Staying Busy Quotes

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.

I love working. If somebody took away my jobs, I don't know what I would do. I'm just the kind of person who has to stay busy.

You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

I swim to stay healthy and try to stay as busy as I can.

I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead.

I felt very accomplished staying busy in prison.

That's the mindset I'm in, is do what I can do, do what I can control, and stay productive. I feel like it can get depressing really fast, being home and not having anything to do. I think being productive is important.

When I won the competition, I had just been offered a job as a designer in Düsseldorf, so that's probably what I'd be doing now. It can be fascinating to consider how your life might have turned out, like in the movie Sliding Doors, but I'm too busy to look back.

It's nice to have a little bit of action in your world. Sometimes us actors go a couple months without working, it gets a little crazy. It's good to be busy.

I'm still, except for making overseas trips, I'm staying just about as busy as I ever did.

When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints, but exert your whole care to hide it; by endeavouring to hide it; you will dry it away. Be always busy.

Prisoners do different things. Some write, some read. Some engage in athletic events and working out and some do all of that. Some get involved in the religious groups that they're part of. Some get involved in hobbies that are permitted in prison. There are plenty of ways to stay busy. You're never going to survive in prison unless you start getting busy.

I'm lucky that I can stay busy and people are interested in what I do. I have fantastic people that are into whatever I do, which is great. I try to keep myself happy and them happy.

Staying occupied displaces preoccupation and problems, and when we face our problems, they disappear.

Well, I'm working all the time to stay out of trouble!

As long as I stay engaged with everybody else, then I'll create more comedy. It's just when I shut off and stay at home... What helps me is just to keep moving.

It's important that the kids stay busy. It's important that they have something to focus on, and something that they feel good about.