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• I was not a good student. I did not spend much
  time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

  Stephen Hawking

  College, Students, Enjoy

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• Waiting for clarity is like being a sculptor staring at a piece of marble, waiting for the statue within to cast off the unneeded pieces. Do not wait for clarity to spontaneously materialize-gra b a chisel and get busy!

  Steve Pavlina

  Waiting, Pieces, Clarity

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• Helped are those too busy living to respond when they are wrongfully attacked: on their walks they shall find mysteries so intriguing as to distract them from every blow.

  Alice Walker

  Blow, Mystery, Intriguing

  Alice Walker (2013). “We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness”, p.89, The New Press

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• I hear what many of you are saying: We don’t have the time, we are busy. Well Nobody Has Time, Everyone Is Busy. In the time it took you to read this post, your life just got a minute shorter. That is precisely why we read (and why some of us write): because life is short and finite, we want more, and literature is the distillation of all those lives we will not lead.

  Jessica Zafra

  Writing, Life Is Short, Want

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• I suspect that the happiest people you know are the ones who work at being kind, helpful and reliable - and happiness sneaks into their lives while they are busy doing those things. It is a by-product, never a primary goal.

  Harold S. Kushner

  People, Goal, Be Kind

  Harold S Kushner (2011). “When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

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• We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-momen t lives. We find true refuge whenever we recognize the silent space of awareness behind all our busy doing and striving. We find refuge whenever our hearts open with tenderness and love. We find refuge whenever we connect with the innate clarity and intelligence of our true nature.

  Tara Brach

  Heart, Space, Mind

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• There are a whole lot of people who are so freakin' busy—they've so cluttered up their lives—they're at their wits' end. And if they'd only just stop for a minute, they could hear the God of the universe whisper to them, “I love you.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Love You, People, Wits End

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• The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like the rarest of orchids and does not want to be cured of. Stress makes Americans feel busy, important, and in demand, and simultaneously deprived, ignored, and victimized. Stress makes them feel interesting and complex instead of boring and simple, and carries an assumption of sensitivity not unlike the Old World assumption that aristocrats were high-strung. In short, stress has become a status symbol.

  Florence King

  Stress, Simple, Orchids

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• But to paraphrase Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind, ignorance and mediocrity are forever busy, and the forces of mediocrity aren't content with being mediocre; they'll do everything in their power to prevent even the humblest of teachers and children from accomplishing anything extraordinary. For good work shines a light on the failures of the mediocre, and that is a light which terrifies those who conspire to keep our nation's children, like themselves, ordinary.

  Rafe Esquith

  Teacher, Children, Ignorance

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• Measurement is fabulous. Unless you're busy measuring what's easy to measure as opposed to what's important

  Seth Godin

  Important, Fabulous, Measurement

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• You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.

  Stephen Covey

  Mistake, Great Things

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• I'd like to be with an interesting man who is understanding about having a busy partner.

  Tracy Reese

  Men, Interesting, Understanding

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• Joy comes to us in moments--ordina ry moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.

  Brené Brown

  Joy, Missing, Risk

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead”, p.125, Penguin

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• To be busy is man's only happiness.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Determination, Men

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.171, Courier Corporation

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• A man rising in the world is not concerned with history; he is too busy making it. But a citizen with a fixed place in the community wants to acquire a glorious past just as he acquires antique furniture. By that past he is reassured of his present importance; in it he finds strength to face the dangers that lie in front of him.

  Malcolm Cowley

  Lying, Past, Men

  MALCOLM COWLEY (1967). “Think Back on Us”

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• Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.

  Dana Scott

  Education, Learning, School

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• What is it but a map of busy life,
  Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns?

  William Cowper

  Life, Maps, Fluctuation

  William COWPER (1835). “The works of his life and letters”, p.37

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• My secret to a long, healthy life is to always keep working. It keeps me busy and happy, and gives me a reason to stay alive.

  Johannes Heesters

  Life, Giving, Long

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Love is all around you like the air and is the very breath of your being. But you cannot know it, feel its unfeeling touch, until you pause in your busy-ness, are still and poised and empty of your wanting and desiring. When at rest the air is easily offended and will flee even from the fanning of a leaf, as love flees from the first thought. But when the air or love moves of its own accord it is a hurricane that drives all before it.

  Barry Long

  Life, Moving, Love Is

  "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.

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• This might explain why Obama gave billions to Wall Street crooks, and dragged the Iraq and Afghan wars on and on.
  Happily for the busy lunatics who rule over us, we are permanently the United States of Amnesia. We learn nothing because we remember nothing... We have ceased to be a nation under law but instead a homeland where the withered Bill of Rights, like a dead trumpet vine, clings to our pseudo-Roman columns.

  Gore Vidal

  Wall, War, Rights

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• We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

  Mark Twain

  Relationship, Children, Mean

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• The man who keeps busy helping the man below him won't have time to envy the man above him.

  Henrietta Mears

  Success, Army, Men

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• You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Happiness, Running, Children

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• We may be very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in mind.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Business, Effectiveness

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.117, Mango Media Inc.

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• You're never too old or too busy to continue your educatioan!

  Eva Longoria

  Graduation, Too Busy

  "Eva Longoria Graduates With Master's Degree In Chicano Studies". www.foxnews.com. May 23, 2013.

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