Busy Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• When you are insane, you are busy being insane-all the time ... when I was crazy, that was all I was.

  Sylvia Plath

  Depression, Crazy, Insane

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• I'm try[ing] to catch up on my work and you know I keep my eyes on the road, but I'm a busy man.

  Rob Ford

  Eye, Men, Trying

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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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• I don't like lying around on the beach. I like to be busy.

  Carrie Preston

  Beach, Lying

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

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• I was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn't realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere to go.

  Lorraine Bracco

  Fighting, Water, Trying

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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'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony orchestras, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Stravinsky. You don't listen to one instrument; you listen to music.

  Charles Mingus

  Symphony, Listening, Attention

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• I'm so busy trying to be other people. You start acting just as soon as you walk into the door of that casting office. You can't just be yourself because they don't want to hire you.

  Clifton Collins, Jr.

  Being Yourself, Doors, People

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• In every death, a busy world comes to an end.

  Mason Cooley

  World, Ends

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• The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.

  Eric Hoffer

  Majority, Life Is, Prove

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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