Busy Trying Quotes

39 quotes by 38 authors

O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out. — Abu Bakr
What I know for sure: Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's… — Oprah Winfrey
A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don't allow the happy moment, because they're so busy trying to get… — Esther Hicks
I was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn't realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere to… — Lorraine Bracco
I'm so busy trying to be other people. You start acting just as soon as you walk into the door of that casting office. You… — Clifton Collins, Jr.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop… — Salma Hayek
There's a lot of Hollywood bullshit about flying. I mean, look at the movies about test pilots or fighter pilots who face imminent death. The… — Robin Olds
Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress… — Henry Ford
I have work, and then I have a dinner thing. And then I am busy, trying to become who I am. — Lena Dunham
For the past 50 years or so I've been getting more and more worried about Christmas. It seems we're all so busy trying to beat… — Edmund Gwenn
I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying… — Sonia Braga
Most of us are so busy trying to manage, maintain, or even just survive our life situation, that we don't make time to focus on… — Hal Elrod
As long as you're too busy trying to become something that you're not, you can't see your own immortality. — Frederick Lenz
The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds.… — Terry Eagleton
Well they're pissed off and they're hungry. I was kind of busy trying not to get my brains eaten. They seemed pretty adamant about the… — Christopher Moore
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… — May Sarton
All teenagers knew this was true. The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your… — Jodi Picoult
It was like we were all so busy trying to be happy or saying we were happy, but underneath there was nothing but bitterness, the… — Elizabeth Scott
You were so busy trying to be my savior that you left me all alone. — Gayle Forman
In our family, you don't get a childhood. We're too busy trying to dominate the world. — Gordon Korman

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