Time Wasted Quotes

I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time. ~ Dean Kamen

If I want my time wasted, I'll waste it myself. ~ Mason Cooley

There are far too many people that waste their time telling themselves that they don't have enough time. ~ Daniel Willey

It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison. ~ May Sarton

time wasted is not always a waste of time. ~ Terri Blackstock

Let no body lie you that there is a future other than a moment you are able to walk and talk. ~ Auliq Ice

Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything ... ~ Clive Barker

He awoke each morning with familiar shapes at the edges of his vision, could feel memories nearby, but by the time breakfast came, they were already fading. By dinner, they were lost. It left Troy with a sadness, a cold sensation, and a feeling like a hollow stomach
different from hunger
like rainy days as a child when he didn't know how to fill his time. It was the pain of a chronic boredom mixed with the discomfort of time wasted. ~ Hugh Howey

When you think about the wasted time, you waste your time again. ~ Steven Shaw

Wasting time over wasted time is just more wasted time... ~ Animesh Singh

When leaders know how to lead great meetings, there's less time wasted and less frustration. We have more energy to do the work that matters, realize our full potential, and do great things. ~ Justin Rosenstein

The greatest time wasted, is the time getting started. ~ Dawson Trotman

If you enjoyed the time you wasted, then it wasn't wasted time. ~ John Lennon

Telling some people not to waste time is a waste of time. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There is no effort in time wasted by remembering the truth. A lie requires an effort of life and wasted time to remember because one lie tends to become a lifestyle that destroys. ~ Richard Diaz

Time wasted is a theft from God. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

He believed that he must, that he could and would recover the good things, the happy things, the easy tranquil things of life. He had made mistakes, but he could overlook these. He had been a fool, but that could be forgiven. The time wasted
must be relinquished. What else could one do about it? Things were too complex, but they might be reduced to simplicity again. Recovery was possible. ~ Saul Bellow

We need to create a new revolution, and to do that, don't waste your life: stop pleasing people, and become who you always wanted to be. ~ Paulo Coelho

I am tired
of undressing to no comment,
years and years of youth
wasted to the particles in the air. ~ Analicia Sotelo

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self. ~ Charles Dickens

When you ran that roof race with me you started with one stocking marked, a loose row of bullion on your hoqueton, and your hair needing a cut. Your manners, social and personal, derive directly from the bakehouse; your living quarters, any time I have seen them, have been untidy and ill-cleaned. In the swordplay just now you cut consistently to the left, a habit so remarkable that you must have been warned time and again; and you cannot parry a coup de Jarnac. I tried you with the same feint for it three times tonight.... These are professional matters, Robin. To succeed as you want, you have to be precise; you have to have polish; you have to carry polish and precision in everything you do. You have no time to sigh over seigneuries and begrudge other people their gifts. Lack of genius never held anyone back,' said Lymond. 'Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that. You never did work with your whole brain and your whole body at being an Archer; and you ended neither soldier nor seigneur, but a dried-out huddle of grudges strung cheek to cheek on a withy. ~ Dorothy Dunnett

Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting. ~ Arthur Brisbane

In case you haven't heard, my girlfriends and I have declared the summer of 2012 as the best summer ever. The best way to document said 'best summer ever' is with a good ol' disposable camera. Smile, click, move on! Nobody gets pic approval, and there's no time wasted gathering around the camera to analyze a moment that just happened. ~ Candice Accola

We don't get much time, and time feeling sorry for yourself is time wasted. ~ Joe Abercrombie

Among life's regrets is all the time wasted being early for everything. ~ Robert Breault

It feels like I am wasting time. I mean, that's always the case. My life doesn't add up to anything. ~ David Levithan

Time wasted can never be compensated ~ Sunday Adelaja

I esteem his understanding and subtlety highly, but I consider that they have been put to ill use in the greater part of his work, where the author studies things of little use...

{Writing about Isaac Newton} ~ Christiaan Huygens

When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection. ~ A.W. Tozer

If I wasted my time trying to be like everybody else when I was 10 and 11, I wouldn't be me today. So if you are gonna be the future rockstars, the future somebody, whatever you wanna be then you're wasting your time trying to be somebody else, because you'll never get to you. ~ Pink

My greatest fear is time wasted - a life spent. My greatest fear is passing away from this world without leaving a lasting impact. ~ M.J. Chrisman

Is socializing all that great? Riots are socializing. Arguably, more damage is done and time wasted in company with others than alone. ~ Anneli Rufus

But she was uncomfortable with what the professors called 'participation,' and did not see why it should be part of the final grade; it merely made students talk and talk, class time wasted on obvious words, hollow words, sometimes meaningless words. ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

There will never be a point in my life where it is acceptable to waste time. ~ Carlos Wallace

Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent
thinking clearly is never time wasted. ~ Max Brooks

We would not deem life too short if we always remembered that we do not have to watch TV. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Be yourself, and live your life. Time wasted is never retrieved. Stop wasting time and use it profitably ... ! ~ Reason Nkosinathi Makhubela

Which of us is not saying to himself
which of us has not been saying to himself all
his life:
"
I shall alter that when I have a little
more time"?
We never shall have any more time. We
have, and we have always had, all the time
there is. ~ Arnold Bennett

Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted. ~ Antony Garrett Lisi

Wasting time with the wrong person is just time wasted. ~ Greg Behrendt

Creativity is the residue of time wasted. ~ Albert Einstein

There was so much time wasted not spending it together. ~ Cecelia Ahern

I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland. ~ Lady Gregory

I waste so much time sleeping. And time is of all losses the most irrecuperable, for it can never be redeemed. ~ Alison Weir

Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer. ~ Leo Buscaglia

I loved the time spent with him, but felt in some other chamber of my heart that it was time wasted. That I ought to be doing something else while there was time. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

It is what it is and we are who we are and no measure of hope or time wasted wishing, will ever make it never so. ~ Nicole Lyons

Looking at things is never time wasted. If your children want to stand and stare, let them. When I was marvelling at the beauty of a painting or enjoying a great view it did not occur to me that the experience, however intense, would be of value many years later. But there it has remained, tucked away in hidden bits of my mind and now it comes, shouldering aside even the most passionate love affairs. ~ Diana Athill

I live - I live a highly scheduled life. There's absolutely no time wasted. I'm very focused. And I have a great assistant. ~ Madonna Ciccone

Ignoring your intuition telling you this person is not for you will likely lead to more time wasted and more disappointments along the way. ~ Stephan Labossiere

Tell the truth. All the time. About everything. What's the alternative to radical honesty? Waste. Wasted time, wasted money, wasted possibilities-a wasted life. ~ Brad Blanton

The only time not wasted is wasted time. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Cause' I don't wanna' spend my life jaded, waiting to wake up one day and find that I've let all these years go by
wasted. Oh I don't wanna' keep on wishing, missing, but still every morning the color of the night, I ain't spending no more time wasted. ~ Carrie Underwood

Law of Attraction 101 - the basics.
Don't waste someone's time if you don't want them wasting yours. ~ Jill Telford

A blink of an eye is what separates you from reality. ~ Ljupka Cvetanova

No time is wasted time ~ Jim Henson

Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A lot of people travel because they are unhappy, but travelling does not necessary makes one happier. Sometimes it exacerbates the unhappiness, the loneliness. ~ Vann Chow

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. ~ Victor Hugo

Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it and spend it rather than invest it. ~ Jim Rohn

I summon the courage to go for what I want. Having cancer has left me less afraid than I used to be. I'm painfully aware that life is short and we've got to seize the moment, especially when the moment is lying in my arms, hard and hot and sexy and so tormented.
… "Time wasted is time we never get back. I don't believe in playing games or mincing words. ~ M.S. Force

Time has been given to us as a sacred covenant, that if wasted will haunt us throughout eternity, in the form of regret ~ Steven Redhead

To their own demise, most attended the party and still remain. Time wasters and space takers. ~ T.F. Hodge

Wrath lowered himself into a chair. He stared straight ahead and watched the crowd gradually swallow up the path he'd made.
He waited. The pounding beat of Ludacris faded into old-school Cypress Hill.
This was going to be good. Darius was a real straight shooter who knew Wrath couldn't stand having his time wasted. If there was silence, something was up.
Darius tipped back his beer, then let out a deep breath. "My lord - "
"If you want something from me, don't lead with that," Wrath drawled.

-Darius & Wrath ~ J.R. Ward

Much time is spent on meaning while precious little time wasted has none! ~ M.B.JONES

I never took a lesson until I was 20, and I'm glad I had those years living the life of a normal person. I don't consider that time wasted. ~ Glenn Tipton

We stay watching the fire, which probably is just a fire, but we watch it together. Me and my friends. And there'll be a tomorrow, of course there will, when it all begins again, but right now is almost a kind of loop for me, something to feel on the inside of, but this time it's good. It's a loop with my friends that would even be a pretty damn good forever. ~ Patrick Ness

In years to come, if the book was still in his possession, I wanted him to ache. Better yet, I wanted someone to look through his books one day, open up this tiny volume of Armance, and ask, Tell me who was in silence, somewhere in Italy in the mid-eighties? And then I'd want him to feel something as darting as sorrow and fiercer than regret, maybe even pity for me, because in the bookstore that morning I'd have taken pity too, if pity was all he had to give, if pity could have made him put an arm around me, and underneath his surge of pity and regret, hovering like a vague, erotic undercurrent that was years in the making, I wanted him to remember the morning on Monet's berm when I'd kissed him not the first but the second time and given him my spit in his mouth because I so desperately wanted his in mine. ~ Andre Aciman

Baseball and American football and hockey are all ahead because they have a history. The MLS is kind of new. So hopefully, in time, and with players coming and trying to develop the game, and the U.S. team also doing well - at the last World Cup, they finished above England and created some buzz. ~ Thierry Henry

Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the deepest places of the absolutely ordinary. ~ Robert Thurman

There's a lot of reasons you can think of to say why you act, but I can only say that it just felt good. At the same time, it felt really painful. It's still troubling and stressful to me. ~ Skeet Ulrich

The constructs of the mathematical mind are at the same time free and necessary. The individual mathematician feels free to define his notions and set up his axioms as he pleases. But the question is will he get his fellow mathematician interested in the constructs of his imagination. We cannot help the feeling that certain mathematical structures which have evolved through the combined efforts of the mathematical community bear the stamp of a necessity not affected by the accidents of their historical birth. ~ Hermann Weyl

Not all demons are born to the dark. And not all angels seek the light. Sometimes our circumstance demands a fusion of both. There is no good and evil. Only the time spent between both heaven and hell, where we find our peace. And love. Even the vilest of monsters deserve to be loved. ~ Trisha Wolfe

Make time for your creativity, no matter how busy you are. Stolen minutes can add up to surprisingly wonderful creations. ~ Scott Stabile

I give people style tips in Whole Foods. Wherever I go, people want to ask me questions all the time, and I'm more than happy to answer them. I love talking to people. ~ Brad Goreski

Most people spend so much time fearing the things that are never going to happen or can't be controlled that they have no energy to deal with the few things they can actually handle. ~ Andy Andrews

Sometimes, if I allow time to be creative, it doesn't show up. ~ Nathaniel Rateliff

As afraid as he was for Seth, it was high time to put some trust in him when needed. Dom might not ever let him become a free-range boyfriend, but he could let him graze freely once in awhile, just to satisfy his instincts. ~ K.A. Merikan

Is the consideration of a little dirty pelf, to individuals, to be placed in competition with the essential rights & liberties of the present generation, & of millions yet unborn? shall a few designing men for their own aggrandizement, and to gratify their own avarice, overset the goodly fabric we have been rearing at the expence of so much time, blood, & treasure? and shall we at last become the victems of our own abominable lust of gain? Forbid it heaven! forbid it all, & every state in the union! by enacting & enforcing, efficatious laws for checking the growth of these monstrous evils, & restoring matters in some degree to the pristine state they were in at the commencement of the War. Our cause is noble. It is the cause of Mankind! and the danger to it springs from ourselves - Shall we slumber & sleep then while we should be punishing those miscreants who have brought these troubles upon us, & who are aiming to continue us in them? While we should be striving to fill our Battalions - and devising ways and means to appreciate the currency - On the credit of which every thing depends? I hope not - let vigorous measures be adopted - not to limit the price of articles - for this I conceive is inconsistent with the very nature of things, & impracticable in itself - but to punish speculators - forestallers - & extortioners - and above all - to sink the money by heavy Taxes - To promote public & private Œconomy - encourage Manufacture ~ George Washington

To think of the time I spend procuring books... How fitting: a book procured me. Utterly fantastic... ~ Erika Swyler

It was this feeling the whole time like I shouldn't be here among all these stars and professionals. I was trying to keep my distance because I wanted to watch everyone. But they want you to feel at home and be part of it, and it became normal very quickly. ~ Evanna Lynch

I entered this business before I had focus and purpose in my life. I was very unhappy, very unhealthy, and when I sat down for an interview, I didn't know why. I felt like I didn't have anything to share. It was a very empty time. ~ Angelina Jolie

There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go. ~ Rainn Wilson

I don't have to work on it. I'm naturally a writer. The rapping and writing, they can go hand-in-hand - but rapping is an art that you have to practice and master, so I worked at it for a long time. ~ Lupe Fiasco

The government is now in a position to do what Franklin D. Roosevelt did during the Great Depression of the 1930s - use a crisis of the times to create new institutions that will last for generations. To this day, we are still subsidizing millionaires in agriculture because farmers were having a tough time in the 1930s. ~ Thomas Sowell

Galloway pursed his lips and then gave a sly smirk. "I'll admit I didn't foresee this. You have become a prominent foe. I apologize for ridiculing you."
"I accept your apology."
"Good. Now it's time to die."
"Are you ready old man?"
Galloway sputtered out a laugh.
"Oh yes."
"Then let's end this. ~ T.C. Harrison

Humans are always negotiating. That's what conversation is. Someone has something, knows something. Someone wants something. His smile is pleasant, but his eyes ... There is something wrong with him. A different soul seems to have filled his body since the time he was Lucian. I have seen actors ... but this is different. It is as though he is reasonable to the point of being inhuman. ~ Pierce Brown

When I was on 'Terra Nova', I had an Australian iPhone and a U.S. iPhone, different time zones, just a couple differences in the machines, but I was able to keep the international aspect of things in order. But I lost my U.S. iPhone right before I left Australia. Somebody's got it somewhere out there. Send it back? ~ Jason O'Mara

My past is everything I failed to be. ~ Fernando Pessoa

. I wanted to hug her, to hold her and tell her that I would have killed him if he ever hurt her. I wanted to shout at her and tell her I would protect her and help her and always be there for her. In that moment I think I fell in love for the first time. I walked over to her not really comprehending what I was feeling but reaching out to her with compassion. I sat down beside Rae and put my arm around her. She hugged me back and whispered, "Thank you."
She stood up and touched my cheek with her fingers and went inside her house. I sat there awhile until the porch-light went off and then walked home, my feet about an inch above the ground. ~ Doug Hiser

A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage. ~ Bela Lugosi

If we knew as much about heaven as God does, we would clap our hands every time a Christian dies. ~ George MacDonald

It was a kind of one-upmanship, where nobody knows what's going on, and they'd put the other one down as if they did know. They all fake that they know, and if one student admits for a moment that something is confusing by asking a question, the others take a high-handed attitude, acting as if it's not confusing at all, telling him that he's wasting their time ... All the work they did, intelligent people, but they got themselves into this funny state of mind, this strange kind of self-propagating "education" which is meaningless, utterly meaningless. ~ Richard Feynman

Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations. ~ Giorgio Napolitano

War is Man's greatest fall from grace, of course, especially perhaps when we feel a moral imperative to fight it and find ourselves twisted into ethical knots. We can never doubt (ever) the courage of those men in the Halifaxes and Stirlings and Lancasters but the bombing war was undoubtedly a brutish affair, a crude method employing a blunt weapon, continually hampered by the weather and lack of technology (despite massive advances that war always precipitates). The large gap between what was claimed for the results of the bombing campaign and what was actually achieved was never fully understood at the time, and certainly not, I suspect, by those men flying the bombers. ~ Kate Atkinson

We relegate God to our spare time - but end up never having any spare time! Jesus said, "Seek first his kingdom" [Matthew 6:33 NIV]. ~ Billy Graham

We don't even survive in the memories of the living. Science has destroyed that myth. Whenever we remember something, what we're doing is remembering the last time we remembered it; our memory doesn't go back to the original notch, the first one was cut, but to the last one. Human memory is virtual, like that of a computer. When we open a file we're not opening it as it was when we first created it, but as it was the last time we used it. It is called hypercathexis and is our brain's most sophisticated recourse when it comes to confronting pain. ~ Enrique De Heriz

Sometimes I think I live in a gap between two worlds, one world that I have to wake up to, be adherent of the rules and live in a place that is dictated by others. A place I sometimes feel the fear of aging and dying before I have figured out what it is I am here to do.
That other world is sweet, fresh and misty, inviting adventure into the unknown, melding ancient wisdom with new discovery; the sunlight turning into moonlight and the spell of eternal life is never broken.
Perhaps in that gap I should repair the forgotten bridge from one side to the other, but truth be told, I don't want to. I don't want to because I don't have the energy to fix what is broken within. I am a wild, wandering nomad, I belong everywhere and nowhere all at the same time, and in that gap between worlds, I am free. ~ Riitta Klint

My fear is you have to be careful as a writer to not get caught up in social media and blogging, because it can start to feed into your writing time. When you are writing a book, it's such a long journey where the payoff is way at the end, sometimes years away. The payoff of the blog post is today. You get the reinforcement, comments or "likes" immediately. It's appealing. You have to be patient with the book. ~ Matt De La Pena

I've been around a long time, so I guess I've touched a lot of people's lives - hopefully for the better. ~ Ace Frehley