The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
Barbara Ehrenreich

The single moment when I knew that I had to get busy and do more was around the death of my son.
Bobby Rush

The views of the Earth are really beautiful. If you've ever seen a space IMAX movie, that's really what it looks like. I wish I'd had more time just to sit and look out the window with a map, but our science program kept us very busy in the lab most of the time.
David M. Brown

There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy.
Franz Schubert

These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies to fight a war on drugs, to fight a war against illegal behavior, we have to send them the proper tools.
Bob Filner

They usually have two tellers in my local bank, except when it's very busy, when they have one.
Rita Rudner

Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.
Samuel Richardson

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.
Jose Marti

Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
George Burns

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

Too many people, because they were white and poor, black and rich, or just plain busy with something other than politics, have felt they had no voice in our government.
Mark Sanford

United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album. And they put a guy with me working on songs, and I got busy with films. I just kind of let it slide. Isn't that amazing?
John Astin

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.
Henry Home

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.
Sue Grafton

We are busy planning the launch of the channel. I am busy planning all kinds of events that go on the channel without me. I have started producing a sound for the channel.
Howard Stern

We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
Hansie Cronje

We have no quarrel with America. We all know NATO is the strongest military machine in the world. We simply want them to stop being so busy with our country and worry about their own problems.
Slobodan Milosevic

We're still working out the details, but I'd be delighted to do the film. The problem at the moment is my busy schedule. Shooting on this film has been extended by a month, but I need to be in the U.S. by Dec. 20.
Zhang Ziyi

Week by week my orders grew, and the flat of the old mill soon assumed a very busy aspect.
James Nasmyth

Well, it has been rather hectic since the 11th of September. And even before then it was quite busy.
Hugh Shelton