Busy Quotes - Page 16

• I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football.

  Alan Shearer

  Football, Cartoon, Watches

  Interview with Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2010.

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• Busy your mind with the concepts of harmony, health, peace, and good will, and wonders will happen in your life.

  Joseph Murphy

  Mind, Wonder, Harmony

  Joseph Murphy, Ph.D., D.D. (2011). “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind: Unlock the Secrets Within”, p.17, Penguin

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• Anyone too busy to say thank you will get fewer and fewer chances to say it.

  Harvey Mackay

  Chance, Saying Thank You, Fewer

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• Schools learned long ago that the way to keep children from thinking is to keep them busy.

  Everett Reimer

  Children, School, Thinking

  Everett Reimer (1971). “School is dead: an essay on alternatives in education”, Not Avail

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• My agents are busy with the final details of the contract.

  Guus Hiddink

  Details, Finals, Agents

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• Yet just as the day has two halves, one governed by the sun and the other by the moon, so there are many who are people of the day and who busy themselves with daytime deeds, whilst others are children of the night, their minds consumed with nocturnal notions; but yet there are some in whom the two merge like the rising of the sun and the moon in a day.

  Aino Kallas

  Children, Moon, Night

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• I'm busy and that's the way I like it - when I have too much downtime I get into trouble.

  Craig Charles

  Downtime, Too Much, Way

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• People use me as a figurehead, and to me that misses the point and is blatantly offensive to thin women - my sister, for one. Curves don't epitomise a woman. Saying, 'Skinny is ugly' should be no more acceptable than saying fat is. I find all this stuff a very controlling and effective way of making women obsess over their weight, instead of exploiting their more important attributes, such as intellect, strength and power. We could be getting angry about unequal pay and unequal opportunities, but we're too busy being told we're not thin enough or curvy enough. We're holding ourselves back.

  Robyn Lawley

  Opportunity, Curves, People

  FaceBook post by Robyn Lawley from Nov 29, 2013

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• Busy people tend to forgo the one activity - TV watching _ that is most lethal to community involvement

  Robert D. Putnam

  People, Community, Tvs

  Robert D. Putnam (2001). “Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

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• Today, the European Union is busy transferring aid. If they can build infrastructure in Spain, roads, highways ... why do they refuse to use the same aid to build the same infrastructure in our countries?

  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

  Country, Spain, Use

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• I distrust the perpetually busy; always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their fourscore and ten in righteousness and pain. They are the soul-eaters.

  Mark Slouka

  Pain, Circles, Soul

  "Quitting the Paint Factory". Harper’s Magazine, November 2004.

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• The object is to keep busy being something...as opposed to doing something. We are all sent here to bring more gratitude, more kindness, more forgiveness and more love into this world. That is too big a job to be accomplished by just a few.

  Richard Nelson Bolles

  Gratitude, Jobs, Kindness

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• You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing on a traffic island in the middle of a busy intersection looking at a windblown map and arguing over which way is west. European cities, with their wandering streets and undisciplined alleys, drive Midwesterners practically insane.

  Bill Bryson

  Couple, Cities, Islands

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.15, VNR AG

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• And while everybody was busy laughing, what was I doing? I was laying the foundation to what I have in place now.

  Victoria Beckham

  Laughing, Foundation

  "Why Victoria Beckham Admits She Was Once 'a Bit of a Laughingstock'" by Fawnia Soo Hoo, www.glamour.com. April 25, 2014.

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• Objectively good spaces to work rarely end up being so; in their faultlessness, quiet and well-equipped studios have a habit of rendering the fear of failure overwhelming. Original thoughts are like shy animals. We sometimes have to look the other way - towards a busy street or terminal - before they run out of their burrows.

  Alain de Botton

  Running, Animal, Space

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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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• I love music, and outside of work my family keeps me very busy, I have five children to keep track of.

  Alberto Juantorena

  Children, Family Love, Track

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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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• Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done. The writer's only responsibility is to his art.

  William Faulkner

  Dream, Art, Responsibility

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• Dear Night! this world's defeat; The stop to busy fools; care's check and curb; The day of spirits; my soul's calm retreat Which none disturb! Christ's progress, and His prayer-time; The hours to which high Heaven cloth chime.

  Henry Vaughan

  Prayer, Night, Heaven

  'The Night' l. 25 from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)

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• Then it crosses my mind, "But I’m a very busy woman! I don’t have time for a stroke!"

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Motivation, Inspiration, Mind

  "My stroke of insight". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2008.

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

  Bob Dylan

  Dying, Comfort, Born

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• The answers you seek never come when the mind is busy, they come when the mind is still, when silence speaks loudest.

  Leon Brown

  Silence, Mind, Answers

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• It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.

  George Takei

  Hate, Laughing, Being Different

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• Students are too busy jumping through the next hurdle in the résumé race to figure out what they really want. They are too frantic tasting everything on the smorgasbord to have life-altering encounters. They have a terror of closing off options. They have been inculcated with a lust for prestige and a fear of doing things that may put their status at risk.

  David Brooks

  Jumping, Race, Lust

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