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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he; Full well the busy whisper circling round Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd. Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault; The village all declar'd how much he knew, 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Morning, Laughter, Writing

  Oliver Goldsmith, “The Deserted VILLage”

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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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• Of course I don't look busy, I did it right the first time.

  Scott Adams

  Humor, Looks, Firsts

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• God is busy with the completion of your work, both outwardly and inwardly. He is fully occupied with you. Every human being is a work in progress that is slowly but inexplicably moving toward perfection. We are each an unfinished work of art both waiting and striving to be completed. God deals with each of us separately because humanity is a fine art of skilled penmanship where every single dot is equally important for the entire picture.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Art, Moving, Unfinished Work

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• All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate

  Nellie Bly

  Fate, Mind, Doe

  Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.82, Golgotha Press

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• Our life is like a land journey, too even and easy and dull over long distances across the plains, too hard and painful up the steep grades; but, on the summits of the mountain, you have a magnificent view—and your eyes are full of happy tears—and you want to sing—and wish you had wings! And then—you can’t stay there, but must continue your journey—you begin climbing down the other side, so busy with your footholds that your summit experience is forgotten

  Lloyd C. Douglas

  Distance, Eye, Journey

  Lloyd C. Douglas (2012). “The Robe”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Industrial design keeps the customer happy, his client in the black and the designer busy.

  Raymond Loewy

  Design, Black, Clients

  "Quotations and Sources on Design and the Decorative Arts". Book by Paul Greenhalgh, p. 117, 1993.

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• I do the movies just for myself like an institutionalized person who basket-weaves. Busy fingers are happy fingers. I don't care about the films. I don't care if they're flushed down the toilet after I die.

  Woody Allen

  Care, Toilets, Film

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

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• Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it. At the same time they degrade it by trying to get it free of charge and free of work.

  Jacques Barzun

  Passion, Trying, United States

  Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”

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• It is possible to speak with our heart directly. Most ancient cultures know this. We can actually converse with our heart as if it were a good friend. In modern life we have become so busy with our daily affairs and thoughts that we have lost this essential art of taking time to converse with our heart.

  Jack Kornfield

  Art, Good Friend, Essentials

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.12, Random House

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• A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is to be.  It allows us to have the life we are denied because we are too busy living.  Even more paradoxically, poetry permits us to live in ourselves as if we were just out of reach of ourselves.

  Mark Strand

  Imagine, Permit, Made

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• The views of the Earth are really beautiful. If you've ever seen a space IMAX movie, that's really what it looks like. I wish I'd had more time just to sit and look out the window with a map, but our science program kept us very busy in the lab most of the time.

  David M. Brown

  Beautiful, Views, Space

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• Be a busy person. People who are active are often much more at peace with themselves than those who are inactive and inert.

  Wayne Dyer

  Peace, People, Active

  Wayne dyer, Wayne W. Dyer (1981). “The sky's the limit”, Pocket

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• People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.

  Robert Redford

  Self, People, Miracle

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• Make a plan now to keep a daily appointment with God. The enemy is going to tell you to set it aside, but you must carve out the time. If you're too busy to meet with the Lord, friend, then you are simply too busy

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Enemy, Lord

  Charles R. Swindoll (2006). “Bedside Blessings: 365 Days of Inspirational Thoughts”, p.291, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If Satan can't make you bad, he'll make you busy.

  Adrian Rogers

  Christian, Satan, Ifs

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• We are so busy giving our children what we never had that we forget to give them what we did have.

  James Dobson

  Christian, Children, Giving

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• We hurt people by being too busy. Too busy to notice their needs. Too busy to drop that note of comfort or encouragement or assurance of love. Too busy to listen when someone needs to talk. Too busy to care.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Encouragement, Hurt

  Billy Graham (2004). “The Enduring Classics of Billy Graham”, Thomas Nelson Publishers

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• Most of us are far too busy for our own spiritual good.

  Bill Hybels

  Christian, Spiritual, Christian Inspirational

  Bill Hybels (2012). “Too busy not to pray”, p.124, SPCK

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