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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 coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.
  • Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
  • I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
  • In the choice between changing one's mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
  • We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.
  • Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
  • Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
  • An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
  • People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.
  • The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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  • David Henry Thoreau Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
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  • Henry David Thoreau It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Horace Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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    Roman poet
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  • Samuel Johnson As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Leo Aikman Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime, and too sleepy to worry at night.
    Leo Aikman
    American journalist (1908 - 1978)
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  • John Lennon Life is what happens to you, while you're busy making other plans.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Horace Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.
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    Roman poet
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  • Kin Hubbard A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.
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  • Fred A. Allen A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 p.m. to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Busy Philipps Also, this is what a pregnant Busy Philipps does in her free time, I'm taking master fondant cake decorating class with Anna from 'Ace of Cakes' at Duff's Charm City Cakes. It's, like, 4 three-hour classes.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Bono America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • William Faulkner An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Katharine Whitehorn 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 than they have to.
    Katharine Whitehorn
    British journalist, writer, and columnist (1928 - 2021)
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  • George Santayana Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Charles Peters Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.
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  • John Donne Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Buzz Osborne By and large musicians are pretty lazy; they don't do a whole lot. They're usually very busy doing nothing.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Joe Karbo Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.
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  • Betsy Brandt Everybody - even huge movie stars - have downs. That's just how it is. The work ebbs and flows. My manager and I were saying, 'Let's remember that in 2013 we were soooo busy.' So whenever it is that we're not, maybe it'll come back again. Maybe it won't. But you've gotta love the ride.
    Betsy Brandt
    American actress (1973 - )
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