We Are So Busy Quotes

#1. How quickly the world changes, yet we are so busy trying to live that we don't notice it. And yet, it does not change quickly enough.

Lynn Cullen

#2. We are so busy measuring public opinion that we forget we can mold it. We are so busy listening to statistics we forget we can create them.

William Bernbach

#3. Most of the time we are so busy letting our actions speak for us that nobody can hear our words.

Steve C. Roberts

#4. To be bored, therefore, does not mean that we have nothing to do, but that we question the value of the things we are so busy doing. The great paradox of our time is that many of us are busy and bored at the same time.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#5. Sometimes we are so busy putting everyone else first ... we lose sight of who we really are and what we want.

Robert Kiyosaki

#6. We are so busy with a million pursuits that we don't even notice the most important things slipping away.

Kevin DeYoung

#7. We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

T.D. Jakes

#8. We are so busy that the truth about our lives can't catch up.

Brene Brown

#9. We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important.

Confucius

#10. We are so busy trying to make a better TOMORROW that we forget to make the best of TODAY.-RVM

R.v.m.

#11. Often we are so busy with sawing that we forget to sharpen the saw.

Stephen Covey

#12. We live in very busy times. All of us have much to do. However, we should ask ourselves often what is it that we are so busy doing?

Randall Wright

#13. Ever-busy, ever-building, ever-in-motion, ever-throwing-out the old for the new, we have hardly paused to think about what we are so busy building, and what we have thrown away. Meanwhile, the everyday landscape becomes more nightmarish and unmanageable each year.

James Howard Kunstler

#14. We are so busy constantly checking our own temperatures, we fail to notice the burning fevers of others.

Neal A. Maxwell

#15. We are so busy telling God where we would like to go. We wait with the idea of some great opportunity, something sensational, and when it comes we are quick to cry, 'Here am I.' Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no difference.

Oswald Chambers

#16. We are so busy attempting to manage the result that we fail simply to run the race.

Terrence Real

#17. History is so fleeting and we are so busy consuming media and the contemporary culture, voraciously gobbling it up, that we have no room to look back ever, and our young people have a tough time looking back.

Steven Spielberg

#18. 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

#19. We are so busy with our everyday lives that we often forget how to live.

Debasish Mridha

#20. We are so busy working on God, we forget He is trying to work on us. That is what this life is all about: God at work on us, trying to remake us into vessels of glory. We are so busy praying to change things that we have little time to allow prayer to change us.

David Wilkerson

#21. We often forget to draw a new picture because we are so busy criticizing other paintings.

Debasish Mridha

#22. We are so busy wearing masks that we've forgotten who we really are

Steven Aitchison

#23. Most of us have considerable prosperity in our lives. Often, we are so busy pursuing our unmet desires that we are unable to enjoy all that we already have. Allowing ourselves to really appreciate the prosperity we have created is a big step toward opening to even greater fulfillment.

Shakti Gawain

#24. Life is full of surprises and exciting moments and sometimes we simply overlook them. We are so busy doing things.

Chris Coleman

#25. Love is the language of life and all others are transient epi-phenomena. Like a fish, we are swimming in the ocean of love. We are so busy seeking love that we don't realize we are swimming in love.

Debasish Mridha

#26. We are so busy and have become so complex, being simple is actually esoteric.

Bryan Kest

#27. Sometimes we are so busy being the hammer or the anvil, that we forget who really needs the shaping.

Neal A. Maxwell

#28. Sometimes it seems things go by too quickly. We are so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take the time to enjoy where we are.

John Calvin

#29. Sometimes we are so busy living our fears that we forgot to live our dreams

Steven Aitchison

#30. People are so busy positioning themselves before the screen and talking on the damn cellphones, communicating, that we're not reading, and in fact we're not really communicating, either. We're not talking to each other. There's just all these screens and wires and technology in between.

Lee Smith

#31. This is what makes science so hard, and ultimately so fun. Think of the limits of what we know as a great suite of rooms inhabited by vast numbers of incredibly busy, incredibly messy, nearsighted people, all of whom are eccentric recluses.

Alexei Panshin

#32. The saddest things we fail at are fun things we never get to do, so in your busy day be sure to plan fun things too.

Wes Fesler

#33. People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

Florence King

#34. Let us not get so busy or live so fast that we can't listen to the music of the meadow or the symphony that glorifies the forest. Some things in the world are far more important than wealth; one of them is the ability to enjoy simple things.

Dale Carnegie

#35. Americans are suffering from a busyness epidemic. We're addicted to busy. So many of us try to find fulfillment and self-worth in piling our plates too high. The busier we are, the more important we feel. This is why our culture, by and large, is exhausted, overworked, and overwhelmed.

Crystal Paine

#36. The Jungian therapist taught me the difference between the ego and the shadow. I realized I'd been so busy being a good girl that I'd completely detached from my shadow. It's something we all have, and it's where all the creative juices are.

Sue Grafton

#37. 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

#38. Rousseau introduced the idea of false needs, and showed how the systems we live in work against our growing up: they dazzle us with toys and bewilder us with so many trivial products that we are too busy making silly choices to remember that the adult ones are made by others.

Susan Neiman

#39. It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

Henry David Thoreau

#40. Love and appreciate your parents. We are often so busy growing up; we forget they are also growing old.

John Spence

#41. We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

Mark Twain

#42. We have kept our children so busy with "useful" and "improving" activities that we are in danger of raising a generation of young people who are terrified of silence, of being alone with their own thoughts ...

Eda LeShan

#43. We keep so busy talking we are so keen to act that we forget that in the heart lies all we need untapped, intact.

Angelus Silesius

#44. Most of us are so busy trying to manage, maintain, or even just survive our life situation, that we don't make time to focus on what's most important - our LIFE.

Hal Elrod

#45. You're like the sun-completely blind to your own beauty because you are so busy making everyone around you shine. No matter how far we hide in the shadows, you share your light. That's how you stole my heart when no one else could find it.

Lexi Ryan

#46. We can become so insensitive to the Spirit's prodding that we become too idle, too self absorbed and too busy with too many things that in the eyes of God, are worthless.

William Branks

#47. Humans are so busy asking about who or what had built the pyramids.
For me, whoever had built pyramids, the message is so clear and simple,
we are higher than human race in the food chain.

Toba Beta

#48. You'll be so busy with Bridge and what's-his-name that you'll forget all about your English mate, St. Clair."
"Ha! So you are English!" I poke him in the stomach.
He grabs my hand and we wrestle, laughing. "I claim ... no ... nationality.

Stephanie Perkins

#49. 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

#50. The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.

Phil McGraw

#51. We are all so busy and so frantic that we don't take the time to appreciate the stuff that surrounds us.

Nick Veasey

#52. We are sometimes so busy being good angels that we neglect to be good men and women.

Saint Francis De Sales

#53. What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?

Thomas Merton

#54. We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.

Bill Watterson

#55. So many people are busy working now, but we need to go back to the old days when grandma and the neighbors helped raise the children, and we were all the better for it.

Kym Whitley

#56. We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.

David Mitchell

#57. It seems as if I can only thing if I write my journal, it just connects the part of my head that is busy doing things with the part that is busy thinking about everything else. I know all these pepole are so busy because they love each other and me. We are a noisy crowd of love

Nancy E. Turner

#58. For the past 50 years or so I've been getting more and more worried about Christmas. It seems we're all so busy trying to beat the other fellow in making things go faster and look shinier and cost less that Christmas and I are sort of getting lost in the shuffle.

Edmund Gwenn

#59. Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people.

Kelly Osbourne

#60. It's not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?" - Henry David Thoreau

Brian P. Moran

#61. We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.

R.A. Torrey

#62. Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.

Ray Bradbury