Too Busy Quotes - Page 12

• Mediocre people often have a tinge of religion about them, but it is only a tinge. They take their religion as it comes. They may pray and worship more or less regularly, and they usually stay clear of publicly disgraceful crimes, but they are lukewarm, colorless. Seldom or never do they read a serious book about prayer or study to learn more about God and His plans, to discover how to be humble and chaste and patient. They are always too busy for the one thing necessary.

  Thomas Dubay

  Prayer, Book, Humble

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• If you want to know all about the sea ... and ask the sea itself, what does it say? Grumble grumble swish swish. It is too busy being itself to know anything about itself.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Sea, Doe, Want

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• Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.

  Marya Mannes

  War, Artist, Vision

  Marya Mannes (1986). “The Best of Marya Mannes”

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• Never be too busy to listen to your instinctive feelings when something feels wrong.

  Marie Osmond

  Feelings, Busy, Feels

  "Marie Osmond will never get over son's suicide, cried when daughter said she was gay". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. April 4, 2013.

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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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• My neighbor, she invited me to an Elvis party. I told her I couldn't come 'cause I'd be too busy making fun of her from behind my blinds.

  Wanda Sykes

  Fun, Party, Causes

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• White people set goals, rappers 'chase paper', and the Chinese are too busy doing both to talk about either one.

  Dov Davidoff

  Rapper, White, Goal

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• I like acting too much and it's too, I'm just too busy doing that and I'm too hungry for it, to get behind the camera. I mean, unless I could act in it, too. I don't think I've got the right brain. I'm too disorganized.

  Rachel Weisz

  Mean, Thinking, Brain

  Source: collider.com

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• I do not have any official responsibilities related to the Australian Olympic Committee or the Federation of Athletic Associations since I am too busy with my private business.

  Cathy Freeman

  Responsibility, Athletic, Association

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• The charity of good women is such that their 'love makes no parade'; they are not glad 'when others go wrong'; they are too busy serving to sit statusfully about, waiting to be offended.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Waiting, Good Woman, Charity

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• The poor are too busy working to need justice.

  Ted Danson

  Justice, Needs, Busy

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• Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you. They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them. If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.

  Flavia Weedn

  Dream, Fall, Thinking About You

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• All excuses are nothing more than misalignments with God. Just imagine the great creative Source needing an excuse. It doesn't have any concept of, "I'm too busy. I'm too old. I'm too afraid. Things are going to take too long." Source doesn't work like that. The Tao does nothing, Lao-tzu writes, but it leaves nothing undone.

  Wayne Dyer

  Writing, Long, Creative

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• I'm too busy. I have no time for worry.

  Winston Churchill

  Worry, Busy

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• How can rogue terrorists in Iraq detonate bombs? They're all too busy flying kites with their children! Hasn't [Katrina vanden Heuvel (Queen of the May at the fun-loving Nation magazine)] seen Fahrenheit 9/11?

  Ann Coulter

  Queens, Children, Fun

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• You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day, unless you're too busy, then you should sit for an hour. If Tetris has taught me anything, it's that errors pile up & accomplishments disappear. Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

  Mike Tyson

  Errors, Accomplishment, Meditation

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• I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.

  Armie Hammer

  Reading, Kids, Fairy Tale

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most people are too busy working on insignificant projects and pursuing life's frivolities to tap their creative abilities. It's a mistake to be one of them. Striving for excellence where excellence doesn't matter is the stuff misfits are made of.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Mistake, People

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• Children don't just play any more - they're far too busy learning to fence and taking extra French classes. In the end, you're actually doing more damage to your children by trying to hot-house them. It's far better to remain a calm parent.

  Shirley Henderson

  Children, Class, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's only with that absolute humility and purity that you can make friends with God; because, otherwise, you're just too busy with all your desires.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Humility, Desire

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• It was a lifetime occupation that kept us too busy to stop and ask if we were happy or not

  Ossie Davis

  Occupation, Busy, Lifetime

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• People who have "their own issues" often don't stand back and look at the big picture- they're too busy orchestrating their own issues.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Women, Issues, People

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• I'd love to do a talk show. But I'm too busy for it. It's just too much work.

  Paul Reubens

  Too Much, Busy, Shows

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Excuses are the explanations we use for hanging on to behaviors we don't like about ourselves; they are self-defeating behaviors we don't know how to change. InExcuses Begone! I review 18 of the most common excuses people use, such as "I'm too busy, too old, too fat, too scared or it's going to take too long or be too difficult."

  Wayne Dyer

  Self, Long, People

  "A Conversation with Wayne Dyer". Interview with Ellen Mahoney, www.drwaynedyer.com. September 2009.

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• The biggest names in the Transcendentalist literary circle visited the community regularly, and supported it, but they couldn't live there happily. Hawthorne [who was briefly a resident] left for reasons I'm sure make sense to you; he couldn't get enough writing done in a house full of people playing music, and arguing. It was too busy.

  Christine Jennings

  Writing, Circles, Names

  Source: therumpus.net

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