Busy Quotes - Page 15

• Anyone too busy to say thank you will get fewer and fewer chances to say it.

  Harvey Mackay

  Chance, Saying Thank You, Fewer

  16 Copy quote

• Schools learned long ago that the way to keep children from thinking is to keep them busy.

  Everett Reimer

  Children, School, Thinking

  Everett Reimer (1971). “School is dead: an essay on alternatives in education”, Not Avail

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've heard it said that grace is God reaching God's hands into the world. And the Bible tells us that we are part of the body of Christ, that if we let the Spirit move through us, we can become the hands of Christ on earth. Hands that heal, bless, unite, and love. I'd like to think God's hands are a bit like Grace's man hands—gentle but big, busy, and tough. God's hands are those of a creator—an artist who molded and shaped the universe out of a void, who hewed matter from nothingness.

  Cathleen Falsani

  Moving, Men, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• My agents are busy with the final details of the contract.

  Guus Hiddink

  Details, Finals, Agents

  4 Copy quote

• Yet just as the day has two halves, one governed by the sun and the other by the moon, so there are many who are people of the day and who busy themselves with daytime deeds, whilst others are children of the night, their minds consumed with nocturnal notions; but yet there are some in whom the two merge like the rising of the sun and the moon in a day.

  Aino Kallas

  Children, Moon, Night

  6 Copy quote

• Many Christians suffer because they're too busy seeking carnal knowledge instead of the Word of God.

  Joyce Meyer

  Christian, Suffering, Word Of God

  7 Copy quote

• There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of workers in the world, the people who do all the work, and the people who think they do all the work. The latter class is generally the busiest, the former never have time to be busy.

  Stella Benson

  Thinking, Class, Two

  Stella Benson (1916). “I Pose”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm busy and that's the way I like it - when I have too much downtime I get into trouble.

  Craig Charles

  Downtime, Too Much, Way

  64 Copy quote

• Women are my hobby... every man needs something to keep his hands busy, and I don't have a guitar like Eddie and Michael, or some drums to bash like Alex, so I have to find some friends.

  Diamond D

  Men, Guitar, Hands

  4 Copy quote

• People use me as a figurehead, and to me that misses the point and is blatantly offensive to thin women - my sister, for one. Curves don't epitomise a woman. Saying, 'Skinny is ugly' should be no more acceptable than saying fat is. I find all this stuff a very controlling and effective way of making women obsess over their weight, instead of exploiting their more important attributes, such as intellect, strength and power. We could be getting angry about unequal pay and unequal opportunities, but we're too busy being told we're not thin enough or curvy enough. We're holding ourselves back.

  Robyn Lawley

  Opportunity, Curves, People

  FaceBook post by Robyn Lawley from Nov 29, 2013

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Busy people tend to forgo the one activity - TV watching _ that is most lethal to community involvement

  Robert D. Putnam

  People, Community, Tvs

  Robert D. Putnam (2001). “Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Greet everyone you meet with a warm smile. No matter how busy you are, don't rush encounters with coworkers, family, and friends. Speak softly. Listen attentively. Act as if every conversation you have is the most important thing on your mind today. Look your children and your partner in the eyes when they talk to you. Stroke the cat, caress the dog. Lavish love on every living being you meet. See how different you feel at the end of the day.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Smile, Dog, Children

  59 Copy quote

• I soon found an opportunity to be introduced to a famous professor Johann Bernoulli. ... True, he was very busy and so refused flatly to give me private lessons; but he gave me much more valuable advice to start reading more difficult mathematical books on my own and to study them as diligently as I could; if I came across some obstacle or difficulty, I was given permission to visit him freely every Sunday afternoon and he kindly explained to me everything I could not understand.

  Leonhard Euler

  Education, Book, Reading

  79 Copy quote

• Today, the European Union is busy transferring aid. If they can build infrastructure in Spain, roads, highways ... why do they refuse to use the same aid to build the same infrastructure in our countries?

  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

  Country, Spain, Use

  10 Copy quote

• I distrust the perpetually busy; always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their fourscore and ten in righteousness and pain. They are the soul-eaters.

  Mark Slouka

  Pain, Circles, Soul

  "Quitting the Paint Factory". Harper’s Magazine, November 2004.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Kirsty Gallacher

  Shopping, Fans, Online

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

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• The object is to keep busy being something...as opposed to doing something. We are all sent here to bring more gratitude, more kindness, more forgiveness and more love into this world. That is too big a job to be accomplished by just a few.

  Richard Nelson Bolles

  Gratitude, Jobs, Kindness

  8 Copy quote

• It’s really hard to hate someone for being different when you’re too busy laughing together.

  George Takei

  Hate, Laughing, Being Different

  56 Copy quote

• The answers you seek never come when the mind is busy, they come when the mind is still, when silence speaks loudest.

  Leon Brown

  Silence, Mind, Answers

  76 Copy quote

• Objectively good spaces to work rarely end up being so; in their faultlessness, quiet and well-equipped studios have a habit of rendering the fear of failure overwhelming. Original thoughts are like shy animals. We sometimes have to look the other way - towards a busy street or terminal - before they run out of their burrows.

  Alain de Botton

  Running, Animal, Space

  5 Copy quote

• In every death, a busy world comes to an end.

  Mason Cooley

  World, Ends

  4 Copy quote

• The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.

  Eric Hoffer

  Majority, Life Is, Prove

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You say that you are too busy to meditate. Do you have time to breathe? Meditation is your breath. Why do you have time to breathe but not to meditate? Breathing is something vital to peoples lives. If you see that Dhamma practice is vital to your life, then you will feel that breathing and practising the Dhamma are equally important.

  Ajahn Chah

  Practice, Breathing, Meditation

  60 Copy quote

• I started out as a fashion photographer. One cannot say that I was successful but there was enough work to keep me busy. I collaborated with Harper's Bazaar and other magazines. I was constantly aware that those who hired me would have preferred to work with a star such as Avedon. But it didn't matter. I had work and I made a living. At the same time, I took my own photographs. Strangely enough, I knew exactly what I wanted and what I liked.

  Saul Leiter

  Fashion, Stars, Successful

  27 Copy quote