Quotes of: Busy-working Keyword

I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy one. There is a myth that writers are bohemian and do what they like in their own way. Real writers are the most organized pe...

Jeanette Winterson

See, being a person is kind of random and arbitrary business. You may have noticed that. And you need to believe in something to keep it from being too random and arbitrary to handle. Some people take religion, or success, or patriotism, or family, b...

Robert B. Parker

Paris Driver: I work from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m., so don't fuck with me in my own taxi! I don't give a shit about you, Ambassador, OK? Passenger #1: Can't we have some fun? Passenger #2: We've had champagne and we're happy... Paris Driver: No, you don't ha...

Night on Earth

Jesse: You know what drives me crazy? It's all these people talking about how great technology is, and how it saves all this time. But, what good is saved time, if nobody uses it? If it just turns into more busy work. You never hear somebody say, "Wi...

Before Sunrise

Six month of sitting home, six month of doing absolutely nothing but watching TV, going out, sleeping, getting drunk and sleeping again. Oh no, wait, I was busy with something, I was doing some renovations in my new apartment. Which legally became mi...

The New York Doll

A Manifesto for Introverts 1. There's a word for 'people who are in their heads too much': thinkers. 2. Solitude is a catalyst for innovation. 3. The next generation of quiet kids can and must be raised to know their own strengths. 4. Sometimes it he...

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Wal-Mart is so large, its reach so great, that it has created an ecosystem in which its suppliers and competitors, and their suppliers and competitors, and their customers, all operate. Wal-Mart sets the metabolism, it sets the rules, of that ecosyst...

The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy

Immigration Officer #2: So where's your old man now? Tony Montana: He dead. He die. Sometime. Somewhere. Immigration Officer #2: Mother? Tony Montana: She dead too. Immigration Officer #1: What kind of work you do in Cuba, Tony? Tony Montana: Ah, you...

Scarface

Vices are simply overworked virtues, anyway. Economy and frugality are to be commended but follow them on in an increasing ratio and what do we find at the other end? A miser! If we overdo the using of spare moments we may find an invalid at the end,...

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Nick pulled a business card out of a pocket and handed it to Elphaba. It read , next to a moving image of Nick, mugging for the camera. “I finally get to use my Harry Potter business cards!

The Goodwill Grimoire

There was a way in which my grandmother's true self was not these guests' business; no one's true self was the business of more than a very small number of family members or close friends.

American Wife

Are you guys busy?" Juniper asked. "Well," I said, "we're in the middle of this game against a bunch of monsters and we're trying not to die." "We're not busy," Annabeth said.

The Battle of the Labyrinth

We love and reason because God Loves and reasons and holds our hand while we do it.

The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

I think it's always hard to find great roles, no matter what age you are. So I always say to people, 'You have to remember that Hollywood is in the business of making movies that they can sell tickets to; they're not in the business of finding great ...

Julianne Moore

Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be hea...

Tom Peters

Our body always tells us what it wants and needs—the question is whether we are listening.

21 Days to Better Balance: Find More Balance in a Busy World

Nothing you are choosing to do for yourself is worth the tears and feelings of dread every single morning. NOTHING.

The 40 Best Business Tips No One's Ever Told You

We need to keep government small, but we also need to keep the influence of big business small, and we need to keep the power in the hands of the people, where it belongs. Big government and big business aren’t the only two alternatives.

Afterlife

Life is like an echo! when you give something, it comes back to you many, many times.

Achieve the Impossible - The Golden Lotus Sutras on Spiritual Business Management

A word is like a finger pointing at different things. Do not look at the finger; focus on the essence of the word. Focus on what the finger is pointing at!

Achieve the Impossible - The Golden Lotus Sutras on Spiritual Business Management

We have been gradually finding out that there is more democracy in letting a committee or representative ten to details than in making everybody's business nobody's business.

History of Montague; A Typical Puritan Town