Wasting 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

Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time. ~ Andy Hargreaves

Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care of scholars. At present the whole University system is rotten to the core, and an appalling waste of time, energy and money ... ~ Katherine Anne Porter

Just as our view of work affects our real experience of it, so too does our view of leisure. If our mindset conceives of free time, hobby time, or family time as non-productive, then we will, in fact, make it a waste of time. ~ Shawn Achor

Don't make your own life your project in your own life: total waste of time. ~ Lorrie Moore

In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest;
guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time. ~ Thomas Carlyle

A life is not a waste of time ~ Nalini Singh

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

If you are reading this then you have wasted another day of your life day dreaming, rather than planning the life God intended you to live. ~ Shannon L. Alder

Don't waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better. ~ Seth Godin

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

Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did you hear. ~ Lauren Oliver

We often tell ourselves off for wasting time in chairs, fully dressed, when we could be doing the same lying down in bed, face to face and naked. ~ Ian McEwan

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

Workaholics don't actually accomplish more than nonworkaholics. They may claim to be perfectionists, but that just mean they're wasting time fixating on inconsequential details instead of moving on to the next task. ~ David Heinemeier Hansson

All the greatest blessings are a source of anxiety, and at no time should fortune be less trusted than when it is best; to maintain prosperity there is need of other prosperity, and in behalf of the prayers that have turned out well we must make still other prayers. For everything that comes to us from chance is unstable, and the higher it rises, the more liable it is to fall. Moreover, what is doomed to perish brings pleasure to no one; very wretched, therefore, and not merely short, must the life of those be who work hard to gain what they must work harder to keep. By great toil they attain what they wish, and with anxiety hold what they have attained; meanwhile they take no account of time that will never more return. ~ Seneca.

A writer writes. There are no exceptions to this reality. No excuses. Stop wasting time talking about your stories and get them on paper. ~ Christy Hall

I don't like to write any music to a script. Experience has taught me that's generally a waste of time. ~ Cliff Martinez

Is it ever really a waste of time to love someone, truly and deeply, with everything you have? ~ Rhoda Janzen

Please waste time just playing with your kids! ~ Pope Francis

Creative exhaustion is first cousin to writer's block. First off, I try to accept that when it hits, I am not wasting time, but preparing myself to return to work. I blog more. I do something different, like answering this question. If I can't force myself to finish a story, then perhaps it was not worth finishing. If I have to push rather than let it flow, it won't be as good as if I take more time, mess around in the garden and try to shove the guilt deep into the compost pile. I am still a writer so long as I am thinking! ~ Sue Isle

Do not seduce yourself to temporary person, as you may aware that people doesn't have much time to remember that feeling which you were shared. ~ Anuj Kr. Thakur

Pessimism is a waste of time. ~ Norman Cousins

There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary. ~ Thomas Sowell

[T]he people who are close to Allah worry so much about wasting time that they call themselves to account for every breath they spend - how many of us wonder about how we spend our day, let alone each breath? ~ Ethar El-Katatney

We struggle with a seditious inner voice that says, "You're wasting time. Get up and do something with your life. ~ Pamela D. Blair

We now know that something between 85 and 90 percent of most software product features are unwanted and unneeded by customers. That is an enourmous ammount of waste of time and money that ends up on the floor. ~ Steve Blank

The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect.
The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile. Therefore strive for excellence not perfection. ~ Alan Kulwicki

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

I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time. ~ Phil Donahue

My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold and anything else is just a waste of time. ~ Cormac McCarthy

Meetings were for wasting time, created by and for high-tone people to justify their existence. ~ Naomi Hirahara

Every calling is marked by a season of insignificance, a period when nothing seems to make sense. This is a time of wandering in the wilderness, when you feel alone and misunderstood. To the outsider, such a time looks like failure, as if you are grasping at air or simply wasting time. But the reality is this is the most important experience a person can have if they make the most of it. ~ Jeff Goins

If you do improvising, it can sometimes end up being a waste of time. And if you do that, it's more or less based on a writing process. ~ Giovanni Ribisi

She learned to say things with her eyes that others waste time putting into words ~ Corey Ford

Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present. ~ Federico Fellini

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it. ~ Henrik Ibsen

I was only twelve, but through the slow, inevitable burn of a thousand sunrises and sunsets, a thousand maps traced and retraced, I had already absorbed the valuable precept that everything crumbled into itself eventually, and to cultivate a crankiness about this was just a waste of time. ~ Reif Larsen

In his youth Albert Einstein spent a year loafing aimlessly. You don't get anywhere by not 'wasting' time- something, unfortunately, that the parents of teenagers tend frequently to forget. ~ Carlo Rovelli

If the monkey really wanted to get the weasel, he would've stopped wasting time and burned down the mulberry bush. ~ M.E. Castle

We would understand much more about life's complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time
on identities and coherences, seeing as these have a duty to provide their own explanations. ~ Jose Saramago

Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous ... it could kill a man as quick as a bolt of lightning. Direct current is safe. ~ Thomas A. Edison

No, my dog used to gaze at me, paying me the attention I need, the attention required to make a vain person like me understand that, being a dog, he was wasting time, but, with those eyes so much purer than mine, he'd keep on gazing at me with a look that reserved for me alone all his sweet and shaggy life, always near me, never troubling me, and asking nothing. ~ Pablo Neruda

The wise person knows it is fruitless to project hopes and fears on the future. This only leads to forming melodramatic representations in your mind and wasting time. ~ Epictetus

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

Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time. ~ Philip Yancey

Being human is a precious situation, and we shouldn't waste time in useless activities. ~ Sakyong Mipham

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. ~ Thomas Szasz

Teaching 23-year-olds in an MBA programme strikes me as largely a waste of time. They lack the background of experience. You can teach them skills - accounting and what have you - but you can't teach them management. ~ Peter Drucker

Stop picking up the phone every time it rings, stop wasting time reading junk mail, stop eating out three times a week, give up your golf-club membership and spend more time with your kids, spend a day a week without your watch, watch the sun rise every few days, sell your cellular phone and dump the pager. ~ Robin S. Sharma

You Can't Write Perfect Software. Did that hurt? It shouldn't. Accept it as an axiom of life. Embrace it. Celebrate it. Because perfect software doesn't exist. No one in the brief history of computing has ever written a piece of perfect software. It's unlikely that you'll be the first. And unless you accept this as a fact, you'll end up wasting time and energy chasing an impossible dream. ~ Andrew Hunt

Naturally, in 10 years, you change as a person and you learn a lot from your mistakes. You also learn a lot about wasting time and the right way to handle things. We're not touring as much. We're not doing eight or nine months of the year, so I've got a bit more time to get a perspective on what I do. I think I've improved my songwriting. I'm every bit as enthusiastic about playing as ever and I'm still learning. ~ Rory Gallagher

It is best if we do not listen to or look at the person whom we consider to be the cause of our anger. Like a fireman, we have to pour water on the blaze first and not waste time looking for the one who set the house on fire. "Breathing in, I know that I am angry. Breathing out, I know that I must put all my energy into caring for my anger." So we avoid thinking about the other person, and we refrain from doing or saying anything as long as our anger persists. If we put all our mind into observing our anger, we will avoid doing any damage that we may regret later. ~ Nhat Hanh

You know, I would date, if I could find a man worth shaving my legs for. (Grace) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

What fools call "wasting time" is most often the best investment. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Any writer who has difficulty in writing is probably not onto his true subject, but wasting time with false, petty goals; as soon as you connect with your true subject you will write. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

While she could hardly fathom what had just happened to her that night, she reached some conclusions before she fell asleep, certain things now made perfect sense; Moon River didn't sound so syrupy, mistletoe wasn't such a bad idea, and perhaps dating was not such a frivolous waste of time after all. ~ E.A. Bucchianeri

This is a noble's dagger," Milo said. "It's not for me." He turned his face to me. "But I'll carry it if it will please you, Lady Helen."
Milo's declaration made Eunike cover her mouth and do a bad job of smothering a snicker. I didn't mind so much. I was glad to see her cheerful again.
"Instead of wasting time making fun of me, why don't we get started?" I said. "It'll be dawn before you know it."
"Not before I know it," said Eunike. We all laughed at that. ~ Esther M. Friesner

If you are not enjoying yourself, you are wasting time. ~ Susan Jeffers

Stop wasting time! Time is growing short for you to accomplish what you came to Earth to do! ~ Dolores Cannon

If first of all you have a wrong idea, then it's kind of wasting time. No matter how hard that you try with a wrong idea, it makes it difficult to be successful. ~ Stephen Chow

It's a waste of time to be bummed on something, considering the amount of time that we have in this world. ~ Coco Ho

Striving to achieve a dream is never a waste of time. ~ Felix J. Palma

Regret, is usually a waste of time. As is gloating ~ Pierce Brosnan

You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment ... ~ James Gleick

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

So when we spend all of our time trying to separate that which is already joined, it's a waste of time. ~ Wynton Marsalis

No I did not call in sick to work today
No I'm not out hanging with my friends
There's no more wasting time
On what I think I'm supposed to do
My clock is standing still so
I can have my dream life life
With the ones I love
Playing all day long
Laying back by the water side
With nowhere to go
And the music on
I'm working hard for my dream life
To be my real life
And that can't be wrong
All I have is this life
So I'm making it what I want ~ Colbie Caillat

To learn and to love, that is what we are here for, any activity which is not grounded in one of these two is a waste of time. ~ Anne Rice

Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need. ~ Regina Brett

Love is a fever which, so to speak, drives off without wasting time on the address. ~ P.G. Wodehouse

For every person who closed the door in my face, thank you. For every person who told me I wasn't good enough, thank you. For every person who laughed and told me that I was wasting my time going to college, because I was going to fail, thank you. For every person who tried to break me, thank you. For every person who took my kindness for weakness, thank you. For every person who told me I was wasting time chasing my dreams because I would fail, thank you. It could of broke me. From the core of my heart, I thank you. I truly mean it, because if it weren't for each of you I wouldn't be who I am today. I wouldn't of spend hours and loss sleep studying. I wouldn't developed tough skin. You pushed me to think about what I "really" want out of life. You pushed me to master my craft. You helped me develop the drive, passion and determination. You pushed me to not wait for someone to believe in my vision, but to find a way to make things happen. I know you didn't "intend" to, but I thank you for teaching me to believe in myself! AND you taught me to TRUST in God and lean on my faith, not man. Thank You! ~ Yvonne Pierre

Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time. ~ Thomas Nagel

We could park the van and walk to town, find cheapest bottle of wine that we could find. And talk about the road behind, how getting lost is not a waste of time. ~ Jack Johnson

If you have to pencil in your passion, you're just wasting time. ~ Lauren Alexander

I never used an outline until I started "The Bourne Legacy" project for which I was required to write an outline. To be honest, I thought I'd hate the idea, assuming that if I'd thought of all the ideas at the outset I'd have to incentive to actually write the book, because for me part of the joy of writing are the surprises you come upon as the book takes shape. But something curious and exciting happened. As I wrote the outline, some sections would be very detailed, others quite sketchy, so that whole portions of the book would be covered by one line, such as "Bourne is chased by Khan through Budapest," which when I wrote the novel turned out to be 40-50 pages! Now I'll never write a novel without first doing an outline. Looking back on it, I used to get bogged down in extraneous characters and situations, especially during the first 100 pages (which I find the most difficult to write) that I would later have to scrap, wasting time and energy, and frustrating me. Now that never happens. ~ Eric Van Lustbader

Stop wasting time trying to predict your future, instead just spend more time in trying to create one because the ability to do so lies perfectly placed in your capable hands! You'll one day thank YOURSELF for it! ~ Katlego Semusa

I don't waste time putting money down, I just go straight to who got it and buy it in cash. Pussy so good that you gotta come see me on tour and you gotta fly in first class. ~ Drake

We should all stop wasting time using things we need, and start using most of our time saving them! ~ Carollynn Lemky

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

This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name which is wise, and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal which is also very wise. No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time to trying to understand it. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

Sometimes, people come up to me when I am knitting and they say things like, "Oh, I wish I could knit, but I'm just not the kind of person who can sit and waste time like that." How can knitting be wasting time? First, I never just knit; I knit and think, knit and listen, knit and watch. Second, you aren't wasting time if you get a useful or beautiful object at the end of it.
I will remember that not everyone understands. I will resist the urge to ask others what they do when they watch TV. ~ Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

If you're wasting time, you're wasting money ... and that's just sick. ~ Mr. Krabs

Don't think you're living when you just exist! ~ Ahmed Mostafa

We are wasting time, pleads Greta, by passing this burden, this sack of stones, from one to the next, by pushing our pain away. We mustn't do this. We mustn't play Hot Potato with our pain. Let's absorb it ourselves, each of us, she says. Let's inhale it, let's digest it, let's process it into fuel. ~ Miriam Toews

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

Committee - a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours. ~ Milton Berle

Wasting time changes the nature of time. And the heart is stilled. ~ Rose Tremain

The clock upbraids me with the waste of time. ~ William Shakespeare

Your age reflects or measures the rate at which you have been spending life. Every one born into this world is given life and that life is measured in units of time. Spending time means spending life, wasting time means wasting life. Getting value out of time means, getting value out of life. Time does not stop moving because we stopped working with purpose, meaning life does not stop or take a break even when you plan to go on vacation. You never stop spending time, even when you don't have a penny in your pocket. ~ Archibald Marwizi

The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier. ~ Laini Taylor

You know, you only get to live life once, so there are two things that that yields. One is that there's no point in crying over spilt milk, but secondly you hate wasting time, energy, and whatever talent you've got. ~ David Miliband

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time ... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other. ~ Leo Buscaglia

There's always some days you wish things had never happened, like you'd never been born, that sort of thing but I'm not the kind of person anyway that can just sit around and say, "gee, I wish that never happened." I don't ever do that. There's no point. That is a total and complete waste of time. ~ Patty Hearst

For a moment this good time would never end
You and me
Just wasting time
I was kissing you
You were kissing me love
From good day into a moonlight ~ Dave Matthews

Not to waste time on nonsense. Not to be taken in by conjurors and hoodoo artists with their talk about incantations and exorcism and all the rest of it. Not to be obsessed with quail-fighting or other crazes like that. ~ Marcus Aurelius

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

I'm never sick. Why get sick? It's a waste of time. ~ Martha Stewart

Wasting time just going mindless, watching your charades. When you were younger, did it occur to you 10 years from then you'd act the same age? ~ David Archuleta

Facebook has revealed their estimated net worth - $96 billion. That's almost as much money as businesses lose every year from their employees wasting time looking at Facebook. ~ Jay Leno