Being Busy Quotes

• Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

  Dolly Parton

  Inspirational, Life, Balance

  Twitter post from Aug 09, 2010

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• Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Witty, Perseverance

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• No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Friendship, Kindness

  Mary Kay Ash (2009). “The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur”, p.30, John Wiley & Sons

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• Being busy does not always mean real work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Real, Mean, Infinite Intelligence

  Ford Times, Volume 6 (p. 136), 1912.

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• It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspiring, Time, Fog

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Real

  Ford Times, Vol. 6, p. 136, 1912.

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• While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Littles, Little Things, Busy

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• Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

  Socrates

  Life, Time, Simple

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• Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

  Tim Ferriss

  Thinking, Lazy, Important

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• Focus on being productive instead of busy.

  Tim Ferriss

  Productive Work, Focus, Kick Ass

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• Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

  Iris Murdoch

  Happiness, Happy, Gratitude

  "The Nice And The Good".

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• Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

  Tim Ferriss

  Thinking, Differences, Lazy

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• Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Vices, Leisure

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  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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.16, Bantam

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• Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.

  Teddy Wilson

  Music, Player, Limits

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• Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.

  Laozi

  Meditation, Feel Good, Taoism

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• Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Always make the other person feel important.

  John Dewey

  Life Changing, Important, Busy

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• Life's what happens when you're making other plans.

  John Lennon

  Background Noise, Parenthood, Busy

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• I keep busy. That was my nickname in college, 'Iron to the Fire.' I like to keep several things going at once.

  Creed Bratton

  College, Fire, Iron

  "Questions and Answers With Creed Bratton". Interview with Kase Wickman, www.mtv.com. February 15, 2013.

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• You can really only enjoy life when youre extremely busy.

  Josephine de La Baume

  Enjoy Life, Busy, Busy Life

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• I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

  Kanye West

  Writing, Conceited, Busy

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• Fitness is a luxury when you are busy!

  Lauren Conrad

  Fitness, Luxury, Busy

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• There's no such thing as being too Southern.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Southern, Guidance, Too Busy

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• I'm always busy, but I'm lazy as well.

  Jeff Bridges

  Lazy, Busy, Wells

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