Too Busy Quotes - Page 7

• Don't ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue.

  Richard Dawkins

  Cancer, Weather, Space

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• A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way. And you, sitting around here like a knot on the wall, saying, “I’m going to love these folks no matter how much they hate me.” No, you need a revolution. Whoever heard of a revolution where they lock arms, as Reverend Cleage was pointing out beautifully, singing “We Shall Overcome”? Just tell me. You don’t do that in a revolution. You don’t do any singing; you’re too busy swinging.

  Malcolm X

  Wall, Hate, Singing

  "Message to Grassroots" by Malcolm X, teachingamericanhistory.org. November 10, 1963.

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• A lot of us are too busy focusing on what we think people want to hear, as opposed to just saying what's in our hearts.

  Lauryn Hill

  Heart, Thinking, People

  Interview with Genevieve Glass, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 2, 2013.

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• I am too busy. I have not time for worry.

  Winston Churchill

  Worry, Busy

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  No one's busy thinking bad things about you. They're all too busy thinking bad things about themselves.

  Patrick Stump

  Thinking, Busy, Bad Things

  Twitter post from May 15, 2013

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• Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done. The writer's only responsibility is to his art.

  William Faulkner

  Dream, Art, Responsibility

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.

  Stephen Covey

  Time, Saws, Busy

  Stephen R. Covey (1993). “How to succeed with people”, Deseret Book Co

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• Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Inspirational, People, Use

  "Observations". Book by Katharine Whitehorn, 1970.

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• Champions never complain, they are too busy getting better

  John Wooden

  Champion, Get Better, Complaining

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• Saying that you don’t have time to improve your thoughts and your life is like saying you don’t have time to stop for gas because you’re too busy driving. Eventually it will catch up with you.

  Robin S

  Motivational, Life Is Like, Driving

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• You ride one in to the beach, and it's the most amazing thing you've ever felt. But at some point the water goes back out; it has to. And maybe you're lucky-maybe you're both too busy to do anything drastic. Maybe you're good as friends, so you stay. And then something happens-maybe it's something as big as a baby, or as small as him unloading the dishwasher-and the wave comes back in again. And it does that, over and over. I just think sometimes people forget to wait.

  Erica Bauermeister

  Baby, Beach, Thinking

  Erica Bauermeister (2011). “Joy For Beginners”, p.31, Penguin

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• If you’re too busy to duck hunt or catch fish, then you’re too busy.

  Jase Robertson

  Ducks, Busy, Fishes

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• And my father left me a legacy of his handwriting through letters and a notebook. In the last two years of his life, when he was sick, he filled a notebook with his thoughts about me… There are times when I want to trade all those years that I was too busy to sit with my dad and chat with him, and trade all those years for one hug. But too late. But that's when I take out his letters and I read them, and the paper that touched his hand is in mine, and I feel connected to him.

  Lakshmi Pratury

  Notebook, Dad, Father

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• I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first.

  Kurt Cobain

  Acting, Firsts, Busy

  "Song: "Very Ape" ("In Utero")". September 21, 1993.

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• Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living; now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!

  Diablo Cody

  Cute, Character, Worry

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• The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

  Mason Cooley

  Men, Talking, Feelings

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• As long as you're too busy trying to become something that you're not, you can't see your own immortality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Long, Trying

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• In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.

  Paula Fox

  Writing, Twenties, Busy

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• The fact is that Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are too busy to stop and question their values.

  William Inge

  Thoughtful, Usa, America

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• John Kerry told Tom Ridge he was too busy to receive a Homeland Security briefing. I thought that was odd, since you're not supposed to ignore terrorist threats until after you become president.

  David Letterman

  President, Busy, Odd

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• You should rather suppose that those are involved in worthwhile duties who wish to have daily as their closest friends Zeno, Pythagoras, Democritus and all the other high priests of liberal studies, and Aristotle and Theophrastus. None of these will be too busy to see you, none of these will not send his visitor away happier and more devoted to himself, none of these will allow anyone to depart empty-handed. They are at home to all mortals by night and by day.

  Seneca the Younger

  Home, Night, Wish

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• If you are 'too busy' most of the time, or locked behind closed doors, no mentoring relationship can work.

  Martin Zwilling

  Doors, Mentoring, Busy

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• My mother phones daily to ask, "Did you just try to reach me?" When I reply no, she adds, "So, if you're not too busy, call me while I'm still alive," . . . and hangs up.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Phones, Trying

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• 'I never feel the need to discuss my work with anyone. No, I am too busy writing it. It has got to please me and if it does I don't need to talk about it. If it doesn't please me, talking about it won't improve it, since the only thing to improve it is to work on it some more. I am not a literary man but only a writer. I don't get any pleasure from talking shop.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Men, Talking

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• When I was 21 I think I thought I was 31. I was always kind of doing the right thing, and it wasn't until my late twenties that I became just a completely wild asshole. So I should've had that out of my system already and I was too busy being a grown-up.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Thinking, Twenties, Kind

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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