Top 100 Is Time Wasted Quotes
#1. We don't get much time, and time feeling sorry for yourself is time wasted.
Joe Abercrombie
#2. 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
#3. Now we realize that time is our most valuable resource, and every minute we spend in one of these meetings just sitting there is time wasted.
Blake Ross
#4. Time spent with people of not your liking is time wasted
Lou Silluzio
#5. Time spent looking back in anger is time wasted.
Mary Stewart
#6. Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted.
John Marsden
#8. Wasting time in a relationship that blows is just that - wasted time.
Greg Behrendt
#9. Life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered.
J.D. Robb
#12. If you were to gather all the minutes wasted on insignificant, immaterial yik yak spent throughout the day and add them up, how much misspent time do you think you'd have? One hour? Two hours? Consider the sunk cost on that. It's unacceptable. One minute wasted is one minute too much.
Ari Gold
#13. I believe that, for those who love to write, time spent writing is never wasted. And then isn't it from book to book that we approach the book that we really want to write?
Elena Ferrante
#14. There ain't no time to be wasted, the world is going under ...
Nowadays, can't tell Fall from Spring, and Winter from Summer.
Big K.R.I.T.
#15. Time spent with a cat is never wasted.
Colette
#16. Truth is, I didn't know what the hell I was doing when I got out of Cal Arts. I think I wasted a lot of time not being bold enough, or still engaged in the questioning that you get into at school.
David Salle
#17. If there is anything in life to worry about at all, it's your wasted yesterday. Unfortunately, before you worry about it, you have to waste today doing so. Never worry!
Israelmore Ayivor
#18. So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.
Elijah Wood
#19. How much time is wasted in what is called thought, but is merely care--an anxious idling over the fancied probabilities of result
George MacDonald
#20. America, I'm gonna shoot straight with you, I think I've wasted your time. I think this is the first time I have wasted an hour of your time. I apologize for that.
Glenn Beck
#21. I no longer have time for unnecessary drama. I wasted so much time scared, self-conscious and insecure. Life is too short to stress the small things anymore.
Daryl Hannah
#24. 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
#25. When you're writing is when the "god should I just drop this" feeling can hit. When you're editing is when the "god this is awful and I've wasted everyone's time and money and will be revealed as a fraud" feeling can hit.
Rian Johnson
#26. Since graduating from HMS my greatest satisfaction has unequivocally been my family. My main disappointment is that I have wasted too much time in personal pursuits and been less of an influence for good than I might have been.
Norris B. Finlayson
#27. It is surprising," Roosevelt explained, "how much reading a man can do in time usually wasted.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#29. Entire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute, but now he obsessed over each one, this minute, the next minute, the one following, all of which were different terms for the same illusion.
Anthony Marra
#30. Remember that no piece of honestly conducted research is ever wasted, even if it seems so at the time. Put it away in a drawer, and ten, twenty or thirty years down the road, it will come back and help you in ways you never anticipated.
Anthony James Leggett
#31. Maybe it was time to at least pretend to be a nicer person than i knew i was
Sue Grafton
#33. A life without increase, production and multiplication is a wasted one
Sunday Adelaja
#34. Suddenly your whole life is like a car crash, no brakes, gaining momentum, piling up behind you. Your mistakes, missed opportunities, all the time you've wasted, a twisted, rusting heap of scrap metal that can't be salvaged. Overwhelming you. Crushing you.
Debbie Howells
#35. Control yourself every passing second and make sure that no unit of time is being wasted
Sunday Adelaja
#37. Precious laughing time is wasted, because I have to put up with Satan's stupid minions who smile without attempting to anger somebody else - leave us alone already.
A Gentlemen
#38. Time is wasted because there is so much time available.
Timothy Ferriss
#40. Mortal man! You've wasted your time mostly with wrong and empty beliefs! And now you have started understanding that most important thing in life is existence!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#41. The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
Arnold Bennett
#42. 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
#43. Time spent with poets is never wasted.
May Sarton
#45. As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
T. S. Eliot
#46. Time cannot be saved, it can only be spent, and if not spent wisely and well, it is wasted.
Henrietta C. Mears
#47. A day spent wasting time, that you enjoyed, is not time wasted ...
John Lennon
#48. Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#49. Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#50. I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.
Lady Gregory
#51. Time goes by so fast and worry is really wasted time and energy.
Dana Perino
#52. I think I've wasted some of my time, but used most of it well, and have realized that my life is not separate from other people's lives or from the universe. I think our moments of happiness really come from a feeling of unity.
Gloria Steinem
#53. Moving. Someone said this to me a long time ago, it's bhuddist saying, I think: 'There is no wasted effort'.
Lauren Graham
#54. One of the few things that can't be recycled is wasted time.
Sean Covey
#55. The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.
Dawson Trotman
#57. The only difference between a young person at the height of their exuberance and a very old person who is frail and physically wasted is time.
John O'Donohue
#58. I'm just used to leaving and being like, "I feel like I wasted their time and I definitely wasted my own time." I often leave auditions thinking that that person is now permanently mad at me.
Jon Gabrus
#59. I don't regret a single second that I spent with you." I smiled wryly at him. "No time spent with you is wasted.
S.C. Stephens
#60. Time spent on solving a problem with the same level of thinking that created it is time well wasted
Sekoni Sullivan
#61. But time given to wishing for what can't be is not only spent, but wasted, and for all that we waste we shall be accountable.
Penelope Fitzgerald
#62. Too much time is wasted listening to the noise of the mind - and too little is spent living from the love and power of the heart
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#63. 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
#64. The only value of wasted time is knowledge.
Monica Drake
#66. You're like a brother to me. I would never do anything to hurt you. And I know I haven't been what a brother would consider good material for his wee sister, but I love Ellie, Braden. I have for a long time now, and I can't not be with her. I've wasted too much time as it is.
Samantha Young
#67. If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.
Paulo Coelho
#70. There will never be a point in my life where it is acceptable to waste time.
Carlos Wallace
#71. There was some expiration point to my life, and it became very important to maximize the time that I did have on Earth. That's what led me to my personal philosophy: "No Opportunity Wasted" - NOW for short, which is about living life to the fullest.
Phil Keoghan
#72. She has sold them some of her time for the money she needs to live, but hoarded these moments for herself, and each one is precious, to be wasted as she wishes.
Dexter Palmer
#73. My motto has always been "Time enjoyed is never wasted." Except replace "enjoyed" with "drunk" and "never wasted" with "never not a good idea.
Jenny Lawson
#74. 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
#75. Time is a precious commodity that should not be wasted doing things that are not important to you.
T.K. Oliver
#76. Writer's Disease: About ninety per cent of your time is wasted on totally pointless and distracting activity, and only about ten per cent is actually spent dreaming up and composing and shaping and honing all those wonderful, exciting, soul-stirring excuses for not having got anything written.
Jem Roberts
#78. Not even a book on prosperity can prosper you, when what is expected of you is given, your time won't be wasted.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#79. I wish she would grow up. 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. He whole idea is to race on to the silliest time of one's life as quick as she can and then stop there as long as she can.
C.S. Lewis
#80. Remember that no time is ever wasted that makes two people better friends.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#81. Remember this, if you can
there is nothing, nothing more precious than time. You probably feel you have a measureless supply of it, but you haven't. Wasted hours destroy your life just as surely at the beginning as at the end
only in the end it becomes more obvious.
Herman Wouk
#82. The compensation we receive from employment is not enough for the time being wasted
Sunday Adelaja
#83. I waste so much time sleeping. And time is of all losses the most irrecuperable, for it can never be redeemed.
Alison Weir
#84. Life to me is a beautiful gift from from AdoShem that should not be wasted but shared with others. Including amazing revelations that are meant to be seen and meant to be told for such a time as this!
Sipporah Joseph
#85. I hope people leave my show thinking they've had a worthwhile couple of hours. The worst thing you want is for people to think they've wasted their time or didn't get their money's worth.
Joel Plaskett
#86. I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.
William Faulkner
#87. I wasted my time, he said, 'though the hours seemed pleasant. But all such things are short-lived; and the joy in the making is their old true end, I guess.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#88. If the time we spend trying to become somebody people will love isn't wasted because the most powerful, most attractive person we can be is who we already are,
Donald Miller
#89. Man is an enigma. This enigma must be solved, and if you spend all your life at it, don't say you have wasted your time; I occupy myself with this enigma because I wish to be a man.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#90. What's done
is done. Say good-bye to the past, and hello to the future And we're
wasting time, when already we've wasted enough. We've got everything
ahead, waiting for us.
Just the right words to make me feel real, alive, free! Free enough to
forget thoughts of revenge.
V.C. Andrews
#91. If you learned how to make a cloud, your time is not wasted.
Bob Ross
#92. Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.
Shirley Temple
#93. If the chi is being wasted by useless activities, emotions and associations that drain us, then we don't have enough power when it comes time to perform.
Frederick Lenz
#95. If we lose our money while traveling, think how frantically we search for it! In the same way, if we are unable to do japa even for a brief moment, we should grieve: 'Alas, Lord, I have lost so much time!' If there is such anguish, even the time we spend sleeping will not be wasted.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#96. 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
#97. Much time is spent on meaning while precious little time wasted has none!
M.B.JONES
#98. 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
#99. chief beauty about the constant supply of time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoilt, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your career.
Arnold Bennett
