Busy Quotes
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You should rather suppose that those are involved in worthwhile duties who wish to have daily as their closest friends Zeno, Pythagoras, Democritus and all the other high priests of liberal studies, and Aristotle and Theophrastus. None of these will be too busy to see you, none of these will not send his visitor away happier and more devoted to himself, none of these will allow anyone to depart empty-handed. They are at home to all mortals by night and by day.
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Theatres, actors, critics and public are interlocked in a machine that creaks but never stops. There is always a new season in hand and we are to busy to ask the only vital question which measures the whole structure. Why theatre at all? What for? Is it an anachronism, a superannuated oddity? Surviving like an old monument or a quaint custom? Why do we applaud and what? Has the stage a real place in our lives? What function can it have? What could it serve? What could it explore? What are its special properties?
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In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.
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Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.
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Things have been happening very fast. We've been pretty much busy from the week we got signed; since then, we've only had a week and a half off.
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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.
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My only failure was the restaurant in Myrtle Beach. I kept it open for four years. It was in a tourist town, it was only busy four and half, five months of the year. But the bills kept coming all year.
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If the movie is quiet I generally feel the audience is busy. That's when they're working.
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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 a happy life.
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The self-talk of the ego-mind is so busy describing what is happening, judging whether it is good or bad for us, and telling us what we should think and do, that there is little opportunity for our inner knowing to be heard. Instead we remain attached to our assumptions, dreaming of the fulfillment we believe they will bring.
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Now -- fuck -- we've all gotta go back and get busy with our lives. But it was nice that we all came together to experience the INDESTRUCTIBLE POWER OF ROCK AND ROLL once again!
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Busy yourselves with this, you damned walruses, while the rest of use proceed with the libretto.
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There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing.
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A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful—then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.
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There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.
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No one's busy thinking bad things about you. They're all too busy thinking bad things about themselves.
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There is much to do, and I am busy, very busy.
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If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong either with you or with your business.
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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Writing is busy idleness.
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Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn't mean mattered.
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A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.
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I don't mind it. I just space it out. Every other week I go out. I used to get some time to myself but I've been pretty busy lately. But I've had it the other way, where I'm staring at the phone waiting for it to ring, so this is definitely better.
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After Psychonauts went on to be very, very popular in Europe, I got busy with my next big project: being unemployed.
