Busy Quotes · Page 52

By and large musicians are pretty lazy; they don't do a whole lot. They're usually very busy doing nothing.

— Buzz Osborne

“that if you need something urgently done, give the task to the busiest (or second busiest) person in the office.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We are sometimes so busy being good angels that we neglect to be good men and women.

— Saint Francis de Sales

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

— Elbert Hubbard

Ever since I started my career, I have been busy with four to five releases a year. I enjoy being busy.

— Akshay Kumar

I'm not making eye contact because I'm busy playing with my phone.

— Nikhil Saluja

Life is too short for long pity parties. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

— Regina Brett

You cannot hear opportunities knocking if you are busy knocking opportunities.

— Orrin Woodward

I'm pretty busy: I'm a working mom and I know a lot about having a hectic schedule, but I think what's really…

— Tia Mowry

I do get offered a lot more roles than I choose to do. I'm very busy as a producer and a writer,…

— Felicia Day

There were two brothers called Both and Either; perceiving Either was a good, understanding, busy fellow, and Both a silly fellow and…

— Plutarch

Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your…

— B. C. Forbes

I try to teach people to make fewer mistakes. But in designing economic policies, we need to take full account of the…

— Richard Thaler

My parents had no interest in spending a lot of time with me. They were busy doing what they were doing, but…

— Angela Bowie

Nowadays, people don't ask you how you are, they say, 'Are you busy?' meaning, 'Are you well?' If someone actually does ask…

— Jo Ann Davis

No person I have ever met, not even the most righteous or pure of heart, has gone without those times when faith…

— Mitt Romney

We sabotage our creative possibilities because the world revealed by our imagination may not fit well with the life we have taken…

— David Whyte

“We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The guardians of French pharmacies - the lab-coated salespeople - are busy, serious, and probably know more about your face than you…

— Emily Weiss

Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all…

— Charles Dickens

Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about…

— Anonymous

The belief that happiness has to be deserved has led to centuries of pain, guilt, and deception. So firmly have we clung…

— Robert Holden

The growth of New England was a result of the aggregate efforts of a busy multitude, each in his narrow circle toiling…

— Francis Parkman

The mind is a very intricate machine. It can store memories, past impressions, grudges, criticisms, judgments. It can hold a lot of…

— MC Yogi

I'm doing a lot of touring and things have been really busy for me.

— Dave Lombardo

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to…

— Eric Hoffer

I lie and say I'm busy or 'my parents wont let me' but really I just want to be alone .

— Maddy Marie

Perhaps, after all, there is something in the theory that only the ultra-busy can find time for everything.

— James Agate

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look.

— Theophile Gautier

We are so busy doing the urgent that we don't have time to do the important.

— Confucius

I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.

— Armie Hammer

Religion is the finger pointing to God. People are too busy licking the finger to notice where it's pointing.

— Anthony de Mello

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

— Alan Arkin

Too busy thinking about my baby and I ain't got time for nothing else.

— Marvin Gaye

Barack Obama's busy moving into the White House. Earlier today, John McCain was blowing on his soup.

— David Letterman

I like to write, but being a busy mother, it is difficult to sit down and write at a stretch.

— Navya Nair

Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.

— Jasper Johns

You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them. Read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

— John Spence

Professional politicians are busy looking out for their jobs. Send me to Congress so I can look out for your job.

— Robert J. Garagiola