Busy Quotes

• After Psychonauts went on to be very, very popular in Europe, I got busy with my next big project: being unemployed.

  

  Erik Wolpaw
  • Popular
  • Bigs
  • Europe

• We are so busy measuring public opinion that we forget we can mold it. We are so busy listening to statistics we forget we can create them.

  

  William Bernbach
  • Opinion
  • Listening
  • Forget

• I love idleness. I love to busy myself about trifles, to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them, to come and go as my fancy bids me, to change my plan every moment, to follow a fly in all its circlings, to try and uproot a rock to see what is underneath, eagerly to begin a ten-years' task to give it up after ten minutes: in short, to fritter away the whole day inconsequentially and incoherently, and to follow nothing but the whim of the moment.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Giving

• 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.

  

  Mickey Gilley
  • Beach
  • Restaurants
  • Towns

• The only time anyone's admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they're better than me.

  

  R. K. Milholland
  • Time
  • Why
  • Christian

• R.I.P. Steve Jobs. I bet you're busy right now revolutionizing and redesigning the afterlife for all of us to enjoy when our time comes

  

  Joe Satriani Chickenfoot
  • Enjoy
  • Jobs
  • Afterlife

• I'm always busy. And I don't even see it really as work, because everything I do I still really enjoy.

  

  Mel B Spice Girls
  • Work
  • Enjoy
  • Busy

• Being busy does not always mean real work.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Work
  • Real
  • Being

• I took the LSAT the day 'Jersey Shore' premiered, and after that I was too busy to go to law school.

  

  Vinny Guadagnino
  • School
  • Busy

• Far too many people hide behind their busy lifestyles

  

  Charles Lee
  • People
  • Hide
  • Lifestyles

• There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Time
  • Certain
  • Precious Time

• ISIS is the near-term threat, and that the longer - or the mid-term challenge is managing the rise of China. There's some evidence that that's the thinking of the [Donald Trump] administration. That's a perfectly reasonable approach. Well, if that's the case, then you surely want to have a united West to deal with both, and you want to have Russia alongside, but maybe not this Russia while it's busy trying to undermine your chief asset, which is a united West.

  

  Daniel Fried
  • Trying
  • Challenges
  • Evidence

• If the enemy cannot make you BAD, he’ll make you BUSY.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Bad
  • Enemy
  • Busy

• If you are too busy to pray then you are too busy.

  

  W. Sangster
  • Praying
  • Busy
  • Too Busy

• For everybody in their busy lives, you need to invest in sharpening your tools, and you need to invest in longevity.

  

  Ryan Holmes
  • Needs
  • Tools
  • Longevity

• I learned that I'm so busy with what I'm doing, so focused on what I'm doing, that I miss a lot of opportunities for interacting with people.

  

  Bela Fleck Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Missing

• I started out as a fashion photographer. One cannot say that I was successful but there was enough work to keep me busy. I collaborated with Harper's Bazaar and other magazines. I was constantly aware that those who hired me would have preferred to work with a star such as Avedon. But it didn't matter. I had work and I made a living. At the same time, I took my own photographs. Strangely enough, I knew exactly what I wanted and what I liked.

  

  Saul Leiter
  • Fashion
  • Enough
  • Successful

• L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of an island for me - less intense, less busy; because of time difference and location, it has a calming effect. At least it used to be all that.

  

  Nicolas Berggruen
  • World
  • Special
  • Intense

• The busy bee has no time for sorrow.

  

  William Blake
  • Sorrow
  • Busy
  • No Time

• He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • World
  • Heart
  • Retirement

• It was a lifetime occupation that kept us too busy to stop and ask if we were happy or not.

  

  Ossie Davis
  • Stop
  • Lifetime
  • Occupation

• So what if you end up buying a size 6 instead of a 4? You can always cut out the label at home, and you’ll pretty soon forget whatever that number was because you’ll be too busy admiring how fantastic you look.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Forget
  • Busy
  • Label

• No one's busy thinking bad things about you. They're all too busy thinking bad things about themselves.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Thinking
  • Busy
  • Bad Things

• There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of workers in the world, the people who do all the work, and the people who think they do all the work. The latter class is generally the busiest, the former never have time to be busy.

  

  Stella Benson
  • People
  • World
  • Kind

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