We Get Busy Quotes

#1. I mean, when the British burned down the White House in the war of 1812, did we plant a "Tree of Remembrance" in the ashes, or did we get busy rebuilding?

Brian K. Vaughan

#2. When you have a lot of opportunities, which I am blessed to have had in terms of my work, you get into the habit of not paying attention to certain specifics. And as we get busy, anything we do is the same thing.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#3. We're all busy people and it's easy to get so wrapped up in life, that we forget to live.

Jillian Dodd

#4. Cry if you must. Scream. Get it all out of your system, and then we'll have fun. It won't last forever, but it will keep you busy for tonight.

Jamie McGuire

#5. During the year, our schools are busy slashing P.E. and recess to make more time for math. During the summer, we get ourselves worked into a tizzy that our children will forget their fractions.

Darell Hammond

#6. We don't get paid for being busy, we get paid for being right.

Warren Buffett

#7. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.

Brene Brown

#8. The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when we get too
busy. But he trembles when we pray-especially when we pray together.

Corrie Ten Boom

#9. 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

#10. When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves.

Jack Kornfield

#11. We have a very busy schedule of cryptic proclamations and appearing where we're least expected to get back to.

Rachel Aaron

#12. The devil is busy
trying to take from us
what we get from God,
and so God bids us hold fast.

C. Nuzum

#13. 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

#14. All the emails I get these days start with sorry but I've been so busy, and I don't understand how we can be so busy and then have nothing to say to each other.

Jon McGregor

#15. As soon as our potential experience becomes our actual experience - as soon as we have a stake in its goodness - our brains get busy looking for ways to think about the experience that will allow us to appreciate it.

Daniel M. Gilbert

#16. Don't get so busy that you don't have time to meditate. Take the time ... Christ may be nearer than we have knowledge. 'I am in your midst, but you do not see me.'

Harold B. Lee

#17. Often in life we get so caught up in what we don't have that we forget to be grateful for what we do have. We get so busy asking and seeking and begging and pursuing that we never take time out simply to be. To sit still

Mandy Hale

#18. Most of our fears are borrowed. Since that's the case, we should get busy returning them.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#19. It's going to be a busy meet for me, I knew that coming in, so I'm just trying to go through all my recovery strategies. Just forget about the last race and move onto the next. Hopefully I swam fast enough to get in, but we'll see.

Tera Van Beilen

#20. In most cases we perform better when we're busy than when we're not busy. When we're slow, our mind wanders. We're not as attentive to our business. When we're on the firing line, we're sharper. We move more quickly and get the job done right.

S. Truett Cathy

#21. I guess you don't get to watch much TV in Irkalla."
He propped his head on one scaly bicep and turned to look at me. "Nah. We stayed busy torturing the souls of the damned and playing hide the hot poker. You know, the usual.

Jaye Wells

#22. It is at the risk of our own soul's welfare that we get caught up in practical busy-work,

Oswald Chambers

#23. It is a very busy mission: every day has some major goals that we have to get through, but my experience before has been that at least in the evening, you kind of take a deep breath and look around where you are and have some downtime.

Linda M. Godwin

#24. We all know that the way to get something done is to give it to a busy person.

Robert D. Putnam

#25. To recover from the current economic downturn, it has been estimated that we need to create on the order of 17 million to 20 million new jobs in the coming decade ... And it's very hard to imagine where those jobs are going to come from unless we seriously get busy reinventing manufacturing.

Susan Hockfield

#26. [Sadly] the first thing we tell our young converts, the babes in Christ, is, 'Here is a handful of tracts- now get out and get busy!

A.W. Tozer

#27. Protein is important and hard for me to get in a hurry. We're busy. I don't always remember to thaw the chicken for dinner. I always have eggs, and they're light and satisfying. I never feel stuffed at the end of it.

Summer Sanders

#28. When the fierce, burning winds blow over our lives-and we cannot prevent them-let us, too, accept the inevitable. And then get busy and pick up the pieces.

Dale Carnegie

#29. We need to make sure that we never get too busy with life that we don't have time to live.

Daniel Willey

#30. Injustice anywhere is an assault on all of us. That means that we all can get busy.

Bill Ayers

#31. 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

#32. It is better to look suffering straight in the eye, acknowledge and respect it's presence, and then get busy as soon as possible focusing on things we choose to focus on.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#33. If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#34. The Rat, meanwhile, was busy examining the label on one of the beer-bottles. "I perceive this to be Old Burton," he remarked approvingly. "Sensible Mole! The very thing! Now we shall be able to mull some ale. Get the things ready, Mole, while I draw the corks."

Kenneth Grahame

#35. I definitely believe in a greater good. I definitely believe that there's a reason each of us is here and that we've been brought here to do something. And we need to get busy doing it. And I definitely believe that there is something moving us forward that's good.

Jacqueline Woodson

#36. When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn't.

Ram Dass

#37. We Born, Get Education, Get Jobs, Earn, Spend, Save And Eventually Die. That Can't Be Right. There Must Be Something Important We're Missing. We're Too Busy Following That Same Circle That We Forget Our Main Purpose of Life, To Know Ourselves ...

Muhammad Imran Hasan

#38. The grass is always greener on the other side. We are busy applying fairness creams while people in the West go bare-bodied on the beach to get a tan. Indian girls have ruled the roost when it comes to beauty pageants. I flaunt my complexion, and I am proud to be noticed as an Indian wherever I go.

Shilpa Shetty

#39. We're all so busy. We race and race. Life is a sprint. We want to get 'there' so badly. But I wonder if we even know what to do when we actually get 'there'.

Billy Graham

#40. My dream is to make families a place where adults with high self esteem can develop. I think we have reached a point where if we don't get busy on dreams of this sort, our end is in sight. We need a world that is as good for human beings as it is for technology.

Virginia Satir

#41. It is possible that we can get so busy doing work 'for' the Lord that we have no time FOR the Lord.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#42. I try to go to my parents' house as much as I can. No matter how busy we are as a family, we always make that time to have that 'family together' day because we want to. You can't let work and life get in the way of spending time together.

Tahj Mowry

#43. In our family, you don't get a childhood. We're too busy trying to dominate the world.

Gordon Korman

#44. Sometimes we get so busy pursuing our dream that we forget to notice the degree to which we're living it already.

Victoria Moran