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Quotes About Busy

Nadie tiene ya tiempo para nadie.
~ Ray Bradbury
The sun burned every day. It burned Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people […]
~ Ray Bradbury
my generation's screwed—we're not the immigrant experience, we're not the assimilation experience—we're the first nothing generation, we've got nothing to write about and no one to read it, everyone too busy getting technologized, too harried with degrees.
~ Joshua Cohen
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. Dale Carnegie
~ Joyce Meyer
No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
~ Walter Savage Landor
I told Nderitu; 'This semester I'm taking zoology, psychology, scripture, English composition, modern European history, and sports. It's quite a bit of work, enough to keep my little brain busy.'..The education was broad-based and, on reflection, quite liberal.
~ Wangari Maathai
But there's also another reason I like to meet for devotions in public places. Think of how many people pass by us as they wait in line for their morning coffee. Most will definitely notice five or six people with their Bibles open, writing in journals. Our favorite meeting place is busy; approximately a hundred people will saunter by us in an hour.
~ Wayne Cordeiro
After all, they'd be busy for a while, they were Candymakers now, and they had a whole lotta candy to make.
~ Wendy Mass
System 1 has more influence on behavior when System 2 is busy, and it has a sweet tooth. People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations. Memorizing and repeating digits loosens the hold of System 2 on behavior, but of course cognitive load is not the only cause of weakened self-control.
~ Daniel Kahneman
La gente que está cognitivamente ocupada3 es más probable que haga elecciones egoístas, use un lenguaje sexista y emita juicios superficiales en situaciones sociales.
~ Daniel Kahneman
System 1 has more influence on behavior when System 2 is busy, and it has a sweet tooth.
~ Daniel Kahneman
To be read in context!!!) People who are "cognitively busy" are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations. Memorizing and repeating digits loosens the hold of System 2 on behavior, but if course cognitive load is not the only cause of weakened self-control.
~ Daniel Kahneman
It is certainly to be regretted that we have so many things to do and our business day is so fully occupied that somehow or other we seem to make mistakes which could have been avoided if we had really spent the time necessary to think the matter through to a logical conclusion.
~ Daniel Yergin
I don't have time to be a fashion plate. I'm just glad if I get my shirt on right-side-out in the morning.
~ Danielle Bean
So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.
~ Dave Eggers
There was so much to do. No time for sleeping. But he was so, so tired.…
~ James Dashner
glimpse through the slats of a city mad with the day-to-day grind, moving and grooving. In a way he felt envious of those people, completely oblivious that a crazy
~ James Dashner
We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation.
~ James Gleick
bet the hallways are full
~ James Maxey
I have to travel a lot for work.
~ James Purefoy
Another strategy for dealing with meddling stakeholders is to overwhelm them with tasks and communication. They insist on being involved, so involve them. If they have time to be this involved, give them work to do and assign actions to keep them busy with nonrisky or unimportant activities. Real work often makes people invisible and may make a meddling stakeholder invisible too.
~ James T. Brown
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
~ James Thurber
If I wasn't busy, she replied, I'd go crazy.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
I haven't time and I don't want the money. Why should I? I'm not a dean or an actress.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers