Too Busy Quotes - Page 9

• I think that what's happening today, with all the young poets rushing from one college to another, lecturing at the drop of a hat and so on, is not too good; I think it might have a bad effect on a great many of the young poets. They - to quote Mark Twain - "swap juices" a little too much, so that they are in danger of losing their own identity and don't give themselves time enough in which to work out what's really of importance to them - they're too busy.

  Conrad Aiken

  College, Thinking, Rushing

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• Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.

  Ben Horowitz

  Book, Fighting, Enemy

  "Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO" by Ben Horowitz, www.businessinsider.com. April 15, 2011.

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• I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football.

  Alan Shearer

  Football, Cartoon, Watches

  Interview with Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2010.

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• There aren’t enough people who care about the future. They are too busy worrying about today and what they can grab now

  Berry Gordy

  People, Worry, Who Cares

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• Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living; now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!

  Diablo Cody

  Cute, Character, Worry

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• The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

  Mason Cooley

  Men, Talking, Feelings

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• You can't say, "I'm too busy writing to be political." You are one person.

  Ann Patchett

  Writing, Political, Busy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Maybe I'm too busy being yours to fall for somebody new.

  Alex Turner

  Fall, Busy

  "Song: 'Do I Wanna Know?'". 2013.

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• The world is full of men and women who work too much, sleep too little, hardly ever exercise, eat poorly, and are always struggling or failing to find adequate time with their families. We are in a perpetual hurry-constantly rushing from one activity to another, with little understanding of where all this activity is leading us. . . . The world has gone and got itself in an awful rush, to whose benefit I do not know. We are too busy for our own good. We need to slow down. Our lifestyles are destroying us. The worst part is, we are rushing east in search of a sunset.

  Matthew Kelly

  Struggle, Sunset, Sleep

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• I always say, I'm a woman, I can't change my sex. I can't get angry about it. I'm too busy desperately trying to get my movies made. It's hard work. There are no short cuts. If there were, I would have found them by now.

  Ruba Nadda

  Sex, Hard Work, Cutting

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• People who say they're too busy to have lunch have a false impression of their own importance.

  John Howard

  Lunch, People, Busy

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• On the one hand, we all want to be happy. On the other hand, we all know the things that make us happy. But we don't do those things. Why? Simple. We are too busy. Too busy doing what? Too busy trying to be happy. This is the paradox of happiness that has bewitched our age.

  Matthew Kelly

  Simple, Hands, Catholic

  Matthew Kelly (2015). “The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose”, p.22, BookBaby

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• If I can’t be personal, I don’t want to argue,” said his hostess categorically. “I may be missing your points, but you’re much too busy dodging mine.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Missing, May, Want

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• You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend. You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer. You can't say, "I'm too busy writing to be political." You are one person. You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.

  Ann Patchett

  Husband, Writing, Political

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I didn't understand how much senators and members of the House are not able to represent the people because they're too busy fundraising to maintain their seat in office. I hope we as a country start looking at how we can change that.

  Jessica Chastain

  Country, Fundraising, Office

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I have a lot of empathy for women who fit their writing into the crevices of their too-busy lives, as I once did.

  Christina Baker Kline

  Writing, Empathy, Busy

  "The Mystery Woman in the Field: Kristin Hannah Asks Christina Baker Kline About 'A Piece of the World'". Interview With Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. February 20, 2017.

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• I hate saying that youth is wasted on the young since it's so f**king stupid, but I think you realize if you're fortunate enough to realize what you have, you don't want to sleep as much or squander any time. It's weird, but early in your career you don't stop to smell the roses since you're too busy picking them.

  Mike Dirnt

  Kings, Hate, Stupid

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• People don't understand: I've always been busy. They think that, "Oh, he's too busy, blah blah blah...," but for me, this is how it's always been. I took 18 credits every semester of college, graduated in three years, took graduate school courses, played football and baseball my whole college career. I've never stopped, and that's where that phrase "No Time 2 Sleep" is always true. I get motivated by success, by winning, by being around great people.

  Russell Wilson

  Baseball, Football, School

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Prayer is hard work. We may neglect it because we're too tired, too busy, or too distracted to put into prayer the effort required.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Prayer, Hard Work, Tired

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• On a societal level, what happens to community when people don't have time to gather or connect, in person, not just over social media? Not having time off becomes a public-interest issue. It means the erosion of social bonds, less civic contribution and participation. Loneliness is on the rise in North America; we find ourselves too busy for true connection, prioritizing work over life.

  Katrina Onstad

  Loneliness, Mean, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• As a writer, I'm too busy and worried to experience the delight while composing my own work, although, of course, I hope a reader will find something of it when the work is complete. But I do try to figure out where in their experiences certain characters of mine, who are not necessarily readers, and certainly not writers or artists, find an equivalent sensation: of delight, of astonishment, of whatever it is that briefly - and brevity seems essential - reassures us, connects us, sends a shiver of inarticulate recognition down our spines: Oh, yes: life.

  Alice McDermott

  Character, Artist, Trying

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I think that maybe happy families don't need stories the way unhappy families need stories. Maybe they're too busy living that they don't actually step back and talk about life like the Anton Chekhov quote. I prefer Anton Chekhov to Lev Tolstoy, and the reason is because of what he leaves out. Sometimes I think Tolstoy had a theory that he was proving and he proved it. Chekhov is more ambiguous.

  Peter Orner

  Thinking, Unhappy, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake, for praying is a saving of time.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mistake, Thinking, Saving

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1873). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons”, p.140

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• I am too busy thinking about killing myself.

  Russell Brand

  Thinking, Busy, Killing

  Source: www.gq.com

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• With two kids. It's always too busy.

  Eddie Jemison

  Kids, Two, Busy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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