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  • Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.

    Men   Anxiety   Brain  
  • If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.

    Time   Business   Work  
    The Note Book (1927)
  • A man bumps me on his busy way without so much as an apology. But that is all right. I forgive you, busy man about town with the sharp elbows. Hail and farewell to you! For I, Gemma Doyle, am to have a splendid Christmas in London town. All shall be well. God rest us merry gentlemen. And gentlewomen.

    Farewell   Apology   Men  
    Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.460, Delacorte Press
  • He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half.

    Truth   Science   Men  
  • Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies-since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.

    Men   Mind   Study  
  • As I walked in the woods to see the birds and squirrels, so I walked in the village to see the men and boys; instead of the wind among the pines I heard the carts rattle. In one direction from my house there was a colony of muskrats in the river meadows; under the grove of elms and buttonwoods in the other horizon was a village of busy men, as curious to me as if they had been prarie-dogs, each sitting at the mouth of its burrow, or running over to a neighbor's to gossip. I went there frequently to observe their habits.

    Running   Dog   Men  
    Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Walden: Life in the Woods”, p.105, Gibbs Smith
  • I'm try[ing] to catch up on my work and you know I keep my eyes on the road, but I'm a busy man.

    Eye   Men   Trying  
  • The surest way to get a job done is to give it to a busy man. He'll have his secretary do it.

    Jobs   Men   Giving  
    Jacob Morton Braude (1966). “Speaker's desk book of quips, quotes, & anecdotes”
  • Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.

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

    Men   Giving   Work Ethic  
    Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.223, Mango Media Inc.
  • What are you?" I asked. "I'm the Ghost of the Night Before Exams." "And how long did it take you to come up with that?" Jazza asked. "I'm a busy man," he replied.

    Night   Men   Long  
    Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.138, Penguin
  • The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.

    Men   Visitors   Busy  
    Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.283, Oxford University Press, USA
  • One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a thousand half-hearted, talkative busy men living frightened, fragmented lives of quiet desperation.

    Faith   Inspiration   Men  
  • After visiting several of America's most fashionable playgrounds, I have reached the conclusion that men who work hard enjoy life most. The men at such places can be divided into two classes, first, busy men of affairs ... and, second, rich loafers. I was impressed by the obvious enjoyment corporation heads and other important executives were deriving from their vacation activities.... The idle rich fellows, on the other hand, although indulging in exactly the same activities, palpably were bored.

  • The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.

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

  • Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

    Education   Men   Giving  
    Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, Catholic Way Publishing
  • I calculated the amount of time I spent with my father during my entire life... the total amount of time I had with him, if you add up the hours, was about two months. My father was a busy man... we had very few opportunities to really sit down and talk as father and son.

  • Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

    Friendship   Men   Busy  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.414
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