Too Busy Quotes - Page 8

• Ya called Fargo yet?” “No, I’ve been too busy trying to destroy the Guild and corrupt Simon’s soul. Being evil is a full-time job.

  Jana Oliver

  Jobs, Evil, Soul

  Jana Oliver (2011). “Soul Thief: A Demon Trappers Novel”, p.260, Macmillan

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• I barely heard him, I was too busy watching Pritkin, who had slumped over with his head on the sofa arm, shoulders shaking helplessly, and what looked suspiciously like tears leaking out from under his closed eyes. "Not that bad," he muttered, and then he was off again.

  Karen Chance

  Eye, Tears, Arms

  Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.259, Penguin

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• If I can’t be personal, I don’t want to argue,” said his hostess categorically. “I may be missing your points, but you’re much too busy dodging mine.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Missing, May, Want

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• The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.

  B. C. Forbes

  Men, Busy, He Man

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• When I won the competition, I had just been offered a job as a designer in Düsseldorf, so that's probably what I'd be doing now. It can be fascinating to consider how your life might have turned out, like in the movie Sliding Doors, but I'm too busy to look back.

  Heidi Klum

  Jobs, Doors, Competition

  "Talking Healthy Hearts With Heidi Klum". Interview with Elisabeth Braw, www.metro.us. February 09, 2010.

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• Promise me, man. If anything ever happens to me, promise me you'll take care of Angelina. She's something special, Micah. Heart way too big for her own good. I worry because she doesn't see everyone for who they are. She's too busy looking for the good. I've tried to get her to adopt some cynicism, but the truth of the matter is, she wouldn't be the same girl if she did.

  Maya Banks

  Girl, Heart, Men

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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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• Have you ever noticed that Jesus is never recorded as taking a holiday? He retired for the purposes of his mission, not from it. He was never destroyed by his work; he was always on top of it. He moved among people as the master of every situation. He was busier than anyone; the multitudes were always at him, yet he had time, for everything and everyone. He was never hurried, or harassed, or too busy. He had complete supremacy over time; he never let it dictate to him. He talked of my time; my hour. He knew exactly when the moment had come for doing something and when it had not.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Jesus, Holiday, People

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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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• Too busy thinking about my baby and I ain't got time for nothing else.

  Marvin Gaye

  Baby, Work, Thinking

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• Only the rich can achieve enlightenment because the poor are too busy looking for fridge freezers.

  Rajneesh

  Enlightenment, Busy, Rich

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• Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.

  Ben Horowitz

  Book, Fighting, Enemy

  "Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO" by Ben Horowitz, www.businessinsider.com. April 15, 2011.

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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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• I was not a good student. I did not spend much
  time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

  Stephen Hawking

  College, Students, Busy

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• Helped are those too busy living to respond when they are wrongfully attacked: on their walks they shall find mysteries so intriguing as to distract them from every blow.

  Alice Walker

  Blow, Mystery, Busy

  Alice Walker (2013). “We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness”, p.89, The New Press

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• He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

  Samuel Butler

  Education, Teaching, Men

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.277, The Floating Press

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• Life is a matter of passing the time enjoyably. There may be other things in life, but I've been too busy passing my time enjoyably to think very deeply about them.

  Peter Cook

  Happiness, Thinking, Things In Life

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• On the one hand, we all want to be happy. On the other hand, we all know the things that make us happy. But we don't do those things. Why? Simple. We are too busy. Too busy doing what? Too busy trying to be happy. This is the paradox of happiness that has bewitched our age.

  Matthew Kelly

  Simple, Hands, Catholic

  Matthew Kelly (2015). “The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose”, p.22, BookBaby

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• People who say they're too busy to have lunch have a false impression of their own importance.

  John Howard

  Lunch, People, Busy

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• The world is full of men and women who work too much, sleep too little, hardly ever exercise, eat poorly, and are always struggling or failing to find adequate time with their families. We are in a perpetual hurry-constantly rushing from one activity to another, with little understanding of where all this activity is leading us. . . . The world has gone and got itself in an awful rush, to whose benefit I do not know. We are too busy for our own good. We need to slow down. Our lifestyles are destroying us. The worst part is, we are rushing east in search of a sunset.

  Matthew Kelly

  Struggle, Sunset, Sleep

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• People are usually too busy counting the things they don't have. They notice how much more money their neighbor has, how much further ahead in spiritual unfoldment someone else is, and so on. But if we stop to count our blessings, to realize how much we do have and be grateful for it, then the heart is kept open to love and all the gifts that love brings, including the possibility of healing.

  Harold Klemp

  Spiritual, Grateful, Healing

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• I always say, I'm a woman, I can't change my sex. I can't get angry about it. I'm too busy desperately trying to get my movies made. It's hard work. There are no short cuts. If there were, I would have found them by now.

  Ruba Nadda

  Sex, Hard Work, Cutting

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• We're all too busy working, entertaining ourselves With forty hours, television and prescription pills Well, I take two a day to help my brain behave It never does, but who's to say? At least my doctor gets paid.

  Conor Oberst

  Doctors, Two, Brain

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• Religion is the finger pointing to God. People are too busy licking the finger to notice where it's pointing.

  Anthony de Mello

  People, Licking, Busy

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• Maybe I'm too busy being yours to fall for somebody new.

  Alex Turner

  Fall, Busy

  "Song: 'Do I Wanna Know?'". 2013.

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