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Quotes About Busyness

Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.
~ John Lydon
When did having a life become an event you had to schedule?
~ Karen Marie Moning
I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.
~ Kate Voegele
One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when all that legitimately concerns us is today. If we really have too much to do, there are some items on the agenda which God did not put there. Let us submit the list to Him and ask Him to indicate which items we must delete. There is always time to do the will of God. If we are too busy to do that, we are too busy.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I'm the kind of person who always likes to be doing something.
~ Avril Lavigne
Modern life, especially with young children, so often seems like a mad rush... We so rarely take time to just do nothing - not look at our phones, not read the news.
~ Michael Finkel
We are all busy. It's easy to find excuses for not reaching out to others, but I imagine they will sound as hollow to our Heavenly Father as the elementary school boy who gave his teacher a note asking that he be excused from school March 30th through the 34th.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
I always gotta be doing something.
~ Fivio Foreign
I don't want to bore people or myself - to be busy is something to be grateful for, but to be busy doing diverse work is absolutely... I wouldn't change it for the world. I feel very lucky for that.
~ Darren Boyd
My career is over. I'm just playing now and having a great time. I like to keep busy, and I'm doing what's fun for me.
~ Dick Van Dyke
I've definitely grown apart from a lot of my friends. Some of them don't understand the schedule, and it's not that I don't want to talk to them, it's that sometimes I am really busy and can't get back to them.
~ Mila Kunis
I think my least healthy habit is running around too much. And I think I'm getting better about it as I'm getting older.
~ Cynthia Nixon
Though there was nowhere one so busy as he/ He was less busy than he seemed to be.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
I am very busy. I work hard all the time. But I also need to relax; I need to disconnect. That's why I like horse-racing, spending time with my friends. It helps me to recover energy.
~ Massimiliano Allegri
I always like to keep busy, otherwise my brain starts ticking.
~ Nicholas Hoult
Although our culture seems to worship being busy, constant activity will slowly undermine our perspective on life and kill our souls.
~ Sally Clarkson
Busyness falsely promises productivity.
~ Sally Clarkson
We allow the habit of busyness to replace our habits of prayer and Scripture reading.
~ Sally Clarkson
The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.
~ Samuel Johnson
She was too busy to freak out, but that was the only thing keeping her from freaking out.
~ Sara Shepard
One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.
~ Lorne Michaels
Free time is my enemy. I recognized early on I'm not a guy who should have a lot of time to contemplate the mysteries of the universe. I need to stay busy... That's just the nature of my demons.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.
~ Nelson Mandela