Busy Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• The road to climate stability is straight and the solutions simple, and yet scientists, economists, industrialists and politicians are busy making them complicated

  Satish Kumar

  Simple, Climate, Complicated

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• The Rosary mystically transports us to Mary's side as she is busy watching over the human growth of Christ in the home of Nazareth. This enables her to train us and to mold us with the same care, until Christ is ''fully formed'' in us... Why should we not once more have recourse to the Rosary, with the same faith as those who have gone before us?

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Home

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

  Adrian Rogers

  Christian, Satan, Ifs

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General Motors, not to the CIO. I will hoard my power like a miser, resisting every effort to drain it away from me. I will then use my power, as I see fit. I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arived at yesterday at the voting booth. That is a program of sorts, is it not? It is certainly program enough to keep conservatives busy, and Liberals at bay. And the nation free.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Life, Mean, Power

  "Up from Liberalism". Book by William F. Buckley Jr., 1959.

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• And it can keep you as busy as anything else, and happier.

  Mary Oliver

  Inspirational

  Mary Oliver (2004). “Why I Wake Early: New Poems”, p.8, Beacon Press

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• To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted. Even things in themselves not positively advantageous, sometimes become so, by their tendency to provoke exertion. Every new scene, which is opened to the busy nature of man to rouse and exert itself, is the addition of a new energy to the general stock of effort.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Effort, Mind

  United States. Department of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton (1791). “Report of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, on the Subject of Manufactures: Presented to the House of Representatives, December 5, 1791”, p.12

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• George Bernard Shaw was right. He summed it all up when he said: "The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not." So don't bother to think about it! Spit on your hands and get busy. Your blood will start circulating; your mind will start ticking-and pretty soon this whole positive upsurge of life in your body will drive worry from your mind. Get busy. Keep busy. It's the cheapest kind of medicine there is on this earth-and one of the best.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Thinking, Blood

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.62, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

  James Dyson

  Inspiring, Ideas, May

  "James Dyson Interview: 5,127 Vacuum Prototypes, So It Would Suck in the Right Way" by Gregory Han, www.apartmenttherapy.com. January 29, 2009.

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• As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Peace, War, Purpose

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time; they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next. That is not what people want. People want to be left alone to look after their cattle.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Gratitude, Thinking, Government

  Alexander McCall Smith (2008). “The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• The Jungian therapist taught me the difference between the ego and the shadow. I realized I'd been so busy being a good girl that I'd completely detached from my shadow. It's something we all have, and it's where all the creative juices are.

  Sue Grafton

  Girl, Writing, Creative Juices

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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