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• While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

  Henry C. Link

  Leadership, Confidence, Motivation

  Henry C. Link (1945). “The Return to Religion”, p.29, Lulu.com

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• Im busy doing my job, and being a loudmouth doesnt appeal to me as much as when I was younger and had the youthful delusion that I was smarter than everybody else.

  Steve Albini

  Jobs, Appeals, Delusion

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• Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Inspirational, People, Use

  "Observations". Book by Katharine Whitehorn, 1970.

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• People are so busy anyway they don't see you or recognise you in the street.

  Andrea Corr

  People, Recognise You, Streets

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• Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Real

  Ford Times, Vol. 6, p. 136, 1912.

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• We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

  T. D. Jakes

  Forgiveness, God, Nursing

  T.D. Jakes (2013). “Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm so busy these days. I forget everything but my lines.

  Christopher Meloni

  Forget Everything, Lines, These Days

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• Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.

  Samuel Richardson

  People, World

  Samuel Richardson (1754). “The history of sir Charles Grandison, in a series of letters publ. by the editor of Pamela. To which is added A brief history of the treatment which the editor has met with from certain booksellers and printers in Dublin”, p.345

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• There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Hilarious, Talking

  "Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist".

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• It's going to be over soon, so I don't really have time to get busy.

  Ursula Andress

  "How Can Women Make Beauty Last, Inside and Out?". Larry King Live, edition.cnn.com. June 8, 2000.

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• Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.

  Kin Hubbard

  Funny, Business, Looks

  Saturday Review (p. 19), March 18, 1944.

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• Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Wise, Men, Literature

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• My pro-choice activism keeps me busy.

  Margot Kidder

  Choices, Activism

  "No kidding". Interview with Chris Roberts, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2005.

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• People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

  Florence King

  Dream, Mistake, Native American

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.108, Macmillan

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• Get busy living, or get busy dying.

  Stephen King

  Inspirational, Life, Movie

  Different Seasons "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" (1982)

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• I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything.

  Lydia Lunch

  Lunch, Mad, Sympathetic

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• To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.

  Jose Marti

  Simple, Dignity, Talent

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

  Andre Maurois

  Birthday, Time, Hunting

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• According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.

  Jeff Miller

  School, People, Giving

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• Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

  Iris Murdoch

  Happiness, Happy, Gratitude

  "The Nice And The Good".

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• Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.

  Major Owens

  Compassion, Competition, Virtue

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• Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.

  Sally Ride

  Awful, Wells, Experiments

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• When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• They usually have two tellers in my local bank, except when it's very busy, when they have one.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Money, Humor

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• While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Littles, Little Things, Greater Things

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