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Quotes About Busy

I'm very busy." "The sign on the door said closed." Finbar shook his head. "Never trust a door; they'll always lie to you.
~ Derek Landy
The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
~ Jeremy Bentham
No time for anything, little time for everything
~ Sonya Withrow
The thoughts could easily paralyze her, and she needed to be sharp. She needed a plan. For now, it was easier to do something useful with her hands. Cleaning had kept her busy all those lonely years in the castle. It could keep her busy again for another few hours.
~ Jen Calonita
Isabella is busy," Louisa said. "She's frantically finishing preparations for the supper ball, as you know. I ought to be helping her." She fixed Mac a look. "So should you." "I am helping her. I'm minding the children. A good husband knows when to stay out of the way of the whirling household.
~ Jennifer Ashley
Hilarity keeps you busy for several blocks, but there's a sickness to it, like an itch that if you keep on scratching, will grind straight through skin and muscle and bone, shredding your heart.
~ Jennifer Egan
The others ignored him, busy doing what men generally do in dangerous times: putting on their trousers.
~ Eoin Colfer
The most serious misfortune for a busy man who is overwhelmed by his possessions is, that he believes men to be his friends when he himself is not a friend to them, and that he deems his favours to be effective in winning friends, although, in the case of certain men, the more they owe, the more they hate.
~ Epictetus
The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else--we are the busiest people in the world.
~ Eric Hoffer
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
It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.
~ Amy Krouse Rosenthal
In our busy, busy culture in which even teens have incredibly complicated schedules, "wasting" time seems to mean, "having a block of time that's not booked." That's not it at all, because, believe it or not, busy, busy time can be wasted time, too. And, to make it even more complicated, an hour spent sitting outside doing "nothing" can actually be the opposite of wasted time. That hour just might be the best and most moral use of time you've had today.
~ Amy Welborn
Growing old is no more than a bad habit that a busy person has not time to form.
~ Andre Maurois
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
~ Andre Maurois
Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening.
~ Simon Callow
I've never been truly hammered... Never. Not even in college. I was too busy driving or flying away on weekends doing shows around Texas and the country.
~ Jeff Dunham
My older brothers have their own children, and they have to go to soccer practice and football practice on the weekends. They're doing their thing and on the weekends, and I'm on the road. The busier we get, the less time we get to see each other. That's why, when we see each other, it's really, really kind of special.
~ Tony Rock
I tour all year, 42 weeks a year, so it's hard for me to remember every place I play.
~ Debbie Reynolds
I've changed my diet a few times. Now I'm trying to eat more protein. I eat little meals throughout the day. I love food, so I still give myself great meals. Also, when I'm busy, it's easy to lose weight.
~ Michael Keaton
I was a manic and eccentric kid. In my head I was very busy, so I must have seemed weird.
~ David A. Stewart
But being a director of a media school in Hyderabad, being actively involved in animal welfare and my personal life keep me busy all day.
~ Amala Akkineni
The majority of us don't do what's best for us all the time because life is complicated and busy - and creating excuses is so much easier than getting on with the business of wellbeing.
~ Dawn Foster
I pastor a very large church in western Australia. We have about - over 2,000 people, which we have a Bible school, community services, a lot of things linked with it. So my life's very full today. Not enough days in the week.
~ Margaret Smith Court
I love to drown myself in work. I pray to God to keep me busy and let me do good work.
~ Rithvik Dhanjani