Quotation Explorer - 'Busy'

A busy life is an empty life. - Debasish Mridha
Weakness employs many weapons in its perpetual war against strength. True strength does not attack; it is too busy enduring attacks, and defending itself against weakness. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
We need to make sure that we never get too busy with life that we don’t have time to live. - Daniel Willey
People are so busy polishing their past, that they forget to paint their future. - Himanshu Vassanpal
A lot of people who find out about the things I do immediately figure I'm just a pathetic "druggie" with nothing to say that is worth hearing. They talk endless bull shit of "recovery!" They make it sound like some amazing discovery...don't they know I'm far too busy trying to recover me? - Ashly Lorenzana
‎I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that is the only way of insuring one's immortality. - James Joyce
The Occupy Wall Street movement faltered when activists realized that traders were quite busy already. - The Covert Comic
Sometimes the most beautiful things are in front of our eyes, and we don’t even notice because we’re either too busy or too afraid to take a closer look. - Katja Michael
Busy hands achieve more than idle tongues. - Matshona Dhliwayo
We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent we have discovered afterward that much was accomplished and much was begun in us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success We forget the easiness of free beautyLying sad right around the corner, Only an instant removed, Unnoticed and squandered. - Dejan Stojanovic
One of the major obstacles impeding any positive future change in our lives is that we are too busy with our current work or activity. Levi quit his tax-work, Peter stopped fishing at lake, Paul ceased being a priest. They all left their jobs because they thought it was necessary. - John Ruskin
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. - May Sarton
There is no HellHell is Earth itselfAnd the busy, innocently fraud beingsThey are my demons themselves - Jomia Ann E. Pangilinan Darkness and Gratitude
THOUGH you are in your shining days,Voices among the crowdAnd new friends busy with your praise,Be not unkind or proud,But think about old friends the most:Time's bitter flood will rise,Your beauty perish and be lostFor all eyes but these eyes. - W.B. Yeats
If you are busy focusing on the falling bricks, you will never realize that they are truly stepping stones you need to cross over to the next phase of your life. - Kemi Sogunle
Always try to live in a wonderful world where the sun is always shining, flowers are always blooming, birds are always singing, and you are always busy with a joyful life. - Debasish Mridha
But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on. - Anna Quindlen
Either get busy living your life or life will leave you behind. - Debasish Mridha
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. - Dale Carnegie
He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion. - Thomas Fuller
I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There's no stopping. I didn't create the fame, the fame created me. - Lady Gaga
I am so busy being kind today that I have no time to complain. - Debasish Mridha
People are so busy lengthening their lives with exercise they don't have time to live them.
Why do you believe in God?" the woman asked me in the busy corridor. I don't remember the answer I gave. It was probably too long and rattled in her ears. I wish I could go back and answer her again. "Because HE believes in me," I would say. Isn't that enough? - Donna VanLiere
Be leery of silence. It doesn't mean you won the argument. Often, people are just busy reloading their guns. - Shannon L. Alder
Too often, we miss out on opportunities in this life because we were too busy waiting for them to fall into our lap that we missed them tapping on our shoulder. - Daniel Willey
If you're too busy looking back at the past, you won't be able to see and enjoy the future! - Dawn M. Plass
Think about yourself because no one has time to think about you. Everyone is busy thinking about themselves. - Debasish Mridha
When you are busy with living your life, age can never find you to make her mark. - Debasish Mridha
When you’re busy, avoid taking the quickest action. Instead make the extra effort to truly serve the customer. - Marilyn Suttle
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy. - Seneca
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night. - Unknown
It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.
My life is very crazy and busy, but I love it that way. - Hilary Duff
Let's not become too busy to keep in touch with those who really matter most and need us. Life's short but let's make an indelible purposeful and powerful impact with it - Bernard Kelvin Clive
Don't be so busy making a living that you forget to enjoy your Life. Today, make a commitment to Enjoy Life. - RVM
Do not too busy to neglect your sacred soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita
I wear the universe backwards. I imagine putting stars in my coffee, and sugar in the sky. I imagine going fishing in clouds, and watching the sun hide behind lakes. I'm too busy dancing with my imagination to even tip toe with reality for a second. They say I'm going mad. They're right. - D. Antoinette Foy
The evidence suggests that you would be more likely to select the tempting chocolate cake when your mind is loaded with digits. System 1 has more influence on behavoir when System 2 is busy, and it has a sweet tooth. - Kahneman Daniel
But you're so busy changing the worldJust one smile can change all of mine - Jack Johnson
When there is no one to teach you life will show you. All you have to do is pay attention.People unfortunately rarely take the time to sit back and evaluate. Their too busy being busy. - Therone Shellman
We often forget to draw a new picture because we are so busy criticizing other paintings. - Debasish Mridha
He who is busy pleasing himself has no time to judge others. - Marty Rubin
Find out how much time you have then get busy using it. - Debasish Mridha
He who didn't succeed at his own dreams, was too busy listening to another's failures. - Nikki Rowe
we are too busy listening to our thoughts that we don't hear the wonderful sounds surrounding us... - Alina Radoi
Group idea sessions rarely work. Why? Members too busy knocking down insights to hear the tap-tap of revelation - Phillip Gary Smith
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair. - George Burns
Busy days galore...thoughts in a kaleidoscope of dervish dances. - Al Cash
The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest— Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast. - William Wordsworth
Guys are busy making major moves while we are sleeping. - Cyc Jouzy
Don't be so busy missing people who left that you miss the people that are standing right in front of you. - Adedayo Olabamiji
Sometimes while you are so passionately busy building, there will be others as busy destroying. Do not stop. One day you will notice how high above you get, and how down below they end up - Sameh Elsayed
I thought of my mother (...). Freud wrote that no man is secure in the love of his mother can ever be a failure. Well, I had been busy proving that theory wrong. - Scott Spencer
We are so busy with our everyday lives that we often forget how to live. - Debasish Mridha
Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy. - Charles Peters
So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation. - Michel de Montaigne
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 and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process. - Salma Hayek
To be in the present time, keep yourself busy always or else you will find yourself either in the past or in the future! - Mehmet Murat ildan
You may not be a great success when you are too busy with life and forget to love. - Debasish Mridha
A busy life is often full of nonsense but empty of essence. - Debasish Mridha
Let us not become so busy making a living that we forget to enjoy our Life. Every day of Life is meant to be Lived and Enjoyed. - RVM
Have you ever noticed how statists are constantly reforming their own handiwork? Education reform. Health-care reform. Welfare reform. Tax reform. The very fact they’re always busy reforming is an implicit admission that they didn’t get it right the first 50 times. - Lawrence W. Reed
If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying. - Bob Dylan
I Have Learned Why People Work So Hard To Succeed: It Is Because They Envy The Things Their Neighbors Have. But It Is Useless. It Is Like Chasing The Wind....It Is Better To Have Only A Little, With Peace Of Mind, Than Be Busy All The Time With Both Hands, Trying To Catch The Wind - Anonymous
When someone tells you they’re too busy, it’s not that they mismanage their time, it’s that you’re not a priority. - Rob Liano
I looked at the people, then, and I saw how busy they were - how much industry and energy described their lives. - Gregory David Roberts
Life is so fleeting. I am so busy enjoying it that I have no time to get angry. - Debasish Mridha
He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign. - Victor Hugo
There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting. - Mark Twain
I like video games, but they're really violent. I'd like to play a video game where you help the people who were shot in all the other games. It'd be called 'Really Busy Hospital. - Demetri Martin
We Born, Get Education, Get Jobs, Earn, Spend, Save And Eventually Die. That Can't Be Right. There Must Be Something Important We're Missing. We're Too Busy Following That Same Circle That We Forget Our Main Purpose of Life, To Know Ourselves.... - Muhammad Imran Hasan
We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly. - Mark Twain
Remember that when you are busy living your life others are busy leaving it - Bangambiki Habyarimana
I keep myself busy with things to do but every time I pause I think of you. - T.J. Klune
Get busy to love everyone, you will not have time or opportunity to fight with anyone. - Debasish Mridha
Love is the language of life and all others are transient epi-phenomena. Like a fish, we are swimming in the ocean of love. We are so busy seeking love that we don’t realize we are swimming in love. - Debasish Mridha
Were most of your stars out? Were you busy writing your heart out? - J.D. Salinger
To be a great success get busy with what you like but don't forget to love. - Debasish Mridha
You're all so busy trying to be tough that you've forgotten how to be brave. - K. Towne Jr.
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. - Andre Maurois
One is often so busy doing life that it is easy to avoid evaluating whether you are putting your energy in the direction you value most. - Deborah Day
Too many people are too busy making a living to make a life. - Roy T. Bennett
The fact that you are even here, alive, on this planet is a mathematical miracle, and you should not spend the time that you have being busy being miserable. - Philip DeFranco
None are so busy as the fool and knave. - John Dryden
Most of our fears are borrowed. Since that’s the case, we should get busy returning them. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
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. - Lucille Ball
The only time anyone's admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they're better than me. - Randy K. Milholland
I am so busy loving life, I have no time to hate. - Debasish Mridha
Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy. Great words are clear and limpid; little words are shrill and quarrelsome. - Chuang Chou
From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important. - Tom Ford
K-I-N-G Jesus is busy in every moment! (Kind hearted -Integrous - Noble - Gracious)" ~ © gfp '42™ - Gary Patton
Most often we forget to live our lives by being too busy passing the time. - Debasish Mridha
Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thine own.
Never before have the tools of value creation been so great and the potential artisans so busy watching the Kardashians. - Ryan Lilly
Lovers moon and wishing stars are too busy for the likes of us. - Jake. H. Khiangte
If you're too busy being angry at the world, don't be surprised when the world returns serve. - Tony Curl
I am ceaselessly occupied with the question of the constitution of radiation This quantum question is so incredibly important and difficult that everyone should busy himself on it. - Albert Einstein
Be kind to humanity, she is very lonely, everyone is busy with themselves. - Debasish Mridha
Do not take someone's silence as his pride,perhaps he is busy fighting with his self - Ali Ibn Abi Taleb
Take it easy when you are busy! It shall never be easy but, take it easy! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
He not busy being born is busy dying. - Bob Dylan
Every day we’re given opportunities, some of us see them and some are too busy to notice. - Rachael Bermingham
When sorrow knocks at your door, tell it you're busy finding happiness. - Saru Singhal
Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. - George Burns
It is difficult for sorrow to intrude on a busy life. - Unknown
Call my dad, my mom's too busy.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. - John Kenneth Galbraith
The aphorism "If you want something done, ask a busy woman" is in direct acknowledgment of the efficiency boot camp parenthood puts you through. - Caitlin Moran
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. - Atwood H. Townsend
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. - Henry C. Link
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly I can!" - and get busy and find out how to do it. - Theodore Roosevelt
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair. - George Burns
I guarantee you it's not the stoned kids that are shooting everyone. They don't have time to like buy ammo. A little bit busy looking up the Domino's number in the phone book for, like, the fiftieth time.
We have been so busy perfecting the means of travel that we have forgotten where we wanted to go. - Arthur M. Young
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. - Spanish proverb
Everybody is too busy with their own lives to give a damn about your book, painting, screenplay etc, especially if you haven't sold it yet. And the ones that aren't, you don't want in your life anyway. - Hugh Macleod
In order to fulfill our wants we get busy to make our living comfortable and we forget about our needs, and we make our life uncomfortable. So, add " life " in our living. - Dev Samudre
The brain, as busy as it can be, is actually very lazy...It sees what it expects to see - James R. Doty
Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread. - B.R. Myers
How beautiful it is to have inner peace while knowing that everyone is busy with their own battles in life. - Debasish Mridha
don't be too much busy on imagining your your life as perfect as the romantic movies, you have your own private story that is being written by the master of the masters. - asma ismaciil
The deep love that is born of friendship can too easily become stagnant when life becomes busy. - Glenn C. Stewart
One of the favors life can do on you is to keep you busy. - raja shakeel mushtaque
I am a speck of dust in an ocean of time, floating with the waves of change, vanishing with the infinite. I have no time to complain, condemn, or criticize because I am so busy loving, enjoying, appreciating, and being kind. - Debasish Mridha
If your relationship is draining your energy, making you lose yourself and taking your attention away from God, then you are not in a relationship but a cult. You are busy creating an idol (mini-God) for yourself. - Kemi Sogunle
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. - John Lennon
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. - Henry David Thoreau
I am forever busy working, because I want to work until get a personal call from the bank. Telling me that they cant add more zeros in my account. The number is too long , that they have rounded it off, but still cant add more digits to it. - De philosopher DJ Kyos
Young children have no past. The old have no future. The rest are too busy with present. This time-tripod holds up the world. You ignore the importance of this interdependence of the three, the world as you know it is in danger of collapsing - R. N. Prasher
Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved me. It was, instead, running madly, in a crowded schedule, in a squirrel cage of busy people. Working, living, dancing, dreaming, talking, kissing- singing, laughing, learning. - Sylvia Plath
I wanted to figure out why I was so busy, but I couldn't find the time to do it. - Todd Stocker
I have no time to judge anyone because I am so busy to love everyone. - Debasish Mridha
Single Ladies Tip: No man is too busy to go after a woman that he really wants, he will make time even if it is 2 minutes. #NoMoreCrumbs - Samantha Gregory
Don't be too busy climbing the ladder of success and forget your most cherished relationships (friends, family, spouse, etc). EnjoyLife! - Bernard Kelvin Clive
Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression. - Henry Home
There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place. - Sir Francis Bacon
People who truly live their lives don't have time to complain or judge others. They're too busy enjoying life and love and everything in between! - Charlotte Eriksson
When people say they're too busy, ask them If they'll have time to die, and see If dead's gonna give a damn. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If youwant to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. - Dale Carnegia
Life is too short to hate anything. I am too busy to love and enjoy everything. - Debasish Mridha
I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything. - Jerry Seinfeld
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it. - Theodore Roosevelt
Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others. - Roy Bennett
Bercelak’s kin kept themselves busy by sharpening weapons, reading, talking, or setting things on fire with small bursts of flame. - G.A. Aiken
Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. - Debasish Mridha
Now let's make Virginia Heffernan a man. Can you imagine the same kind of spittle-flecked rage directed at a busy working father who admits to feeding his kids Annie's Organic Mac & Cheese? - Emily Matchar
Don't be so impatient in finding love; take your time & allow the Lord to write that special love story for you. Otherwise you'll be busy reading the back of the book. - Surgeo Bell
Be busy with your free life. - Amit Abraham
Happiness is the feeling we experience when we are too busy to be miserable. - Thomas L. Masson
Jean, are you busy at 5 o'clock? I need a girl pretty desperatly.
Many are busy looking for a life partner and they lose touch of their life's purpose. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
How can you reform when you are always busy conforming? - Debasish Mridha M.D.
Every mom is busy, whether you have one child or more than one. You just learn how to manage your time differently as your family grows. - Tamara L. Chilver
When we think we're multitasking we're actually multiswitching. That is what the brain is very good at doing - quickly diverting its attention from one place to the next. We think we're being productive. We are, indeed, being busy. But in reality we're simply giving ourselves extra work. - Michael Harris
The irony is that we are busy doing many things that don’t matter and we have no time for things that do. Shouldn’t we reverse it? - RVM
Preparation is the pressure valve on a busy schedule. - Todd Stocker
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think. - Terry Pratchett
More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them - Harold J. Smith
The power of music feels like taking a a nice brake from this busy world - Millie DeWitt
Me: I am very busy now. Can you please excuse me for few minutes?She: Oh ok. But why are you sweating all over your body?Me: I am very busy, that is why. I am dreaming extra-large dreams. - Israelmore Ayivor
I’m busy saving everybody else when I can’t even save myself - Rajesh
To stand strongly, we need three legs: Two legs and a work that will keep us busy! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Who is more busy than he who hath least to do? - John Clarke
Some of us are busy doing things; some of us are busy complaining. - Debasish Mridha
Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing. - William Faulkner
They said we are different. but I Said we are same because we all are busy to blaming others for our sins! - sid
Life is those moments when we forget to live but are too busy to enjoy. - Debasish Mridha
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself. - Edith Sitwell
Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide. - Woodrow Wilson
Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings. - Jane Austen
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself. - Edith Sitwell
We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are. - Bill Watterson
You are a unique person so get busy creating your unique position in this world. - Debasish Mridha
Aubrey - "Apparently she wears a black leather catsuit and a golden mask."Irene - "Any details on the mask?"Aubrey - "I think people are usually too busy looking at the black leather catsuit. - Genevieve Cogman
Interviewer (Louise Tucker): What did you want to be when you grew up? Have you always wanted to be a writer?IllumBerg: When I was a child I was busy being a child. [...] - Natasha Illum Berg
Slogans seem to be dead; this world is now busy chanting fears of lost democracy - Munia Khan
It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? - Henry David Thoreau
Get busy living or get busy trying. Life will move forward with or without you. The question is; will you move forward in life without yourself? - Steven Cuoco
In the midst of a busy life don't forget to live. - Marty Rubin
Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing. - Lao Tzu
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have. - William Hazlitt
Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny. - Oprah Winfrey
Also unfortunately, Congress is far too busy asking if baseball players are really as strong as they seem and trying to choke bankers with wads of cash to grant more funds to such trifling matters as the avoidance of space bullets, so they won't give NASA the money - Robert Brockway
A busy life is filled with tremendous emptiness. - Debasish Mridha
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