Too Busy Quotes - Page 6

• You ride one in to the beach, and it's the most amazing thing you've ever felt. But at some point the water goes back out; it has to. And maybe you're lucky-maybe you're both too busy to do anything drastic. Maybe you're good as friends, so you stay. And then something happens-maybe it's something as big as a baby, or as small as him unloading the dishwasher-and the wave comes back in again. And it does that, over and over. I just think sometimes people forget to wait.

  Erica Bauermeister

  Baby, Beach, Thinking

  Erica Bauermeister (2011). “Joy For Beginners”, p.31, Penguin

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• Saying that you don’t have time to improve your thoughts and your life is like saying you don’t have time to stop for gas because you’re too busy driving. Eventually it will catch up with you.

  Robin S

  Motivational, Life Is Like, Driving

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• Champions never complain, they are too busy getting better

  John Wooden

  Champion, Get Better, Complaining

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• If you think you don't have any time for prayer, and can't find any time, then ask God to forgive you... The Pope isn't too busy for his daily rosary; if you're busier than the Pope, you're too busy.

  James Peterson

  Faith, Prayer, Inspiration

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• The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

  Samuel Butler

  Men, Oxford, Able

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill”

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• I am too busy with my cause to hate too absorbed in something bigger than myself. I have no time to quarrel, no time for regrets and no man can force me to stoop low enough to hate him.

  Lawrence James

  Regret, Hate, Anger

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• If you are too busy in your church activities to take care of your family, then perhaps we had better find something else for you to do.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Church, Care, Busy

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• My mum was too busy raising four of us to encourage my hopes. But I'm glad I had the upbringing I did. It made me a worrier and a thoughtful, curious person.

  Ellie Goulding

  Thoughtful, Four, Busy

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

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• The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

  B. C. Forbes

  Opportunity, Men, Luck

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• Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, 'I work at 'Saturday Night Live,' and that is so cool.

  Tina Fey

  Night, Thinking, Busy

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• Really, most of us just focus on what's in front of us. We're too busy putting out the fires of everyday life.

  Aidan Quinn

  Fire, Focus, Everyday

  "HuffPost Interview: Aidan Quinn talks about Sarah’s Key". Interview with Marshall Fine, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 22, 2011.

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• I know kids are supposed to go through these awkward stages, but I just never even thought about that. I was too busy worrying about getting my education while I was working.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Kids, Worry, Awkward

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• I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony orchestras, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Stravinsky. You don't listen to one instrument; you listen to music.

  Charles Mingus

  Symphony, Listening, Attention

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• Am I Getting Lazy? Am I Too Busy? Am I Becoming Arrogant? Am I Getting Timid? If you answer 'yes' to any one of these questions, that's your warning to Kick that attitude!

  Roger von Oech

  Attitude, Lazy, Arrogant

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• OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.

  Bil Keane

  Mother, Children, Parenting

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• Look, I get it. Whether it's school, work, family, we've all got a lot on our minds. People say to me, "I'm just too busy to think about politics." But here's the thing: You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.

  Kerry Washington

  Badass, School, Thinking About You

  Kerry Washington's Speech at Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 6, 2012.

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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 friends keep telling me I'm doing it with Mary Palmer. That's not true - I'm too busy masturbating to meet anyone new.

  Roddy Piper

  Busy, Masturbation, Mary

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• I've been with certain stars; some are caring and pay attention to their fans and to their fellow performers and some are too busy. Elvis never seemed too busy.

  Minnie Pearl

  Stars, Redneck, Caring

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• The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it wisely or foolishly. The Bisy Backson has practically no time at all, because he's too busy wasting it by trying to save it. And by trying to save it, he ends up wasting the whole thing.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Simple, Trying, Saving

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• A man rising in the world is not concerned with history; he is too busy making it. But a citizen with a fixed place in the community wants to acquire a glorious past just as he acquires antique furniture. By that past he is reassured of his present importance; in it he finds strength to face the dangers that lie in front of him.

  Malcolm Cowley

  Lying, Past, Men

  MALCOLM COWLEY (1967). “Think Back on Us”

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• Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Death, Fear

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Susan Sutton Smith, Ralph H. Orth (1990). “The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.306, University of Missouri Press

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• Now I'm hot and bothered, and wondering why my new neighbor isn't putting the moves on me." "Maybe he doesn't want to push you too far, too fast and scare you off." Gideon's eyes glittered in the light of the television. "Is that so?" He nuzzled his nose against my temple. "If he has half a brain, he'd know not to let you get away." Oh... "Maybe I should make the first move," I whispered, wrapping my fingers around his wrist. "But what if he thinks I'm too easy?" "He'll be too busy thinking he's damned luck.

  Sylvia Day

  Moving, Eye, Thinking

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.571, Penguin

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• It's lame when I'm hanging out with my friends and they're so busy taking pictures to put on Facebook, instead of enjoying what they're doing. You're gonna look back and have 10 million pictures, but you're not in one of them because you were too busy clicking away. I think it's best to stop telling people about it and enjoy the moment you're in yourself.

  Miley Cyrus

  Thinking, People, Doing You

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• I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working.

  Kirstie Alley

  Class, Acting, Busy

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