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Busy Quotes (page 31)

Ursula K. Le Guin quote: "The novelist's business is lying."
The novelist's business is lying. Ursula K. Le Guin
Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is he and his type writer or word processor. No one else is or can be involved in the matter. Isaac Asimov
Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with- their "loved ones" or friends or business associates or political rulers- are not merely mistaken, but evil. Observe that this dread leads them to sanction, to help and to spread the very evil whose existence they fear to acknowledge. Ayn Rand
But Tom," said the moon, "the swinging of your pendulums! Everyone's a pendulum swinging, to and fro, and always you're getting hit by someone else's swinging pendulum. You're minding your own business, but someone else'e pendulum is swinging around, and pow! you get it in the head. Dave Eggers
The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die without realizing how far people can go in the way of crumminess. When the grave lies open before us, let’s not try to be witty, but on the other hand, let’s not forget, but make it our business to record the worst of the human viciousness we’ve seen without changing one word. When that’s done, we can curl up our toes and sink into the pit. That’s work enough for a lifetime. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
J. M. Barrie quote: "Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of..."
Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples. J. M. Barrie
There is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud Milton Friedman
Martha Graham quote: "What people in the world think of you is really none of your..."
What people in the world think of you is really none of your business. Martha Graham
Barbara Kingsolver quote: "How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of..."
How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them. Barbara Kingsolver
Joyce Carol Oates quote: "Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's..."
Keeing busy" is the remedy for all the ills in America. It's also the means by which the creative impulse is destroyed. Joyce Carol Oates
Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy. Douglas Adams
You are free; you are free to go to your temples. You are free to go to your mosques or to any other places of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion, caste or creed—that has nothing to do with the business of the State. Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Michael J. Fox quote: "what other people think of me is not my business."
what other people think of me is not my business. Michael J. Fox
If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of ‘I could have, I should have’. We can sleep in a storm. And when its time, our goodbyes will be complete. Mitch Albom
It ought to be the employer’s ambition as leader to pay than any similar line of business, and it ought to be the workman’s ambition to make it possible Henry Ford

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