Being Busy Quotes - Page 3

• My whole lifestyle is different. I have a really busy schedule, and I pretty much have an airplane ride every day. But I like it. It's cool. I like being busy. I think that it's good that I'm young and I'm going through this, and I'm not, like, 40. I think it's just easier now at a younger age to be going through what I'm going through because it's definitely really tiring and hard on the body.

  Avril Lavigne

  Airplane, Thinking, Age

  "Avril Lavigne: Teen rocker of 2002". "The Music Room" with Sasha Rionda, www.cnn.com. December 27, 2002.

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• We've let too much time go by. We've been busy with war instead of being busy with peace. And that's what space travel is all about. It's all about peace and exploration and wonder and beauty.

  Ray Bradbury

  War, Space, Too Much

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• We're busy being busy. Distraction is a dangerously deceptive saboteur of our goals, because we are not present to how much time we lose. We're distracted by things like being in meetings or on conference calls, or we get on Facebook related to business and the updates of friends captivate our attention and an hour goes by before we wake up.

  Rory Vaden

  Goal, Attention, Wake Up

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• Our culture is obsessed with being busy, and I think it's crazy. I don't fill all my time.

  Frazey Ford

  Crazy, Thinking, Culture

  "Frazey Ford Interview: Finding Beauty". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It used to be that wealthy people were the leisure class, and having time off was a status symbol. That's switched now: being busy and overworked is the reality for many white-collar workers, and there's a kind of perverse currency to that, competitive busy-ness. At the other end of the income scale, there's a swath of lower-wage workers who are underemployed or unemployed, with too much unwanted leisure, and zero status for that. For shift workers, devices mean they're accessible in ways they weren't before, susceptible to that call from the boss to log more hours.

  Katrina Onstad

  Mean, Reality, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered.

  Henri Nouwen

  Identity, Occupation, Way

  "The Essential Henri Nouwen" by Henri Nouwen, (p. 152), 2009.

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• Not being busy is something I worry about, but I think work begets work.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Thinking, Worry, Busy

  "Dominic Monaghan on working with Wild Things' "beautiful, gentle spiders"". Interview with Will Harris, tv.avclub.com. January 29, 2013.

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• It is good to be busy. Being busy takes our mind off being in love at the wrong time, in the wrong place and with the wrong guy.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Being In Love, Guy, Mind

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• I like being busy and juggling a lot of things at the same time. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Bored, Needs, Busy

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Nice Girls Finish First". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 10, 2011.

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• So many people are so busy being busy that they don’t spend time on the foundation of their life.

  Jairek Robbins

  People, Foundation, Busy

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• This disease of being “busy” (and let’s call it what it is, the dis-ease of being busy, when we are never at ease) is spiritually destructive to our health and wellbeing. It saps our ability to be fully present with those we love the most in our families, and keeps us from forming the kind of community that we all so desperately crave.

  Omid Safi

  Community, Sap, Ease

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• The perfection of joyful determination is defined as taking delight or feeling joy in doing something positive or virtuous. If you are very joyful about doing negative things or about being busy with meaningless activities, this is not called joyful exertion from a Buddhist point of view. This kind of attitude is actually a form of laziness, an attachment to frivolous activities. Such a person would not be considered diligent at all. But if you are JOYFUL and DETERMINED TO PERFORM POSITIVE ACTIONS, then as a result, you discover and learn many new things that you didn't know about before.

  Geshe Gyeltsen

  Determination, Buddhist, Attitude

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• In my experience, being busy and working hard is the key to sanity/happiness.

  Jemima Khan

  Hard Work, Keys, Busy

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• Did you know there's a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy - running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything - is the same as wasting your time? It's frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!

  Joyce Meyer

  Running, Thinking, Circles

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• Being busy with work, and as a mum, I'm a big fan of online shopping.

  Kirsty Gallacher

  Shopping, Fans, Busy

  "Kirsty Gallacher: The last five things I bought" by Dinah Turner, www.mirror.co.uk. April 14, 2012.

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• The fact that you are even here, alive, on this planet is a mathematical miracle, and you should not spend the time that you have being busy being miserable.

  Philip DeFranco

  Life, Miracle, Alive

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• I've waited my entire life to be busy. Whenever I hear actors complain about being busy, I think, 'shut up.' Because you do, you wait to be successful or to be able to work.

  Steve Carell

  Successful, Thinking, Waiting

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