Busy Quote by Mason Cooley

Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.

— Samuel Johnson

“But it is a strange experience, to a man of pride and sensibility, to know that his interests are within the control of individuals…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want…

— William Hazlitt

The underlying issues, the psychological motives, in all my movies have been the same, he said. Personal responsibility and friendship, the importance of a…

— George Lucas

As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and…

— Anonymous

Man, without a saving touch of woman in him, is too doltish, too naive and romantic, too easily deluded and lulled to sleep by…

— H. L. Mencken

We must judge of a man's motives from his overt acts.

— Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself, who would not exchange the finest show for the…

— James Russell Lowell

Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it. "He…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.

— Seneca the Younger

There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope…

— Thomas Carlyle

“When a demand for intelligent sympathy goes unanswered he is a too stern disciplinarian who blames himself for having offered a dullard an opportunity…

— James Joyce