Busy Quotes

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  One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

  Lucille Ball

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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

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  If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Good Morning

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• 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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• No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Friendship, Kindness

  Mary Kay Ash (2009). “The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur”, p.30, John Wiley & Sons

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  In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

  Lee Iacocca

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.16, Bantam

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• I'm always busy, but I'm lazy as well.

  Jeff Bridges

  Lazy, Being Busy, Wells

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• If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.

  Lucille Ball

  Life And Love, Work, Want Something

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  The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Attitude, Leisure Activities

  William Hazlitt (1848). “The Miscellaneous Works”, p.199

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• I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

  James Joyce

  Writing, Way, Arguing

  James Joyce, Jeri Johnson (2008). “Ulysses”, p.10, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Time, Bad Ass, Judging

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• Some people are so busy in learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.

  Vern Law

  Learning, People, Tricks

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• I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.

  Meryl Streep

  Kids, Careers, People

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• If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?

  Marie Dressler

  Time, Picnics, Ants

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

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• Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do.

  Kathleen Winsor

  Inspirational, Life, Karma

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• Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.

  Shelby Foote

  Brother, Book, Sister In Law

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• I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan.

  James Van Der Beek

  New York, Past, Cities

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

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• I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to go crazy. I don't party like I used to

  Sarah McLachlan

  Crazy, Party, Chance

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• I like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It's a busy kind of life, but I guess I'm lucky.

  Brian May

  Swimming, Garden, Lucky

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• Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

  Socrates

  Life, Time, Simple

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• I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

  Rex Stout

  Being Myself, Bother, Has Beens

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• I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Book, Writing, Worry

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• My husband is exceedingly busy. For some time the talk of his going had been slack, but just now again there seems to be a move to get him sent to the front!

  Sarojini Naidu

  Husband, Moving, Seems

  Sarojini Naidu, Makarand R. Paranjape (1996). “Sarojini Naidu, selected letters, 1890s to 1940s”

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• Half the time I don't even think about it, I just throw something on because I'm so late or so busy.

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Artist, Thinking, Half

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• Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy.

  Marie Windsor

  Devil, Littles, Darling

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• Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library - all this keeps me quite busy!

  Nigel Dennis

  Book, Agency, Library

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