"If I used being busy as an excuse……" — Haruki Murakami
"If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit."
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1,044 Quotes by Haruki Murakami
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It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
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No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.
— Mary Kay Ash
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
— Jane Austen
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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without…
— Francis Bacon
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
— Abu Bakr
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One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and…
— Lucille Ball
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If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you…
— Lucille Ball
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The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
— Jeremy Bentham
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I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their…
— Bernard Berenson
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I've been to almost every country in the world, and the most frustrating thing for me has been that my…
— Andrea Bocelli
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Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've…
— Ray Bradbury
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When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.
— Tom Brady
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I'm always busy, but I'm lazy as well.
— Jeff Bridges
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