Top 100 Quotes About Waste Of Time
#1. Nuclear energy is a waste of time. They should go about harnessing the power of the unconscious when it is in the act of denying Death.
Steve Toltz
#2. I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.
Betty White
#3. Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the dark hiding. It's easy to hide and shout and waste people's time.
Billy Connolly
#4. 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
#5. If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to be a waste of time.
Steven Pinker
#6. Life is over in a blink of an eye - so why waste your time being anything but happy that you've been given another day to live?" "Hey,
Rachel Van Dyken
#7. If I got to you once, I can do it again. And maybe next time I won't waste my breath trying to prove the fact that I'm your equal."
"I am the King, you realize."
"And I'm the daughter of a deity, motherfucker.
J.R. Ward
#8. I was never a cokehead or anything like that. I always despised that drug. I thought it was a waste of time, pointless.
Johnny Depp
#9. I'm definitely more talented than most of the guys I know. A lot of guys who just want to have sex will sit with the same woman and try all night. I'm able to look at a woman, have a five-minute conversation with her, and tell if it's a waste of time or not. I figure things out a lot faster.
Tyrese Gibson
#10. Second guessing a decision is a waste of time.
Jack O'Neill
#11. It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.
Mitch Albom
#12. I'm afraid we shall waste an awful lot of time."
"Don't worry," answered Snufkin, "we shall have wonderful dreams, and when we wake up it'll be spring.
Tove Jansson
#13. What fools we are, eh? What fools, sitting here in the sun, singing. And of love, too! I am too old for it and you are too young, and yet we waste our time singing about it.
Ah, well, let's have a glass of wine, eh?
Gerald Durrell
#14. You know how we sometimes sigh, "Well, that was a waste of time."? Or we snap at somebody: "You're wasting my time!" What does that even mean in the age of texts and tweets, TV and video games?
Ron Brackin
#15. Arguments led by subjectivity are a waste of time. And, if they take place online, add to that, a waste of one's keyboard.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#16. The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.
Benjamin Franklin
#17. It is never a waste of time to study the history of a word.
Lucien Febvre
#18. I worried too much about what others thought - I can tell you it's a tragic waste of time and energy and pokes God in the eye.
Jan Karon
#19. An enlightened thinker does not waste his precious time thinking about what others think of what he thinks.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#20. There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with. Love shouldn't be one of them. Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time.
Jill Robinson
#21. I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time.
Sara Paretsky
#22. Television is obviously an enormous intruder. Quite often people say they have no time, but in fact they waste a lot of time on things that are not healthy.
Henri Nouwen
#23. Do what you believe in and believe in what you do. The rest is a waste of time and energy.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#24. Are you deliberately trying to waste our time," Hal asked in an icy voice, "or are you just being petty?"
"A little of both," said Azrael.
Mirriam Neal
#26. I was aware of the time slipping away so quickly and I was hideously afraid that I would never have another chance to be with him like this again- openly, the Walls between us gone for once. His words hinted at an end, and I recoiled from the idea. I couldn't waste one minute I had with him.
Stephenie Meyer
#27. 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
#28. I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus you don't have to waste your time in either attacking or defending.
Isaac Asimov
#29. So when we spend all of our time trying to separate that which is already joined, it's a waste of time.
Wynton Marsalis
#30. Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise; for the result is waste of time and general stagnation.
Sun Tzu
#31. 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
#32. Don't try to be consistent; it is a waste of time. Just try to update your truth with the real truth!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#33. Nothing has transformed my life more than realizing that it's a waste of time to evaluate my worthiness by weighing the reaction of the people in the stands.
Brene Brown
#34. I think it's a waste of time to worry about the motives of why people are supportive of things. I think we should look at the thing itself. And if they're supportive of something that's sexist or racist, then it's a bad thing, but it's not because they're supportive of it that it's a bad thing.
Lawrence Weiner
#35. I would not waste time, as Senator Gillibrand does, on things such as dictating a national minimum driving age and sponsoring a 'National Day of Play.' I'd help New Yorkers understand that we get less in value from Washington than what we send there in taxes.
Wendy E. Long
#36. That is the way I have always worked. I draw a plan and work out every detail on the plan before starting to build. For otherwise one will waste a great deal of time in makeshifts as the work goes on and the finished article will not have coherence. It
Henry Ford
#37. You have got to believe in yourself every time you go out there and race. If you have no faith in your ability all that training has been a waste of time.
Maurice Greene
#38. The classic experiment I describe next shows that people will not draw from base-rate information an inference that conflicts with other beliefs. It also supports the uncomfortable conclusion that teaching psychology is mostly a waste of time.
Daniel Kahneman
#39. I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.
Jerzy Kosinski
#40. As a writer of criticism, the consumer thing is the least interesting thing, but as a critic, the single worst thing you can do is send a reader to waste time and money on something - even if it's something you personally love. You have to indicate the reasons why you love it and they'll hate it.
Jonathan Gold
#42. We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead we should be writing for our ideal reader.
Julia Cameron
#43. I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.
Camille Pissarro
#44. As a kid, death seemed boring to me. As an adult, I think that it seems more like a waste of everything. Somebody once said every time a professor dies, a library burns.
Stephen King
#45. Illiteracy is a form of slavery!" he would cry. "We can't waste time blaming anyone. We need to become obsessed with teaching people to read!
John Corcoran
#46. I don't get involved in politics. I think that it is a waste of time and money because very often a politician cannot do much, and if you give him money, you embarrass him, so he can't do anything.
Harry Triguboff
#47. While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time.
Thorstein Veblen
#48. I believe that when people view the end of their life as a short time left to live and no time to waste, they open up their hearts more profoundly, knowing they have less, not more, time to live.
Linda Noble Topf
#49. Vote; it's the most important right granted to you as a citizen. But unless you are a politician, stay out of politics because your gains will not change anything and your losses will only make you waste your time and many friendships.
Ben Tolosa
#50. I felt I should have been the happiest person in the world. But I looked inside, and that happiness was only on the surface, not so deep. Beneath it was hollow. Up until that time, I had been thinking meditation was a joke, a fad and a waste of time.
David Lynch
#52. Love's just a waste of energy
and life's just a waste of time
so why don't we get together
we could waste everything tonight
Jack Johnson
#53. You can't live your life for someone else, and you can't let someone else tell you how to live your life. People spend so much time judging the shit out of each other - it's a waste of energy.
Dannika Dark
#54. If you consider an unsuccessful hunt to be a waste of time, then the true meaning of the chase eludes you all together.
Fred Bear
#55. His life had no meaning. It was intolerable. The last three decades had been a hollow waste of time. Hands
Denise Mina
#56. Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.
W. Somerset Maugham
#57. Part of me likes words as music sabotage, and part of me wonders why anyone would waste their time liking anything to do with sabotage.
Dan Bejar
#58. Seeking God's guidance will help you sort through the men that are simply a waste of your time.
Stephan Labossiere
#59. Half of love is restraint. Patience and respect. Don't waste your time on the unworthy.
Aleksandr Voinov
#60. His slow smile didn't soften his hawkish features. You'll come to my bed. And you won't think it a waste of time.
Meljean Brook
#61. I don't believe in worrying. It's a waste of energy.
Malinda Lo
#62. English wine is like Belgian rock or German disco: a waste of everyone's time and money.
Jay Rayner
#63. I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment
Malcolm X
#64. Respect Joy. Joy is not something that happens instead of something else important; It isn't a waste of time; It is, really, what time was invented for. -David Sosnowski, Rapture. (Pg. 92)
David Sosnowski
#65. (A WOMBAT is a Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time: the non-IT equivalent of a PEBCAK. (A PEBCAK is a Problem that Exists Between Chair And Keyboard. (You get the picture: it's parenthesized despair all the way down.)))
Charles Stross
#66. When people don't know whom to vote, it is just waste of time and money.
M.F. Moonzajer
#67. I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered.
Norman Mailer
#68. No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.
Junior Seau
#69. You throw away the substance from which life is made of when you waste time
Sunday Adelaja
#70. Of course you should only be nice to nice people!" Vid looked at Dakota in the rearview mirror. "You hear that, Dakota? Don't waste your time on people who are not nice!
Liane Moriarty
#71. What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.
John Milton
#72. Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don't do that. On occasion? Sure. As relaxation? Great. But not full time - And a lot of people are doing that. And while they're doing that, I'll go ahead and write another novel.
Ray Bradbury
#73. Spam is a waste of the receivers' time, and, a waste of the sender's optimism.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#74. When outcomes are uncertain, most of us spend a great deal of energy ruminating, worrying, and second-guessing ourselves. Not only is this a waste of time, but it makes us less likely to succeed
Melanie Greenberg
#75. Don't waste time trying to make him think that materialism is true! Make him think it is strong, or stark, or courageous - that it is the philosophy of the future.4 That's the sort of thing he cares about. The
C.S. Lewis
#76. Unless it's a soul-nourishing and breath-taking love, the kind that makes you wonder how you got along without them before you met them and makes you be a better, happier person, it is a waste of time. If the person cannot make you smile simply by thinking of them, they're not the one.
Carlos Salinas
#77. To the Maker the archetype, the self-sustainer, human interaction is usually a waste of the most precious thing in his vital existance: time.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#78. The biggest waste of time is to do well something that we need not do at all.
Gretchen Rubin
#79. There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist, and quite good reasons for believing that they do not exist and never have. It has all been a gigantic waste of time and a waste of life. It would be a joke of cosmic proportions if it weren't so tragic.
Richard Dawkins
#80. After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won't be a waste of time.
Nick Cave
#81. It's all you can say, when the end comes: 'I did not waste my time.' I think that matters. I think it may be all that matters.
Conn Iggulden
#82. You cannot teach a poor person to be rich until they change their context. Teaching a person with poor or middle class person's context is a waste of time ... and it does annoy them.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#83. Across my life only one work will be written: "waste" _ waste of love, waste of talent, waste of enterprise.
Violet Trefusis
#84. Believe me when I tell you that thrift of time will repay you in after life, with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams; and that waste of it will make you dwindle, alike in intellectual and moral stature, beyond your darkest reckoning.
Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone
#85. Give me a reason, to end this discussion, to break with tradition, to fall and divide. So let's not get carried, away with the process, of healing relations, I don't want to waste your time!
Aurelien Budynek
#86. I'm always working. I don't really set limits. I tend to go in bursts. And in between, I'm doing my taxes, answering the phone, and all those kinds of things. I waste a lot of time. Computers take a lot of time. I love computers.
Richard Dooling
#87. I had the good sense even then to realize patting oneself on the back is a waste of time. Besides, there are much better places to pat oneself if one must, indeed, pat.
W.B. Keckler
#88. I don't argue, waste of time and effort. I listen to opinions, though
Linda Howard
#89. The reason that I think it is a waste of time to engage in moral value judgements about people's violence, is because it doesn't advance by one iota our understanding of either the causes or the prevention of the violent behaviour.
James Gilligan
#91. I think golf is a waste of time and a waste of a sunny afternoon. I also stink at it. I have never found anything, including divorce and a sexual harassment suit, more frustrating.
Jay Mohr
#92. Every minute this broad spends outside of bed is a waste of time.
Michael Todd
#93. Money was money, but I didn't want to waste any time away from Pidge.
She was happier than I'd ever seen her, and for the first time, I felt like a normal, whole human being instead of some broken, angry man.
Jamie McGuire
#94. I can really waste a lot of time on the Internet.
Amy Brenneman
#95. [from the Acknowledgments page] ...and while comments are very welcome, I would suggest it is a waste of your precious time.
Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
#96. If you do not give 110% in your life, I promise your life will haunt you for the rest of your days. Time is the most valuable asset on Earth, a depreciating asset, don't waste another moment of life where you are not at your fullest potential getting the most out of the time you have in life.
Greg Plitt
#97. Listening to podcast, reading a book, listening to an aduibook and watching films isn't waste of time. It's how somebody becomes wise!
Deyth Banger
#98. I can hardly think of an occasion when I've got into a stand-up fight with any political opponent. I've got my views, people know what they are, they can agree or they can choose to disagree. I'm not going to waste time just rubbishing everybody else.
Charles Kennedy
#99. 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
#100. I want to go working with good people on something that's good, because otherwise it's a big waste of time. I don't have that much time.
Stockard Channing
