I'm busy and that's the way I like it - when I have too much downtime I get into trouble. — Craig Charles
If you mind your own business, you`ll stay busy all the time. — Hank Williams, Jr.
Stay working. Stay busy. It should be motivation instead of down time because down time is like being depressed. It shouldn't be like that. It should really be motivation to keep going. — Lil Durk
If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do. — Lucille Ball
The devil finds work for idle hands. — Henry David Thoreau
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? — Henry David Thoreau
You should not have idle hands, you should always be working. All your life. — Ivan Bunin
Just keep your conscious mind busy with expectation of the best. — Joseph Murphy
The man who keeps busy helping the man below him won't have time to envy the man above him. — Henrietta Mears
Beware the barrenness of a busy life. — Socrates
The Devil finds work for idle hands. — Proverbs
Top 10 Keep Busy Quotes
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. — Albert Einstein
My friends keep telling me I'm doing it with Mary Palmer. That's not true - I'm too busy masturbating to meet anyone new. — Roddy Piper
This rule is so underrated:
Keep your family and business completely separated. — The Notorious B.I.G.
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
I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality. — James Joyce
Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours. — Epictetus
Very few people in business keep their word. When you find them, go into business with them. — Patrick Bet-David
The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement. All the neighbors know she's there, but nobody wants to talk about her. — Ross Perot
What other people think of me is none of my business. Sometimes, it hurts my feelings, but I have to just keep going. — Lana Del Rey
Keep Busy Image Quotes
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. — Steve Jobs
I think I need to keep being creative not to prove anything but because it makes me happy just to do it... I think trying to be creative, keeping busy, has a lot to do with keeping you alive.
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. — William Bennett
To achieve you need a to-do list. To achieve greatness you need a not-to-do list. Use this tip for your personal success and business goals. Start writing down aspirations you don’t need to get done right now and use as monthly moonshot goals. I prefer to call this a “not-yet-list.” It helps keep your “to-do-list” shorter without losing sight of a great idea. Eventually items from the not-yet-list move to the to-do-list.
Screwtape Letters Quotes
As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance. — C. S. Lewis
The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person. — Robert Thurman
Suspicion often creates what it suspects. — C. S. Lewis
Coffee keeps me busy until it is acceptable to drink wine
Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can’t touch and see. — C. S. Lewis
When He [God] talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamour of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I am afraid, sincerely) that when they are wholly His they will be more themselves than ever. — C. S. Lewis
It is always the novice who exaggerates. — C. S. Lewis
The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel. — C. S. Lewis
If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit. — C. S. Lewis
By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result? — C. S. Lewis
Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead. — C. S. Lewis
I Keep Myself Busy Quotes
My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had - everyday I'm learning something new. — Richard Branson
I have got to do something that makes me focus on one thing, and so I will sit and listen to music, or I will read, or I will go and make ammunition in my workshop. I have just got to keep myself busy. — David Feherty
The first year, I didn't have much capital so I did everything myself. I had to keep my overhead low by learning everything about running a business, from accounting to fixing the gears of my equipment. I really started from scratch. — Li Ka-shing
Being bipolar and an addict and an alcoholic I have to keep myself very busy. I don't sleep. I am lucky if I get three hours of sleep a night, and so I get up, and my head is full of slamming doors. — David Feherty
In this day and age, social media is a huge part of a business, which I actually love. It's a phenomenal platform to share your message, keep others and myself inspired and help keep your students connected to your events. The hardest part is the anonymous ability to say whatever you want. — Kathryn Budig
I'm a snake oil salesman as much as anyone else, but I try to keep something for myself. — Freedy Johnston
Work, work, work. I like to keep myself busy. I start to get a little stir-crazy during downtime. That's when I turn to working out - running, hitting the gym, etc. — Raul Castillo
In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going. — Paula Fox
I always keep myself busy. I'm writing. Or I'm creating something. Or I'm doing stuff with the kids. I'm up incredibly early in the morning; I go to bed incredibly late at night. — Natascha McElhone
As a busy, grown ass woman, I don't have the time. What I do is I keep myself and my hair hydrated - I drink lots of water and wet my hair frequently. I also keep it highly moisturized. — Michaela Angela Davis
Trying To Keep Myself Busy Quotes
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
I try and keep busy with something, but I also give myself permission to be busy with something that is creative and rewarding, not just the errands to the dry cleaner. — Eric Lange
Not judginess, but openness and curiosity are our proper business. I'm still trying to educate myself. I don't think you need to keep rehearsing your instincts. Far better to seek out models of what you can't do. — John Updike
L.A. can be very superficial, and it's hard to meet cool people here. I try to stay away from the glitzy side of the business and have a normal life as much as possible. I keep to myself. — Jessica Lucas
I must learn more about these people―try to understand them, put myself in their place. No, instead I am so busy keeping my head above water that I scarcely know who I am, much less who anyone else is. — Sylvia Plath
Keep The Mind Busy Quotes
Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment. — Grenville Kleiser
You can be anything you want to be, if only you believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. — Napoleon Hill
There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business. — James Russell Lowell
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. — Napoleon Hill
The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis. — Leon Edel
Dad is my best mate and I can tell Mum absolutely anything. I really appreciate Mum and Dad. Why are we so close? Young parents, I think. The rock business keeps their minds young. — Kim Wilde
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. — David Sedaris
There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them. — C. S. Lewis
So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination ... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation. — Michel de Montaigne
I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number. — Edith Armstrong
Keep Me Busy Quotes
It's important to keep up momentum, when I'm home alone I get stagnant, I go crazy and have to see my therapist. Being on the road keeps me busy. I'm okay when I'm busy. — Gerard Way
For me, businesses are like buses. You stand on a corner and you don't like where the first bus is going? Wait ten minutes and take another. Don't like that one? They'll just keep coming. There's no end to buses or businesses. — Sheldon Adelson
Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business. — Sammy Sosa
Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy. — Matt Lucas
I'm so secretive that when someone asks me, Hey, can you keep a secret? I say That's none of your business. — Demetri Martin
I took a fortnight off. But I'm not a great believer in breaks. I don't want to be rattling around inside my own head. I did feel I was spiralling into a Kathy Burke character and tried going out, but I prefer it here. Filming keeps me busy. It absorbs me. — Nigella Lawson
I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer. — Martin Cruz Smith
I don't think the Hollywood community is interested in what I can do. That's all right. I've never looked for a job in my life, and I'm not going to start now. I have plenty to keep me busy. — Mercedes McCambridge
Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library - all this keeps me quite busy! — Nigel Dennis
My pro-choice activism keeps me busy. — Margot Kidder
Keep Yourself Busy Quotes
Don't cheat yourself out of music. Music is one thing. The music business is another thing. Save enough of yourself to keep living anyway. Save enough joy in your heart to enjoy it. Let your reward be in the doing of it. — Bill Withers
If you think you can't, you're right. — Carol Bartz
Being an actor gives you a chance to play all kinds of roles, very moving and dramatic on one project, silly and girlish on another. That's the most interesting thing out this business, you get to keep reinventing yourself. — Sarah Michelle Gellar
I very linearly [sic] wish you would exert yourself so as to keep all your matters in order your self without depending on others as that is the only way to be happy to have all your business in your own hands. — Martha Washington
Never stop asking yourself whether you can do things better. Keep testing every aspect of your business to the nth degree, and challenge every one of your assumptions. The tougher you are on yourself now, the tougher your business will be out there in the real world. — James Caan
Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself. — Preity Zinta
We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is destroying all hope of tranquility. ... . You have to learn to immerse yourself in the silences between. — Lyall Watson
There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself. — P. J. O'Rourke
There's a Harvard Business School thing that says, 'Every 10 years you should replant yourself,' and the only way to keep young is to learn new things and keep curious. — Sherry Lansing
Business has to have capital.I think Wall Street is a necessary ingredient of the global economy, you've just got to keep people realizing that helping clients is the most important thing, not helping yourself. — John Kasich
Always Busy Quotes
I feel these days like a very large flamingo. No matter what way I turn, there is always a very large bill. — Joseph O'Connor
My experience tells me the hard road is almost always the right road. — Shahid Khan
People should always mind their own business. More trouble is caused in this world by interference than any other single thing. — Charlotte Lamb
If people only knew the healing power of laughter and joy, many of our fine doctors would be out of business. Joy is one of nature's greatest medicines. Joy is always healthy. A pleasant state of mind tends to bring abnormal conditions back to normal. — Catherine Ponder
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
A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires. — Paulo Coelho
Our experience over the last 20 years taught us that stock prices in the short term don’t always reflect what is occurring in the underlying companies, sometimes for long and frustrating periods of time. But in the long term, the market ultimately reflects the true value of a business. — Francois Rochon
The FBI has always supported big business and big government. — Leonard Peltier
Keep Active Quotes
I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again. — Sojourner Truth
Weak people talk and do not act, strong people act and keep quiet. — Eliphas Levi
Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs. — Xavier Becerra
Find first peace within yourself. Don't eat too much. Keep your brain active. Love. — Rita Levi-Montalcini
Never look back, except for an occasional glance, look ahead and plan for the future. Success is not built on past laurels, but rather on a continuous activity. Keep busy searching out new ideas and, experimentally, keep ahead of the times, or at least up with them. — Dorothy Draper
The humanities are the heartbeat of democracy, and we need to fight to keep them alive and well. — Martha C. Nussbaum
I try to keep the topics trendy. If it’s a rant, it’s something I feel strongly about, and people will watch it because they either agree or disagree. — Ryan Higa
The greatest contribution jazz has made in music has been to replace the role of the conductor with a member of the ensemble who, instead of waving his arms to keep time and convey mood, is an active member of the musical statement. That person is the drummer. — Elvin Jones
A wound does not destroy us. It activates our self-healing powers. The point is not to "put it behind you" but to keep benefiting from the strength it has awakened. — David Richo
Good Viking genes, being vegetarian and having rowdy dogs and kids definitely keep me in shape. Not eating meat gives me the energy I need to keep up with work, family and travel - I'm very active. — Sayings
Busy Work Quotes
If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard. — Madam C. J. Walker
If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die. — Warren Buffett
Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi
I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. — Bill Gates
The way I think I should stay out of trouble is by stayin' busy. With idle time comes a lot of biz, so the more my work load is heavy, I'll have no time to get into any trouble or makin' dis tracks or get into conversation about any other rappers. — Gucci Mane
Success isn't about how much money you make, it's about the difference you make in people's lives. — Michelle Obama
Some jobs pay better, some jobs smell better, and some jobs have no business being treated like careers. But work is never the enemy, regardless of the wage. Because somewhere between the job and the paycheck, there’s still a thing called opportunity, and that’s what people need to pursue. — Mike Rowe
You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big. — Andrew Carnegie
It's time for the bully pulpit of the White House to bring the gangstas in, put them around the table and let them know that if they don't come up with loan modifications and keep people in their homes that they've worked so hard for, we're gonna tax them out of business. — Maxine Waters
I strongly believe that the more positive my vibration is, the clearer my message will be. I keep my negative thoughts from infiltrating my pathway and my dreams. Other people's thoughts are none of my business. — Erykah Badu
I learned some invaluable lessons in Nashville that apply to both farming and show business: Do not corner something you know is meaner than you; keep skunks of all kinds at a distance; if you forgive your enemies, it messes up their heads. — Willie Nelson
There are things you can’t reach. But You can reach out to them, and all day long. The wind, the bird flying away. The idea of god. And it can keep you busy as anything else, and happier. I look; morning to night I am never done with looking. Looking I mean not just standing around, but standing around As though with your arms open. — Mary Oliver
As it stands, a large number of firms in all advanced economies specialize in warfare as a business, and are thus reliant on perpetuating war to continue being in business. They live off government spending exclusively, and have their entire existence reliant on there being perpetual wars necessitating ever‐larger arms spending. In the United States, whose defense spending is almost equal to that of the rest of the planet combined, these industries have a vested interest in keeping the U.S. government involved in some form of military adventure or other. This, more than any strategic, cultural, ideological, or security operations, explains why the United States has been involved in so many conflicts in parts of the world that cannot possibly have any bearing on the life of the average American. Only with unsound money can these firms grow to such enormous magnitude that they can influence the press, academia, and think tanks to continuously beat the drums of more war. — Saifedean Ammous
Make a plan now to keep a daily appointment with God. The enemy is going to tell you to set it aside, but you must carve out the time. If you're too busy to meet with the Lord, friend, then you are simply too busy — Charles R. Swindoll
The purpose of a business is to get and keep a customer. Without customers, no amount of engineering wizardry, clever financing, or operations expertise can keep a company going. — Theodore Levitt
The true purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer, not to make you money. — Theodore Levitt
Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people. — James C. Collins
If the constitutional right to keep and bear arms is to mean anything, it must, as a general matter, permit a person to possess, carry and sometimes conceal arms to maintain the security of his private residence or privately operated business. — David Prosser, Jr.
In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are as well. It seems, perhaps, that the longer and longer you keep at it in this business the more and more time you have to expose your Achilles heel - wherever and whatever that might be. — Bill Gross
Short-term price action means nothing and should mean nothing to you. Keep your focus on long-term business growth. — Naved Abdali
Temperance keeps the senses clear and unembarrassed, and makes them seize the object with more keenness and satisfaction. It appears with life in the face, and decorum in the person; it gives you the command of your head, and secures your health, and preserves you in a condition for business. — Jeremy Collier
I’ll keep it short and sweet - Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. — Matt Groening
I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools. — Danielle Steel
A business leader has to keep their organization focused on the mission. That sounds easy, but it can be tremendously challenging in today's competitive and ever-changing business environment. A leader also has to motivate potential partners to join. — Meg Whitman
Megaupload is not responsible for the piracy problem. It's the old business model of Hollywood that is responsible for it, and they want to keep that model alive at any cost. — Kim Dotcom
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.
Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps. — Ernest K. Gann
We do not segment our lives, giving some time to God, some to our business or schooling, while keeping parts to ourselves. The idea is to live all of our lives in the presence of God, under the authority of God, and for the honor and glory of God. That is what the Christian life is all about. — R. C. Sproul
It is hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal development. — Jim Rohn
The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together - and that's the backbone of our whole business, catering to families - that's what we hope to do. — Walt Disney
Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them. — Stephen Covey
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