Busy Quotes - Page 6

• If the enemy can keep us occupied, we don't present much opposition.

  Dan Davis

  Enemy, Opposition, Ifs

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• Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.

  Aristotle

  War, May, Leisure

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1861, Princeton University Press

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• A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. A true man finds so much work to do that he has no time to contemplate his yesterdays; for to-day and to-morrow are here, with their impatient tasks. The world is so busy, too, that it cannot afford to study any man's unfinished work; for the end may prove it a failure, and the world needs masterpieces.

  Mary Antin

  Men, Unfinished Work, Yesterday

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Motivational, Wisdom

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• I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

  Bernard Berenson

  Time, Carpe Diem, Hands

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• So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Inspirational Life, Life Lesson, Thinking

  "Tuesdays with Morrie". Book by Mitch Albom, 1997.

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• The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.

  Leon Edel

  Death, House, Mind

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• On tour, you never have a home, you don`t get used to anything, and you`re always super busy.

  Travis Barker

  Home, Used

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• Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly, because your hands are so busy clasping what you think you have always known.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Native American, Opportunity, Thinking

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

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• Life's what happens when you're making other plans.

  John Lennon

  Background Noise, Parenthood, American Gods

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• Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

  Frank A. Clark

  Money, Men, Shopping

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• Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.

  Andre Gide

  Men, Anxiety, Brain

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• If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Ordinary, Gorgeous, Knows

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• Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

  Francis Bacon

  Character, Men, Mind

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.462

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• In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.

  Anita Brookner

  Real, Writing, Winning

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• During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected.

  Everett Dirksen

  Political, Campaigns, Politics

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• My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!

  Etta James

  Mother, Play, Piano

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• Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

  Nelson Mandela

  Thinking, Organization, Jail

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. April 2001.

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• Yeah, I'm obnoxious, yeah, I cut people off, yeah, I'm rude. You know why? Because you're busy.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Cutting, People, Rude

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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.

  Mitch Albom

  Way, Emotion, Being Afraid

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• Real men stay faithful. They don't have time to look for other women because they're too busy looking for new ways to love their own.

  John F. Kennedy

  Real, Men, Faithful

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• Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

  Tim Ferriss

  Thinking, Differences, Lazy

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• I don't think the Hollywood community is interested in what I can do. That's all right. I've never looked for a job in my life, and I'm not going to start now. I have plenty to keep me busy.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Jobs, Thinking, Community

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• I am reasonably happy, providing I keep busy.

  Burt Lancaster

  Keep Busy, Providing

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