Top 100 Quotes About Too Much Time
#1. Don't spend too much time planning, release early and often, some things will work, others won't, refine and move forward and above all forget the money, just make sure you love what you're doing.
Kevin Rose
#2. Training is one of the most neglected phases of athletics. Too much time is given to the development of skill and too little to the development of the individual for participation.
Bruce Lee
#3. Republicans spend too much time on defense. We have to be on offense. We have to point out the truth. President Obama stole seven hundred million dollars from Medicare. Republicans want to preserve Medicare. Obamacare robs from Medicare.
Rudy Giuliani
#4. If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
Bruce Lee
#5. People are spending way too much time thinking about climate change, way too little thinking about AI.
Peter Thiel
#6. I was spending way too much time thinking about me and what I needed to do, and far too little time thinking about Jesus and what he had already done for me.
Tullian Tchividjian
#7. To have too much time is not good, you have to force yourself. And human beings aren't meant for true freedom. I've learned that, having had it.
Ethan Canin
#8. If you spend too much time in a place like that your power level will be lowered and these beings will annoy you.
Frederick Lenz
#9. I was spending too much time thinking about how I was doing, if I was learning everything I was supposed to be learning during this difficult season, whether I was doing it right or not, taking my spiritual pulse, etc - my inner lawyer was working overtime.
Tullian Tchividjian
#11. Oh, you know me, Jules," she answered. "I do not like to dwell on the past. Life is ahead of us. If we spend too much time looking backward, we can't see where we are going!" Much
R.J. Palacio
#12. God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes.
Richard Rohr
#13. I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don't ever spend too much time looking in the mirror.
Robert Stack
#14. Mama says I spend too much time in little fantasy worlds and not enough in this one.
Alethea Kontis
#15. Dwelling on pain, spending too much time immersed in it, tasting its flavors, fingering its textures
this makes it only more potent.
Tayari Jones
#16. Much like anyone with too much time on his or her hands, I feel as though I am the most important person on earth and everything I do is relevant. I say the most charming and inspired things when no one is around.
Macaulay Culkin
#17. Business coach Dan Sullivan says, If you spend too much time working on your weaknesses, all you end up with is a lot of strong weaknesses!
Jack Canfield
#18. Eve continued with the inexorable process of dying, Zoe spent too much time with her grandparents, and Denny and I worked at slowing the beating of our hearts so we wouldn't feel so much pain.
Garth Stein
#19. Some people are like psychic sponges, they drain power form others constantly. They lower your awareness because they are at a lower level. If you spend too much time with them, you get pulled down.
Frederick Lenz
#20. I can't spend too much time in the forests because I invariably leave traces-ridiculously happy trees, basically, since I'm the last Druid in the world and they tend to geek out like Joss Whedon fans when I show up.
Kevin Hearne
#21. One of the problems of our society is that we spend too much time thinking about punishment and not enough about prevention.
Roy Hattersley
#22. All of my plays are about people missing the boat, closing down too young, coming to the end of their lives with regret at things not done, as opposed to things done. II find most people spend too much time living as if they're never going to die.
Edward Albee
#23. I always felt really guilty if I spent too much time playing video games. It's a colossal waste of time. And I can't say it's a very satisfying feeling at the end of the day, if you've spent eight hours playing a video game; you just end up feeling kind of spent, and used.
John C. Reilly
#24. I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.
Andy Rooney
#25. When I was younger, before I was married and had children, I really was nit-picky, a perfectionist. I was very much into different people's approval. I had too much time on my hands, I think.
Nia Peeples
#26. Christ, what a sad collection of losers, mm?'
'Too much time on their hands, mate. Leads to poetry.
Garth Ennis
#27. I'd wasted too much time over the past twelve months considering how bad my life could get, but as I sat alone in the deserted hospital corridor, my very worst fears had never felt more real. Pete was fighting for his life, and there was every chance he could lose.
Garrett Leigh
#28. It's just me and James walking and walking except he's on my back and his eyes are looking past the people who are looking past us for the coyote of our soul and the wolverine of our heart and the crazy crazy man that touches every Indian who spends too much time alone.
Sherman Alexie
#29. Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.
Penn Jillette
#30. In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.
Mary Oliver
#31. 'Thank you' is often an admission that you needed something that wasn't being fulfilled or you couldn't do on your own, so you needed someone else. There is also guilt. We think, 'Well, too much time has gone by, and it doesn't matter,' but it does. It always matters.
Elizabeth Banks
#32. No, but I mean do you like him? You know, in the carnal sense."
I rolled my eyes. "You've clearly been spending too much time with Dex.
Rachel Hawkins
#33. I spend far too much time on eBay buying lamps and upholstery remnants.
Heidi Julavits
#34. Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't walk and chew gum at the same time ... He's a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#35. Some women are just better at knowing what they want, which saves them the trouble of wasting too much time on the wrong guy.
Alice Walsh
#36. Freedom is indivisible. Whites can't enjoy their separate freedoms. They spend too much time and resources defending those freedoms instead of enjoying them.
Desmond Tutu
#37. ROSE: I think I've spent too much time around Dave.
ROSE: I've also probably spent too much time sharing his genes.
Andrew Hussie
#38. We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.
Harold Ramis
#39. Although too much time has gone by to miss her, I feel regret that I didn't maintain our friendship. Even if we no longer have much in common, we would have always had the past, which, in some ways, is just as important as the present or future.
Emily Giffin
#40. I did a year at Leeds, studying English. They basically threw me out, because I was taking too much time off to act. So I transferred to the Open University, because I could do it all online. By that point, I had admitted to myself that I had the acting bug.
Holliday Grainger
#41. I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.
Andy Rooney
#42. If we spend too much time reliving the past, it gets us nowhere."
"That's where I am, Rafe. Nowhere.
Mary E. Pearson
#43. People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.
Albert Ellis
#44. Guess what? I have flaws. What are they? Oh I donno, I sing in the shower? Sometimes I spend too much time volunteering. Occasionally I'll hit somebody with my car. So sue me
no, don't sue me. That is opposite the point I'm trying to make.
Michael Scott
#45. I can't live with art: I'd spend too much time tweaking it.
Thelma Golden
#46. We spent too much time attacking Gordon Brown and Labour rather than setting out our own plans. People had decided they wanted change - the thing they were not sure about was the alternative we were offering, so going on and on about Labour missed the point.
Michael Ashcroft
#47. Spending too much time focused on others' strengths leaves us feeling weak. Focusing on our own strengths is what, in fact, makes us strong.
Simon Sinek
#48. We really try not to spend too much time thinking about what we're supposed to be a punk band, or whatever. We do the exact same thing today that we been doing for years and years and years.
Mark Hoppus
#49. If you give yourself too much time, you kind of over-obsess about the music. It's not supposed to be like that.
Joss Stone
#50. But I was not especially skilled at minding children for long spells; I grew bored, perhaps like my own mother. After I spent too much time playing their games, my mind grew peckish and longed to lose itself in some book I had in my backpack. I was ever hopeful of early bedtimes and long naps.
Lorrie Moore
#51. That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that.
Brian Clough
#52. One of the main pitfalls of any theoretically 'niche' show is that you spend too much time on the 'niche' and not enough time on the 'show.'
Brad Falchuk
#53. I keep vaguely wondering what Macs are like, but the ones I've seen spend too much time being friendly.
Terry Pratchett
#54. I had forgotten to fear him, from too much time spent too close.
Naomi Novik
#55. We do spend too much time on the telephone, and you know something? We love it.
Michio Kaku
#56. I see many founders waste too much time trying to work their networks and/or ultimately settle for mediocre but available candidates. You will definitely have to interview hard for cultural fit, but the best talent isn't cheap.
Scott Weiss
#57. TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.
Douglas Coupland
#58. I'm not willing to spend too much time away from my kids, so I usually don't work that much.
Leslie Mann
#59. Bless them. But don't spend too much time with them. Draw close to people who honor your no, who cheer you on for telling the truth, who value your growth more than they value their own needs getting met or their own pathologies celebrated. Our
Shauna Niequist
#60. It was said that pilgrims should not spend too much time planning their journey, for they might learn of so many hazards that they would decide not to go.
Ken Follett
#61. Take too much time, and time will take you.
Lisa Kleypas
#62. My biggest change is what is important to me, and what is not. What's worthy worrying about, and what is not. When we're younger, we tend to spend too much time worrying and going over the unnecessary. I'm no longer running the hamster wheel.
John Schneider
#63. I've spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.
Billy Graham
#64. I don't believe in hate. To me it wastes too much time. People who hate waste so much of their life hating that they miss out on all the other stuff out here.
Jaycee Dugard
#65. We spend too much time recruiting and not enough time working with the players we have.
Alex Agase
#66. A lot of shorts spend too much time setting up the idea; sometimes they meander.
Adam McKay
#67. For the Lord aimed for him to do and not to spend too much time thinking, because his brain it's like a piece of machinery: it won't stand a whole lot of racking. It's best when it all runs along the same, doing the day's work and not no one part used no more than needful.
William Faulkner
#68. You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.
Frank Crane
#69. I feel better now that we decided not to worry. I think most people spend too much time worrying about stuff that never happens.
K. Martin Beckner
#70. Keeping a diary is advanced-level living. I spend way too much time trying not to curl up in the corner like a giant fetus & weep to keep a diary.
Alissa Nutting
#71. The leisure time of children must be constructively directed to wholesome, positive pursuits. Too much time viewing television can be destructive ... It is estimated that growing children today watch television over twenty-five hours per week.
Ezra Taft Benson
#72. My daily style is easy and effortless - I don't like to take too much time getting ready.
Kourtney Kardashian
#73. If you want success and wealth, then stop spending too much time on cyber world.
Ehabib
#74. Educators are still spending way too much time trying to control what kids learn, bending the content to their own purposes, hoping beyond hope to change - by using technology - but not change too much.
Daniel Greenberg
#75. If you spend too much time dreaming, you'll stop actually doing. And when you actually do stuff, there's a good chance things will work out. We make things happen by attacking, not by sitting around dreaming.
Miranda Kenneally
#76. Adam says I isolate. He is addicted to telling me that I spend too much time in my head. It's an unhealthy behavior. Look, I don't see how not bothering other people with your screwed-up vision of the world constitutes unhealthy behavior.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#77. Without being tiresome. They lacked that all-important dimension of physics: torque. Too much time ahead, too little behind, like a man trying to carry a horizontal ladder with a grip at one end.
Nancy Kress
#78. Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have had other people hurt us. To a younger me this sounded like luck; to an older me this sounds like a quiet tragedy.
Douglas Coupland
#79. Being a writer guarantees that you will spend too much time alone -- and that as a result, your mind will begin to warp.
Anne Lamott
#80. When I was younger I spent way too much time thinking about me being too fat. So stupid.
Meryl Streep
#81. Spending too much time in one's individual silo can produce pride, isolation, and a stagnated ministry.
James MacDonald
#82. I could Photoshop for hours. I spend way too much time making thumbnails. I spend, like, two hours on my thumbnails sometimes just because it's, like, fun.
Connor Franta
#83. I have never met an old saint who regretted having spent too much time in prayer, but I have met many who regretted having spent too little!
Paul Washer
#84. HeyHey is my favourite app. It's like Instagram but for sound recordings, with little soundbites from people's days. We spend far too much time looking down at our phones, so it's nice to have your head up while you listen to what other people have uploaded.
Gael Garcia Bernal
#85. Relax. Cultivate your children's capabilities. Maximize their strengths. Do not handicap their unique skills by spending too much time on making them average in everything. Help them create their own style, and appreciate your children for who God created them to be.
Tamara L. Chilver
#86. you never miss the plane, you're spending too much time in airports.
Jordan Ellenberg
#87. You could say that too much time has passed for us to take up new styles so it's entirely up to us to improve. I personally wanted to produce a voice that's different from when I did "V.V.I.P" so I put a lot of effort into finding my voice.
Seungri
#88. On the other hand, when too much time is occupied in traveling, we become strangers to our native country; and the over curious in the customs of the past are generally ignorant of those of the present.
Rene Descartes
#89. I love driving, but sometimes, I'm not too good at it because I spend too much time looking in the rearview mirror if I know I'm being followed. You don't respond like, 'Oh, there's paparazzi.' It's more like, 'There's a man, and he's going to attack me.' That's how your body responds.
Ashley Olsen
#90. If I were a better version of me, I would not react faster than I think, would not be wounded when no harm was intended, would understand before too much time had passed to forgive ...
Arthur Phillips
#91. You cannot always make such big exhibitions, because they consume too much time and energy.
Alva Noto
#92. We spend too much time thinking about the actions we should be taking to create the results that we want, but then we don't take those actions.
Hal Elrod
#93. I do not like to dwell on the past. Life is ahead of us. If we spend too much time looking backward, we can't see where we are going!
R.J. Palacio
#94. I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it.
Julie Andrews
#95. People automatically associate quitting with failure, but sometimes that's exactly what you should do. If you already spent too much time on something that wasn't worth it, walk away. You can't get that time back. The worst thing you can do now is waste even more time.
Jason Fried
#96. If you spend too much time looking for rain, you'll likely find it.
Vivienne Lorret
#97. We waste too much time being afraid, when what we should really fear is wasting time.
Stephanie Shirley
#98. If you spend too much time being like everybody else, you decrease your chances of coming up with something different.
Robert E. Ornstein
#99. I am often criticized for spending too much time off the ice, but if you were in my shoes, you'd see how necessary it is.
Johnny Weir
#100. But dying was no drama. Dying was cold and hard and painful, and dull. It went on too long. I was exhausted and growing bored with it. Now I had too much time to think about whether I was going to die from the tide
Tracy Chevalier
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