Quotes About Wastes Of Time

#1. The thing about eating is that there are so many other more interesting things to do. I feel the same way about sleeping. Complete wastes of time.

Jennifer Niven

#2. For love was a kind of folly, a losing game. The greatest of all Wastes of Time. But then, that depended on what you thought time was for.

Cassandra Golds

#3. Almost time to go home - and he had come to rely on the desolate wastes of time that lay between these pleasures as an invalid comes to rely on the certainty of recurring pain. It was a part of him.

Richard Yates

#4. If you spend a lot of energy on things that are wastes of time, then you waste energy, get sick, and die faster.

James Altucher

#5. Life is agid, life is fulgid. Life is what the least of us make most of us feel the least of us make the most of. Life is a burgeoning, a quickening of the dim primordial urge in the murky wastes of time.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#6. Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives.

Tom Peters

#7. Then of thy beauty do I question make,
That thou among the wastes of time must go,
Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake,
And die as fast as they see others grow.

William Shakespeare

#8. Your lack of commitment to being different is what kills you. It is the insanity of doing the same thing every time and expecting a different result that wastes your time.

Shannon L. Alder

#9. We enter a time of calamity. Blood on the tarmac. Fingers in the juicer. Towers of air frozen in the lunar wastes. Models dead on the runways, with their legs facing backward. Children with smiles that can't be undone. Chicken shall rot in the aisles. See the pillars fall.

M T Anderson

#10. I realise myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy, and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and positive use.

Julian Lennon

#11. Never automate something that can be eliminated, and never delegate something that can be automated or streamlined. Otherwise, you waste someone else's time instead of your own, which now wastes your hard-earned cash. How's that for incentive to be effective and efficient?

Timothy Ferriss

#12. Just as the waste of time nourishes the hell of leisure, so technological wastes nourish the hell of war. Wastes which incarnate the secret violence of this society, uncoerced and non-degradable defecation.

Jean Baudrillard

#13. Competing with other women wastes a lot of time, and I'm just not very good at it.

Sandra Bullock

#14. 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

#15. No divine terror will ever be found in the work of the man who wastes a colossal strength in elaborating toys; for the first lesson that terror is sent to teach us is, the value of the human soul, and the shortness of mortal time.

John Ruskin

#16. As soap wastes away each time when used, so a prostitute wastes away each time she gives of herself.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#17. Someone or something that wastes your time, makes you lose a part of your life. One you can never get back.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#18. The Enlightened one (Gnani Purush) never wastes his time in counting money; focus of the awareness of the self (upayog) is wasted in doing this. One's focused awareness (upayog) is where he has 'interest'!

Dada Bhagwan

#19. There is always an incredible amount of things vying for our attention at home. I'm not saying you should never do the laundry, or pay attention to the kids, but for most of us, we're not present to how much time we spend on those. Anything that wastes your time is a waste of money.

Rory Vaden

#20. Here's an example of how it wastes some time. To be judged on or to be talked about on appearance - say chest size - it makes me wear layers, it makes me have to waste time figuring out what am I going to wear so that nobody will look in an area that I don't need them to look at.

Sarah Palin

#21. What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had of being, for the first time in my life, entirely alone, a Crusoe shipwrecked and stranded in the limitless wastes of a boundless and indifferent ocean.

John Banville

#22. I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually.

Kate Adie

#23. A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates only when surrounded by love. It is bound to wilt in a world where the rich have no time and the cultivated no money. But it never harmonizes with borrowed greatness.

Ernst Junger

#24. Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous.

David Mitchell

#25. There is a saying along the lines of not trying to teach a pig to sing because it wastes your time and annoys the pig. I want you to know how many times I have stood in pig-filled rooms, and longed to annoy. I

John Scalzi

#26. What a shot! Now tell me Zurov wastes his time making holes in five-kopeck pieces! From forty paces straight into the back of the head, and you have to take the poor light into account.

Boris Akunin

#27. I like company lunches because I think going out wastes valuable time; plus, a lot of good ideas come up over lunch.

Anne Wojcicki

#28. What I'm continuing to do is cutting out the equation that wastes the most amount of time - and that is working within the system.

Rod Coronado

#29. One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old.

George Sand

#30. Do I look like the kind of person who wastes time turning goats into pin cushions?

L.J.Smith

#31. The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.

Annie Besant

#32. A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

Honore De Balzac

#33. What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism, which is sure to select what belongs to it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#34. Trust this: drinking until you go away from the world only wastes moments of your life. All that time is lost. And time and love are incredibly precious. Yes? Don't waste either.

Damon Suede

#35. 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

#36. Only in time of peace can the wastes of capitalism be tolerated.

F. R. Scott

#37. I believe that anyone who flies in an airplane and doesn't spend most of his time looking out the window wastes his money.

Marc Reisner

#38. Employment wastes the productive time of our lives

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