Busy Quotes - Page 38

• I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was accessible to the person who works at Dunkin Donuts or who drives a bus, someone who comes home with their feet hurting like my father, someone whos busy and has too many children, like my mother.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Mother, Hurt, Children

  "'House On Mango Street' Celebrates 25 Years". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. April 9, 2009.

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• I love making music so its important for me to keep doing that even if the schedule is busy.

  Michael Kiwanuka

  Important, Schedules, Love Making

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• I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Dad, Thinking, Ideas

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• Our busy lives force us to focus on things we do from day to day. But the development of character comes only as we focus on who we really are.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Character, Focus, Development

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• We are a culture of people who've bought into the idea that if we stay busy enough, the truth of our lives won't catch up with us.

  Brené Brown

  Ideas, People, Culture

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.116, Penguin

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• Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything they’ve known since childhood……. They worry that if they’re simple, people will think they’re simple minded. In reality, of course, it’s just the reverse. Clear, tough minded people are the most simple.

  Jack Welch

  Book, Insecure, Simple

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• 'Crazy-busy' is a great armor, it's a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we're feeling and what we really need can't catch up with us.

  Brené Brown

  Crazy, Feelings, Needs

  "Exhaustion is not a status symbol" by Lillian Cunningham, www.washingtonpost.com. October 3, 2012.

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• I bet any Sunday could be made as popular at church as Easter is if you made 'em fashion shows too. The audience is so busy looking at each other that the preacher just as well recite Gunga Din.

  Will Rogers

  Fashion, Easter, Sunday

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• Hotel bars are pretty good. No one bothers me there. Restaurants are safe. People are quite respectful when you're eating. But what I never do now is go to a busy bar on the weekend, or after 8 o'clock at night. That's the danger zone. Also being trapped. Never go on the Metro, or a bus.

  Ricky Gervais

  Weekend, Night, People

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. April 21, 2004.

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• My whole lifestyle is different. I have a really busy schedule, and I pretty much have an airplane ride every day. But I like it. It's cool. I like being busy. I think that it's good that I'm young and I'm going through this, and I'm not, like, 40. I think it's just easier now at a younger age to be going through what I'm going through because it's definitely really tiring and hard on the body.

  Avril Lavigne

  Airplane, Thinking, Age

  "Avril Lavigne: Teen rocker of 2002". "The Music Room" with Sasha Rionda, www.cnn.com. December 27, 2002.

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• I feel like the smartest people in my field are busy reinforcing the old models with new technology.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Technology, People, Fields

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you're remarkable, then it's likely that some people won't like you. That's part of the definition of remarkable. Nobody gets unanimous praise - ever. The best the timid can hope for is to be unnoticed. Criticism comes to those who stand out.
  Playing it safe. Following the rules. They seem like the best ways to avoid failure. Alas, that pattern is awfully dangerous. The current marketing “rules” will ultimately lead to failure. In a crowded marketplace, fitting in is failing. In a busy marketplace, not standing out is the same as being invisible.

  Seth Godin

  People, Marketing, Criticism

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• Don't confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy.

  Robin Sharma

  People, Activity, Productivity

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Jun 21, 2014

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• People who believe a problem can be solved tend to get busy solving it.

  William Raspberry

  Believe, People, Problem

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• The Hindus are busy letting themselves be seen riding in Cadillacs instead of smearing themselves with sandalwood paste and bowing in front of Ganpati. The Moslems would rather miss evening prayer than the new Disney movie. The Buddhists think it's more important to take over in the name of Stalin and Progress than to meditate on the four basic sorrows. And we don't even have to mention Christianity or Judaism.

  Paul Bowles

  Buddhist, Prayer, Thinking

  Paul Bowles (2002). “The Sheltering Sky: Let it Come Down ; The Spider's House”

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• Joy is not a constant. It comes to us in moments - often ordinary moments. Sometimes we miss out on the bursts of joy because we're too busy chasing down the extraordinary moments. Other times we're so afraid of the dark we don't dare let ourselves enjoy the light. A joyful life is not a floodlight of joy. That would eventually become unbearable. I believe a joyful life is made up of joyful moments gracefully strung together by trust, gratitude and inspiration

  Brené Brown

  Gratitude, Inspiration, Believe

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• I hope always to be busy, even if only directing an orchestra in the pit. However, I should prefer to produce movies or be the directing head of a radio corporation.

  Rudy Vallee

  Pits, Orchestra, Radio

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• Long distance is the next best thing to being there. But a dove in love would rather reach out and touch someone. Spring is in the air and all lines are busy with local calls as the wooing and cooing commences.

  Charley Harper

  Spring, Distance, Air

  Charley Harper (1994). “Beguiled by the wild: the art of Charley Harper”, Flower Valley Pr

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• I'm normally fairly busy rushing from job to job, so have little time in the mornings for my beauty regime. However, this usually means my hair and makeup is done for me when I get there, which is great!

  Poppy Delevingne

  Morning, Jobs, Mean

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• When I finish a book, I get extremely restless; I have to aggressively find ways to occupy myself; going off into the woods alone, doing things that are physically or mentally demanding to keep myself busy until the next big idea comes.

  Philipp Meyer

  Book, Ideas, Woods

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• I mean, do you know what you get when you call a suicide hotline in New York city? A busy signal. Literally.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Suicide, New York, Mean

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• I do stay busy. I like new challenges.

  Kirk Kerkorian

  Challenges, New Challenges

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• I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that just becomes a dull noise.

  Chip Kidd

  Book, Thinking, Dull

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• I go about in the world - free, busy, happy. Among people, I have no time to think of myself.

  Susan Glaspell

  Thinking, People, World

  Susan Glaspell, C. W. E. Bigsby (1987). “Plays by Susan Glaspell”, p.80, Cambridge University Press

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• Our contemporary society is experimenting with the diminishment of caregivers for children. Some children are raised through crucial stages of life by only one person. This one person, who strives to give the best, may be overwhelmed, busy, trying to raise many children. And even in homes with two parents, many children are essentially alone.

  Michael Gurian

  Children, Home, Two

  Michael Gurian (2010). “The Wonder of Children: Nurturing the Souls of Our Sons and Daughters”, p.238, Simon and Schuster

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