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• So our student will flit like a busy bee through the entire garden of literature, light on every blossom, collect a little nectar from each, and carry it to his hive.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Garden, Light, Literature

  Desiderius Erasmus, William Watson Barker (2001). “The Adages of Erasmus”, p.33, University of Toronto Press

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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 anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things ... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower.

  Edith Hamilton

  Flower, Cutting, Science

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• Most of the time, if you're not really paying attention, you're someplace else. So your child might say, "Daddy, I want this," and you might say, "Just a minute, I'm busy." Now that's no big deal-we all get busy, and kids frequently ask for attention. But over your child's entire youth, you may have an enormous number of such moments to be really, fully present, but because you thought you were busy, you didn't see the opportunities these moments presented. . . . People carry around an enormous amount of grief because they missed the little things.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Children, Grief, Kids

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• Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies-since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Mind, Study

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• You should rather suppose that those are involved in worthwhile duties who wish to have daily as their closest friends Zeno, Pythagoras, Democritus and all the other high priests of liberal studies, and Aristotle and Theophrastus. None of these will be too busy to see you, none of these will not send his visitor away happier and more devoted to himself, none of these will allow anyone to depart empty-handed. They are at home to all mortals by night and by day.

  Seneca the Younger

  Home, Night, Wish

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• The ego will always be able to find ways to keep the aspirant busy in self-improvement, thus binding him or her to the fact that the self is still there behind all the improvements. For why should the ego kill itself?

  Paul Brunton

  Self, Ego, Able

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• I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.

  Francois Truffaut

  Long, Enough

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• Only the rich can achieve enlightenment because the poor are too busy looking for fridge freezers.

  Rajneesh

  Enlightenment, Rich, Poor

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• Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy

  Zhuangzi

  Understanding, Littles, Broads

  Zhuangzi, Burton Watson, Columbia College (Columbia University) (1968). “The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu”, p.37, Columbia University Press

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• Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of "men of action.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Men, Mind, Vision

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• The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.

  Robert Frost

  School, Past, College

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.96, Harvard University Press

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• The fans reaction to the record (Red) is incredible. Taylor has been reading many tweets lately and wanted to thank her fans with what they ask for the most.
  We're planning to record the 10 Minute Version of All Too Well and a music video. She's busy with touring right now but we will find some time.

  Scott Borchetta

  Reading, Records, Red

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• Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Meditation, Essentials, Each Day

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• No matter how busy you are make time to eat at a table. A desk is not a table.

  Pat Falvey

  Tables, Matter, Making Time

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• Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action.

  Plutarch

  Giving, Serious, Bed

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's Complete Works”

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• No man is so idle that he cannot rouse himself just enough to get in the way of a busy person.

  Robert Breault

  Men, People, Way

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• The fact is that Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are too busy to stop and question their values.

  William Inge

  Thoughtful, Usa, America

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• God is busy making you someone no one else has ever been.

  Beth Moore

  Beth Moore (2014). “Portraits of Devotion”, p.422, B&H Publishing Group

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• You are not the mind. If you know you are not the mind, then what difference does it make if it's busy or quiet? You are not the mind.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Differences, Mind, Doe

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• It is possible that we can get so busy doing work 'for' the Lord that we have no time FOR the Lord.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Lord

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• Do not think that you are too busy to study the gospel.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Thinking, Study, Too Busy

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• If you are too busy for prayer, you are too busy for a relationship with God.

  Mike Bickle

  Prayer, Relationship With God, Ifs

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• Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Running, Thinking, People

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• Rich white Protestant men have held on to some measure of power in America almost solely by getting women, blacks, and other disadvantaged groups to wear crippling foot fashions. This keeps them too busy with corns and bunions to compete in the job market.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Fashion, Jobs, Power

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.234, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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