Busy Quotes

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  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.

  Lucille Ball

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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

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  If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Good Morning

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• 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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• 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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• I was busy welcoming a new experience. I had never done a movie before.

  Chita Rivera

  New Experiences, Done, Welcome

  Interview with John Garcia, thecolumnonline.com.

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• I'm friends with Carla Olsen and she's doing a lot of producing these days. She's getting quite a little collection of records that she's produced. She's real busy.

  Kathy Valentine

  Friends, Valentines Day, Real

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• I know how I like to be treated, so I always start by saying, 'Could you give me a moment of your time, I know you're very busy,' and usually, they will.

  Arthur Godfrey

  Giving, Moments, Give Me

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• Always make the other person feel important.

  John Dewey

  Life Changing, Important, Praise

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• You don't have to stick with these recipes. They're guides. As I say, they're a way in. Have fun with them. It's an easier way to cook in a busy life, once you get the hang of it.

  Sally Schneider

  Fun, Recipes, Way

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• I'm in an agreeable state: busy, enthusiastic, curious.

  Isabelle Adjani

  Curious, States, Enthusiastic

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• We are busy planning the launch of the channel. I am busy planning all kinds of events that go on the channel without me. I have started producing a sound for the channel.

  Howard Stern

  Sound, Events, Goes On

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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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• Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies.

  Jason Statham

  Movie, Inspired, Jet

  Interview with Dan Epstein, suicidegirls.com. February 15, 2003.

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• My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Mother, Helping, Sometimes

  James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• I never think too far into the future. I'm too busy thinking about tomorrow's news.

  Matt Drudge

  Thinking, News, Tomorrow

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• I gotta get working, you know? I've been too busy. I've been trying my hardest, but it's really tough.

  Christy Carlson Romano

  Trying My Hardest, Tough, Knows

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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, Enough, Periods

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• Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Song: 'Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)' ('Double Fantasy')". 1980.

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• Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.

  Agnes Repplier

  Writing, Men, Generosity

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• Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

  John Donne

  Love, Running, Fool

  'Songs and Sonnets' 'The Sun Rising'

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• Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!

  John Dryden

  Fate, Joy, Sorrow

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• Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, 'I work at 'Saturday Night Live,' and that is so cool.

  Tina Fey

  Night, Thinking, Now And Then

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• From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.

  Tom Ford

  Inspirational, Important, Stuff

  "Excellence: Inspiration for Achieving Your Personal Best". Book by J.Pincott, 2010.

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• Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Communication, Missing

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Holiday, Vacation, All The Best

  Kenneth Grahame (2016). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.5, Xist Publishing

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