The single moment when I knew that I had to get busy and do more was around the death of my son.
My father was a busy man who would do six to seven films a year.
I’ve always been busy, but I wasn’t always successful.
I’m too busy for relationships.
It’s funny, I get a little quieter with time. I don’t want to chase my tail and one day repeat myself and repeat myself and one day have kids going to college and not have memories that I should, because I was too busy doing my thing.
I’ve been lucky enough to be too busy for TV because if I’m not, I’ll get stuck in front of it.
Get busy living, or get busy dying.
While President Putin is busy redrawing the map of Europe, President Obama is busy filling out his brackets.
You have to push yourself when you’re older because it’s very easy to fall into the trap. You start to fall apart – you just have to do your best to paste yourself together. I think doing things and being active is very important. When your mind is busy, you don’t hurt so much.
I’m in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious.
My family has big business background, and I like to stay busy, too.
When you’re so busy shooting 12 hours a day, you just eat what someone sticks in front of you.
I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I’d be dead.
I’d have to say the biggest transformation would be my schedule. I’m really, really busy, but it’s a lot of fun.
I don’t think that now I am a star. I don’t get too much time to interact with people, and I am quite busy with work. I work. I come back home, and my loved ones are still the same. They will never change. And, I travel. I have not realised or internalised that life has changed.
I go about in the world – free, busy, happy. Among people, I have no time to think of myself.
I am reasonably happy, providing I keep busy.
When I had a full-time job, I really wasn’t that busy, but now I’m really busy. I guess that’s a good thing.
I respond to about a quarter of comments. It’s a good barometer of my mental health – when I’m healthy and busy, I don’t read them.
In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
Just to be spontaneous and free is life’s biggest luxury and privilege when life is so busy.
Big money causes me too much trouble with my ex-wives and the government. All I want is to keep busy and to be comfortable.
During the year, our schools are busy slashing P.E. and recess to make more time for math. During the summer, we get ourselves worked into a tizzy that our children will forget their fractions.
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.
Bringing up children on my own was quite a busy time.
I just like to stay busy, and I like to work with interesting people.
My life is extremely full and wretchedly busy, and I feel that while my life drains energy from my work, my work in turn drains energy from my life. The result is, I am always playing catch-up spiritually. That is my thorn.
The older I get, the less busy I like to be.
There are some times I’m really busy and other times I’m not, but I prefer to be really busy because I generally don’t know what to do with myself when I’m not wrestling or on the road.
I keep saying this – and I keep putting it off because I get busy – but I keep saying one year I’m gonna tape our Thanksgiving dinner or, like, our Christmas dinner and maybe put it on my website just for people to see how funny it really is, how much fun it really, really is.
Today’s kids aren’t taking up arms against their parents; they’re too busy texting them.
We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we’re too busy to be bothered with it.
A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt ‘Don’t bother me – I’ve got important work to do.’
What happened was that the doctor told me that I’d ruptured my kidney from being too busy and being stressed out and not eating right.
I like to stay busy!
I wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.
‘Crazy-busy’ is a great armor, it’s a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we’re feeling and what we really need can’t catch up with us.
I coach soccer, and my wife and I are very involved in our kids’ lives. Our family is busy with doctor appointments, soccer practice, school, work, travel, vacation… life.
I guess I was always in awe at the amount of energy that surrounds Washington, D.C. My experience in coming up before was that it was a very, very busy place.
The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world’s busy life and become more interested in people than in things.
There was a time when everybody was busy doing, ‘What is she wearing? How is she looking?’ I am happy that is changing now.
MIA stands for ‘missing in action,’ which is the way others can experience you when you’re too busy multi-tasking, being pulled at by the world and by everything that’s going on in your head, and, essentially, when you’re too busy being busy.
I like to be busy and fight many times a year and showcase all my potentials.
No doubt, some people are quantitatively less busy than others and some much more so, but that doesn’t change the shared experience: most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.
I’m greedy for work, and at times, I wish a month had more days, or the day had more number of hours, so that I could work more. I’m happy to be busy.
Mine’s a pretty simple strategy: there’s not a lot of talent here, but there’s a lot of hustle. I have to be in every place I can, and be busy.
I don’t get dressed up every day. I’m very busy. I get really annoyed when people talk about me as a ‘fashionista.’ I get dressed up when I have to go out. Most of the time, I’m running around in jeans.
I played guitar in a band from when I was about 20 for three years. Then I sang a little. Then I started getting really busy as an actor and forgot about it.
It’s too bad I’m not a flirt. When I’m on the sets, I’m too busy working on my scenes to look at the ladies.
My motivation is to be creative and have fun. You want to do something that keeps you on your toes the rest of your life and keeps you busy.
When I’m not working on something, I seem to go through periods of depression. It helps to keep busy.
I have met so many of my idols – like Ray Charles, Brian Setzer – all these cats that are legendary musicians. If they had said to me, ‘Hey man, I’m busy,’ it would have crushed my soul.
I really love being busy because I am – feel like I am at my best when I am busy.
I really enjoy being busy and feeling completely immersed in work, knowing I’m working as hard as I can.
Never be too busy to listen to your instinctive feelings when something feels wrong.
My mum is very driven and has always kept me busy… She used to say to me, ‘Nobody likes a teenager. So use your teenage years to work. Then enjoy your life when you’re slightly older.’
People in the metros are busy making ends meet, but through my films, I like to give the reality of life a skip, and choose concepts which will give audiences a stress-free two-and-a-half hours.
I seem to be very busy, and I seem always to be working.
Prior to having babies, I thought – I thought I was so busy, and now I realize just how ignorant I was.
In 1997, my father appointed me CEO but acted as player-coach, keeping busy on long-term clients such as KFC and international travel brands.
I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that just becomes a dull noise.
You can stay angry at someone who hurt you. Or you can get busy doing your visions and changing our world. But you don’t get to do both.
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.
My political mission is as acute as ever. For me, in addition to kind of looking at the world and trying to engage in my society politically, having the kid around sort of makes me check in with myself. I think you’re all busy trying to fix the world, but what about yourself?
If they can go out and buy my albums, I can at least make the sacrifice to holler at the few people who call. A lot of times I’m busy so they’ll get my voice mail. And if I can speak to them and I have time, I always text back. Because I think that’s very important.
