Quotes About Busy

The process of ascent and decline of cities is both rooted in history and changed by it. Successful urban areas today must still resonate with the ancient fundamentals—places sacred, safe, and busy. This was true five thousand years ago, when cities represented a tiny portion of humanity, and in this century, the first in which the majority live in cities.

What does it mean to be a society and culture so frantic that we don't have time to dream?

I like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It's a busy kind of life, but I guess I'm lucky.

I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.

From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.

I don't think the Hollywood community is interested in what I can do. That's all right. I've never looked for a job in my life, and I'm not going to start now. I have plenty to keep me busy.

My life is very complicated. I have a lot of things going on. I am juggling a lot of responsibilities. There is so much going on that it is astounding, it really is.

But the day is spent; And stars are kindling in the firmament, To us how silent--though like ours, perchance, Busy and full of life and circumstance.

Your Dark-Huntress, Danger, called for Acheron and since he's busy, I was sent to check things out and report back to him on what's happening. So here I am. Joy, oh joy of my life. (Alexion)

For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life.

pity this busy monster, manunkind,not. Progress is a comfortable disease.

So many pictures, so little time!

Life is never so busy that there is no time to serve.

What's cuter than one baby? A precious set of twins! With matching little outfits - And matchless little grins... With twice as many babies, How very busy you will be - Just think of all the loving They'll bring your family.

But Martha was cumbered about much serving.

We had managed to drift into that awful arena, so familiar to the long-term married couple, where what was left unspoken was actually more damaging than what was said. We weren't married, by the way. Andreas had proposed to me, doing the whole diamond-ring-down-on-one-knee thing, but we had both been too busy to follow through, and anyway, my Greek wasn't good enough yet to understand the service.

Busy people all make the same mistake: they assume they are short on time, which of course, they are. But time is not their only scarce resource. They are also short on bandwidth. By bandwidth I mean basic cognitive resources - psychologists call them working memory and executive control - that we use in nearly every activity.

I loved the study of psychology. I didn't love seeing patient after patient. I was perpetually overstimulated, busy decoding everything I took in.

As much as we complain about it, though, there's part of us that is drawn to a hurried life. It makes us feel important. It keeps the adrenaline pumping. It means I don't have to look too closely at my heart or life. It keeps us from feeling our loneliness.

I wanted to get a puppy, but then things started getting super, super busy, and I didn't have a chance.

I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose.

Comedy can be quite all consuming at times, and if you're not careful you end up doing a tour, then a DVD, then another tour then a DVD. Suddenly the years have just flown by.

I love flying around the world doing what I do - that keeps me so busy.

Forgetting stuff is just human, especially when other things are on our minds.