Busy Quotes
1887 Busy quotes by 1355 unique authors
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be…
— William Faulkner
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You who seek an end of love, love yields to business: be busy, and you will be safe.
— Ovid
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I've been lucky to have some great opportunities acting with some great people since leaving Corrie, I have certainly been kept busy since leaving the…
— Unknown Author
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If you mind your own business, you`ll stay busy all the time.
— Hank Williams, Jr.
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The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'Wrong jungle!' ... Busy, efficient producers and managers often…
— Stephen Covey
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Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on…
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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Pardew has come out and criticized me. He is the worst at haranguing referees. He shoves them and makes a joke of it. How he…
— Alex Ferguson
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I have a very full and busy life and occasionally I am asked, Scotty, how can you do all that you do? The most telling…
— M. Scott Peck
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We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.
— Stephen Covey
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Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to…
— James Russell Lowell
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The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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Here's a good thing to do if you go to a party and you don't know anybody: First take out the garbage. Then go around…
— Jack Handey
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Never look back, except for an occasional glance, look ahead and plan for the future. Success is not built on past laurels, but rather on…
— Dorothy Draper
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Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer…
— Katharine Whitehorn
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In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.
— Elizabeth Kolbert
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Misery, in cold truth, is a weight less upon those who undergo it than upon the minds of those who see it; for he who…
— Kenneth Roberts
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I was busy welcoming a new experience. I had never done a movie before.
— Chita Rivera
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Never become too busy for your brother or your sister. For when your parents die, it is your hearts alone that will realize how the…
— Laura Ramirez
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I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy…
— Sally Schneider
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If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to…
— Gunter Grass
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We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
— Hansie Cronje
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Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.
— Henry Home, Lord Kames
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Those who every morning plan the transactions of the day and follow out that plan carry a thread that will guide them through the labyrinth…
— Victor Hugo
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All ages have said and repeated that one should strive to know one's self. This is a strange demand which no one up to now…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I'm doing a lot of touring and things have been really busy for me.
— Dave Lombardo
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