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900 Motivational Hectic Life Quotes: Busy Achieving Success

1. “I like to have a hectic schedule.” ~ Ryan Kwanten


2. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of mind amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life.”


3. There are moments in life where it gets so hectic that time becomes a blur. Keep calm and never give up. - Author: John Cena


4. “The last few years have been pretty hectic.” ~ Frank Langella


5. You are the shore I wish to return, after a hectic and tiring day to satiate my life. Have a Fresh Morning!


6. “Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption.” ~ Henry David Thoreau


7. “Well, it has been rather hectic since the 11th of September, and even before then it was quite busy.” ~ Hugh Shelton


8. “O' melancholy,hectic chill for human soul,herewith dismal presence,any spirit does descent.”


9. On Tuesdays, were meant to feel pretty much better than a typical hectic Monday. Its another happy Tuesday.


10. "You are the shore I wish to return, after a hectic and tiring day to satiate my life. Have a Fresh Morning!”


11. “Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.” ~ Anne Carson


12. “My daily schedule is quite hectic, but I have to put my health first in order to be the best mom and wife I can be.” ~ Ellen Pompeo


13. May the Lord protect me as the world gets hectic. My voice projected, my life reflected. - Author: Nicki Minaj


14. “You are the shore I wish to return, after a hectic and tiring day to satiate my life. Have a Fresh Morning!”


15. “My life is pretty hectic, but I’m really into it.” ~ Simon Baker


16. “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” —John Lennon


17. "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it” – Henry David Thoreau


18. “If you think you are too busy to give time and energy to your people, then they are too busy to give time and energy to you. It is a balanced equation.”


19. Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life. – Dolly Parton


20. “It’s how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.”


21. “To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of mind amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life.” ~ Jill Bolte Taylor


22. “It’s like I’m busy being happy and you’re busy bringing me down.”


23. “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


24. “I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.”


25. I just want to be as successful as I can in football. - Author: Ryan Giggs


26. “The road had the lonely times, but I kept myself busy.” – Buck Owens


27. “All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.”


28. “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans” – John Lennon


29. “Be a busy person. People who are active are often much more at peace with themselves than those who are inactive and inert.”


30. Rich people use debt to leverage investments and grow cash flows. Poor people use debt to buy things that make rich people richer. - Author: Grant Cardone


31. “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” Mohandas K. Gandhi“There is more to life than increasing its speed.” – Mohandas K. Gandhi


32. “Making something take longer than necessary is probably the worst example of work ethic and is patently lazy, but looks busy...not cool.”


33. “Your problem is you’re… too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”


34. “If my mind is busy thinking about things like how someone hurt or upset me and how I can protect myself or get back at them, I’m too busy in my head to enjoy the present moment.”


35. Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it.” — Henry David Thoreau


36. I like to read and write because it is the ONLY thing that takes my mind off of the real world and my spinning worries. It is a time I can be free of anxiety, worry, and stress. When my life gets hectic I HAVE to read and write or I'll drown. - Author: Shandy L. Kurth


37. “I always like to keep busy, otherwise my brain starts ticking.” ~ Nicholas Hoult


38. “Being busy is a form of laziness — lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.” – Tim Ferriss


39. “Don’t mistake movement for achievement. It’s easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?” – Jim Rohn


40. “Doing nothing has become one of the lost luxuries in these hectic times. But doing nothing, even for five minutes, can be rejuvenating. Go for it: You


41. “Fitness is a luxury when you are busy!” – Lauren Conrad


42. “Busy is the New Happy!!”


43. “The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.”


44. “Grandpas always have time for you when everyone else is too busy.”


45. “I try to keep myself busy. I always hang out with my family and friends and my dogs. Go to the beach. Go swimming. Go get exercise. Go on a hike.” — Colbie Caillat


46. “Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.”


47. “We should learn the true Christmas lesson of gentle, thoughtful kindness to those we love and to all we meet in life’s busy ways.” – J.R. Miller


48. “I want to make sure that what I do has specific purpose and is not just throwing a dart at something to keep busy.” – Bryan Cranston


49. “The first five years have so much to do with how the next 80 turn out.”


50. “My first priority is my family. I am human. But my whole family knows what my priority is. Family is always first. But my work is under nothing else, except God.”


51. “If you win the rat race, you’re still a rat.” – Lily Tomlin


52. “Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is specifically your own.”


53. “Busyness is, at its core, about misplaced priorities.” — Joshua Becker


54. Life gets busy, but it isn’t enough reason to stay back and not attend church; because the benefits are life-changing and immeasurable.


55. “Because angels are sometimes busy elsewhere, God created sisters like you.” – Sal Williams


56. “Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” – Dolly Parton


57. “When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.” – Jack Kornfield


58. “If at first you don’t succeed, try hard work.”


59. “Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.” – Matt Lucas


60. ““My feeling is that any day I am too busy to run is a day that I am too busy.” – John Bryant


61. “Every man is worth just so much as the things about which he busies himself.” — Marcus Aurelius


62. “To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of mind amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life.” — Jill Bolte Taylor


63. “Fitness is a luxury when you are busy!”


64. “We may be very busy, we may be very efficient, but we will also be truly effective only when we begin with the end in mind.”


65. “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” – Mohandas K. Gandhi


66. “There are some people who, in order not to pray use as an excuse the fact that life is so hectic that it prevents us from praying. This cannot be. Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer. It is not necessary to always be in meditation, nor to consciously experience the sensation that we are talking to God, no matter how nice that would be. What matters is being with Him, living in Him, in His will. To love with a pure heart, to love everybody, especially to live the poor, is a twenty-four hour prayer.” ~ Mother Teresa


67. “Many people fail to make a difference because they are so busy. They”


68. “No matter how busy and important you think you are, you cannot reject nature’s call.” – Michael Bassey Johnson


69. “I keep myself busy with the things I do but every time I pause, I still think of you.”


70. “Get busy living, or get busy dying.” – Stephen King, ‘ Different Seasons’


71. “To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of mind amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life.” – Jill Bolte Taylor


72. “I am a firm believer in The Paleo Solution. I maintain a hectic schedule that starts early and finishes late. Filming a television series, maintaining my fitness, and being a mom can be harrowing some days. Since adopting a Paleo way of eating I look and feel better, and I know that I am setting a good example for my daughter.” ~ Eva LaRue


73. “I can only speak about my own commute and can say that it has certainly affected my commute, making it longer and more hectic.” ~ William Bennett


74. “The first step is the hardest – making a commitment to yourself, for yourself.”


75. “I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”


76. “There are moments in life where it gets so hectic that time becomes a blur. Keep calm and never give up.” ~ John Cena


77. 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


78. “The problem is you’re afraid of your own beauty. You’re too busy holding onto your unworthiness.” - Ram Dass, source unknown


79. “Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday and avoiding today.”


80. “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” – Peter F. Drucker


81. “Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.” ~ Roy T. Bennett


82. “Anyone too busy to say thank you will get fewer and fewer chances to say it.” – Harvey Mackay


83. Get busy living or get busy dying.


84. “Whether it’s marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success.”


85. No matter how busy I try to keep myself, I always find a second to think of you.


86. Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans. -John Lennon


87. #104 “A real man doesn’t have time to cheat because that man is too busy providing all of which a good woman deserves.”


88. “At Starbucks 0 as in any business, in any life – there are so many hectic moments during the day when we are simply trying to do the job, trying to put out the fires, trying to solve any number of small problems, that we often lose sight of what it is we’re really here to do.” ~ Howard Schultz


89. If you are too busy to love, you are too busy to live; if you are too busy to live, you are too busy to love.


90. “The difficulty of describing things for Western ears is that people in a hurry cannot feel.” — Alan Watts


91. “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.”


92. I like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It's a busy kind of life, but I guess I'm lucky.


93. “In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.”


94. “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu


95. “You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.” - Charles Buxton“You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.” – Charles Buxton


96. “Take some time to rest and recover. You don’t always have to be so busy, pushing yourself so hard. Step back and take care of yourself. Those moments of self-care will add value, energy, purpose, and creativity to everything you do. Find a healthy balance and enjoy your life.”


97. “We may be very busy, we may be very efficient, but we will also be truly effective only when we begin with the end in mind.” – Stephen Covey


98. “Get busy living or get busy dying.” — Stephen King


99. “Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management.” —Betsy Jacobson, Author and Businesswoman


100. “You get to decide where your time goes. You can either spend it moving forward, or you can spend it putting out fires. You decide. And if you don’t decide, others will decide for you.”


101. “No matter how busy a person’s day may be, if they really care, they will always find time for you.”


102. “I do not have time to hate people who hated me. I am just too busy loving the ones who really love me.”


103. “Here’s my point: the solution to an overbusy life is not more time. It’s to slow down and simplify our lives around what really matters.”


104. “Everyone, leave me alone. I’ve had a busy day being pregnant and I have to do it again tomorrow.”


105. “Think of your family today and every day thereafter, don’t let the busy world of today keep you from showing how much you love and appreciate your family.” ~ Josiah


106. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to look for it” - Henry David Thoreau


107. “The third major lesson in life is this: learn how to nourish and protect your crops all summer. Sure enough, as soon as you’ve planted, the busy bugs and noxious weeds are out to take things over. And here is the next bit of truth: they will take it, unless you prevent it. There”


108. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it” – Henry David Thoreau


109. “Big Brother is watching… look busy.” – Brandon Boyd


110. I’m too busy working on my own grass to notice if yours is greener.


111. If you complain that I’m busy, try being busy as well.


112. Taking a good bath is one of my favorite things to do after a busy day to stay away from the outside world.


113. “In spite of its undeniable power, so many leaders struggle to embrace organizational health (which I’ll be defining shortly) because they quietly believe they are too sophisticated, too busy, or too analytical to bother with it. In other words, they think it’s beneath them.”


114. I’m too busy to be sad.


115. “Being alone and actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.” – Kourtney Kardashian


116. “I’m too busy to be nostalgic, which is one of the reasons to keep busy. I’m not a very sentimental person.” ~ Frederick Wiseman


117. Jesse is a good guy, although I don't understand the infatuation with the spandex he is always running around in. - Author: Holly Hood


118. “Get busy living or get busy dying.”


119. “When you’re busy creating your own fulfillment, you won’t feel the need to seek it from others. ” – Unknown


120. “It takes more than a busy church, a friendly church, or even an evangelical church to impact a community for Christ. It must be a church ablaze, led by leaders who are ablaze for God”. —Wesley L. Duewel


121. “Love is the only reason for two people to have a stable relationship. No matter how busy you are, no matter how far the distance is, if that someone really loves you, he’ll find time to be with you.”


122. “We never noticed the beauty because we were too busy trying to create it. ” Anonymous


123. “I keep myself busy with the things I do. But in every moment when I pause, I still think of you.”– Mitch Cuento


124. “Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!” – John Dryden


125. “I get her to school, we do homework at night, and at this age, their social calendars are really quite hectic. She’s not driving yet, so I end up chauffeuring her around.” ~ Charlene Tilton


126. “Those who are wise won’t be busy, and those who are too busy can’t be wise.” – Lin Yutang


127. “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


128. “The law of centrifugal force seems to be as true for the human condition as it is for the Newtonian mechanics. The faster our lives spin, the more things tend to fly apart.”


129. “I always like to keep busy, otherwise my brain starts ticking.”


130. “Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.” —Sydney J. Harris, Journalist


131. “Most people will never learn the lessons meant for them in this lifetime, nor become the person they were meant to be, simply because they are too busy being someone else, or someone they are not.” – Suzy Kassem


132. “The first step to greatness is to be honest.”


133. The key to spiritual growth is not increased church attendance or involvement in spiritual activities. People don't grow in Christ because they are busy at church. They grow in Christ when they read and trust their Bibles. - Author: Max Lucado


134. We busy ladies need our coffee fix in the morning. My day doesn’t really start until I’ve had my Starbucks latte.” Heidi Klum


135. “We hear the refrain “I’m great, just busy” so often we assume pathological busyness is okay. After all, everybody else is busy too. But what if busyness isn’t healthy? What if it’s an airborne contagion, wreaking havoc on our collective soul?”


136. “Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.”


137. “Everybody leave me alone. I’ve had a busy day being pregnant and I have to do it again tomorrow.” – Anonymous


138. “To do two things at once is to do neither.” - Publilius Syrus“To do two things at once is to do neither.” – Publilius Syrus


139. He who wants to be a busy body in other men’s matter only asks for trouble. Samuel Zulu


140. “My mother carried me for ten months. I asked her ‘Mother, you had an extra month, why you didn’t make me a beautiful face?’ and mother told me, ‘My son, I was busy making your beautiful hands and heart.’” – Mstislav Rostropovich


141. “We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We’re in a race against time, until we run out of money.”


142. “I absolutely love the balance between New York and Miami because I go to New York and I get so inspired and it’s really busy and it’s like the real city and then I come to Miami and I’m just in a happy place.” – Nina Agdal


143. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”


144. Have nothing to update your status on Facebook, imagine that you are busy at a gathering.


145. “Pretending that you’re very busy talking over phone when you see someone you want to avoid or don’t want to talk to.”


146. “He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.” -Victor Hugo


147. “Some of us are busy doing things, some of us are busy complaining”


148. “Focus on being productive instead of being busy.” – Tim Ferris


149. “There’s a difference in how I feel when I’m traveling and when I’m sitting still. I’ve been doing it for such a long time it has become a part of my life. It gets a bit hectic depending on where I am, you know, like there’s different parts of the world that’s more stimulating than other parts.” ~ Tina Turner


150. “A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.” – Anton van Leeuwenhoek


151. “Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.”


152. “Doing nothing has become one of the lost luxuries in these hectic times. But doing nothing, even for five minutes, can be rejuvenating. Go for it: You – unplugged.” – Joan Marques


153. No matter how old you get, I’ll never be too busy to give you a hug or take you out to lunch. Happy 26th birthday to my absolute favorite person.


154. “On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf's lot to remain merry in the face of torment and adversity. I promised to keep that in mind.”


155. “The best thing you can do is just keep busy, keep working hard, so you’re not dwelling on it all the time. Work is the best antidote for sorrow.” – Gordon B. Hinckley


156. “Stay busy. They don’t deserve you.”


157. “Stop the world. I want to get off.” – Anthony Newley


158. “We are too busy dancing to get knocked off our feet. Baby, we're the new romantics, the best people in life are free” - ‘New Romantics’


159. There’s also something known as the ‘job trap’ when we show being busy to avoid stepping out of our comfort zones and trying something new. You can get more done and find better methods to work if you push your boundaries.


160. “I wait until Thursday to ask people about their weekend plans so there’s a better chance they’re already busy.”


161. “Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.” —Stephen Covey, Author and Businessman


162. “There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.” — Seneca


163. Focus on being productive instead of being busy. – Tim Ferriss


164. “If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.”


165. “If at first you don’t succeed, redefine success.”


166. “If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”


167. We are so busy running around, we miss the simplest most beautiful things. The cycle of life passes us by, unnoticed, unappreciated. - Roz Swartz Williams


168. People are just too busy.


169. “Monday is great for becoming too busy to die.” – Roy Station


170. WE ALL NEED MOTIVATIONAL THOUGHTS TO MOVE TOWARD CHANGE.


171. “For everyone, well-being is a journey. The secret is committing to that journey and taking those first steps with hope and belief in yourself.”


172. “Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love – that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one’s very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless spirit. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.” ~ George Eliot


173. “No one on his deathbed ever said, ‘I wish I had spent more time at the office.’” —commonly attributed to politician Paul Tsongas or Rabbi Harold Kushner


174. “Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.” – Vernon Law


175. “Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.”


176. “A plan is what, a schedule is when. It takes both a plan and a schedule to get things done.”


177. Don’t get so busy making a life that you forget driving a jeep.


178. “By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is unconfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers tempramentally do not crave comfort and convenience – if they did they would live elsewhere.” ~ E. B. White


179. I was too busy watching you going wild, child.


180. Already eight months? When you’re a busy kid, time flies. So many laughs and smiles… We are overjoyed to be your parents. We love you.


181. “Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.” – Paul Frank Baer


182. “The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful, and keep busy.” – Elbert Hubbard


183. “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” -Dale Carnegie


184. “The man who keeps busy helping the man below him won’t have time to envy the man above him.” ~ Henrietta Mears


185. “Those who seek a better life must first become a better person.”


186. No matter how busy a person’s day may be, if they really care, they will always find time for you.”


187. “God first, family second, career third.”


188. “Stepping out of the busyness, stopping our endless pursuit of getting somewhere else, is perhaps the most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.”


189. “You must vie with time’s swiftness in the speed of using it, and, as from a torrent that rushes by and will not always flow, you must drink quickly.”


190. “I used to go on runs, it’s kind of hard for me now unfortunately in Paris because it’s a little bit hectic. My knees aren’t that great, so recently I haven’t been on the treadmill that much but that’s why I like to box on a soft floor. It’s good for me.” ~ Gigi Hadid


191. Never busy but always productive.


192. “Be so busy improving yourself that you have no time to criticize others.” ― Unknown


193. “If you are ‘too busy’ most of the time, or locked behind closed doors, no mentoring relationship can work.” - Martin Zwilling


194. Tuesday mornings are usually hectic, but you give me a reason to wake up and start my day with a smile. You bring the brightness of my morning sun, the glow of the moonlight, a rainbow in the sky, and much more. I love you always!!


195. “To you, the soul reading this. I know you’re tired, you’re fed up, you’re close to breaking down, but there’s strength within you…even when you feel weak. Keep going.”


196. “Why am I so busy? When everything around me is moving so fast, I stop and ask, ‘Is it the world that’s busy, or is it my mind?'” – Haemin Sunim


197. “If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time.” — Elbert Hubbard


198. I always have a very complex personal life as far as romance goes. Sometimes I have a little too much time to get into too much trouble ... and drama. It's either I'm working, or I have nothing to do but focus on my personal life. It's a little hectic. - Author: Emily Meade


199. “You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.” – Charles Buxton


200. “Your children get only one childhood. Make it memorable.” —Regina Brett, Author


201. 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


202. “When was the last time you did something for the first time?”


203. The essential question is not, “How busy are you?” but “What are you busy with?”Oprah Winfrey


204. “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


205. “In the middle of our hectic lives, it’s easy to forget what really matters. But if we take a moment to reflect on our blessings, we can find strength and hope even in the darkest of times.”


206. I'm usually busy - if you call me at the house, I get about four phone calls there a year - I'm usually running around the house with a pen in my mouth holding onto something, folding it, or doing something to it, and it's always a bad time. - Author: Henry Rollins


207. “It’s very easy to say “busy” when someone needs you…. but it’s very painful to hear “busy” when you need someone!”


208. We busy ladies need our coffee fix in the morning. My day doesn’t really start until I’ve had my Starbucks latte.” Heidi Klum


209. “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” –John Lennon


210. “Worry is a total waste of time. It doesn’t change anything. All is does it steal your joy and keep you very busy doing nothing.” – Lionel Willard


211. “Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what’s real.”


212. Hey. It's your birthday. I'm going to do you a favor and call you tomorrow when you're not as busy.


213. “I was born with a lot of horsepower. There was a lot cooking inside me, a lot of energy, and Dad was a strong man by will and by intelligence, and the combination of us was almost bound to result in periodic explosions. He and I disagreed politically, very violently, and things would get hectic around the house.” ~ Richard Boone


214. “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


215. “If you mind your own business, you’ll stay busy all the time. ” – Hank Williams, Jr


216. “Just because you’re doing a lot more doesn’t mean you’re getting a lot more done. Don’t confuse movement with progress.” — Denzel Washington


217. “Champions never complain, they are too busy getting better” ~ John Wooden


218. “Just because we're busy doesn't mean we're being productive. Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.” – Gretchen Rubin


219. “Do not disturb. I’m busy.”


220. “The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.” —Stephen R. Covey, Author


221. “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon


222. "Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.” – Ram Dass


223. I was busy taking deeper breaths.


224. “Model the behavior you wish more people would display. Lead first.”


225. I've always been afraid that somewhere, future time travelers flip through our mirrors as if they were t.v. screens, catching our most awkward and personal moments. - Author: Fran Krause


226. “The people who wait until the last minute are so busy goofing off that they don't have any new ideas. And on the flip side, the people who race in are in such a frenzy of anxiety that they don't have original thoughts either.”


227. “If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man.” ~ Stephen Covey


228. “Put first things first and second things are thrown in. Put second things first and you lose both first and second things.”


229. “Whom little things occupy and keep busy, are little men.” ~ John Lancaster Spalding


230. “If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.” – Will Rogers“If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.” – Will Rogers


231. “If you mind your own business, you`ll stay busy all the time. ” – Hank Williams Jr


232. “Busy is a drug that lot of people are addicted to!”


233. When you love, you are simply giving out love happily. The adulteration of love with materialistic things becomes hectic and painful.


234. “All the black leather she needs is the E-Z boy recliner where her love is parked with one of his hands wrapped around a remote, the other, a bottle of beer. She’s right. It’s kinky. The way he doesn’t look away from the TV, as her head bobs in his lap like a fisherman’s float on a nature program, hectic with the pace his breath sets. His crotch swells under her mouth’s prowess. He’s such a sweetheart he waits until the commercials to come.” ~ Daphne Gottlieb


235. Through the week we always seem so busy, Sunday is a great day to stop and notice nature and the beauty surrounding us.


236. “Busy doesn't mean better. I have never envied a busy person – the one who likes to point out their busy lives to others.”


237. Your problem is you’re … too busy holding onto your unworthiness. – Ram Dass


238. I grew up in a very relaxed environment in one sense, without many rules. My mother had a problem knowing where to draw the line, which caused a chaotic and hectic home life. A lot of people took advantage of my mom. - Author: Nikki Reed


239. “I’m a really hectic dreamer, I never wake up not out of a dream and there’s loads going on, lots of action, big blockbuster dreams, they’re all major enterprises.” ~ Linda Grant


240. “If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.” – Lucille Ball


241. “Focus on being productive instead of busy.” ―Tim Ferriss


242. “We may be very busy, we may be very efficient, but we will also be truly effective only when we begin with the end in mind.” (105


243. “A lot of people say, ‘Wow, you’re a single father of twin boys, that’s crazy!’ Two toddlers can get hectic, but I wouldn’t change it for anything. Every day they teach me different things. The love is there. When you have a two-year-old saying every other hour, ‘Papi, te amo. Papi, I love you,’ it can’t get better.” ~ Ricky Martin


244. I don't really have time or interest in doing a lot of the crazy things that some of my teenage peers do, mostly because I have such a hectic life that I don't need to add to that chaos by creating my own teenage drama like a lot of teenagers do. - Author: Mikaela Shiffrin


245. “Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” -Dolly Parton, entertainer


246. “Time is a gift that most of us take for granted. We get so caught up in the busyness of our daily lives that we rarely stop and take a serious look at how we’re spending this gift.”


247. “Recently I had breakfast with Dan Cathy, the president of Chick-fil-A, a fast food chain headquartered in the Atlanta area. I told him that I was working on this book and I asked him if he made thinking time a high priority. Not only did he say yes, but he told me about what he calls his “thinking schedule.” It helps him to fight the hectic pace of life that discourages intentional thinking. Dan says he sets aside time just to think for half a day every two weeks, for one whole day every month, and for two or three full days every year. Dan explains, “This helps me ‘keep the main thing, the main thing,’ since I am so easily distracted.” You may want to do something similar, or you can develop a schedule and method of your own. No matter what you choose to do, go to your thinking place, take paper and pen, and make sure you capture your ideas in writing.”


248. “Your problem is you’re … too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”― Ram Dass


249. “It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?” - Henry David Thoreau“It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?” – Henry David Thoreau


250. "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau


251. “Those who are wise won’t be busy, and those who are too busy can’t be wise.” – Lin Yutang, ‘The Importance of Living’


252. Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.


253. “The world has never complained about how busy it is.” — Haemin Sunim


254. “I am ghosting you because you were too busy finding flaws in me while I was overlooking yours.”


255. “If you want to conquer fear, don't sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” – Dale Carnegie


256. “It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?“


257. “Learning to pray doesnt offer us a less busy life; it offers us a less busy heart.”


258. I don’t have time to hate people who hate me because I’m too busy loving people who love me.


259. “Be leery of silence. It doesn't mean you won the argument. Often, people are just busy reloading their guns.” – Shannon L. Alder


260. “To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.”


261. “I’m too busy for relationships.” – Rita Ora


262. “A real man doesn’t have time to cheat because that man is too busy providing all of which a good woman deserves. ” — Ritu Ghatourey


263. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” — Henry David Thoreau


264. Because angels are sometimes busy elsewhere, God created sisters like you.” – Sal Williams


265. “I recommend you take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.” – Earl of Chesterfield


266. We’ve been busy as a bee, and now there are three.


267. “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon


268. “Your problem is you are too busy holding onto your unworthiness.” – Ram Dass


269. “Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.” – Robert Genn


270. “You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.”


271. Tools that make life simpler ... tend to make life more hectic, and more prone to disruptions. - Author: John-Talmage Mathis


272. “We never noticed the beauty because we were too busy trying to create it.” - Unknown


273. “Be so busy improving yourself that you have no time to criticize others.”


274. “Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.” – Michel de Montaigne


275. No matter how busy your schedule might be, set aside some time in your calendar to think of new ideas and brainstorm ways to push through your problems.


276. “To do two things at once is to do neither.”


277. “Focused action beats brilliance.” Mark Sunburn“Focused action beats brilliance.” – Mark Sanborn


278. “When everything feels urgent and important, everything seems equal. We become active and busy, but this doesn’t actually move us any closer to success. Activity is often unrelated to productivity, and busyness rarely takes care of business.” — Gary Keller


279. “I try to keep it real. I don’t have time to worry about what I’m projecting to the world. I’m just busy being myself.” ~ Demi Lovato


280. “You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.” – Alvin Toffler


281. “Being busy is better than being bored. Bored left a long time ago. Busy is always around for me. ”


282. “Doing is never enough if you neglect Being.” — Eckhart Tolle


283. "Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.”


284. “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, writer


285. “Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later” ― Dana Stewart Scott


286. “I’m too busy working on my own grass to see if yours is greener.” – Unknown


287. “Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first.”


288. “Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!”


289. “While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.” Henry Link


290. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.


291. A message for a son who has had a busy year and deserves to relax on his birthday.


292. “Nobody is never too busy. If they care, they will make time.”


293. “A charming woman is a busy woman.”


294. At Starbucks 0 as in any business, in any life - there are so many hectic moments during the day when we are simply trying to do the job, trying to put out the fires, trying to solve any number of small problems, that we often lose sight of what it is we're really here to do. - Author: Howard Schultz


295. You were one of the best colleagues I had and thank you for being by my side during those hectic days. It has been a pleasure!


296. “Time is a gift that most of us take for granted. We get so caught up in the busyness of our daily lives that we rarely stop and take a serious look at how we’re spending this gift.” ~ Cheryl Richardson


297. “Get busy living, or get busy dying.”


298. Your problem is you’re… too busy holding onto your unworthiness. —Ram Dass


299. “To achieve great things, we must first dream.”


300. “People are realizing that we are not rats and life is not a race.” — Geir Berthelsen


301. I don’t have time for anything else! I’m too busy living my life!


302. “Time management is the key. Although it seems hectic, as long as you manage your time properly you can get everything done.” ~ John Cena


303. “Don’t be that person who is too busy when you are young and then too tired when you are old.”


304. “People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations.”


305. I’m just busy being myself.


306. “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


307. Everybody leave me alone. I’ve had a busy day being pregnant and I have to do it again tomorrow.


308. “In a whirlwind world, independent languor becomes a virtue, and meditation engenders a finer art than any nervousness”


309. “However busy a father is, he will find time for his child.” – Anonymous


310. A serious girl, when she finds someone who clams her spirit and quiets her busy thoughts, will love you so fiercely, it will defy even her own logic and reasoning.


311. “Worry is a total waste of time. It doesn’t change anything. All it does is steal your joy and keep you very busy doing nothing.” – Lionel Willard


312. “Joy comes to us in ordinary moments. We risk missing out when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.”


313. So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it. - Author: Jiddu Krishnamurti


314. “If the big rocks don’t go in first, they aren’t going to fit in later.”


315. “Never Be So Busy As Not To Think Of Others”. Mother Teresa


316. “He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.” – Rabindranath Tagore


317. “To do two things at once is to do neither.” – Publilius Syrus


318. “I’m someone who likes to keep busy, especially with projects that I find meaningful and fulfilling.” ~ Niki Taylor


319. “I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life up until then.”


320. To receive a gift from you, Sir, is a pleasure. A big thank you to you, Sir, for thinking of me even when you’re busy.


321. "I know you have a busy day today, just wanted to send a little love your way!”


322. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”-Soren Kierkegaard


323. “We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to-do’ list.” —Michelle Obama, former First Lady


324. “I’m too busy working on my own grass to notice if yours is greener.”


325. “I’ve got a hectic schedule, but I wouldn’t have my life any other way.” ~ Dominic Monaghan


326. “While you are too busy minding other people’s business, who is busy minding yours?” ― Edmond Mbiaka


327. “I need a semblance of routine so little things, like having my morning cup of English breakfast tea and going to Pilates early before the world gets hectic, keeps me calm.” ~ Louise Roe


328. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”


329. “The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.” – Ram Dass


330. Being a mom is hard, but I don't want people to feel like they always have to go straight to the TV dinner or go to the fast food because you have a busy, hectic life. - Author: Tia Mowry


331. Happiness walks on busy feet.


332. “No one is really busy. It all depends on what number you are on their priority list.” — Author Unknown


333. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” –Henry David Thoreau


334. “It’s very important to take care of yourself. Everyone’s lives are so busy. Take at least an hour a day to recharge and do whatever makes you better. For grown-ups, whether it’s a spa, sitting in a park with a book, or coffee, take time for yourself.” — Ana Ivanovic


335. “We never noticed the beauty because we were too busy trying to create it.” Anonymous


336. “Busy doesn’t mean better. I have never envied a busy person the one who likes to point out their busy lives to others.” – Donna Lynn Hope


337. “Doing is often a subconscious escape from being.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana


338. “I love to keep busy. The challenge of fitting all of my activities into each day is my motivation.” – Sarah Kochik


339. “Busy is only good, if there is progress involved.” – Unknown


340. “Never be so busy as not to think of others.” ~ Mother Teresa


341. “Your problem is you’re too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”


342. “Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.“ – Matt Lucas


343. “Why worry about things you can't control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you?”


344. “You can't do traditional work at a modern pace. Traditional work has traditional rhythms. You need calm. You can be busy, but you must remain calm.” – Bill Buford


345. “When a man, whether he is a leader or follower, admits that he is “too busy” to change his plans, or to give attention to any emergency, he admits his inefficiency. The successful leader must be the master of all details connected with his position.”


346. “Happiness walks on busy feet.”


347. “Joy comes to us in ordinary moments. We risk missing out when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.” – Brené Brown


348. “It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?” — Henry David Thoreau


349. “I tried to keep us together, you were busy keeping secrets.” ― Drake


350. “Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” —Dolly Parton, Singer


351. “In regard to dogs, my most memorable thoughts concern my daughter’s dog and her fondness for them. In fact, one day while working at the office, she hosted a birthday party for one of her Newfoundlands and the party was attended by dogs of other coworkers. It was a hectic few hours, but I believe the guests enjoyed themselves.” ~ Tom Monaghan


352. A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.”


353. I was busy calming a racing heart.


354. “While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.”


355. “While you are too busy minding other people's business, who is busy minding yours?”


356. “Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off on an early adventure or business, but full of deep silence and absolute clarity of perception? A dawning which you truly observe, degree by degree. It is the most amazing moment of birth. And more than anything it can spur you to action. Have a burning day.”


357. “In contrast, increasing effort is not an option when you must keep six digits in short-term memory while performing a task. Ego depletion is not the same mental state as cognitive busyness.”


358. There are children throwing snowballs, instead of throwing heads, they're busy building toys and absolutely no one's dead. — Jack Skellington


359. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot”-Michael Altshuler


360. “It is good to pass time but its profitable to get busy.”


361. “Thanks for the offer but I am busy living my Jeep life.” — Unknown


362. "My mission: to be so busy loving my life that I have no time for hate, regret, worry, fret, or fear.”


363. “Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure."


364. “You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.”


365. “You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”


366. It's very important to take care of yourself. Everyone's lives are so busy. Take at least an hour to recharge and so whatever makes you better. — Ana Invanoic


367. “Listen, there are other things in life besides the day-to-day, all of this is great but really, it's going nowhere… It seems like I don't have time to do anything. I'm stuck… I do a million things and nothing comes out…” – Dominique Goblet


368. “I wanted to figure out why I was so busy, but I couldn't find the time to do it.” – Todd Stocker


369. “It’s amazing how many things busy people are doing that never will be missed.” – Peter Drucker


370. “Whom little things occupy and keep busy, are little men.” – John Lancaster Spalding


371. Thanks of the offer but I am busy living my Jeep life


372. “Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.” – Warren BuffettCLICK TO TWEET


373. “Being busy doesn't mean being productive.” – Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel


374. “Being busy and being productive are not necessarily the same.” – Lauren Mackler


375. “System 1 is gullible and biased to believe, System 2 is in charge of doubting and unbelieving, but System 2 is sometimes busy, and often lazy.”


376. “I am reasonably happy, providing I keep busy.” – Burt Lancaster


377. “Now I know why you wouldn’t answer my texts. You were too busy hooking up with your ex. ”


378. “She has a voice. If you can’t hear it, it’s because you’re too busy talking.” ‒ Amani Al-Khatahtbeh


379. “Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves.” ~ Josef Pieper


380. In modern life, we tend to forget family values because of the hectic schedule.” ― Mahesh Babu


381. “In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.” Lee Iacocca


382. “Some of us are busy doing things, some of us are busy complaining.” – Debasish Mridha


383. It’s impossible to dream when you are busy trying to survive. Self


384. “The first rule of fight club is, you don’t talk about fight club.”


385. Career-themed puns. Create a baby announcement related to your career. For example, if you and your partner are in tech, you can make personalized T-shirts that say “loading…” to represent your littlest techie who’s busy developing in your baby bump!


386. “Stepping out of the busyness, stopping our endless pursuit of getting somewhere else, is perhaps the most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.”– Tara Brach


387. “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 important to me and what’s on the top of that list is just making sure that my family stays healthy, especially during flu season.” ~ Tia Mowry


388. “Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.”


389. “Being busy is as good as doing nothing.. practicing deliberate nothingness is a form of meditation..” – Jaya Bhateja


390. “Stay active no matter how busy your life is. A quick workout is better than no workout.”


391. “Things of value require sacrifice. If people are too hurt, too busy, or too damn stupid to see that you’re a blessing they’ve been asking for, just fall back. Know your worth.” - Unknown*


392. “I try to keep it real. I don't have time to worry about what I'm projecting to the world. I'm just busy being myself.”


393. “Don’t Get So Busy Making A Living That You Forget To Make A Life”. Dolly Parton


394. “Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.” – Hakuin Ekaku


395. “Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.” – David Allen


396. “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


397. “Focus on being productive instead of busy.” – Tim Ferriss


398. “Busyness becomes our existential comfort pill, the refuge from existential angst.” — Nicos Hadjicostis


399. "I don’t have time, energy, or interest in hating the haters; I’m too busy loving the lovers.” – Steve Marabou


400. “Being busy is one thing however productivity is the real gem.”


401. “We all know our money isn’t infinite, yet we end up treating our time and energy and attention as if they are.”


402. “S.T.O.P. = Start To Open Possibilities” – Richie Norton


403. The perfect way to end a busy day!


404. Thank you for shopping with us during this busy [special occasion] season. You have a lot of choices, and we appreciate that you chose us.


405. “Those who are wise won’t be busy, and those who are too busy can’t be wise.” — Lin Yutang


406. “Don’t forget. while you’re busy doubting yourself. someone else is admiring your strength.” - Kristen Butler


407. “Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.” — Søren Kierkegaard


408. “If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.”


409. “More than anything, the journal wanted. It wanted more than it could hold, more than words could describe, more than diagrams could illustrate. Longing burst from the pages, in every frantic line and every hectic sketch and every dark-printed definition. There was something pained and melancholy about it.” ~ Maggie Stiefvater


410. “Don’t mistake movement for achievement. It’s easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?”


411. “A problem is only a problem when viewed as a problem. All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.”


412. “Don’t Get So Busy Making A Living That You Forget To Make A Life” – Dolly Parton


413. “When two brothers are busy fighting, an evil man can easily attack and rob their poor mother. Mankind should always stay united, standing shoulder to shoulder so evil can never cheat and divide them.”


414. “Busy is a choice.” — Debbie Millman / Ann Voskamp


415. “Industrial design keeps the customer happy, his client in the black and the designer busy.”


416. “My goal is to make something special and pure, and that keeps me going, keeps me busy on the path of sobriety.” ― Ariel Pink


417. “Your problem is you’re… too busy holding onto your unworthiness.” — Ram Dass


418. “If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I would spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.”


419. “Make friends first, make sales second, make love third. In no particular order.”


420. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.


421. Excuse me for a minute, I’m busy jet skiing.


422. “Keep busy. It’s the cheapest kind of medicine there is.”


423. Even if sometimes we’re busy and don’t manage to meet for a few weeks or even a couple of months, we’re certainly excellent at compensating for it over a good catch-up! How about another time on your special day? I’ll bring cake.


424. “You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.” —Zig Ziglar, Motivational Speaker


425. “Don’t make the same decision twice. Spend time and thought to make a solid decision the first time so that you don’t revisit the issue unnecessarily.”


426. In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.–Lee Iacocca


427. “I'd like to be the ideal mother, but I'm too busy raising my kids." —Anonymous


428. “My feeling is that any day I am too busy to run is a day that I am too busy.” – John Bryant


429. “The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”


430. “You will become impressive the day you stop trying. You will become successful the day you stop being busy.” – Maxime Lagacé


431. Few poets are known for rhythm. Langston Hughes had such fluid movement in his words, it’s fitting we see this excerpt about rain to explore him. Nature brings us beauty, even in the busy buzzing of the city. We just have to open our eyes, and perhaps our mouths, to receive it.


432. “No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.”


433. “The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.” – Benjamin Franklin


434. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” —Michael Altshuler, Motivational Speaker and Sales Consultant


435. “He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.“


436. “And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days just prior to the woman’s movement, when middle-class women were supposed to be wonderful wives and mothers, gracious hostesses…. I used to feel so womanly when I was baking my filthy bread.” ~ Angela Carter


437. “as the physicians say it happens in hectic fever, that in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but difficult to detect, but in the course of time, not having been either detected or treated in the beginning, it becomes easy to detect but difficult to cure” ~ Niccolo Machiavelli


438. “Think of your family today and every day thereafter, don’t let the busy world of today keep you from showing how much you love and appreciate your family.” –Josiah


439. “A plan is what, a schedule is when. It takes both a plan and a schedule to get things done.” – Peter Turla


440. “When you keep God in first place, He will take you to places you’ve never dreamed of.”


441. “I love the balance between New York and Miami because I go to New York and I get so inspired and it’s really busy and it’s like the real city and then I come to Miami and I’m just in a happy place.” – Nina Agdal


442. “Corrie ten Boom once said that if the devil can’t make you sin, he’ll make you busy. There’s truth in that. Both sin and busyness have the exact same effect—they cut off your connection to God, to other people, and even to your own soul.”


443. “I’m someone who likes to keep busy, especially with projects that I find meaningful and fulfilling.” – Niki Taylor


444. “Busy is the new happy.”


445. “The only thing for certain is that everything changes. The rate of change increases. If you want to hang on you better speed up. That is the message of today. It could however be useful to remind everyone that our basic needs never change.” — Guttorm Fløistad


446. “When the most important times are occurring, we don't even recognize them or notice. We are just busy living our lives. Only looking back do we know what was a great moment in our lives.”


447. A serious girl, when she finds someone who calms her spirit and quiets her busy thoughts, will love you so fiercely, it will defy even her own logic and reasoning.”


448. When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another—and ourselves. — Jack Kornfield


449. . . . God damned point is life is what happens to us while we’re busy making other plans, read that in a dentist office once . . .


450. If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man.


451. “It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?” – Henry David Thoreau.


452. “The shorter way to do many things is to only do one thing at a time.”


453. It’s very important to take care of yourself. Everyone’s lives are so busy. Take at least an hour a day to recharge and do whatever makes you better. For grown


454. “Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about to rush off on an early adventure or business, but full of deep silence and absolute clarity of perception? A dawning which you truly observe, degree by degree. It is the most amazing moment of birth. And more than anything it can spur you to action. Have a burning day.” ~ Vera Nazarian


455. “Be so busy loving your life that you have no time for anger, regret or fear.” – Karen Salmansohn


456. “Doing nothing has become one of the lost luxuries in these hectic times. But doing nothing, even for five minutes, can be rejuvenating. Go for it: You – unplugged.”


457. “Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.”


458. “Why did you bother smiling in front of my face when you were busy gossiping behind my back? I hate you.”


459. “Whenever you’re angry, get busy with any activity requiring your full attention. You’ll see your anger quickly dissipate. Conversely, keep dwelling on the feelings of anger, and you’ll see it grow until it becomes”


460. “I don’t think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative.”


461. When life is so busy you need jet skis to get from place to place.


462. “We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down enough to enjoy them when they come.” — Alan Watts


463. “I may be busy, but it is never an excuse to not make time for you.”


464. “Sometimes sitting and doing nothing is the best something you can do.” – Karen Salmansohn


465. “No Disturb, I am Busy.”


466. A busy, vibrant, goal-oriented woman is so much more attractive than a woman who waits around for a man to validate her existence. - Mandy Hale


467. “We hurt people by being too busy. Too busy to notice their needs. Too busy to drop that note of comfort or encouragement or assurance of love. Too busy to listen when someone needs to talk. Too busy to care.”


468. “Stop being busy beating yourself up over every little thing. Instead. don’t sweat the small stuff. cut yourself some slack and remember that you are good enough.”


469. “Always make the other person feel important.”-John Dewey


470. “While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. —HENRY C . L I NK”


471. To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of mind amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life. — Jill Bolte Taylor


472. Still the best time for cuddling with our loved ones. Cherish every moment of our time during Sundays before everyone gets busy again for another week.


473. “The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.” — Lily Tomlin


474. “To be busy minding other people’s business is to leave one’s personal business unattended to. ” – Edmond Mbiaka


475. “Get busy living or get busy dying.” ― Stephen King, Different Seasons


476. “If you mind your own business, you’ll stay busy all the time. ” ― Hank Williams Jr


477. “Good morning! You said you'd be having a busy day just know that you got this!”


478. My mother carried me for ten months. I asked her ‘Mother, you had an extra month, why you didn’t make me a beautiful face?’ and mother told me, ‘My son, I was busy making your beautiful hands and heart.’ – Mstislav Rostropovich


479. “Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.” – Thomas A. Edison


480. “If you mind your own business, you`ll stay busy all the time. ”–Hank Williams Jr


481. “That’s why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.” — George Carlin


482. “I’m too busy writing history to read it. – Kanye West.”


483. “What would it be like to only have activities in your life that ‘sparked joy?’ … it’s a goal to keep in mind as you evaluate your schedule.” – Laura Vanderkam


484. “Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist — while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!” —Lori Greiner, Shark Tank investor


485. “The day is busy enough to keep me occupied. In the quiet of the night, I begin to really miss you.” – Unknown


486. “A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.”


487. “If you want to accomplish something, you must first expect it of yourself.”


488. “If you mind your own business, you’ll stay busy all the time.” – Hank Williams Jr.


489. “Get busy living or get busy dying.” Stephen King


490. “A time for everything: A time to relax and a time to be busy, a time to frolic and a time to labor, a time to receive and a time to give, a time to begin and a time to finish.”


491. “I keep myself busy with the things I do but everytime I pause, I still think of you.”


492. “Thank you for caring for me when I was too sick and disturbed to take care of myself. It is truly a privilege to find a person in this busy and occupied world who cares and admires you the same way you admire them.”


493. Duct tape is man's answer to electrons and protons. It's how we keep matter together. - Author: Penny Reid


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


495. In the bathroom but definitely not #bathroomselfie -just a place to refresh from a busy day.


496. “I love to keep busy. The challenge of fitting all of my activities into each day is my motivation.”


497. “In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.”


498. “No matter how successful you are in your career, you must always remember that we are here to live. If you keep yourself busy working, you will surely regret it.”


499. Confident people are busy people!


500. Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. -Paul Valery


501. “Real men don’t have time to cheat because they are too busy looking for new ways to love their woman.” – Anonymous


502. “I get her to school, we do homework at night, and at this age, their social calendars are really quite hectic. She’s not driving yet, so I end up chauffeuring her around.” – Charlene Tilton


503. “A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven’t got any of your own.” ~ Dorothy L. Sayers


504. “The times when I feel not alive is when I feel stifled, when I feel like the emotion that’s in me is not coming out. I’m too busy, too hectic. I’m serving my iPhone more than my spirit. Those are the times I feel bad.” ~ Michael Franti


505. “I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.” ~ Anne Lamott


506. “Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.”


507. “In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.”– Lee Iacocca


508. “I don’t have time to hate people who hate me because I’m too busy loving people who love me.”


509. “Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson


510. “To be busy minding other people's business, is to leave one's personal business unattended to.”


511. “Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.”


512. “All things are created twice. There’s a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things.”


513. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” – Benjamin FranklinCLICK TO TWEET


514. “We’re not going to be the first to this party, but we’re going to be the best.”


515. “Loyalty is the first law of God.”


516. “I don’t think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative.” ~ Sebastian Coe


517. “Busyness is an illness of the spirit.” — Eugene Peterson


518. “Be so busy improving yourself that you don’t have time to criticize others.” -Chetan Bhagat


519. “Why worry about things you can’t control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you?”


520. “You can do anything, but not everything.”-David Allen


521. “There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.” – Seneca the Younger


522. If you want something done, ask a busy woman to do it.” – Proverb


523. Tanner: I think that I might kiss you to keep your lips busy with something other than insulting me


524. When life gets too hectic, I’ve always found that a nice, hot bath can solve most problems.


525. “Doing nothing has become one of the lost luxuries in these hectic times. But doing nothing, even for five minutes, can be rejuvenating. Go for it: You – unplugged.” – Joan Marque


526. “To me, ‘busy’ implies that the person is out of control of their life.” – Derek Sivers


527. Thanks of the offer but I am busy living my Jeep life.


528. In my opinion the hectic and almost frantic pace of modern living is a clear sign of the fear we have of being and of life. And as long as this fear exists in a person's unconscious, he will run faster and do more so as not to feel his fear. - Author: Alexander Lowen


529. Time flies when you are too busy and concerned with what does not concern you


530. “Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.” ~ Matt Lucas


531. “No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.”


532. “I recommend you take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves.” - Earl of Chesterfield


533. “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy. ” – Dale Carnegie


534. “I appreciate you with all of my heart and even when our lives get hectic, please know that I am here for you. You’re the one that keeps me going.”


535. “So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.” – Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet


536. “Never be so busy as not to think of others.” – Mother Teresa


537. “The business of living can steal away the wonder of life.” – M.J. Rose, ‘Tiffany Blues’


538. “Then she did see it there – just a face, peering through the curtains, hanging in midair like a mask. A head-scarf concealed the hair and the glassy eyes stared inhumanly, but it wasn’t a mask, it couldn’t be. The skin had been powdered dead-white and two hectic spots of rouge centered on the cheekbones. It wasn’t a mask. It was the face of a crazy old woman. Mary started to scream, and then the curtains parted further and a hand appeared, holding a butcher’s knife. It was the knife that, a moment later, cut off her scream. And her head.” ~ Robert Bloch


539. “You can do two things at once, but you can’t focus effectively on two things at once.”


540. “People are not ignoring you. They are busy with their lives. And to stop feeling ignored is to get busy with yours.”


541. “If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.” – Will Rogers


542. “It’s called an occupation. Not a preoccupation. It’s call success, not obsess. And it’s called being in a business. Not being in abyss-ness. It’s called giving yourself a break to avoid a breakdown. It’s called being good to you.” – Karen Salmansohn


543. “If you mind your own business, you`ll stay busy all the time.” – Hank Williams Jr.


544. “Just cause I am busy does not mean I don’t love you.”


545. “Just because we’re busy doesn’t mean we’re being productive. Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.” – Gretchen Rubin, ‘Outer Order, Inner Calm: De-clutter & Organize to Make More Room for Happiness’


546. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”


547. “My older siblings and I all work in ‘the industry’. So obviously we have hectic schedules, but we make it work.” ~ Lily Collins


548. “Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.”– Dolly Parton


549. “It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?” – Henry David Thoreau


550. I’m here for you, and I want to be with you. I am not an option, and I wish to be a priority. You can’t have me when you’re bored, when someone else is busy, or when it’s convenient for you. I’m not an option because I’m worth more than that.


551. “Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.”~ Lucille Ball


552. “I’m too busy to be nostalgic, which is one of the reasons to keep busy. I’m not a very sentimental person.” – Frederick Wiseman


553. “My life is pretty hectic, but I’m really into it.”


554. “Take a rest. A field that has rested yields a beautiful crop.” – Ovid


555. “I love New York, and I would love to try to live here for a while if I ever got the chance, but it’s also extremely hectic. I don’t think I would cope with that.” ~ Alicia Vikander


556. “In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.” – Lee Iacocca


557. “I want to make sure that what I do has specific purpose and is not just throwing a dart at something to keep busy.” ~ Bryan Cranston


558. “My mission: to be so busy loving my life that I have no time for hate, regret, worry, fret, or fear.”


559. “Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.” - David Allen “Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.” – David Allen


560. “Being busy has its perk, and every perk comes with certain limitations. Friends drifting away because you're a bit busy is one of the many limitations.” – Sarvesh Jain


561. “What is the biggest obstacle facing the family right now? It is over-commitment; time pressure. There is nothing that will destroy family life more insidiously than hectic schedules and busy lives, where spouses are too exhausted to communicate, too worn out to have sex, too fatigued to talk to the kids. That frantic lifestyle is just as destructive as one involving outbroken sin. If Satan can’t make you sin, he’ll make you busy, and that’s just about the same thing.” ~ James Dobson


562. “I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.” – Gordon Ramsay


563. “A lot of people say, “Wow, you’re a single father of twin boys, that’s crazy!” Two toddlers can get hectic, but I wouldn’t change it for anything. Every day they teach me different things. The love is there. When you have a two-year-old saying every other hour, “Papi, te amo. Papi, I love you” it can’t get better..” – Ricky Martin


564. “I’m here for you, and I want to be with you. I am not an option, and I wish to be a priority. You can’t have me when you’re bored, when someone else is busy, or when it’s convenient for you. I’m not an option because I’m worth more than that.”


565. “The answers you seek never come when the mind is busy, they come when the mind is still.” — Leon Brown


566. “To my son, if you need me, call me. I don’t care where or how busy I am. If you need me and if you need to talk to me, I will always be there for you, no matter how big or how small your problem is!” – Unknown


567. Always be involved in your children's lives. Life gets hectic but we have to find a way to always stay connected and let our kids know that they are loved. - Author: Dwyane Wade


568. A serious girl, when she finds someone who calms her spirit and quiets her busy thoughts, will love you so fiercely, it will defy even her own logic and reasoning.


569. “It is possible to be busy—very busy—without being very effective.”


570. “You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.” – Tom Waits


571. “Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls—family, health, friends, and integrity—are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.” —Gary Keller, Real Estate Entrepreneur


572. “One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.”


573. “There’s no such thing as being too busy. If you really want something, you’ll make time for it.”


574. “If you mind your own business, you'll stay busy all the time.”


575. "If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy."— Unknown


576. 💗 Everybody leaves me alone. I’ve had a busy day being pregnant and I have to do it again tomorrow.


577. “I tried to put all my life into a minute since I was so busy and involved in so many things that this sense of fullness, this wholeness would be impossible to describe”. — Richard Bach


578. “If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got.”


579. “What gets measured gets managed.”


580. “More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren’t so busy denying them.”


581. “So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.”


582. “So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.”


583. “Nobody is too busy, it’s just a matter of priorities.”


584. “Being busy is a disease of our time.” — Pedram Shojai


585. “If you hold back on the emotions—if you don’t allow yourself to go all the way through them—you can never get to being detached. you’re too busy being afraid. You’re afraid of the pain. you’re afraid of the grief. You’re afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.”


586. “While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes, learning from them, and becoming superior.”


587. “Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.” – Kourtney Kardashian


588. “In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.”


589. “The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.”


590. “Begin with the end in mind.” Steven Covey“Begin with the end in mind.” – Steven Covey


591. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” - Henry David Thoreau


592. I try to keep it real. I don't have time to worry about what I'm projecting to the world. I'm just busy being myself. —Demi Lovato


593. “A bee is never as busy as it seems; it’s just that it can’t buzz any slower.”


594. “I think it’s so much fun to create a space. As the world has gotten more and more hectic – with these horrible catastrophes [happening] – people are going out less, ordering in, [having guests over]. People love to be in their homes.” ~ Aerin Lauder


595. “The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.”


596. “In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.”


597. The secret is keeping busy and loving what you do. -- Lionel Hampton


598. “Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.”


599. My theater is slow and calm, yet my life is fast and hectic, going in all directions. - Author: Robert Wilson


600. “I have found that most people who fail in their relationships are usually too busy loving other people that they starve themselves of love and affection. It’s the fastest way to a heartbreak.”


601. “In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.” ~ Lee Iacocca


602. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to look for it.” — Henry David Thoreau


603. “Focus on being productive instead of busy.” – Unknown


604. I'm thankful


605. “A bee is never as busy as it seems; it’s just that it can’t buzz any slower.” – Kin Hubbard


606. “It’s called an occupation. Not a preoccupation. It’s call success, not obsess. And it’s called being in a business. Not being in abyss-ness. It’s called giving yourself a break to avoid a breakdown. It’s called being good to you.”


607. “Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.”― Lucille Ball


608. “Stepping out of the busyness, stopping our endless pursuit of getting somewhere else, is perhaps the most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.” – Tara Brach


609. “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.”


610. “We are so busy that the truth about our lives can’t catch up.” – Brena Brown


611. Busy Is Only Good, If There Is Progress Involved…


612. “No matter how busy you are, or how busy you think you are, the work will always be there tomorrow, but your friends might not be.”


613. Everybody leave me alone. I’ve had a busy day being pregnant and I have to do it again tomorrow – Unknown


614. “Feeling the need to be busy all the time is a trauma based response and fear-based distraction you’d be forced to acknowledge and feel if you slowed down.” – Tutu Mora


615. “Dare to dream big dreams. Set goals high. And then get busy achieving those dreams.


616. Your problem is you’re … too busy holding onto your unworthiness


617. “To me, the lasting impression of any good wine is the thought of its maker. Those whose efforts transformed the fruits of the soil into a finished work of art. Those who pulled from the hectic passage of time an ordered memory. They are immortalized by their wine in my glass.” ~ Dave Chambers


618. “Being busy is a disease of our time.” – Pedram Shojai


619. “churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that sourround them, contradicting the very precepts they profess to believe deeply.”


620. "Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it.” — Henry David Thoreau


621. “No one is re ally busy, it all depends on what number you are on their priority list.”


622. “It takes more than a busy church, a friendly church, or even an evangelical church to impact a community for Christ. It must be a church ablaze, led by leaders who are ablaze for God.”


623. “While you are so busy trying to make yourself humble,


624. “When in doubt, choose the kids. There will be plenty of time later to choose work.” —Anna Quindlen, Author


625. “Its been a busy season for me, I don’t get much free time.”


626. “Do you ever catch yourself with the sneaking suspicion that you’ll wake up on your deathbed with this nagging sense that somehow, in all the hurry and busyness and frenetic activity, you missed the most important things?”


627. “Yoga has enriched my life…It is a great way to offset the downsides of touring by bringing much-needed peace and sanity into what can be a hectic life. Like music, yoga is a journey – one that is long enough so you keep developing, and keep learning. I don’t see an end to it.” ~ Sting


628. “I consider taking a road trip with my husband to be the epitome of happiness. It’s been so hectic lately that it’s been hard to plan one, but we always drive to North Carolina, where he’s from, for Christmas. We’ll be doing that again soon.” ~ Pamela Love


629. “I don’t think we realise just how fast we go until you stop for a minute and realise just how loud and how hectic your life is, and how easily distracted you can get.” ~ Meg Ryan


630. “When you start so young working, you build a hunger for acting, working, and a busy life.”


631. If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it.


632. “Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.” —Thomas Edison, Inventor


633. “If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”


634. “My mother carried me for ten months. I asked her ‘Mother, you had an extra month, why you didn’t make me a beautiful face?’ and mother told me, ‘My son, I was busy making your beautiful hands and heart.'” — Mstislav Rostropovich


635. “My feeling is that any day I am too busy to run is a day that I am too busy.” ~ John Bryant


636. "When someone we love dies, we get so busy mourning what died that we ignore what didn’t.” ― Ram Dass


637. Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist—while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!


638. “Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”


639. “The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.”


640. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it.” ~ Henry David Thoreau


641. “You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.” – Stephan Covey


642. “I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.”


643. I've got a hectic schedule, but I wouldn't have my life any other way. - Author: Dominic Monaghan


644. “I absolutely love the balance between New York and Miami because I go to New York and I get so inspired, and it’s really busy, and it’s like the real city, and then I come to Miami, and I’m just in a happy place.” – Nina Agdal


645. “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.”


646. “If You Want To Conquer Fear, Don’t Sit Home And Think About It. Go Out And Get Busy”. Dale Carnegie


647. “So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things.” — Morrie Schwartz


648. “We stay so busy that the truth of our lives can’t catch up.” — Brené Brown


649. “Actually, when you’re doing something you love, even when you’re busy and it’s hectic you don’t feel the need to relax. I never used to take holidays and it would upset ex-wives and girlfriends, but working has me in a better mood than doing nothing.” ~ Al Murray


650. “No matter how busy I get or how much pressure is on my shoulders, a good workout makes me feel at ease. I come off the treadmill feeling relaxed, full of joy and with a sense of perspective over the issues on my plate.”


651. “I am reasonably happy, providing I keep busy.” ~ Burt Lancaster


652. “If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man.” – Stephen Covey


653. To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of mind amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life. - Author: Jill Bolte Taylor


654. “The best thing you can do is just keep busy, keep working hard, so you’re not dwelling on it all the time. Work is the best antidote for sorrow.” ~ Gordon B. Hinckley


655. “On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf’s lot to remain merry in the face of torment and adversity. I promised to keep that in mind.” – Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris


656. “I know you have a busy day today, just wanted to send a little love your way!”


657. “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.”


658. “It is good to pass time but its profitable to to get busy.”


659. “I am a busy person but when it comes to you, I will find time just to be with you.”


660. “The essence of self-discipline is to do the important thing rather than the urgent thing.”


661. “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. believe in yourself that you can do and get busy.”


662. “Focused action beats brilliance.” – Mark Sanborn


663. “I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.”


664. “The old Chris worked to earn and earned to consume. And my new approach was to work to earn, earn to save, and save to invest, so I could stop working. That’s freedom.” — Chris Reining


665. “Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.” —Art Buchwald, Humorist


666. “It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?”


667. “Be so busy improving yourself that you have no time to criticize others.” — Chetan Bhaga


668. “My schedule can be hectic, so I’m always trying to find time to see my friends and family.” ~ Jessica Szohr


669. “He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.” – Victor Hugo.


670. “While you are too busy minding other people’s business, who is busy minding yours?” – Edmond Mbiaka


671. He who’s a busy body like a monkey in other men’s matter just shows how immature he is. Samuel Zulu


672. “When someone tells you they are too busy, it’s not a reflection of their schedule, it’s a reflection of your spot on their schedule.” — Steve Maraboli


673. “I’m too busy working on my own grass to notice if yours is greener.” — Author Unknown


674. After a busy week, nothing beats the feeling of jumping in your jeep and just driving.


675. “The best time to start was last year. Failing that, today will do.” – Chris GuillebeauCLICK TO TWEET


676. “Please do not disturb. I am busy making gains.”


677. “Life Is What Happens While You Are Busy Making Other Plans”. John Lennon


678. “Focus on being productive instead of being busy.” – Tim Ferriss


679. “Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.” – Ann Voskamp


680. “Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!”


681. “A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.”


682. “Being busy and being productive are not necessarily the same.” ~ Lauren Mackler


683. “What would it be like to only have activities in your life that ‘sparked joy?’ … it’s a goal to keep in mind as you evaluate your schedule.” — Laura Vanderkam


684. Joy Rains has a gift. A gift for explaining abstract concepts like meditation through clever analogies and metaphors. FOR THE FIRST TIME in my hectic, harried life I actually UNDERSTAND how meditation is supposed to work and WHY I should give it a TRY! - Author: Elisabeth Leamy


685. “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


686. “I wear my wedding ring. We talk about when we’re going to get married again, which we hope is going to take place some time in this incredibly hectic calendar year.” ~ Jim Lampley


687. “Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.”


688. “Our gadgets have become weapons of mass distraction.” — Carl Honoré


689. “Take“Take a rest. A field that has rested yields a beautiful crop.” – Ovid


690. “I try to keep it real. I don’t have time to worry about what I’m projecting to the world. I’m just busy being myself.” — Demi Lovato


691. “Be a busy person. People who are active are often much more at peace with themselves than those who are inactive and inert.” – Wayne Dyer


692. “Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.”


693. “Mandelstam’s style is not singular. He could be stately and traditional, ribald and funny, hectic, elegiac. He could handle abstractions and ideas as well as Pope or Browning but then be so musical that other poems approach pure sound.” ~ Christian Wiman


694. “If you want something done, give it to a busy man.” – Preston Sturges


695. “Life Is What Happens While You Are Busy Making Other Plans” – John Lennon


696. “To me, ‘busy' implies that the person is out of control of their life.” – Derek Sivers


697. My life is pretty hectic, but I'm really into it. - Author: Simon Baker


698. “No one is really busy. It all depends on what number you are on their priority list.” – Unknown


699. “While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.” – Henry C. Link


700. “Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.” – Roy T. Bennett


701. “BUSY I am very.”


702. “Life is what happens to us while we are (busy) making other plans.” — Allen Saunders


703. “Essential to time-management is a change in focus, a change from being ‘busy’ to a focus on outcomes”


704. “Being busy is one thing however productivity is the real gem.” – Hopal Green


705. “Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.”


706. “The man who keeps busy helping the man below him won’t have time to envy the man above him.” – Henrietta Mears


707. “I tried to keep us together, you were busy keeping secrets.”


708. “No one is too busy to tell you how busy they are.”


709. "I used to think this day was a conspiracy of chocolatiers and florists, but I realize that taking a day out of our busy lives to celebrate the love in our lives is so important and should be every day.” — Ian Somerhalder


710. As busy Christian women, it is possible for us to do the right things with the wrong attitudes. Jennifer Carter, Women of Courage


711. “I’m a New Yorker now, and believe me, there’s no comparison between the Big Apple and Kalamazoo, no similarity at all. New York City’s hectic, always in fast-forward, and Kalamazoo’s more laid-back, smaller, slower.” ~ Derek Jeter


712. Too busy to be upset.


713. “The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan."


714. 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


715. Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair. George Burns


716. “Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.” – Aristotle


717. “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear. do not sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” - Dale Carnegie


718. “Your problem is you’re… too busy holding onto your unworthiness.” – Ram Dass


719. “It is possible to be busy-very busy-without being very effective.”


720. “I keep myself busy with the things I do, but every time I pause, I still think of you.” — Cecelia Ahern


721. Only in silence I find myself. Life in the city is so hectic that you lose the right perspective. It's important to know that our biggest resources are in our heart. - Author: Rabindranath Tagore


722. “When someone tells you they are too “busy”… It's not a reflection of their schedule; it's a reflection of YOUR spot on their schedule.”


723. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.


724. In our times, it is radical to choose to sit still and be silent, to resist an identity of busyness, ceaseless motion, and noise, and to reclaim our sanity and humanity by coming home to ourselves." — Sumi Loundon Kim


725. If You Want Something Done, Ask A Busy Person To Do It. The More Things You Do, The More You Can Do.


726. “We are so busy that the truth about our lives can't catch up.”


727. “Why am I so busy? When everything around me is moving so fast, I stop and ask, ‘Is it the world that’s busy, or is it my mind?'” — Haemin Sunim


728. “In my opinion the hectic and almost frantic pace of modern living is a clear sign of the fear we have of being and of life. And as long as this fear exists in a person’s unconscious, he will run faster and do more so as not to feel his fear.” ~ Alexander Lowen


729. “Everybody leave me alone. I’ve had a busy day being pregnant and I have to do it again tomorrow.”


730. “I’m too busy working on my own grass to notice if yours is greener. ”


731. “There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.” – Seneca


732. “Nobody is too busy, it is just a matter of priorities.” – Unknown


733. Things can get so hectic sometimes that we forget to stop and enjoy life, live a little. - Author: Lisa Mondello


734. “He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.”


735. Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.


736. “It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?” — Henry David Thoreau


737. “It Is Not Enough To Be Busy. So Are The Ants. The Question Is: What Are We Busy About?”. Unknown


738. Everybody leaves me alone. I’ve had a busy day being pregnant and I have to do it again tomorrow.


739. “Joy Rains has a gift. A gift for explaining abstract concepts like meditation through clever analogies and metaphors. FOR THE FIRST TIME in my hectic, harried life I actually UNDERSTAND how meditation is supposed to work and WHY I should give it a TRY!” ~ Elisabeth Leamy


740. “When someone tells you they are too busy.It’s not a reflection of their schedule, it’s a reflection of your spot on their schedule.” – Steve Maraboli


741. “Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.” ~ Robert Genn


742. “Sometimes, “busy” is shorthand for something else, in the same way that “tired” can mean anything from physically exhausted to extremely depressed.” – Adam J. Kurtz


743. “Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.”


744. “You can really only enjoy life when you’re extremely busy.”


745. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” Henry David Thoreau


746. “Busy is good because it shows you’re alive.”


747. “For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few. Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy.” – Bill O’ Reilly


748. “Best way to stay happy is to be busy.”


749. Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon


750. “When waiting for a relative at a busy train station, for example, you can set yourself at will to look for a white-haired woman or a bearded man, and thereby increase the likelihood of detecting your relative from a distance.”


751. I was busy silencing irrational thoughts.


752. “You’re busy doubting yourself while others are intimidated by your full potential.” – Unknown


753. “My feeling is that any day I am too busy to run is a day that I am too busy.”


754. “Hold me closer tiny dancer, count the headlights on the highway. Lay me down in sheets of linen, you had a busy day today.” – Elton John


755. Nobody is too busy. It’s just a matter of priorities.


756. “I try to keep it real. I don’t have time to worry about what I’m projecting to the world. I’m just busy being myself.” – Demi Lovato


757. “You need me…. I’m there. I need you… Suddenly you are busy.”


758. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.”― Lucille Ball


759. Inner quiet can be cultivated. Meditation is a healing balm to a frazzled brain existing in a hectic world. - Author: Amy Leigh Mercree


760. “I’ve never had siblings, I didn’t grow up in a big family; it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved.” ~ Emmy Rossum


761. “Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” – Unknown


762. “Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.”


763. BUILD THE LIFE YOU WANT.


764. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. -Henry David Thoreau


765. “Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.” ― Andrei Platonov


766. “It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?”


767. #96 “A real man stays faithful. He doesn’t have time to waste over other women because he is too busy spending his days planning new ways of making his woman smile.”


768. “I always like to keep busy, otherwise my brain starts ticking.” – Nicholas Hoult


769. “I tried to keep us together, but you were so busy keeping secrets.”


770. “To me, 'busy' implies that the person is out of control of their life.”


771. “No one is always busy. It just depends on what number you are on their priority list.”


772. “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.”


773. “I really appreciate the time you’ve taken out of your busy schedule to help me out.”


774. “Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.


775. “Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” —Carl Sandburg, Poet


776. “One can find time for everything if one is never in a hurry.”


777. My hectic day is over.


778. “Consistently working late is not necessarily a sign of a hard worker, but rather the inability to use time wisely.” —Victor Bretting, Entrepreneur


779. “Stepping out of the busyness, stopping our endless pursuit of getting somewhere else, is perhaps the most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.” -Tara Brach


780. “Doing nothing has become one of the lost luxuries in these hectic times. But doing nothing, even for five minutes, can be rejuvenating. Go for it: You”


781. “A plan is what, a schedule is when. It takes both a plan and a schedule to get things done.” - Peter Turla“A plan is what, a schedule is when. It takes both a plan and a schedule to get things done.” – Peter Turla


782. “They tell you: Follow your dreams... Dream and dream big. I think that's crap. I think a lot of people dream. And while they are busy dreaming, the really happy people, the really successful people, the really interesting, powerful, engaged people? Are busy doing.”


783. “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” – Peter F. Drucker“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” – Peter F. Drucker


784. “May your hands be so busy catching blessings that you don’t have the capacity to hold onto grudges.”


785. “For everybody in their busy lives, you need to invest in sharpening your tools, and you need to invest in longevity.” – Ryan Holmes


786. “You can have it all. Just not all at once.”


787. “The high value put upon every minute of time, the idea of hurry-hurry as the most important objective of living, is unquestionably the most dangerous enemy of joy.” — Hermann Hesse


788. I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living or get busy dying. — Shawshank Redemption


789. “Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.” — Hakuin Ekaku


790. “I am too busy working on being better than I was yesterday.” ―Unknown


791. “I don’t think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative.” – Sebastian Coe


792. “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear. do not sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” – Dale Carnegie


793. “To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of mind amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life.”


794. “You can’t reason someone out of something that they weren’t reasoned into in the first place.”


795. “Stepping out of the busyness is perhaps the most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.” – Tara Brach


796. “Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don’t be afraid to take that first step.”


797. “If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.”


798. “Christmas now surrounds us, happiness is everywhere. Our hands are busy with many tasks as carols fill the air.” ~ Shirley Sallay


799. “Being busy and being productive are 2 different things.”


800. “He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.” ― Victor Hugo


801. "If you are too busy to smile, you are too busy.”


802. “If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” – Dale Carnegie


803. You want to argue; carry on. I’m too busy for such things.


804. “Just because we're busy doesn't mean we're being productive. Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.”


805. "I tried to keep us together, you were busy keeping secrets.” — Drake


806. “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.”


807. “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” ~ John Lennon


808. “You can’t win unless you first begin. So start now.”


809. 25. Career-themed puns. Create a baby announcement related to your career. For example, if you and your partner are in tech, you can make personalized T-shirts that say “loading…” to represent your littlest techie who’s busy developing in your baby bump!


810. “It’s called an occupation. Not a preoccupation. It’s called success, not obsess. And it’s called being in a business. Not being in abyss-ness. It’s called giving yourself a break to avoid a breakdown. It’s called being good to you.” – Karen Salmansohn


811. “Sorry, I can’t. I’m busy growing a human.”


812. The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.


813. “Champions never complain, they are too busy getting better.” – John Wooden


814. “Stepping out of the busyness, stopping our endless pursuit of getting somewhere else, is perhaps the most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit” – Tara Brach


815. “The people God put in your life are not there by accident. Don't get so busy that you just give them your leftover time.”


816. “A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.”-Charles Darwin


817. “Focus on being productive instead of busy.”


818. "In the middle of our hectic lives, it’s easy to forget what really matters. But if we take a moment to reflect on our blessings, we can find strength and hope even in the darkest of times.”


819. “The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one’s day and every night to examine the results obtained.”


820. “Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.”― Roy T. Bennett


821. “No one is really busy. It all depends on what number you are on their priority list.”


822. “Children learn to smile from their parents.” —Shinichi Suzuki, Musician and Educator


823. “Whenever GOD determines to do a great work, HE first sets HIS people to pray.”


824. "I’m walking away because you were too busy finding faults in me while I was busy overlooking yours.”


825. “While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.” — Henry C. Link


826. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau


827. “In a world where things are moving so fast, don't get lost in the midst of it all. Figure out what's more important to you and proceed with confidence. I know it gets a bit hectic at times and almost seems impossible. But, you can get there, even if you must pause along the way. Just don't come to a complete stop.”


828. “The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.”


829. Soaking in the hot tub is the perfect way to end a busy day!


830. “Get busy skateboarding.”


831. “Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” — Socrates


832. “The business of living can steal away the wonder of life.”


833. “There’s No Such Thing As Being Too Busy. If You Really Want Something, You’ll Make Time For It”. Unknown


834. “Begin with the end in mind.” – Steven Covey


835. “It is better to being hectic in work, than worried by sitting idle”


836. “People are realizing that we are not rats and life is not a race.” – Geir Berthelsen


837. “I’m too busy working on my own grass to see if yours is greener.” — Unknown


838. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it.” — Henry David Thoreau


839. “It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?” – Henry David Thoreau


840. If you're busy all the time—you're really just lazy.


841. “We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action. Fear is nature’s way of warning us to get busy.”– Dr. Henry Link


842. “You have to keep busy. After all, no dog’s ever pissed on a moving car.” ~ Tom Waits


843. “Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy.”


844. “The world is so busy telling us who we should be. that we forget who we are.” ― Bill Masur


845. “But you’re so busy changing the world. Just one smile can change all of mine.” – Jack Johnson


846. “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” — Mahatma Gandhi


847. “It is possible to be busy-very busy-without being very effective.” – Stephan Covey


848. 72. “My goal is to make something special and pure, and that keeps me going, keeps me busy on the path of sobriety.” ― Ariel Pink


849. “If you are too busy to enjoy quality time with your family, then you need to re-evaluate your priorities.” ~ Dave Willis


850. 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


851. “Following ‘Urumi,’ I did get a lot of offers from Malayalam, but frankly, managing films in several industries can become a little hectic. So I decided not to take them up.” ~ Genelia D’Souza


852. Big Brother is watching… look busy. Brandon Boyd


853. “You may delay, but time will not.”


854. “New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.” – Bob Dylan


855. “Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.”


856. “Negativity is toxic. If you get busy celebrating life you will have no time for it. If for some reason, you’re not entirely satisfied with your life, boss up and change your situation.” ― Germany Kent


857. “Poet and novelist James Joyce said, “Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.” The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness. And middle leaders are usually the busiest people in an organization.”


858. “Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.” – Robert Louis Stevenson


859. “Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week’s value out of a year while another man gets a full year’s value out of a week.”


860. “Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


861. “You will become impressive the day you stop trying. You will become successful the day you stop being busy.”


862. “Work first, and then rest.”


863. “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon


864. “You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.”


865. “The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful, and keep busy.” ~ Elbert Hubbard


866. “No matter how busy a man is, he is never too busy to stop and talk about how busy he is.”


867. “I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.” – Elizabeth Cady Stanton


868. “We stay so busy that the truth of our lives can’t catch up.” – Brené Brown


869. “The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.”


870. Get busy living or get busy dying. —Stephen King


871. “Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.”


872. “Nobody is ever “too busy”, if they’re interested, they’ll make time.”


873. Passion for life does not necessarily come when we make huge achievements. But it certainly comes when we know how to see beauty in the smallest things even in the busy days.


874. “The day is busy enough to keep me occupied. In the quiet of the night, I begin to really miss you.”


875. “No matter how busy a person is, if they really care, they will always find time for you.” – Unknown


876. “Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.” – Lucille Ball


877. “My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends – it gives a lovely light!” ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay


878. “I wish I had a lot of time to think about your actions but I am too busy minding my own, girl.”


879. “No one is busy in this world. It’s all about priorities.”


880. “System 2 is sometimes busy, and often lazy. Indeed, there is evidence that people are more likely to be influenced by empty persuasive messages, such as commercials, when they are tired and depleted.”


881. “I wanted to figure out why I was so busy, but I couldn’t find the time to do it.”


882. “The majority of people who acquire wisdom do so after they have passed the age of forty. Prior to that time the majority of people are too busy gathering knowledge and organizing it into plans to spend any effort seeking wisdom.”


883. “Being busy is better than being bored. Bored left a long time ago. Busy is always around for me. ” – Tabitha Robin


884. I am single because god is busy writing to best love story for me ?


885. “people who are busy rowing seldom have time to rock the boat.”


886. FIND JOY IN AN UNBALANCED AND IMPERFECT LIFE.


887. “Things of value require sacrifice. If people are too hurt. too busy or too damn stupid to see that you’re a blessing they’ve been asking for. just fall back. Know your worth.” – Anonymous


888. They’re so ‘busy’ that they have no time for the relationship. Nobody is that busy and when someone is genuinely interested they find the time.


889. “In the end. you’ve got to be your own hero. because everybody is busy trying to save themselves.” – C.T.


890. “Don’t be busy, be productive.”


891. “Lazy people are always Busy.”


892. “The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” - Bertrand RussellCLICK TO TWEET


893. “The pace of life feels morally dangerous to me.” — Richard Ford


894. “S.T.O.P. = Start To Open Possibilities” — Richie Norton


895. I am a mermaid and I am busy making my own kind of waves.


896. “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


897. “If you are too busy to smile, you are too busy.”


898. “The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.” – Eric Hoffer


899. “System 1 has more influence on behavior when System 2 is busy,”


900. Never too busy for friends & nature.

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