Busy Work Quotes

• Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

  Dolly Parton

  Inspirational, Life, Balance

  Twitter post from Aug 09, 2010

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• It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspiring, Time, Fog

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Being busy does not always mean real work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Real, Mean, Infinite Intelligence

  Ford Times, Volume 6 (p. 136), 1912.

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• Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Real

  Ford Times, Vol. 6, p. 136, 1912.

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• I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working.

  Kirstie Alley

  Class, Acting, Busy

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• O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

  Abu Bakr

  Work, Men, Trying

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• I'm busy working on every aspect of my game - defense, shooting, rebounding - but I really want to become a better overall team player. Help my teammates become better players out on the court in order to win more ball games.

  Kevin Durant

  Team, Player, Winning

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

  Lucille Ball

  Good Luck, Hard Work, Opportunity

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• Do not get so concerned with making a living that you forget to make a life.

  John Wooden

  Balance, Busy, Forget

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• Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

  Lucille Ball

  Inspirational, Motivational, Uplifting

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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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• Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.

  Tom DeMarco

  Busy, Organizational

  Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister (2013). “Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams”, p.29, Addison-Wesley

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• No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Unimportant Things, Space

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• I do have a busy work life. So I would say that the positive atmosphere at home combined with the support I receive from my family and loved ones is really what helps me balance it all.

  Josie Ho

  Home, Support, Atmosphere

  "Actress, Producer, Musician Josie Ho: Support from Family (and Puppies)". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Every time I go to Haiti after a season of busy work in Europe, I feel like I'm submerging into a certain state of mind, which is very productive.

  Jørgen Leth

  Europe, Mind, Haiti

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Busy work brings after ease; Ease brings sport and sport brings rest; For young and old, of all degrees, The mingled lot is best.

  Joanna Baillie

  Sports, Degrees, Ease

  Joanna Baillie (1976). “The dramatic and poetical works”, p.806, Georg Olms Verlag

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• . . . work even when I'm satisfied with it is never my child I love nor my servant I've brought to heel. It's always busy work I do with my left hand, and part of me watches grudging the wastes of a lifetime.

  Ruth Benedict

  Children, Hands, Left Hand

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.154, Transaction Publishers

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• Never hide behind busy work. It takes just as much energy to fail as it does to succeed.

  Og Mandino

  Energy, Doe, Succeed

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• Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!

  Og Mandino

  Life, Change, Real

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.85, Bantam

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