Being Busy Quotes - Page 2

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

  Lewis Grizzard

  Southern, Guidance, Too Busy

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

  Jeff Bridges

  Lazy, Busy, Wells

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

  John Lennon

  Background Noise, Parenthood, Busy

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• Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.

  Laozi

  Meditation, Feel Good, Taoism

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

  Teddy Wilson

  Music, Player, Limits

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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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• 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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• 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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• Even if there were two of me, I still couldn't do all that has to be done. No matter what, though, I keep up my running. Running every day is a kind of lifeline for me, so I'm not going to lay off or quit just because I'm busy. If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit. All I can do is keep those few reasons nicely polished.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Two Of Me, Done

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• Are you too busy for improvement? Frequently, I am rebuffed by people who say they are too busy and have no time for such activities. I make it a point to respond by telling people, look, you’ll stop being busy either when you die or when the company goes bankrupt.

  Shigeo Shingo

  People, Looks, Improvement

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• Being productive and being busy are not necessarily the same thing. Doing things won’t create your success; doing the right things will.

  Jeff Olson

  Busy, Doing The Right Thing, Productive

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• The truth is despite the hard work and juggling required to keep the different facets of the frantic life afloat, the "superwoman"has one marvelous compensation. Being busy and being seen to be busy lets you off the hook. Buys you a way out of all aspects of your many roles you secretly despiselike cleaning cupboardsor entertaining your husband's business friends. When you combine wife, mother, career and all, each role become the perfect excuse for avoiding the worst aspects of the other.

  Bettina Arndt

  Mother, Husband, Work

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• I have no social life. There is no time for one. Once in a while I may go to dinner with a friend but that is it. However I am much happier travelling and being busy competing in both my sports than having time off.

  Liz Halliday

  Sports, May, Dinner

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Quitting, Busy

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• What we call stress is just extension of being busy without meaning. When you do things that are not meaningful to you, just to get the sense of completion, just to feel like you got something done, your spirit feels empty. So, the most important thing for people to realize is that you have to control the flow of information in your life.

  Tony Robbins

  Meaningful, Stress, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Don't confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy.

  Robin Sharma

  People, Busy, Activity

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Jun 21, 2014

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• One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.

  Lorne Michaels

  Nice, Focus, Important

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• The truth is that's always when it's the most fun, when you're able to just be wherever you are, be whatever scene it is you're doing, whatever the incredible actors you're with. Being busy is something that I just love and thrive on.

  Lily Rabe

  Fun, Busy, Incredibles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My whole lifestyle is different. I have a really busy schedule, and I pretty much have an airplane ride every day. But I like it. It's cool. I like being busy. I think that it's good that I'm young and I'm going through this, and I'm not, like, 40. I think it's just easier now at a younger age to be going through what I'm going through because it's definitely really tiring and hard on the body.

  Avril Lavigne

  Airplane, Thinking, Age

  "Avril Lavigne: Teen rocker of 2002". "The Music Room" with Sasha Rionda, www.cnn.com. December 27, 2002.

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• We don't get paid for being busy, we get paid for being right.

  Warren Buffett

  Busy, Paid

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• I enjoy being busy, I really do. Remember, I'm the stub end of the railroad. I have no family, so I'm not taking busy time away from people that I should be spending it with. So I'm just relaxing and enjoying it.

  Betty White

  People, Railroads, Remember

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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