Busy Quotes - Page 13

• So what if you end up buying a size 6 instead of a 4? You can always cut out the label at home, and you’ll pretty soon forget whatever that number was because you’ll be too busy admiring how fantastic you look.

  Victoria Beckham

  Home, Cutting, Numbers

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  No one's busy thinking bad things about you. They're all too busy thinking bad things about themselves.

  Patrick Stump

  Thinking, Too Busy, Bad Things

  Twitter post from May 15, 2013

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• An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Velocity, Life Is, Silent

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.77, Vintage

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• I'm a busy guy but I set aside quiet time every morning and every evening to keep my equilibrium centered on my own path. I don't like being swayed by anything that might be negative or damaging.

  Donald Trump

  Morning, Guy, Negative

  Donald Trump (2010). “Think Like a Champion: An Informal Education In Business and Life”, p.148, Vanguard Press

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• If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.

  Bob Dylan

  Dying, Comfort, Born

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• Add a task to a busy person's plate, and it will get done in short order. Add a task to the plate of someone with nothing to do, and it will never get done.

  Wes Fesler

  Order, Tasks, Add

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• An Atlas, whose back is bowed and whose hands are busy holding up the world, has no arms to lift to deal with his own defense. Increase his burdens and you will crush him...This is our present posture...This suggestions I make...would...conserve American lives for American ends.

  Murray Rothbard

  Crush, War, Hands

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• Bees are not as busy as we think they are. They just can't buzz any slower.

  Kin Hubbard

  Thinking, Bees, Buzz

  "Reading I've Liked : A Personal Selection Drawn from Two Decades of Reading and Reviewing, Presented with an Informal Prologue and Various Commentaries". Book by Clifton Fadiman, 1941.

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• If the Devil can’t make us really bad, then he’ll try to make us really busy.

  Craig Groeschel

  Trying, Devil, Ifs

  Craig Groeschel (2011). “WEIRD: Because Normal Isn’t Working”, p.25, Zondervan

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• From toil he wins his spirits light, From busy day the peaceful night; Rich, from the very want of wealth, In heaven's best treasures, peace and health.

  Thomas Gray

  Peace, Winning, Night

  Thomas Gray, William Mason (1827). “The works of Thomas Gray, with memoirs of his life and writings, by W. Mason”, p.408

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• We're kept so busy focusing on things that are extremely mundane while the people that possess the real power are deciding what our reality's going to be.

  Mr. Lif

  Real, People, Mundane

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• A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.

  William Barclay

  Inspirational Life, Men, Forget

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• We talk a lot on 'Biggest Loser' about how fitness is a natural antidepressant, how it burns off stress. What I like about running is that it gives me time alone. I'm always busy, with people at work, with my kids. I love getting out for a run by myself and just listening to my music.

  Alison Sweeney

  Running, Stress, Kids

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• After all, they'd be busy for a while, they were Candymakers now, and they had a whole lotta candy to make.

  Wendy Mass

  Candy, Whole

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• She says I know you changed, I never see you cause you always busy doing thangs

  Drake

  Change, Causes, Knows

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• It sometimes seems that we live as if we wonder when life is going to begin. It isn't always clear just what we are waiting for, but some of us sometimes persist in waiting so long that life slips by - finding us still waiting for something that has been going on all the time. . . . This is the life in which the work of this life is to be done. Today is as much a part of eternity as any day a thousand years ago or as will be any day a thousand years hence. This is it, whether we are thrilled or disappointed, busy or bored! This is life, and it is passing.

  Richard L. Evans

  Procrastination, Years, Long

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• It's going to be a busy meet for me, I knew that coming in, so I'm just trying to go through all my recovery strategies. Just forget about the last race and move onto the next. Hopefully I swam fast enough to get in, but we'll see.

  Tera Van Beilen

  Moving, Recovery, Swimming

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• I do not like the idea of happiness - it is too momentary - I would say that I was always busy and interested in something - interest has more meaning to me than the idea of happiness.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Happiness, Ideas, Interest

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Clive Giboire (1990). “Lovingly, Georgia: the complete correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe & Anita Pollitzer”, Touchstone Books

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• Those who are already feeling the effects of climate change don't have time to deny it - they're busy dealing with it.

  Barack Obama

  Feelings, Climate, Global Warming

  Remarks by the President on Climate Change, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

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• It is not always the most brilliant speculations nor the choice of the most exotic materials that is most profitable. I prefer Monsieur de Reaumur busy exterminating moths by means of an oily fleece; or increasing fowl production by making them hatch without the help of their mothers, than Monsieur Bemouilli absorbed in algebra, or Monsieur Leibniz calculating the various advantages and disadvantages of the possible worlds.

  Noel-Antoine Pluche

  Mother, Mean, Science

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• If the level and amount of consumption and waste of the western rich countries ever reaches the poor countries, it will mean the end of humanity. The big world corporations are busy doing it...The production, selling, consumption, accumulation, wastes' and advertisement explosions in the western rich countries and the continued population explosion in the poor countries will turn into major catastrophes.

  Robert Muller

  Country, Mean, Rich Countries

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• To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted. Even things in themselves not positively advantageous, sometimes become so, by their tendency to provoke exertion. Every new scene, which is opened to the busy nature of man to rouse and exert itself, is the addition of a new energy to the general stock of effort.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Effort, Mind

  United States. Department of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton (1791). “Report of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, on the Subject of Manufactures: Presented to the House of Representatives, December 5, 1791”, p.12

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• George Bernard Shaw was right. He summed it all up when he said: "The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not." So don't bother to think about it! Spit on your hands and get busy. Your blood will start circulating; your mind will start ticking-and pretty soon this whole positive upsurge of life in your body will drive worry from your mind. Get busy. Keep busy. It's the cheapest kind of medicine there is on this earth-and one of the best.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Thinking, Blood

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.62, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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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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• As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Peace, War, Purpose

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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