Too Busy Quotes - Page 14

• Facts are too busy being true to worry about how you feel about them.

  Dan Wells

  Worry, How You Feel, Facts

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• The losers in life think they have all the answers. They can’t learn because they’re too busy telling everyone what they know.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Thinking, Answers, Loser

  Twitter post from Apr 08, 2017

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• Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Failure, Thinking, Care

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• No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Listening To Others, Should Have

  Stephen King (1994). “Different Seasons”, Signet Book

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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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• According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.

  Jeff Miller

  School, People, Giving

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• Anyone too busy to say thank you will get fewer and fewer chances to say it.

  Harvey Mackay

  Chance, Busy, Saying Thank You

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• If we are too busy, if we are carried away every day by our projects, our uncertainty, our craving, how can we have the time to stop and look deeply into the situation-our own situation, the situation of our beloved one, the situation of our family and of our community, and the situation of our nation and of the other nations?

  Nhat Hanh

  Family, Community, Looks

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2003). “Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone has ideas. They may be too busy or lack the confidence or technical ability to carry them out. But I want to carry them out. It is a matter of getting up and doing it.

  James Dyson

  Inspiring, Ideas, May

  "James Dyson Interview: 5,127 Vacuum Prototypes, So It Would Suck in the Right Way" by Gregory Han, www.apartmenttherapy.com. January 29, 2009.

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• The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.

  William Feather

  Inspirational, People, Busy

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• Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people.

  Kelly Osbourne

  People, Busy, Compare

  "Kelly Osbourne's DOs and DON'Ts of Body Confidence" by Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. April 2, 2012.

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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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  I don't like looking back. I'm always constantly looking forward. I'm not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I'm too busy looking for the next cow.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Cows, Next, Milk

  "Star Chef on Passion, Pressure and Perfection" by Sarah Rosenberg and Katie Escherich, abcnews.go.com. June 19, 2008.

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• I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.

  Leonora Carrington

  Artist, Busy, Muse

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• Students are too busy jumping through the next hurdle in the résumé race to figure out what they really want. They are too frantic tasting everything on the smorgasbord to have life-altering encounters. They have a terror of closing off options. They have been inculcated with a lust for prestige and a fear of doing things that may put their status at risk.

  David Brooks

  Jumping, Race, Lust

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• Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.

  William Faulkner

  Reading, Writing, Busy

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• I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

  Edith Sitwell

  Time, Thinking, Modesty

  In Observer 30 Apr. 1950

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• But what I can do is paint you a picture of what you’ll never see when you’re with a guy who’s really into you: You’ll never see you staring maniacally at your phone, willing it to ring. You’ll never see you ruining an evening with friends because you’re calling for your messages every fifteen seconds. You’ll never see you hating yourself for calling him when you know you shouldn’t have. What you will see is you being treated so well that no phone antics will be necessary. You’ll be too busy being adored.

  Greg Behrendt

  Hate, Phones, Guy

  Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Writing, People, Diaries

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• Our attention span is shot. We've all got Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD or OCD or one of these disorders with three letters because we don't have the time or patience to pronounce the entire disorder. That should be a disorder right there, TBD - Too Busy Disorder.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Humor, Add

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Here and Now". Comedy, Documentary, www.imdb.com. June 25, 2003.

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• Too many people miss out on real love because they're too busy waiting for the ONE to show up

  Alexandra Potter

  Real, People, Waiting

  Alexandra Potter (2011). “You're (Not) the One: A Novel”, p.269, Penguin

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• Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

  Lin Yutang

  Wise, Busy, Being Wise

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• Make a plan now to keep a daily appointment with God. The enemy is going to tell you to set it aside, but you must carve out the time. If you're too busy to meet with the Lord, friend, then you are simply too busy

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Enemy, Busy

  Charles R. Swindoll (2006). “Bedside Blessings: 365 Days of Inspirational Thoughts”, p.291, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If you're too busy to meditate twice a day, you're just too busy.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Busy, Ifs

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• I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Strong, Hurt, Dirty

  World Tomorrow "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)

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