Being Busy Quotes

In my experience, being busy and working hard is the key to sanity/happiness.

This disease of being “busy” (and let’s call it what it is, the dis-ease of being busy, when we are never at ease) is spiritually destructive to our health and wellbeing. It saps our ability to be fully present with those we love the most in our families, and keeps us from forming the kind of community that we all so desperately crave.

So many people are so busy being busy that they don’t spend time on the foundation of their life.

I like being busy and juggling a lot of things at the same time. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot.

It is good to be busy. Being busy takes our mind off being in love at the wrong time, in the wrong place and with the wrong guy.

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.

It used to be that wealthy people were the leisure class, and having time off was a status symbol. That's switched now: being busy and overworked is the reality for many white-collar workers, and there's a kind of perverse currency to that, competitive busy-ness. At the other end of the income scale, there's a swath of lower-wage workers who are underemployed or unemployed, with too much unwanted leisure, and zero status for that. For shift workers, devices mean they're accessible in ways they weren't before, susceptible to that call from the boss to log more hours.

Our culture is obsessed with being busy, and I think it's crazy. I don't fill all my time.

We're busy being busy. Distraction is a dangerously deceptive saboteur of our goals, because we are not present to how much time we lose. We're distracted by things like being in meetings or on conference calls, or we get on Facebook related to business and the updates of friends captivate our attention and an hour goes by before we wake up.

We've let too much time go by. We've been busy with war instead of being busy with peace. And that's what space travel is all about. It's all about peace and exploration and wonder and beauty.

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

I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, I'm the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so I'm not taking busy time away from people that I should be spending it with. So I'm just relaxing and enjoying it.

The truth is that's always when it's the most fun, when you're able to just be wherever you are, be whatever scene it is you're doing, whatever the incredible actors you're with. Being busy is something that I just love and thrive on.

If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit.

I have no social life. There is no time for one. Once in a while I may go to dinner with a friend but that is it. However I am much happier travelling and being busy competing in both my sports than having time off.

Being productive and being busy are not necessarily the same thing. Doing things won’t create your success; doing the right things will.

What we call stress is just extension of being busy without meaning. When you do things that are not meaningful to you, just to get the sense of completion, just to feel like you got something done, your spirit feels empty. So, the most important thing for people to realize is that you have to control the flow of information in your life.

Don't confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy.

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.

Even if there were two of me, I still couldn't do all that has to be done. No matter what, though, I keep up my running. Running every day is a kind of lifeline for me, so I'm not going to lay off or quit just because I'm busy. If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit. All I can do is keep those few reasons nicely polished.

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

Always make the other person feel important.

I'm always busy, but I'm lazy as well.

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

I keep busy. That was my nickname in college, 'Iron to the Fire.' I like to keep several things going at once.

Fitness is a luxury when you are busy!

Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.

You can really only enjoy life when youre extremely busy.

Focus on being productive instead of busy.

While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.

Being busy does not always mean real work.

I try to keep it real. I don't have time to worry about what I'm projecting to the world. I'm just busy being myself.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

My household is, in a nice way, very busy.

Do not get so concerned with making a living that you forget to make a life.

Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Don't mistake movement for achievement. It's easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

My whole lifestyle is different. I have a really busy schedule, and I pretty much have an airplane ride every day. But I like it. It's cool. I like being busy. I think that it's good that I'm young and I'm going through this, and I'm not, like, 40. I think it's just easier now at a younger age to be going through what I'm going through because it's definitely really tiring and hard on the body.

Are you too busy for improvement? Frequently, I am rebuffed by people who say they are too busy and have no time for such activities. I make it a point to respond by telling people, look, you’ll stop being busy either when you die or when the company goes bankrupt.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.