Too Busy Quotes - Page 15

• Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all that, into something beyond. One has a glimpse of a country where they do not talk of those things, except perhaps as a joke. Every one there is filled full with what we should call goodness as a mirror is filled with light. But they do not call it goodness. They do not call it anything. They are not thinking of it. They are too busy looking at the source from which it comes.

  C. S. Lewis

  Country, Thinking, Mirrors

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• They were nice enough people and all, but there wasn't much love in them. Because they were too busy being afraid. Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well in a place where it was always dark.

  Stephen King

  Fear, Nice, Dark

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.1452, Anchor

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• Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own.

  Isaac Mizrahi

  People, Worry, Perfection

  FaceBook post by Isaac Mizrahi from Apr 18, 2011

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• Most people don't remember names, for the simple reason that they don't take the time and energy necessary to concentrate and repeat and fix names indelibly in their minds. They make excuses for themselves; they are too busy.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Time, Memories

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.73, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.

  R. A. Torrey

  Christian, Prayer, Littles

  R. A. Torrey (2000). “How to Obtain Fullness of Power”, p.58, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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