Busy Quotes - Page 3

• There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy.

  Franz Schubert

  Girl, Eight, House

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• I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Witty, Time, Cutting

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• I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.

  Danielle Steel

  Kids, Car, Trying

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• He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Doing Good, Be Good, Too Busy

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.32, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• The day of fortune is like a harvest day,
  We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

  Torquato Tasso

  Corn On The Cob, Corny, Harvest

  "Torquato Tasso". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Act IV, scene IV, line 63, 1790.

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• Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Witty, Perseverance

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• I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

  Kanye West

  Writing, Conceited, Egotistical

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• An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

  William Faulkner

  Inspiring, Art, Wonder

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• Then get busy and find out how to do it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Entrepreneur, Job Opportunities

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I'm too busy playing to worry about the movement or the fingerboard.

  Terry Kath

  Worry, Movement, Fingerboard

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• I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Fitness, Reason Why, Chiefs

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences”

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• You are right that I don't have a lot of spare time because I love to stay busy and keep my calendar full.

  Kiana Tom

  Calendars, Spare Time, Spares

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• If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely.

  Mitch Albom

  Pain, Grief, Way

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• Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.

  Laozi

  Meditation, Feel Good, Taoism

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• Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

  Horace

  Depressing, Thinking, People

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• I've been with certain stars; some are caring and pay attention to their fans and to their fellow performers and some are too busy. Elvis never seemed too busy.

  Minnie Pearl

  Stars, Redneck, Caring

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• He's looking for the president's kidnapped daughter; everybody he calls on to help him is busy, but lo and behold, you look across the room, and I'm waiting for that action.

  Derek Luke

  Mother, Daughter, Hype

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong either with you or with your business.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Business, Busy Life, Ifs

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• I don't go out that much anymore, unfortunately. I used to enjoy it, but I'm just so busy. Like last night, everybody else went out, and I just went straight home and went to bed.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Home, Night, Lasts

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• Nowhere so busy a man as he there was
  And yet he seemed busier than he was.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Men, Busier

  "The Canterbury Tales".

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• And I've always - the competition is one aspect of the job, but I think if you're too busy worrying about the competition, you don't focus enough on what you're doing.

  Katie Couric

  Jobs, Thinking, Worry

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• I mean, it's been quite busy, especially with the rain delay the first few days, and then having to play the late evenings, waiting here every day. It's been kind of difficult.

  Daniela Hantuchova

  Mean Girls, Rain, Play

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• Man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.

  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

  Men, Accomplished, Ifs

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• The road had the lonely times, but I kept myself busy.

  Buck Owens

  Lonely

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• Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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