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Busy Quotes

Learn to detach...Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent... But detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate fully. That's how you are able to leave it... Take any emotion--love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I'm going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that love entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say, 'All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment.

~ Mitch Albom Quotes from Tuesdays with Morrie

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Focus on being productive instead of busy.

~ Timothy Ferriss Quotes from The 4-Hour Workweek

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Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness—lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

~ Timothy Ferriss Quotes from The 4-Hour Workweek

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You cannot hear the voice of oneness when you are busy talking.

~ Marlo Morgan Quotes from Mutant Message from Down Under

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If you want something done, give it to a busy man.

~ Unknown Quotes

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There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.

~ Seneca Quotes

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Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity. You can only achieve happiness if you are too busy living your life to notice whether you are happy or not.

~ Frank Pittman III Quotes

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Do the things that you've always dreamed of doing NOW. Don’t postpone them. My dad loved to be in the outdoors, but he was always so busy as a school principal that he didn't give himself that pleasure very often. He was going to do all his fishing and hiking when he retired, but he never lived that long. He dies of cancer at 63. It was pretty wrenching to not only see him suffer so badly but also to realize that he had been cheated out of his dream.

~ Fred Matheny Quotes

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Keep them occupied, keep them busy; keep them playing on the football field, on the basketball court; keep them in our shops, our crafts, our hobby clubs. This is how you can develop good boys and girls and help eliminate so-called juvenile delinquency.

~ Father Flanagan's Boys Town Axiom Quotes

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

~ David Henry Thoreau Quotes

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