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• I gotta keep busy. I'm not happy unless I'm working on two, three things.

  Alan Arkin

  Two, Three, Not Happy

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• For Dostoevsky, Fourier is one of the industrious ant-hill engineers, busy, protected by the delusion that his goal, the will-ordered society, is the summation of all his desires.

  John Carroll

  Goal, Desire, Ants

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• The absolute deterioration of the wiki concept is just a matter of time. Once spam mechanisms are developed to eat into these systems, the caretakers will be too busy to stop the public-driven deterioration.

  John C. Dvorak

  Deterioration, Matter, Driven

  "The Wikification of Knowledge". www.pcmag.com. July 11, 2005.

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• Life is also busy transporting and overturning the soils of earth, the stones, and the minerals. The miles-long drifts of sea kelp that float along our coasts may carry hundreds of tons of volcanic boulders held in their roots. I have followed these streams of life over 300 km, and seen them strand on granite beaches, throwing their boulders up on a 9,000 year old pile of basalt, all the hundreds of tons of which were carried there by kelp.

  Bill Mollison

  Beach, Years, Sea

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• Paintin's not important. What's important is keepin' busy.

  Moses

  Important, What's Important

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• Your problem is not that you are too busy; your problem is that you don't own your situation.

  Rory Vaden

  Problem, Too Busy, Situation

  Rory Vaden (2015). “Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time”, p.15, Penguin

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• A gift, like a good friend drawing a personal road map out of the crazy busy swirl of our overloaded lives.

  Brigid Schulte

  Crazy, Good Friend, Drawing

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• The ear and the eye are the mind's receivers; but the tongue is only busy in expending the treasures received. It, therefore, the revenues of the mind be uttered as fast or faster than they are received, it must needs be bare, and can never lay up for purchase.

  Joseph Hall

  Eye, Mind, Needs

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• The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.

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  Ram Dass

  Heart, Thinking, Mind

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2013.

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• Religion is the finger pointing to God. People are too busy licking the finger to notice where it's pointing.

  Anthony de Mello

  People, Licking, Fingers

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• Prayer is the opening of the heart so we can receive all these good things that God has for us every day. It's like sitting down at a table that God has prepared for us. He says, 'I have everything you need today - all the grace, all the wisdom, all the provision that you need - but sit down at the table and eat. Don't be so rushed and so busy and try to live without My supply.'

  Jim Cymbala

  Prayer, Heart, Grace

  "Breakthrough Prayer". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com. March 17, 2008.

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• Green, the color of growth, or surgent life, enwraps the land. New green, still as individual as the plants themselves. Cool green, which will merge as the weeks pass, the Summer comes, into a canopy of shade of busy chlorophyll.

  Hal Borland

  Summer, Color, Land

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• The only reason you feel pain is because you're so busy looking at yourself instead of looking at the wonderful patterns of light. If you become absorbed in the wonderful patterns of light, then there's no pain.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Buddhism, Light

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• Some people are worried about the future of comics and some people are busy building it. That latter group are my heroes.

  Gail Simone

  Book, Hero, People

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• A feller's glad to be a friend, Out fishin'. A helpin' hand he'll always lend, Out fishin' The brotherhood of rod and line An' sky an' stream is always fine; Men come real close to God's design, Out fishin'. A feller isn't plotting schemes, Out fishin'. He's only busy with his dreams, Out fishin' His livery is a coat of tan; His creed, to do the best he can; A feller's always mostly man Out fishin'.

  Edgar Guest

  Dream, Real, Men

  Edgar Albert Guest, “Out Fishin'”

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• To arrive at the simplest truth, as Newton knew and practiced, requires years of contemplation. Not activity Not reasoning. Not calculating. Not busy behaviour of any kind. Not reading. Not talking. Not making an effort. Not thinking. Simply bearing in mind what it is one needs to know.

  George Spencer-Brown

  Reading, Math, Thinking

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• I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy week. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks.

  Gavin MacLeod

  Couple, Thinking, Media

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• Vinnie rocks her Garden and moans that God won't help her. I suppose he is too busy getting angry with the Wicked every day.

  Emily Dickinson

  Garden, Rocks, Wicked

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• You have everything in you that Buddha has, that Christ has. You've got it all. But only when you start to acknowledge it is it going to get interesting. Your problem is you're afraid to acknowledge your own beauty. You're too busy holding on to your own unworthiness. You'd rather be a schnook sitting before some great man. That fits in more with who you think you are. Well, enough already. I sit before you and I look and I see your beauty, even if you don't.

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  Ram Dass

  Men, Thinking, Self

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• I'm busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day.

  Les Miles

  Lsu, Have A Great Day, Tigers

  "Les Miles and life lessons". www.foxnews.com. October 15, 2013.

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• You can get really bored in this business [film], and I think that's one of the reasons why I've challenged myself so many times in different areas because you can get really bored and stagnated in one area. So, I do a lot of different things to keep myself occupied. In this business, it's a 'hurry up and wait' business and you have to really wait sometimes in some areas. I just keep myself busy. When one thing stops, the other one is rolling.

  Mike Epps

  Thinking, Bored, Waiting

  "Mike Epps Talks Repentance, the Appeal of the Film’s Spiritual Undertone, Working Opposite Anthony Mackie, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 26, 2014.

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• The capacity to create [visual] effects in the computer has made the job easier, but it has also introduced the complexity that you can with a few more keystrokes generate such a busy canvas that the eye doesn't know where to go. You lose human scale on an event and you're just wowed by the kinetics and the visualization. But, often in those cases I feel you lose touch with the human characters and what it is that they would feel and how they might feel, and that's still the most important part.

  Harrison Ford

  Jobs, Character, Eye

  "Harrison Ford Talks Ender’s Game, Why It’s a Good Family Movie, the Evolution of Space Visual Effects Since Star Wars, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. October 27, 2013.

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• My liveliness is based on an incredible fear of death. In order to keep death at bay, I do a lot of "Yah! Yah! Yah!" And death says, "All right. He's too noisy and busy. I'll wait for someone who's sitting quietly, half asleep."

  Mel Brooks

  Order, Waiting, Sitting

  "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

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• Prisoners do different things. Some write, some read. Some engage in athletic events and working out and some do all of that. Some get involved in the religious groups that they're part of. Some get involved in hobbies that are permitted in prison. There are plenty of ways to stay busy. You're never going to survive in prison unless you start getting busy.

  Jack Abramoff

  Religious, Writing, Work Out

  "Jack Abramoff's prison advice for Bob McDonnell". Interview with Jeremy Diamond, www.cnn.com. January 6, 2015.

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• Still stands the forest primeval; but far away from its shadow, Side by side, in their nameless graves, the lovers are sleeping.Under the humble walls of the little catholic churchyard,In the heart of the city, they lie, unknown and unnoticed;Daily the tides of life go ebbing and flowing beside them,Thousands of throbbing hearts, where theirs are at rest and forever,Thousands of aching brains, where theirs no longer are busy,Thousands of toiling hands, where theirs have ceased from their labors,Thousands of weary feet, where theirs have completed their journey!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wall, Lying, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, including his translations and notes”, p.40

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