Too Busy Quotes - Page 4

• Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.

  Mark Buchanan

  Men, Busy, Mindset

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• Happiness is not something you have in your hands; it's something you carry in your heart. Happiness is one thing that multiplies by division. Happiness is that peculiar sensation you acquire when you are too busy to be miserable. Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

  Ayn Rand

  Heart, Hands, Achievement

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• Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Heaven, Half

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.38, CCEL

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• It's too bad I'm not a flirt. When I'm on the sets, I'm too busy working on my scenes to look at the ladies.

  Randeep Hooda

  Flirting, Looks, Busy

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• If you are too busy to pray then you are too busy.

  W. Sangster

  Praying, Busy, Ifs

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• He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anything else.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Path, Praying

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.69, CCEL

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• I'm too busy to be nostalgic, which is one of the reasons to keep busy. I'm not a very sentimental person.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Sentimental, Busy, Reason

  "Frederick Wiseman on his new film and his dream of shooting in the White House". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2015.

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• Richard's bookshelves weren't alphabetized. He never had time to alphabetize them. He was always too busy- looking for books he couldn't find.

  Martin Amis

  Book, Busy, Bookshelves

  Martin Amis (1995). “The Information”

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• But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on.

  Anna Quindlen

  Gentleman, Feminism, Busy

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.122, Random House

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• Simplicity means taking charge of a life that is too busy, too stressed, and too fragmented. An uncluttered simplicity means cutting back on trivial distractions, both material and non-material, and focusing on the essentials - whatever those may be for each of our unique lives.

  Duane Elgin

  Mean, Cutting, Unique

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• Cats are too independent. They piss me off. They play when they want, and then they turn their back on you. Dogs, you throw the ball, and they bring it back, tongue hanging out, tail wagging. Cats are like "Not right now, too busy." Definitely a dog man. Except when it comes to cleaning up after them! Cats win that!

  Denzel Washington

  Dog, Cat, Independent

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• Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but drowned a small jigger of immediate experience, most of it strictly sexual. Broken reeds are seldom good mixers. They're far too busy with their ideas, their sensuality and their psychosomatic complaints to be able to take an interest in other people - even their own wives and children. They live in a state of the most profound voluntary ignorance, not knowing anything about anybody, but abounding in preconceived opinions about everything.

  Aldous Huxley

  Children, Philosophical, Ignorance

  Aldous Huxley (1969). “Great Short Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• People are not very pro-active in general, I think, because we are too busy rushing blindly towards our own goals.

  Dave Matthews

  Thinking, Rushing, Goal

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• Many people will never learn the lessons meant for them in this lifetime, nor become the person they were meant to be, simply because they are too busy being someone else.

  Suzy Kassem

  People, Lessons, Were Meant To Be

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• One word more. You look as if you thought it tainted you to be loved by me. You cannot avoid it. Nay, I, if I would, cannot cleanse you from it. But I would not, if I could. I have never loved any woman before: my life has been too busy, my thoughts too much absorbed with other things. Now I love, and will love. But do not be afraid of too much expression on my part.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Expression, Looks, Too Much

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1079, Delphi Classics

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• Well you seemed too busy to call him a prat and I thought someone should.

  J. K. Rowling

  Busy, Should, Wells

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• Now for me, you're the irreplaceable one: I've never see you up so close before, and I do not understand you at all. You say sometimes I act like I don't see you? I don't even know where to look! Living with you around is like is like living with a permanent dazzle. The fact that you even like me, or look at me, or brush by me, or hug me, or hold me, is so surprising that after it's over I have to go back through it a dozen times in my head to savor it and try and figure out what it was like because I was too busy being astounded while it was happening.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Hug, Trying, Looks

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• (M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you know . . . like being people.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Flower, People, Honest

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• you said Is there anything which is dead or alive more beautiful than my body,to have in your fingers (trembling ever so little)? Looking into your eyes Nothing,i said,except the air of spring smelling of never and forever. ....and through the lattice which moved as if a hand is touched by a hand(which moved as though fingers touch a girl's breast, lightly) Do you believe in always,the wind said to the rain I am too busy with my flowers to believe,the rain answered

  e. e. cummings

  Beautiful, Girl, Spring

  E. E. Cummings (2013). “Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte”, p.10, C.H.Beck

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• Leaders who want to show sensitivity should listen often and long and talk short and seldom. Many so-called leaders are too busy to listen. True leaders know that time spent listening is well invested.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Leadership, Christian, Long

  J. Oswald Sanders (2007). “Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer”, p.74, Moody Publishers

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• When you're touched by magic, nothing's ever quite the same again. What really makes me sad is all those people who never have the chance to know that touch. They're too busy, or they just don't hold with make-believe, so they shut the door without really knowing it was there to be opened in the first place.

  Charles de Lint

  Believe, Doors, Knowing

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• There will never be peace between us. Ever. You shattered any hope of it when you watched your brother kill me and refused to speak up on my behalf. (Acheron) I was afraid. (Artemis) And I was butchered and gutted on the floor like an animal sacrifice. Excuse me if I don’t feel your pain. I’m too busy with my own. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Brother, Pain, Sacrifice

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• If God places a child before you, and you are too busy to wield either a positive or negative influence...you just did the later! You communicated that the child doesn't matter and isn't important.

  Wess Stafford

  Children, Important, Negative

  Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.11, WaterBrook

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• Only a white-haired old man, who would be a prophet Yet is not a prophet, for he's much too busy, Repeats while he binds his tomatoes: No other end of the world will there be, No other end of the world will there be.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Men, White, Would Be

  Czeslaw Milosz, “A Song On The End Of The World”

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• Life is too short to rush around and be too busy for your kids.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Life Is Too Short, Kids, Busy

  Source: sara-mincy.blogspot.com

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