Busy Quotes - Page 3

• Then get busy and find out how to do it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Entrepreneur, Job Opportunities

  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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• I'm too busy playing to worry about the movement or the fingerboard.

  Terry Kath

  Worry, Movement, Fingerboard

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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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• I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Witty, Time, Cutting

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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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• 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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• 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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• I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

  Kanye West

  Writing, Conceited, Egotistical

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• I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.

  Sally Schneider

  Teaching, People, Cooking

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• Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• He's looking for the president's kidnapped daughter; everybody he calls on to help him is busy, but lo and behold, you look across the room, and I'm waiting for that action.

  Derek Luke

  Mother, Daughter, Hype

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.

  Laozi

  Meditation, Feel Good, Taoism

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• Man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.

  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

  Men, Accomplished, Ifs

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• If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong either with you or with your business.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Business, Busy Life, Ifs

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• And I've always - the competition is one aspect of the job, but I think if you're too busy worrying about the competition, you don't focus enough on what you're doing.

  Katie Couric

  Jobs, Thinking, Worry

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• Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

  Horace

  Depressing, Thinking, People

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• I mean, it's been quite busy, especially with the rain delay the first few days, and then having to play the late evenings, waiting here every day. It's been kind of difficult.

  Daniela Hantuchova

  Mean Girls, Rain, Play

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• I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Fitness, Reason Why, Chiefs

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences”

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• I've been with certain stars; some are caring and pay attention to their fans and to their fellow performers and some are too busy. Elvis never seemed too busy.

  Minnie Pearl

  Stars, Redneck, Caring

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• You are right that I don't have a lot of spare time because I love to stay busy and keep my calendar full.

  Kiana Tom

  Calendars, Spare Time, Spares

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• I don't go out that much anymore, unfortunately. I used to enjoy it, but I'm just so busy. Like last night, everybody else went out, and I just went straight home and went to bed.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Home, Night, Lasts

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• If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely.

  Mitch Albom

  Pain, Grief, Way

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• The road had the lonely times, but I kept myself busy.

  Buck Owens

  Lonely

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