Busy Life Quotes - Page 4

• I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.

  Anthony Doerr

  Thinking, Lakes, Sea

  Penguin Group Interview, www.encyclopedia.com. 2006.

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• Meanwhile, Cynthia and I are busy fixing up a real old house that we just bought in Hollywood. With two children now, we just couldn't live in our small rented home any longer.

  Kent McCord

  Children, Real, Home

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• Error is always more busy than truth.

  Hosea Ballou

  Errors, Busy

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• Stress is not caused by your busy life or challenging circumstances, it's simply the result of an imbalance between silence and activity.

  Jerry Thomas

  Stress, Silence, Challenges

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• Women are much more comfortable making their own style rules now. They want pieces that will make their busy lives easier.

  Michael Kors

  Style, Pieces, Want

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• Success is hard in general for most women. We now have such busy lives, and we're told we can do everything - you know, we can have the relationship and the marriage and the kids and the career.

  Cat Deeley

  Kids, Careers, Busy

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• What is the biggest obstacle facing the family right now? It is over-commitment; time pressure. There is nothing that will destroy family life more insidiously than hectic schedules and busy lives, where spouses are too exhausted to communicate, too worn out to have sex, too fatigued to talk to the kids. That frantic lifestyle is just as destructive as one involving outbroken sin. If Satan can't make you sin, he'll make you busy, and that's just about the same thing.

  James Dobson

  Sex, Stress, Kids

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• When you start so young working, you build a hunger for acting, working, and a busy life.

  Bonnie Wright

  Acting, Busy, Hunger

  Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 21, 2011.

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• I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Ideas, Busy, Enough

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• I lead a very busy life and don't have a lot of time, so my skincare needs to be easy and portable.

  Erin O'Connor

  Needs, Busy, Easy

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• Real Freedom is to not feel limited when wearing this Zen robe, this troublesome formal robe. Similarly, in our busy life we should wear this civilization without being bothered by it, without ignoring it, without being caught by it.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Real, Civilization, Busy

  "Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen". Book by Shunryū Suzuki. Chapter: "Not Always So", p. 95, 2002.

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• It's not the microwave that's the problem, it's what people put into them. I know people lead busy lives but they should try to sit their children down at the table once a week and cook them simple food.

  Raymond Blanc

  Children, Simple, People

  "Celebrity chef dishes microwave mothers" by Nicola Woolcock, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 02, 2001.

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• But one sound always rose above the clamor of busy life and, no matter how much of a tintinnabulation, was never confused and, fora moment lifted everything into an ordered sphere: that of the bells.

  Johan Huizinga

  Confused, History, Rose

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• For everybody in their busy lives, you need to invest in sharpening your tools, and you need to invest in longevity.

  Ryan Holmes

  Needs, Tools, Busy

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• Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life--serene, placid, and mild, with the impress of its great Creator stamped upon it; it spreads its quiet wings over the grave, and seems to promise that all shall be peace beyond it.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Wings, Promise, Age

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  Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.

  Kourtney Kardashian

  Growth, Everyday, Sitting

  Twitter post from Sep 23, 2015

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• You have to find things that are accessible and doable in your busy life and try to fit some time in your schedule to just have time to yourself and be able to recoup and refocus.

  Anousheh Ansari

  Trying, Able, Schedules

  Source: www.ncwit.org

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• I train 10 times over six days every week. I also have three gym sessions and four physio sessions so it's a very busy life, but I wouldn't do it unless I enjoyed it and unless I had all that support around me.

  Jazmin Carlin

  Support, Three, Four

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I have examined all religions, as well as my narrow sphere, my straightened means, and my busy life, would allow; and the result is that the Bible is the best Book in the world. It contains more philosophy than all the libraries I have seen.

  John Adams

  Philosophy, Book, Mean

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• Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or more - a day to write. Some very good things have been written on an hour a day.

  John Updike

  Writing, Trying, Busy

  "John Updike on Passion", www.achievement.org.

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• Don't work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone. You're going to have a busy life. Thank goodness there's no life expectancy.

  Adrian Tan

  Busy, Telling The Truth, Truth Is

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• I am a southern guy who likes dressing up and looking sharp but who lives a busy life of working and traveling, and I need reliable, stylish pieces in my wardrobe that will service multiple occasions.

  Cam Newton

  Dressing Up, Guy, Southern

  "Cam Newton Wants to Teach You How to Wear a Sweater". Interview with Nic Screws, www.bloomberg.com. December 29, 2015.

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• Millionaires are marrying their secretaries because they are so busy making money they haven't time to see other girls.

  Doris Lilly

  Girl, Making Money, Busy

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• More young people are volunteering than ever before. More people are including service to others on their busy lives' to do list. The promise of America is embedded deep in our DNA, calling us to a much less shallow search for happiness and meaning.

  Arianna Huffington

  Dna, America, People

  "Arianna Huffington on Redefining Success, Creating Balance and Making Good Decisions". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I have a lot of empathy for women who fit their writing into the crevices of their too-busy lives, as I once did.

  Christina Baker Kline

  Writing, Empathy, Busy

  "The Mystery Woman in the Field: Kristin Hannah Asks Christina Baker Kline About 'A Piece of the World'". Interview With Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. February 20, 2017.

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