Busy Quotes - Page 27

• There's nothing wrong with sending a quick note if you're busy or just want to flirt, but it's hard to have any real interaction over text. In the buffet of communication, text messaging should be a side dish, not the entree.

  Greg Behrendt

  Real, Communication, Flirting

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• We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power.

  R. A. Torrey

  Christian, Prayer, Praying

  R. A. Torrey (2000). “How to Obtain Fullness of Power”, p.58, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake, for praying is a saving of time.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mistake, Thinking, Saving

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1873). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons”, p.140

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• Why worry about things you can't control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you?

  John C. Maxwell

  Worry, Depends

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “Failing Forward”, p.64, Harper Collins

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  Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Lazy, Easy, Nothing Is Easy

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• There's this perception that if you worry a lot and if you look really busy and stressed out then you'll be more successful. You talk about how little sleep you get and how tensed you are and how you're not getting the appreciation you deserve.

  Nancy Meyers

  Appreciation, Stress, Sleep

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• Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes. . . . it was essential that they should keep on going to the country, even though they hated it.

  Aldous Huxley

  Country, Nature, Class

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• If the enemy cannot make you BAD, he’ll make you BUSY.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Enemy, Ifs

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• Never hide behind busy work. It takes just as much energy to fail as it does to succeed.

  Og Mandino

  Energy, Doe, Succeed

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• I am so busy now that if I did not spend three hours each day in prayer, I could not get through the day.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Three, Each Day

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• Grandparents can have a profound influence on their grandchildren. Their time is generally not as encumbered and busy as the parents', so books can be opened and read, stories can be told... Children then obtain a perspective of life which not only is rewarding but can bring them security, peace, and strength.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Children, Book, Profound

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• Women are much more comfortable making their own style rules now. They want pieces that will make their busy lives easier.

  Michael Kors

  Style, Pieces, Want

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• Maybe I'm too busy being yours to fall for somebody new.

  Alex Turner

  Fall, Too Busy

  "Song: 'Do I Wanna Know?'". 2013.

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• Activity is not achievement. It is not enough to rush about beginning a lot of things and keeping busy. A well-spent life is one that rounds out what it has begun.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Achievement, Life Is, Enough

  Eknath Easwaran (2010). “Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom”, p.194, Nilgiri Press

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• I shoot for the moon but I'm too busy gazing the stars.

  Eminem

  Stars, Moon, Gazing

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• The non-artists among us are always terribly busy, but finally disappear without a trace.

  Helen Vendler

  Artist, Disappear, Without A Trace

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• I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Jobs, Time Keeping, Living My Life

  Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1995). “Memoirs”, McClelland & Stewart Limited

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• A writer works from the material she has, but it comes from the unconscious. Everything is stored up and one never knows what comes up to the surface at a given moment. A period of gestation is certainly needed, what Wordsworth called ‘emotion recollected in tranquility.’ You cannot write about an experience when you are living it, suffering it. You are too busy surviving to look at it objectively. At least I can’t.

  Rosamond Lehmann

  Writing, Gestation Period, Suffering

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• Enduringly successful people, many of whom live a life that's a gift to the world, don't raise balance as a major issue-not because they had it masterfully handled, but because they were all busy doing what mattered to them.

  Jerry I. Porras

  Life, Successful, Issues

  Jerry I. Porras, Stewart Emery, Mark Thompson (2006). “Success Built to Last: Creating a Life That Matters”, p.53, Pearson Education

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• Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with cold indifference; but an inhabitant of the remoter parts of the kingdom is immediately distinguished by a kind of dissipated curiosity, a busy endeavour to divide his attention amongst a thousand objects, and a wild confusion of astonishment and alarm.

  Samuel Johnson

  Past, Cities, Confusion

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.41

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• Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me, and drink as I.

  William Oldys

  Alcohol, Curiosity, Drink

  William Oldys, “On A Fly Drinking Out Of His Cup”

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• What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?

  Thomas Merton

  Prayer, Use, Answers

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.39, Macmillan

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• The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.

  Byron White

  Law, Choices, Morality

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• Busyness does not mean you are a faithful or fruitful Christian. It only means you are busy, just like everyone else.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Christian, Mean, Faithful

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• Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Failure, Thinking, Care

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