#busy

These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies to fight a war on drugs, to fight a war against illegal behavior, we have to send them the proper tools. ↗

— Bob Filner

#agencies #agents #behavior #border #border patrol

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck. ↗

— B. C. Forbes

#bother #busy #his #intent #luck

From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important. ↗

— Tom Ford

#born #busy #die #important #kept

Get busy living, or get busy dying. ↗

— Stephen King

#dying #get #living

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#busy #communications #deal #dreams #great

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#between #busy #changing #choice #everyone

In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#busy #changing #choice #get #mind

Being busy with work, and as a mum, I'm a big fan of online shopping. ↗

— Kirsty Gallacher

#being busy #big #big fan #busy #fan

I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was a psychiatric component to my concentration but like much of my psychic damage, this worked to everyone's advantage. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#busy #chains #child #component #concentration

Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade. ↗

— Vernon Law

#learn #learning #never #people #some