox

#25. I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.

Pierre Trudeau

#26. 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

#27. The best method of protecting oneself against the inflow of negative thoughts being released by other people is that of keeping the broadcasting station so busy sending out positive thoughts that no time will be available for receiving negative thoughts. This formula is unbeatable.

Napoleon Hill

#28. And allow me again to assure you that when you've got yourself going, doing your True Will, you won't find you have any time to get bored.

Aleister Crowley

#29. 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

#30. Modern women - we're very good at keeping ourselves busy. There are PTA meetings, exercising, bake sales at school. I like that my life is not the same every day.

Cindy Crawford

#31. 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