Top 100 A Waste Of Time Quotes
#1. You have to have an objective, a goal, some thought process, some strategy in your mind for whatever you do. Otherwise it's a waste of time.
Stuart McMillan
#2. I would love nothing more than compromise. But I would say to you that compromise that's not a solution is a waste of time.
Marco Rubio
#3. There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.
Marcia Wallace
#4. Well, you do what you do and you pay for your sins, but there's no such thing as what might have been. That's a waste of time; drive you outta your mind
Tim McGraw
#6. 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
#7. My interest is in the Wests Tigers. Nobody can support a team that is all the time on the bottom; that's a waste of time.
Harry Triguboff
#8. Is it ever really a waste of time to love someone, truly and deeply, with everything you have?
Rhoda Janzen
#9. He had always pitched in his conversational ante, and if he had contributed infrequently thereafter, it was because he was only interested when the stakes reached a certain minimum level. Small talk was usually a waste of time.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#10. I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.
Martha Stewart
#11. For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#12. My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.
Jack Kerouac
#13. In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a speculative undertaking.
Seth Klarman
#14. Nothing done with the focus on God is ever a waste of time.
Lysa TerKeurst
#15. Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.
Eric Ries
#16. I was starting to think that except for the deli counters and five or ten thousand other total essentials, supermarkets were pretty much a waste of time.
Meg Rosoff
#18. She does not acknowledge hatred. A waste of time. Life
Kelly Gardiner
#19. For those who want to pick up old fights, we're game, but what a waste of time. Why not join hands instead? Join hands in the biggest challenge of all, where we all win, or we all lose: the battle for the survival and progress of our one and only country.
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
#20. Worry does no good and can impact your life in negative ways. I'm sure you have noticed how absolutely powerless you feel when you worry or you're anxious and troubled, because worry is indeed completely useless. It is a waste of time and energy because it never changes your circumstances.
Joyce Meyer
#21. Testing stools for C. diff in patients after they have finished their Flagyl or Vanco for 10 days and after their bowel movements have returned to normal (that is, formed and not watery) is a waste of time and money, and is not helpful to the doctor or patient.
J. Thomas LaMont
#22. It wasn't a waste of time if you learned that it was a waste of time.
Ahmed Ali Anjum
#23. It's hard running as an independent. I wouldn't have won the Senate election if I hadn't been governor. I had credibility. The hard part is getting voters to the point where they think it's thinkable and not a waste of time.
Angus King
#24. Performance shots are a waste of time, they look like everyone else's. If you want to shoot a performer, then grab them, own them, you have to own people, then twist them into what you want to say about them.
Art Kane
#26. A relationship without trust is a waste of time
Prince Simus
#27. The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical, just 'can't be bothered.' It's such a waste of time.
Peter Capaldi
#28. The Jersey mentality is: I work, I drink, I stay up all night, I try to meet a girl, it's a waste of time.
Gerard Way
#29. Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.
Manuel Puig
#31. Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.
Diane Johnson
#32. I mean, I think everybody realizes that calling people racist is a waste of time; nobody buys it anymore.
Bernard Goldberg
#33. It's a waste of time to think about things you can't know, and things you can't confirm even if you know them.
Haruki Murakami
#34. Truth cannot be given to you; especially if you are following an organized religion, then truth will be as far from you as darkness is from light. Truth is not found by observing rituals, undertaking pilgrimages or reading the scriptures. It is simply a waste of time.
Anandmurti Gurumaa
#35. I assume that if God is anything like Jesus, then living in fear is a waste of time.
Tripp Fuller
#37. Having a little boy has taken me to a very deep place. I am starting to realize everything I ever worried about was such a waste of time.
David Caruso
#38. My mother and father raised their eyebrows at first when I said I wanted to be an actor because I was in this industrial city. My dad had done a bit of boxing on the side, but he was a welder first and foremost. I was 17, and I said, 'I want to be an actor.' They worried it was a waste of time.
Sean Bean
#39. 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
#40. We never end up with the book we began writing. Characters twist it and turn it until they get the life that is perfect for them. A good writer won't waste their time arguing with the characters they create ... It is almost always a waste of time and people tend to stare when you do!
C.K. Webb
#41. 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
#42. Life is a waste of time, and time is a waste of life. Get wasted all the time, and you'll have the time of your life!
Billy Connolly
#43. 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
#44. I wanted to paint pictures of people. I thought, "Why bother doing anything else. Everything else is a waste of time. I want to tell stories about people and their feelings and emotions."
Lisa Yuskavage
#45. If beauty is in the eye of the beholder are mirrors a waste of time?
Diane Keaton
#46. The fact is, that life is too short to be occupied by aught but the present - hope and remembrance are equally a waste of time.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#47. Something that looks like a protocol but does not accomplish a task is not a protocol - it's a waste of time.
Bruce Schneier
#48. All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think art should be escapist. That's a waste of time.
Edward Albee
#50. Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.
E.L. Konigsburg
#51. If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact is what matters.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#52. Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.
Andy Hargreaves
#53. Throw yourself into the work of the Master, confident that nothing you do for Him is a waste of time or effort.
Rick Warren
#54. Excellence is a signal to God that we are going to dig our ditches but if You don't make it rain, all of this is a waste of time.
Jeff Henderson
#55. Worrying about parents is a waste of time. It's your life. Let's have a martini.
Megan Mayhew Bergman
#56. I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation.
Henry Rollins
#57. And telling you I care about you is a waste of time. I wouldn't have crossed the ocean, come out of hiding, tracked you down, if you didn't matter to me.
Anne Stuart
#58. If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry - you just pull the trigger. Angry discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger.
Jim Allchin
#59. I don't get jealous of people. Jealousy is such a waste of time because you're jealous of them, and they go about their lives and have a wonderful time, so what's the point?
Joy Behar
#60. The most important thing to do is to set goals. Training is a waste of time if you don't have goals.
Samantha Riley
#61. Talking to you is like
like talking to an eel!"
"No, is it? I've never tried to talk to an eel. Isn't it as waste of time?"
"Not such a waste of time as talking to you!
Georgette Heyer
#62. In my own case, my folks didn't actually object to comics, as many parents did, but they pretty much felt the things were a waste of time.
Michael Dirda
#63. Nothing is a waste of time unless you think it is.
Marty Rubin
#64. Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Auguste Rodin
#65. Education has but one honorable purpose, one alone, everything else is a waste of time ... that is to train the student to be a proper handler of power.
John Henrik Clarke
#66. You know, I was chubby when I was a little girl. And I have all those issues everyone else has. But I try not to. And I've learned over the years that it's such a waste of time. And people like me whether I'm a little bit fatter or not.
Gwen Stefani
#67. If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.
C.S. Lewis
#68. In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin.
John Ortberg
#69. Baby, I don't feel pain. Ever. (Talon)
Really? Not even a little? (Sunshine)
It's a waste of time and energy. It also drains the mind and makes it weary. (Talon)
But without pain, you can't have joy. It's the balance that makes us appreciate the extreme. (Sunshine)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#70. I never analyze it. Analyzing it would just be a waste of time. I just go out and do it.
Johnny Carson
#71. no matter how little it might seem, if you are doing it for the Lord and you are doing it with a pure heart, it is not a waste of time
Sunday Adelaja
#72. Guilt is a waste of time unless you learn how to be more loving the next time a similar situation presents itself.
Annette Vaillancourt
#73. Designing and implementing a strategy for change is a waste of time until you have discovered and embraced the current reality. If you don't know where you really are, it is impossible to get where you need to be.
Andy Stanley
#74. After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working.
Evan Williams
#75. To Aaron, it didn't seem logical to hope anyone would do anything - did it? Either Aaron would come back or he wouldn't and the rock would have to be fine either way. Hope was a waste of time.
Lisa McMann
#76. It may be romantic to search for the salves of society's ills in slow-moving rustic surroundings, or among innocent, unspoiled provincials, if such exist, but it is a waste of time.
Jane Jacobs
#77. If you want to be negative about the whole thing you can say all guitar bands after the Beatles were just a waste of time because the Beatles were the best. I think it's far better to give new records a try.
Stephen Malkmus
#78. Worrying about something you can change is necessary, but worrying about the inevitable is a waste of time.
J.A. George
#79. Look, let's get one thing straight here. I don't know what went down between you and the asshole and I really don't care. But if we're gonna dance this dance with each other, you're gonna have to stop comparing me to him. I doubt he'd even come close anyway so it's a waste of time.
Jordan Silver
#80. Teach kids not to fight. Can they change taxes? I'd get rid of all the congestion charges, because they've not stopped traffic. They're a waste of time, not that I'm getting all political.
Peter Andre
#81. Life is so short. Grudges are a waste of time. Laugh when you can, apologise when you should, and trust God with what you cannot change.
Nicky Gumbel
#82. Nothing about art is a waste of time. It's the time wasting that gets you somewhere.
Cath Crowley
#83. Never feel guilty about anything shame and guilt are a waste of time just do what you do
and deal with it
Kevin Brooks
#85. An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#86. I think it's rather a waste of time endlessly singing the same songs every night for a year, and it's just not what I want to do.
David Bowie
#87. We may learn things from one who preaches, or we may find their pontificating a waste of time - often enough, a hypocritical waste of time. What child ever preaches? Yet time spent open-heartedly with a child is never wasted.
Quentin S. Crisp
#88. Women are good listeners, but it's a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there's something specific you want him to do.
Mignon McLaughlin
#89. Bad things happen whether you're scared or not, so you might as well not bother being scared. It's a waste of time.
Louise Rozett
#90. It's all a waste of time. Everything begins only to end. The moment you were born you began to die. That's how it is with everything.
Pierre Anthon
Janne Teller
#91. It's so egotistical to believe that we know more about someone else's reality than they do, and such a waste of time.
Shreve Stockton
#92. Worrying is a waste of time. It doesn't change anything. It messes with your mind and steals your happiness.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#93. The Eeyore Educational System sees childhood as a waste of time, a luxury that society cannot afford ... Put children in school at the earliest age possible; load them down with homework; take away their time, their creativity, their play, their power; then plug them into machines.
Benjamin Hoff
#94. Courtesy is a waste of time; it weakens you and undermines you.
Yasmina Reza
#95. We can create as magnificent an environment as we like, but unless we change the heart it's all a waste of time.
John Hagee
#96. I usually write very few stage directions. I think a lot of that is a waste of time. The art of screenwriting is in its terseness, saying a lot with a little. I have no patience when I read a script where the writer describes this guy and what he's wearing and his glasses and his hair.
Scott Frank
#97. 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
#98. You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out.
Stanley Crouch
#99. I was in London. It's a long way to go for a very long party, sitting there for six hours not having a cigarette or a drink. It's a waste of time.
Albert Finney
#100. Never, never waste a minute on regret. It's a waste of time.
Harry S. Truman
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