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• Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

  James Dyson

  Inspiring, Ideas, May

  "James Dyson Interview: 5,127 Vacuum Prototypes, So It Would Suck in the Right Way" by Gregory Han, www.apartmenttherapy.com. January 29, 2009.

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• Am I Getting Lazy? Am I Too Busy? Am I Becoming Arrogant? Am I Getting Timid? If you answer 'yes' to any one of these questions, that's your warning to Kick that attitude!

  Roger von Oech

  Attitude, Lazy, Arrogant

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• Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time; they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next. That is not what people want. People want to be left alone to look after their cattle.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Gratitude, Thinking, Government

  Alexander McCall Smith (2008). “The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• The Jungian therapist taught me the difference between the ego and the shadow. I realized I'd been so busy being a good girl that I'd completely detached from my shadow. It's something we all have, and it's where all the creative juices are.

  Sue Grafton

  Girl, Writing, Creative Juices

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• Solitude. It is way underrated in our world of writing. We stay busy. We act busy. We thrive on busy. The truth is there is a lot of beauty that lives in the solitude. Quiet is not the enemy. Quiet is necessary for brains to not self-destruct.

  Bonnie Baker

  Writing, Our World, Self

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• ... you looked around and saw everybody either married or busy and happy and thinking and being creative, and you felt scared, sick, lethargic, worst of all, not wanting to cope. You saw visions of yourself in a straightjacket, and a drain on the family, murdering your mother in actuality, killing the edifice of love and respect built up over the years in the hearts of other people.

  Sylvia Plath

  Depression, Mother, Heart

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.87, Anchor

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• Not completely, but neither of us gets mad when the other doesn't text back or call. Life's super-busy. Obviously you know what they're doing, and you trust them. We're so young that it would almost be like if we lived in the same city, what would happen? We'd be living together. At least this way he's in the same boat as I am: We can go out and have our own lives and know that we have each other.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Cities, Mad, Together

  "Jennifer Lawrence Just Can't Help It" by Aaron Gell, www.marieclaire.com. May 8, 2014.

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• You better get busy living, because dying's a pain in the ass.

  Frank Sinatra

  Pain, Dying, Ass

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

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• I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.

  Tom Hardy

  Voice, I Have Learned

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• A busy schedule can be difficult, but I have the best husband on the planet. He supports my endeavors, and we work as a team.

  Jane Leeves

  Husband, Team, Support

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• I do the movies just for myself like an institutionalized person who basket-weaves. Busy fingers are happy fingers. I don't care about the films. I don't care if they're flushed down the toilet after I die.

  Woody Allen

  Care, Toilets, Film

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

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• Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it. At the same time they degrade it by trying to get it free of charge and free of work.

  Jacques Barzun

  Passion, Trying, United States

  Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”

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• A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is to be.  It allows us to have the life we are denied because we are too busy living.  Even more paradoxically, poetry permits us to live in ourselves as if we were just out of reach of ourselves.

  Mark Strand

  Imagine, Permit, Made

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• The views of the Earth are really beautiful. If you've ever seen a space IMAX movie, that's really what it looks like. I wish I'd had more time just to sit and look out the window with a map, but our science program kept us very busy in the lab most of the time.

  David M. Brown

  Beautiful, Views, Space

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• Make a plan now to keep a daily appointment with God. The enemy is going to tell you to set it aside, but you must carve out the time. If you're too busy to meet with the Lord, friend, then you are simply too busy

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Enemy, Lord

  Charles R. Swindoll (2006). “Bedside Blessings: 365 Days of Inspirational Thoughts”, p.291, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If Satan can't make you bad, he'll make you busy.

  Adrian Rogers

  Christian, Satan, Ifs

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• Most of us are far too busy for our own spiritual good.

  Bill Hybels

  Christian, Spiritual, Christian Inspirational

  Bill Hybels (2012). “Too busy not to pray”, p.124, SPCK

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• I'm not someone who thinks about the past. I'm so busy thinking about what I'm going to do today.

  Maggie Tabberer

  Women, Past, Thinking

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• People think that because of my act that I must have a really busy mind and I must be driven. I really am not. I quite like going outside and looking at spiders on a hedge in my garden and stuff.

  Tim Vine

  Garden, Thinking, People

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• Every dad, if he takes time out of his busy life to reflect upon his fatherhood, can learn ways to become an even better dad.

  Jack Baker

  Fathers Day, Dad, Fatherhood

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• The non-artists among us are always terribly busy, but finally disappear without a trace.

  Helen Vendler

  Artist, Disappear, Without A Trace

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• I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Jobs, Time Keeping, Living My Life

  Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1995). “Memoirs”, McClelland & Stewart Limited

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• Enduringly successful people, many of whom live a life that's a gift to the world, don't raise balance as a major issue-not because they had it masterfully handled, but because they were all busy doing what mattered to them.

  Jerry I. Porras

  Life, Successful, Issues

  Jerry I. Porras, Stewart Emery, Mark Thompson (2006). “Success Built to Last: Creating a Life That Matters”, p.53, Pearson Education

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• What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?

  Thomas Merton

  Prayer, Use, Answers

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.39, Macmillan

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• Busyness does not mean you are a faithful or fruitful Christian. It only means you are busy, just like everyone else.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Christian, Mean, Faithful

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