Keep Busy Quotes

I want to make sure that what I do has specific purpose and is not just throwing a dart at something to keep busy.

I'm too busy to be nostalgic, which is one of the reasons to keep busy. I'm not a very sentimental person.

Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long, not even pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

I just try to keep busy. I find sometimes, when I put my emotions into records, I don't feel as depressed. It's so easy to get depressed. Sometimes it makes me feel better. Sometimes it makes me feel the same. But, the same squared. So, monumentally the same.

Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key? Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

I try and keep busy with something, but I also give myself permission to be busy with something that is creative and rewarding, not just the errands to the dry cleaner.

I'm really in retirement. 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.

You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.

I gotta keep busy. I'm not happy unless I'm working on two, three things.

Whom little things occupy and keep busy, are little men.

I always like to keep busy, otherwise my brain starts ticking.

The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful, and keep busy.

I'm someone who likes to keep busy, especially with projects that I find meaningful and fulfilling.

The man who keeps busy helping the man below him won't have time to envy the man above him.

I am reasonably happy, providing I keep busy.

When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.

Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.

The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.

George Bernard Shaw was right. He summed it all up when he said: "The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not." So don't bother to think about it! Spit on your hands and get busy. Your blood will start circulating; your mind will start ticking-and pretty soon this whole positive upsurge of life in your body will drive worry from your mind. Get busy. Keep busy. It's the cheapest kind of medicine there is on this earth-and one of the best.

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

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

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.

You have to kind of roll with the punches. That's why I think work begets work to a certain degree. I just try and keep busy.

Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.

I do believe if one keeps busy it's very good for a person. In fact, people are always rushing into retirement and we read in Europe that people there are talking about their retirement age and moving it to 67 or something. Well, back when they started retirement funds and everything, the average age was 70 or 60, and then all of a sudden now it's 80, and so. [...] And so you keep in shape, you keep yourself mentally in shape. And if you keep yourself mentally in shape, chances are physically it will follow suit.

The best thing you can do is just keep busy, keep working hard, so you're not dwelling on it all the time. Work is the best antidote for sorrow.

I don't think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

Never look back, except for an occasional glance, look ahead and plan for the future. Success is not built on past laurels, but rather on a continuous activity. Keep busy searching out new ideas and, experimentally, keep ahead of the times, or at least up with them.

I'm not very good at resting on my laurels. I am a bit of a workaholic, and I like to keep busy and active, so I think that's what drives me.

Being busy and being productive are not necessarily the same. Many people keep busy to avoid taking action on things they're afraid to pursue.

The object is to keep busy being something...as opposed to doing something. We are all sent here to bring more gratitude, more kindness, more forgiveness and more love into this world. That is too big a job to be accomplished by just a few.