Wasted Time Quotes

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

The maxim that flying time is wasted time liberates me from my anxieties and guilt feelings, and it strips me of all ambitions, leaving room for a different sort of existence. A happy, idiotic existence, the kind that doesn't try to make the most of time but is satisfied with merely finding the most enjoyable way to spend it. ~ Etgar Keret

There's no good way to waste your time. Wasting time is just wasting time. ~ Helen Mirren

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

I wouldn't waste a day, not an hour, not a moment. Take what you want and damn caution. Live, enjoy. Feed ravenously. Or the biggest regret you'll have at the end of your life is wasted time. ~ Nora Roberts

Facebook revamped its search feature. Now you can search for any post that has ever appeared on your page. It's helpful if you want to waste time this year remembering exactly how you wasted time last year. ~ Conan O'Brien

Sometimes things happen in our lives that wake us up to the truth, about how short life is. It's then we wonder why we spent so much wasted time looking too far into the future. ~ Ron Baratono

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves. ~ George Matthew Adams

You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted. ~ Ruth E. Renkl

My mind seeks the tidiness of a question answered. An agenda complete. A box checked. That's what harmony feels like in my brain. Wasted time and wrong answers disrupt that harmony like an off-key instrument making a dissonant clang in a musician's ears. ~ Mary Laura Philpott

Their attitude toward another aspect of organization shows the same bias. What of the "group life", the loss of individualism? Once upon a time it was conventional for young men to view the group life of the big corporations as one of its principal disadvantages. Today, they see it as a positive boon. Working with others, they believe, will reduce the frustration of work, and they often endow the accompanying suppression of ego with strong spiritual overtones. They will concede that there is often a good bit of wasted time in the committee way of life and that the handling of human relations involves much suffering of fools gladly. But this sort of thing, they say, is the heart of the organization man's job, not merely the disadvantages of it. "Any man who feels frustrated by these things," one young trainee with face unlined said to me, "can never be an executive". ~ William H. Whyte

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

Always recycle wasted time ~ Benny Bellamacina

It wasn't the degree that counted but what you did with it; he believed that too many Americans wasted time and money on college simply for the sake of a fancy piece of paper. ~ Nell Freudenberger

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again. ~ Ovid

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

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

Don't waste time and energy defending your idea that could be used pursuing your idea. ~ Bobby Darnell

Don't worry that you've wasted time. Each moment
no matter how frozen or confused
was a useful and necessary lesson. ~ Martha Beck

Time spent reading a book, even a bad one, is never wasted. ~ Stewart Stafford

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. ~ Marthe Troly-Curtin

Though not everything is so easy in doing, ponder before you say something is far difficult to do! When you think of the difficulty in getting it done, think and think again; you may have spent the same time you should have used for the utmost preparations that could have made the difficulty you look at but cannot see the panacea on something else, or you are not finding the necessary time, wit, courage, tenacity and the will power to release your whole and true self to master the very act and art of making difficult things easier! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Playing the blame game is stupid and childish. Even if it is someone else's fault, the blame game is wasted time, effort, and energy that takes you somewhere that is not going to get you anywhere. ~ Loren Weisman

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

Hilmar owns many books, even by Icelandic standards. The other day, when he came home with a wheelbarrowful, his five-year-old daughter looked him in the eye and implored, "Please, Daddy, please, no more books!" Hilmar has a stock answer to those who criticize his excessive book buying. "It is never a waste of time to study how other people wasted time. ~ Eric Weiner

The time it took to prepare didn't matter, because there is no such thing as wasted time in the kitchen
rather that is where we go to recover lost time. ~ Laura Esquivel

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

Time cannot be saved, it can only be spent, and if not spent wisely and well, it is wasted. ~ Henrietta C. Mears

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 waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. ~ Henry Ford

Dreaming isn't wasted time. The waste comes when you have these wonderful dreams, but you don't do anything to make them real. ~ Michelle Jellen

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

The captain was experienced en8gh t8 kn8w how bad relationships worked. Your gut told you from the beginning to stay out of it. You got drawn in anyway, telling yourself your eyes were open to the good and the bad. There was just enough good to keep you interested butvnot enough to allow you to commit. One day you woke up with nothing but regrets and wasted time. ~ Kirsten Beyer

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

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

Time goes by so fast and worry is really wasted time and energy. ~ Dana Perino

For moderns - for us - there is something illicit, it seems, about wasted time, the empty hours of contemplation when a thought unfurls, figures of speech budding and blossoming, articulation drifting like spent petals onto the dark table we all once gathered around to talk and talk, letting time get the better of us. _Just taking our time_, as we say. That is, letting time take us.

"Can you say," I once inquired of a sixty-year old cloistered nun who had lived (vibrantly, it seemed) from teh age of nineteen in her monastery cell, "what the core of contemplative life is?"

"Leisure," she said, without hesitation, her china blue eyes cheerfully steady on me. I suppose I expected her to say, "Prayer." Or maybe "The search for God." Or "Inner peace." Inner peace would have been good. One of the big-ticket items of spirituality.

She saw I didn't see.

"It takes time to do this," she said finally.

Her "this" being the kind of work that requires abdication from time's industrial purpose (doing things, getting things). By choosing leisure she had bid farewell to the fevered enterprise of getting-and-spending whereby, as the poet said, we lay waste our powers. ~ Patricia Hampl

Until you have wasted time in a city, you cannot pretend to know it well. ~ Julian Green

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

Magrat said she could never make the wand do that and Esme said no because, she wasted time wishing for thinges to happen instead of working out how to make them happen. ~ Terry Pratchett

Across my life only one work will be written: "waste" _ waste of love, waste of talent, waste of enterprise. ~ Violet Trefusis

Everybody tells me that they would love to knit, but they don't have time. I look at people's lives and I can see opportunity and time for knitting all over the place. The time spent riding the bus each day? That's a pair of socks over a month. Waiting in line? Mittens. Watching TV? Buckets of wasted time that could be an exquisite lace shawl. ~ Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

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

A guilty conscience pushed me to try harder - which I did for what seemed like a tremendous amount of wasted time, staring bug-eyed at uncooperative pencils. What was missing? The answer seemed obvious - intense emotional incentive. But at the moment I didn't feel desperate or angry or afraid. Just severely bored out of my mind and guilt-ridden for feeling so mind-numbingly bored."
- from "Phantom's Veil ~ Richelle E. Goodrich

In the sciences, looking good was usually a negative. It implied you wasted time on outdoor activities instead of building something useful. Even using hair product or makeup implied misguided priorities. Like you thought how things looked mattered, instead of how they worked. We liked to look at attractive people. We expected it of our movie stars and TV characters. But we did not respect it. We knew physical attractiveness was inversely correlated with intelligence, because look at us. ~ Max Barry

Like dying cells of beatless hearts I'm cold
I wasted years in promised lands they sold ~ Isbelle Razors

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts. ~ Ted Engstrom

Social networks are so full of wasted time - they could be compared to a waste disposal system. Flush, before you go and waste no time to go. ~ Will Advise

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 finally learn that you are not the smartest person in the room- you will build a better product, have better relationships, and eliminate wasted time. ~ Colleen Ferrary Bader

Time spent arguing is, oddly enough, almost never wasted. ~ Christopher Hitchens

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

Taking time to rest, renew, and refresh yourself isn't wasted time. Recharge. Choose what energizes you. ~ Melody Beattie

Arrogance was one of the key factors that kept the white left so factionalized. I felt that instead of fighting against a common enemy, they wasted time quarreling with each other about who has the right line.
Although i respected the work and political positions of many groups on the left, i felt it was necessary for Black people to come together and organize our own structures and our own politcal party ...
I felt, and still feel, that it is necessary for Black revolutionaries to come together, analyze our history, our present condition, and to define ourselves and our struggle. ~ Assata Shakur

Cancer taught me to stop saving things for a special occasion. Every day is special. You don't have to get cancer to start living life to the fullest. My post-cancer philosophy? No wasted time. No ugly clothes. No boring movies. ~ Regina Brett

But BEing time is never wasted time. When we are BEing, not only are we collaborating with chronological time, but we are touching on kairos, and are freed from the normal restrictions of time. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

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

Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in wasted time. ~ Cyril Connolly

Clocks ticking, wasted time, reminded [Poe]
The coffin waits and pages lie half done
In desolation. Anonymity's
Curse frightens writers more than Roderick
Encountering his sister's open crypt.

- - from my poem "Poe and His Women" - - ~ LindaAnn LoSchiavo

Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted. ~ John Marsden

No one will be around to judge me tomorrow. No one will send messages to friends about the lame kid who had no rhythm. And in this moment, how stupid it was to care hits me like a punch to the face. I wasted time and missed fun because I cared about the wrong things. ~ Adam Silvera

Solace, is having the same company for years, while being seen as a stranger. Here, only a fool would think he had the luxury of friends. ~ Justin K. McFarlane Beau

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

It takes only about 10 to 12 minutes for you to plan out your day, but this small investment of time will save you up to two hours (100 to 120 minutes) in wasted time and diffused effort throughout the day. You ~ Brian Tracy

Since I've got on the Internet, it's opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she's an Internet widow. ~ Mick Ralphs

When the farmer arises in the morning unreconciled to get out of bed, he feels no anxiety that he has wasted time through his sleep; au contraire, he is confident that the seed has continued to grow during the night. So, too, the spiritual woman does not fret and flap over opportunities missed, does not hammer herself for not working hard enough, and does not have a panic attack wondering whether she has received grace in vain. She lives in quiet confidence that God is working in her by day and by night. Like the farmer, she is not totally passive or presumptuous. The woman knows that she has her full measure of work to do, but she realizes that the outcome rests with God and that the decisive factor is unearned grace. Thus, she works as if everything depends on God and prays as if everything depends on her. ~ Brennan Manning

Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble. ~ Shirley Temple

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. ~ John Lennon

A lot of wasted time, to the Dogman's mind, but once you've been fool enough to ask for a task, you better do the one you're given.n ~ Joe Abercrombie

Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil. ~ Cyril Smith

Creativity is the residue of time wasted. ~ Albert Einstein

He who know most grieves most for wasted time. ~ Dante Alighieri

children spend their time for they think they have more time; adults cry over their time for they see they have less time ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

She had to defend him in order to defend herself. That was why people were so prickly about their partners, even their ex-partners. To admit that Duncan wasn't up to much was to own up publicly to the terrible waste of time, and terrible lapses in judgment and taste. She had stuck up for Spandau Ballet in just the same way at school, even after she had stopped liking them. ~ Nick Hornby

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

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. ~ James Anthony Froude

You either waste, spend or invest time. Make your choice wisely ~ Sunday Adelaja

She wasted all her school time wanting to be the age she is now, and she'll waste all the rest of her life trying to stay that age. ~ C.S. Lewis

I bitterly resent all that wasted time. And what I resent most of all is that the ones I did get never, never looked like the Greek statues."
"The Greek-statue types may have been too busy going out with other boys to notice you. ~ Rachel Ingalls

Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous. ~ Confucius

Have learned in life, there will always be some things that we really want but they are just not ever going to surface in our life. We have to take a bow and keep it moving because you never know the reason why it was not put there. It could simply be because there is something better just waiting. Never chase after people or things, unless it is a common effort. Patience is a virtue, wasted time is a something you will never get back. - AHCIII ~ A.H. Carlisle III

I had never thought much of genealogy. A lot of wasted time collecting the names of the dead. Then stringing those names, like skulls upon a wire, into an entirely private and thus irrelevant narrative, lacking any historical significance. The narcissistic pastime of nostalgic bores. ~ Joshua Ferris

I remembered that once, as a child, I was filled with wonder, that I had marveled at tri-folded science projects, encyclopedias, and road atlases. I left much of that wonder somewhere back in Baltimore. Now I had the privilege of welcoming it back like a long-lost friend, though our reunion was laced with grief; I mourned over all the years that were lost. The mourning continues. Even today, from time to time, I find myself on beaches watching six-year-olds learn to surf, or at colleges listening to sophomores slip from English to Italian, or at cafés seeing young poets flip though "The Waste Land," or listening to the radio where economists explain economic things that I could've explored in my lost years, mourning, hoping that I and all my wonder, my long-lost friend, have not yet run out of time, though I know that we all run out of time, and some of us run out of it faster. ~ Ta-Nehisi Coates

Time appears to be most wasted when someone seeks truth in lies ~ Munia Khan

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. ~ William Shakespeare

Nothing you've been through has been wasted. I know at times you feel you've wasted time, moments, and years over what you can't regain again - a job, a marriage, a relationship, your health, the sacrifices, your time and service, and giving up something you love for God, that broke your heart. You sit back and wonder, "Will I ever be happy again? Was everything I've been through worth the pain, the tears, the sleepless nights, the embarrassment." The Lord is saying, "It's just preparation." Where you are now is no accident.


What has happened to you didn't take God by surprise. He already initiated a plan of escape before you were formed; mistakes, setbacks, disappointments, things outside your control.. The plan was already made! I don't know your story but only you and God know your story. He took you from bad company, He took you from suicide, He took you when you were at your lowest, He took you when nobody wanted you, He took you when your money was low, Why? Because He saw potential in you!

As God as my witness it gets lonely at times. Life can be fearful when you don't know what to expect. When you feel everything has been stripped away...When you feel there's no hope... When you wonder how much longer do I have to wait. Who wants to feel rejection or disappointments.. But it's in those moments when we experience the faithfulness of God!

I want to encourage whoever I'm speaking to, to hold on! Before Joseph became Prime Minist ~ Susan Samaroo

Time flies, whether you're wasting it or not. ~ Crystal Woods

At 38, I look back at my 32-year-old self and regret that he wasted time. Then I regret wasting my current time regretting regrets about regrets. This is pretty sophisticated regretting I'm doing. That's the sole advantage of ageing: I can now effortlessly consolidate my regrets into one manageable block of misery. Otherwise, by the age of 44, I'd need complex database software just to keep track of precisely how many things I'm regretting at once. ~ Charlie Brooker

you can`t recycle wasted time ~ William Gibson

What's the worst thing I've stolen? Probably little pieces of other people's lives. Where I've either wasted their time or hurt them in some way. That's the worst thing you can steal, the time of other people. You just can't get that back. ~ Chester Bennington

This wasted time i have found by constant experience to be as indispensable as sleep. ~ John Adams

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

If you learned how to make a cloud, your time is not wasted. ~ Bob Ross

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

Life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered. ~ J.D. Robb

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