Occupy yourself, and you will be out of harm's way. — Ovid
If you mind your own business, you`ll stay busy all the time. — Hank Williams, Jr.
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
Just keep your conscious mind busy with expectation of the best. — Joseph Murphy
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
I'm busy and that's the way I like it - when I have too much downtime I get into trouble. — Craig Charles
In my experience, being busy and working hard is the key to sanity/happiness. — Jemima Khan
Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied. — St. Jerome
You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car. — Tom Waits
If your busy with yourself now, you will be busy with yourself then. If you are busy with Allah now, you will be with Him then. — Al-Ghazali
Hard work is good for the soul, and it keeps you from feeling sorry for yourself because you don’t have time. — Dave Thomas
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.
Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones. — Thomas More
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily. — Arthur Brisbane
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
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 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.
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
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.
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
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
Very few people in business keep their word. When you find them, go into business with them. — Patrick Bet-David
Occupy Yourself Quotes
Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others. — Ignatius of Loyola
Nature, philosophy and social issues are the three things that always occupy my mind. You do not have any power over others but can only change yourself. — Pawan Kalyan
When you're dealing with killing people and things that are upsetting, that can be a delicate place to occupy yourself for a day. — James Purefoy
Coffee keeps me busy until it is acceptable to drink wine
Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied. — Douglas Adams
For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life. — W. Somerset Maugham
Nobody can make you happy but yourself. Things occupy us, people occupy us, but they don't make us happy. If we are honest, what makes us happy is to experience spirit. — Frederick Lenz
When you start a political party, you are creating space for yourself. So many people were shocked when they realized that I was serious and had no interest in occupying any political position, so they started to fall out one by one. — Wole Soyinka
As much as there is joy in writing, there's always the little bit of terror to keep you on edge, on your toes. It is a strange way to occupy yourself - to enjoy your life on a daily basis. There is no guarantee that something great is going to come next. — Robert Cormier
Knowing yourself now requires the understanding that the conscious you occupies only a small room in the mansion of the brain, and that it has little control over the reality constructed for you. — David Eagleman
My hope is that the work is in some way counter-pinup. A pinup asks you to suspend interest in who the person is and occupy yourself entirely with looking at the body and fantasizing about what you could do with that body, completely ignoring how the person might feel about it. — Jock Sturges
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
If you think you can't, you're right. — Carol Bartz
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
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
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
Keep yourself busy if you want to avoid depression. For me, inactivity is the enemy. — Matt Lucas
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
Listen, little boy. In this business, there's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it. — Ben Hecht
What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to flex my director muscle. You have got to think fast in this business, you've got to keep reinventing yourself to stay on top. — Michael Bay
I don't think you can ever get used to being this famous. I've learnt how to keep things separate or at a distance. I've nothing to hide. But seeing this as work, like a job, means I can take a step back. It's me right now in front of you and in the papers but it's not all of me. If you give yourself entirely to the business, you'd end up going mad. And I'm not mad. Not yet. — Harry Styles
You have to keep yourself busy, you have to like the subject matter. If you do it for other causes, other reasons, it doesn't hold you for a long time. There's no other way but struggling, forging ahead to do the film. — Haile Gerima
I think it's really important as a creative director, to always keep your ears on the ground and always surround yourself with people who've been in the business longer than you to really think of new and creative ways to present your designs to girls. — Nicole Richie
I just want to continue adding walls to my craft as an artist and business man. I never want to cap off, I never want to seal it. I just want to keep adding walls and keep on going as high as it can go, but I'm never gonna be boxed in, can't. That's when you lose because when you box yourself in, you know you get comfortable, you start getting complacent. I can't be like that. — Eskeerdo
It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business in the morning and the last in the evening. Guard yourself against such false and deceitful thoughts that keep whispering, "Wait a while. In an hour or so I will pray. I must first finish this or that." Thinking such thoughts we get away from prayer into other things that will hold us and involve us till the prayer of the day comes to naught. — Martin Luther
Do you want to do this thing? Sit down and do it. Are you not writing? Keep sitting there. Does it not feel right? Keep sitting there. Think of yourself as a monk walking the path to enlightenment. Think of yourself as a high school senior wanting to be a neurosurgeon. Is it possible? Yes. Is there some shortcut? Not one I've found. Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world. — Ann Patchett
I'm organizing documentary films, and whenever scriptwriting gets too tedious I go to my editing room and start to edit the documentary, even if I don't have the full funding yet. So you have to keep yourself busy, you have to like the subject matter. — Haile Gerima
When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now to do the business of a man; and am I out of humour for going about that I was made for, and for the sake of which I was sent into the world? Was I then designed for nothing but to doze and keep warm beneath the counterpane? Well! but this is a comfortable way of living. — Marcus Aurelius
Keep a sharp lookout upon your materials; get rid of every pound of material you can do without; put to yourself the question what business has it to be there?, avoid complexities, and make everything as simple as possible. — Henry Maudslay
You owe it to yourself to keep fit. No matter how busy or how involved you are, you should have some type of physical program to keep the body in tune. — Sayings
Why worry about things you can't control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you? — John C. Maxwell
I always tell myself that we are born here not to work, but to enjoy life. We are here to make things better for one another, and not to work. If you are spending your whole life working, you will certainly regret it. 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. — Jack Ma
...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. — Ray Bradbury
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