Favorite Quotations ~  Busy Now, Discover Your Strengths

"It's not enough to be busy. The question is: what are you busy about?" ~ Henry David Thoreau

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A really busy person never knows how much he weighs. ~ Edgar Watson Howe

Have you noticed that even the busiest people are never too busy to take time to tell you how busy they are? ~ Bob Talbert

Many people who pretend to be very busy have the least to do. ~ Baltasar Gracián

I'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta. ~ Lorene Cary

If you are too busy to develop your talents, you are too busy. ~ Julia Cameron

Busy as a one legged man in an ass kicking contest. ~ Stephen King

May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion. ~ Thomas Jefferson

A lot of our 'busy ness' is a way for us to avoid thinking about what is most important. There's a difference between being busy and being productive. ~ Kristen Lippincott

It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised; the mosquito is swatted. ~ Marie O'Conner

In the choice between changing one's mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith

Busy people are never busybodies. ~ Ethel Watts Mumford, Complete Cynic

Who begins too much accomplishes little. ~ German Proverb

There is much to do, and I am busy, very busy. ~ Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen