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Quotes About Busy

I love making music so its important for me to keep doing that even if the schedule is busy.
~ Michael Kiwanuka
Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast... Viscosity and Velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination; velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled, or because inner life is transfixingly busy.
~ Susanna Kaysen
Viscosity and velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination; velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.
~ Susanna Kaysen
she can share it with all who come to her for comfort, hope, and the joy of this land I live in, this Home that waits for everyone, this busy, perfect paradise called The Other Side.
~ Sylvia Browne
That he was working instead of spending time with me shouldn't have rankled—I knew how busy he was—but it did. I felt abandoned and needy, which told me I was regressing into familiar bad patterns. The simple fact was, Gideon and I were the best and worst things that had ever happened to each other.
~ Sylvia Day
The last time I called, you were too busy to give me more than a minute of your time." "I've got things to take care of, Eva. Give me a break." "Sure thing. How about now?" I hung up and dropped my phone back into my bag.
~ Sylvia Day
If the road to Hell is paved in good intentions, a friend of mine used to say, the road to Heaven is paved with bullshit and busy work.
~ Tad Williams
Our gods are much too busy in our lives for us to ignore them. (Myles)
~ Tamora Pierce
Damn this, damn that. So much profligate damning. Hell will be busy.
~ Tanith Lee
I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.
~ Kanye West
At any given time, I have to be looking at different things constantly, and it involves a lot of flying, and it doesn't involve much sleep.
~ Tony Khan
I was a big shot in high school - big into social events and at the dramatic society - and I always had trouble in school. Not because I was a dummy, but I was always busy being the Jackson Heights clown.
~ Don Rickles
I don't get dressed up every day. I'm very busy. I get really annoyed when people talk about me as a 'fashionista.' I get dressed up when I have to go out. Most of the time, I'm running around in jeans.
~ Iris Apfel
I took the LSAT the day 'Jersey Shore' premiered, and after that I was too busy to go to law school.
~ Vinny Guadagnino
Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies.
~ Jason Statham
we knew the Witch Doctor was busy in the village. I've got the spot marked to a certainty in my mind, and all of you notice that there's the finest cedar growing directly above him on the top of the wall,
~ Frank Fowler
Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity. You can only achieve happiness if you are too busy living your life to notice whether you are happy or not.
~ Frank Pittman
you get into horrible trouble and desperately need me, I'll be much too busy with my own problems!
~ Brandon Mull
I find myself with an abundance of everything but time.
~ Brandon Sanderson
But our task is the opposite of distraction. Our task is to help people concentrate on the real but often hidden event of God's active presence in their lives. Hence, the question that must guide all organizing activity in a parish is not how to keep people busy, but how to keep them from being so busy that they can no longer hear the voice of God who speaks in silence.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
Boredom is a sentiment of disconnectedness. While we are busy with many things, we wonder if what we do makes any real difference. Life presents itself as a random and unconnected series of activities and events over which we have little or no control. 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
Then occupation is called a blessing and emptiness a curse. Many telephone conversations start with the words: "I know you are busy, but …" and we would confuse the speaker and even harm our reputation were we to say, "Oh no, I am completely free, today, tomorrow and the whole week." Our client might well lose interest in a man who has so little to do.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered. This explains the great fear with which many people face their retirement. After all, who are we when we no longer have an occupation?
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
~ Henry David Thoreau