Busy Quotes - Page 29

• You have to watch the clock constantly because youre only allowed out of your home for a limited period, and for a busy person, watching the clock and knowing other people are watching the clock is extremely difficult.

  Martha Stewart

  Home, Knowing, People

  "Home confinement tough for Martha Stewart". www.today.com. September 12, 2005.

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• We should be holy people eager to greet our Lord when He returns, ready at any moment for the trumpet's call, people of optimism, busy in evangelism, hands to the plow, eyes on the prize.

  David Jeremiah

  Eye, Hands, People

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• We should have much more peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Peace, Should Have, Saying And Doing

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• I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.

  Francois Truffaut

  Long, Enough

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• Ministers are tempted to join the ranks of those who consider it their primary task to keep other people busy … But our task is the opposite of distraction … how to keep them from being so busy that they can no longer hear the voice of God who speaks in silence.

  Henri Nouwen

  Opposites, Voice, People

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.29, HarperCollins

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• Are you too busy for improvement? Frequently, I am rebuffed by people who say they are too busy and have no time for such activities. I make it a point to respond by telling people, look, you’ll stop being busy either when you die or when the company goes bankrupt.

  Shigeo Shingo

  People, Looks, Improvement

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• I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.

  Leonora Carrington

  Artist, Muse, My Family

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• I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football.

  Alan Shearer

  Football, Cartoon, Watches

  Interview with Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2010.

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• Busy your mind with the concepts of harmony, health, peace, and good will, and wonders will happen in your life.

  Joseph Murphy

  Mind, Wonder, Harmony

  Joseph Murphy, Ph.D., D.D. (2011). “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind: Unlock the Secrets Within”, p.17, Penguin

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• There aren’t enough people who care about the future. They are too busy worrying about today and what they can grab now

  Berry Gordy

  People, Worry, Who Cares

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• Anyone too busy to say thank you will get fewer and fewer chances to say it.

  Harvey Mackay

  Chance, Saying Thank You, Fewer

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• Schools learned long ago that the way to keep children from thinking is to keep them busy.

  Everett Reimer

  Children, School, Thinking

  Everett Reimer (1971). “School is dead: an essay on alternatives in education”, Not Avail

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• I've heard it said that grace is God reaching God's hands into the world. And the Bible tells us that we are part of the body of Christ, that if we let the Spirit move through us, we can become the hands of Christ on earth. Hands that heal, bless, unite, and love. I'd like to think God's hands are a bit like Grace's man hands—gentle but big, busy, and tough. God's hands are those of a creator—an artist who molded and shaped the universe out of a void, who hewed matter from nothingness.

  Cathleen Falsani

  Moving, Men, Thinking

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• My agents are busy with the final details of the contract.

  Guus Hiddink

  Details, Finals, Agents

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• Yet just as the day has two halves, one governed by the sun and the other by the moon, so there are many who are people of the day and who busy themselves with daytime deeds, whilst others are children of the night, their minds consumed with nocturnal notions; but yet there are some in whom the two merge like the rising of the sun and the moon in a day.

  Aino Kallas

  Children, Moon, Night

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• Many Christians suffer because they're too busy seeking carnal knowledge instead of the Word of God.

  Joyce Meyer

  Christian, Suffering, Word Of God

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• There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of workers in the world, the people who do all the work, and the people who think they do all the work. The latter class is generally the busiest, the former never have time to be busy.

  Stella Benson

  Thinking, Class, Two

  Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”

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• I'm busy and that's the way I like it - when I have too much downtime I get into trouble.

  Craig Charles

  Downtime, Too Much, Way

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• Women are my hobby... every man needs something to keep his hands busy, and I don't have a guitar like Eddie and Michael, or some drums to bash like Alex, so I have to find some friends.

  Diamond D

  Men, Guitar, Hands

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• People use me as a figurehead, and to me that misses the point and is blatantly offensive to thin women - my sister, for one. Curves don't epitomise a woman. Saying, 'Skinny is ugly' should be no more acceptable than saying fat is. I find all this stuff a very controlling and effective way of making women obsess over their weight, instead of exploiting their more important attributes, such as intellect, strength and power. We could be getting angry about unequal pay and unequal opportunities, but we're too busy being told we're not thin enough or curvy enough. We're holding ourselves back.

  Robyn Lawley

  Opportunity, Curves, People

  FaceBook post by Robyn Lawley from Nov 29, 2013

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• Busy people tend to forgo the one activity - TV watching _ that is most lethal to community involvement

  Robert D. Putnam

  People, Community, Tvs

  Robert D. Putnam (2001). “Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

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• Greet everyone you meet with a warm smile. No matter how busy you are, don't rush encounters with coworkers, family, and friends. Speak softly. Listen attentively. Act as if every conversation you have is the most important thing on your mind today. Look your children and your partner in the eyes when they talk to you. Stroke the cat, caress the dog. Lavish love on every living being you meet. See how different you feel at the end of the day.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Smile, Dog, Children

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• I soon found an opportunity to be introduced to a famous professor Johann Bernoulli. ... True, he was very busy and so refused flatly to give me private lessons; but he gave me much more valuable advice to start reading more difficult mathematical books on my own and to study them as diligently as I could; if I came across some obstacle or difficulty, I was given permission to visit him freely every Sunday afternoon and he kindly explained to me everything I could not understand.

  Leonhard Euler

  Education, Book, Reading

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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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