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• We give up what we want to give up and keep what in some way we still want to keep. There are payoffs for holding on to small, weak patterns. We have an excuse not to shine. We don't have to take responsibility for the world when we're spending all our time in emotional pain. We're too busy. The truth that sets us free is an embrace of the divine within us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Giving Up, Pain, Responsibility

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• Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake, for praying is a saving of time.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mistake, Thinking, Saving

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1873). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons”, p.140

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• Why worry about things you can't control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you?

  John C. Maxwell

  Worry, Depends

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “Failing Forward”, p.64, Harper Collins

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• We're all so busy. We race and race. Life is a sprint. We want to get 'there' so badly. But I wonder if we even know what to do when we actually get 'there'.

  Billy Graham

  Race, Want, Wonder

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  Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Lazy, Easy, Nothing Is Easy

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• Every woman I know, particularly the senior ones, has been called too aggressive at work. We know in gender blind studies that men are more aggressive in their offices than women. We know that. Yet we're busy telling all the women that they're too aggressive. That's the issue.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Senior, Work, Women

  "Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg: who are you calling bossy?" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2014.

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• There's this perception that if you worry a lot and if you look really busy and stressed out then you'll be more successful. You talk about how little sleep you get and how tensed you are and how you're not getting the appreciation you deserve.

  Nancy Meyers

  Appreciation, Stress, Sleep

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• Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes. . . . it was essential that they should keep on going to the country, even though they hated it.

  Aldous Huxley

  Country, Nature, Class

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Most human beings live like a bird in a cage whose door was blown away. Out of habit, too busy gold-plating the cage, they do not soar to the ultimate possibility.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Doors

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• If the enemy cannot make you BAD, he’ll make you BUSY.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Enemy, Ifs

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• Sure, there are plenty of ways to waste this day. But you now have the chance to choose to make good and valuable use of it.
  
  Now is an opportunity to create value. And that opportunity cannot be delayed until later.
  
  Now is yours to use for whatever rich and fulfilling purpose you can imagine. Stand up, step forward, and get busy making the very best of now.

  Ralph Marston

  Opportunity, Purpose, Use

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• Not everybody will get it. People will misinterpret you and what you do. They might even call you names. So get comfortable with being misunderstood, disparaged, or ignored -- the trick is to be too busy doing your work to care.

  Austin Kleon

  Names, People, Misunderstood

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.112, Workman Publishing

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• If the devil never roars, the Church will never sing! God is not doing much if the devil is not awake and busy. Depend upon it: a working Christ makes a raging devil! When you hear ill reports, cruel speeches, threats, taunts and the like, believe that the Lord is among His people and is working gloriously.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, People, Church

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 37”, p.228, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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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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• I am so busy now that if I did not spend three hours each day in prayer, I could not get through the day.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Three, Each Day

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• Grandparents can have a profound influence on their grandchildren. Their time is generally not as encumbered and busy as the parents', so books can be opened and read, stories can be told... Children then obtain a perspective of life which not only is rewarding but can bring them security, peace, and strength.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Children, Book, Profound

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• The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when we get too
  busy. But he trembles when we pray-especially when we pray together.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Laughing, Devil, Together

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• Women are much more comfortable making their own style rules now. They want pieces that will make their busy lives easier.

  Michael Kors

  Style, Pieces, Want

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

  Alex Turner

  Fall, Too Busy

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

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• A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.

  Zig Ziglar

  Jobs, Looks, Employment

  Zig Ziglar (2000). “Staying Up, Up, Up in a Down, Down World: Daily Hope for the Daily Grind”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Activity is not achievement. It is not enough to rush about beginning a lot of things and keeping busy. A well-spent life is one that rounds out what it has begun.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Achievement, Life Is, Enough

  Eknath Easwaran (2010). “Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom”, p.194, Nilgiri Press

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• I shoot for the moon but I'm too busy gazing the stars.

  Eminem

  Stars, Moon, Gazing

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• It simply comes down to this, Get Busy Living, or Get Busy Dying.

  Tim Robbins

  Dying

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• I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. Of course, don't ever tell anybody that they're not free, 'cause then they're gonna get real busy killin' and maimin' to prove to you that they are. Oh yeah, they're gonna talk to you and talk to you and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em.

  Jack Nicholson

  Real, Mean, Scare

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• For the past 50 years or so I've been getting more and more worried about Christmas. It seems we're all so busy trying to beat the other fellow in making things go faster and look shinier and cost less that Christmas and I are sort of getting lost in the shuffle.

  Edmund Gwenn

  Past, Years, Trying

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