Quotes About Wasting People's Time

#1. If we stopped wasting people's time, what would they do with it?

Eric Ries

#2. I hate wasting people's time.

Daniel Day-Lewis

#3. Many people make the mistake of saving money by wasting time.

J.R. Rim

#4. Did people waste time before the internet existed?

Matt McGorry

#5. My ideal state as a reader when I'm reading other people is feeling I'm vaguely wasting my time when I'm not reading that novel.

Ian McEwan

#6. There will always be people for and against you, and its pointless wasting time trying to win over some of the people who are against you. Spend time with people who are for you. Those realtionships are worth it.

Cathy Hopkins

#7. Next time, mind the time! So many people waste their time as if they are so sure of the next time, but no one is all that very sure, with all certainty, of what is in next time! Next time, mind the time!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#8. People waste life by wasting time.

Sunday Adelaja

#9. Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.

Paolo Sorrentino

#10. I hate wasting time or money and that happens all the time for no good reason, and then people save money by skimping on the important things.

Rick Baker

#11. It's hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they keep getting out of line and wasting your time.

Henry Rollins

#12. Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can't accept who you are.

Turcois Ominek

#13. Whenever she sat still, just looking at something, she got the feeling that she was wasting precious time when she should be doing things to meet people. She could be spending her time so much better, because there was still so much to learn.

Paulo Coelho

#14. Smart people ask for help, because it's a much more efficient way of doing things than wasting time doing it the wrong way.

Grace Helbig

#15. The things that people are typically afraid of are what I find most exciting and unpredictable, and I guess that's part of the problem is people don't want something unpredictable wasting their time while the cameras are rolling, where to me that's by far the most interesting part.

David Gordon Green

#16. Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

George Bernard Shaw

#17. Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or your past. Be afraid of wasting any more time obsessing about how you look and how people see you. Be afraid of not getting your writing done.

Anne Lamott

#18. Don't waste your time on people; let them waste on you.

M.F. Moonzajer

#19. Interesting theory. Has anyone ever tried sticking a sword in Voldemort? Maybe the Ministry should put some people onto that, instead of wasting their time stripping down Deluminators or covering up breakouts from Azkaban ...

J.K. Rowling

#20. When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

Oscar Wilde

#21. Time kills essence! Don't give people reasons to say you wasted your time! Use your time well now!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#22. I'd rather deal with thick-face people rather than wasting time with two-faced ones.

Jhinang

#23. I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

Robert Redford

#24. The difference between time and money is that money can be stored for future use. Most people make the mistake of saving money by wasting their time.

J.R. Rim

#25. Most of the time, I regard the judgment of people as a waste of time. I regard the judgment of behavior as imperative.

Nathaniel Branden

#26. People seem to think that they can't come up with ideas, and they're wrong. They can and they do, but they just think of it as daydreaming, or wasting time. Kids get told not to make things up, and in my case, nobody told me long enough, or it just didn't stick.

Neil Gaiman

#27. When you do what someone else wants you to do, you are wasting your time. Don't get tricked by other people's thinking. The life is yours and so are goals. Believe in your own intuitions, speak your own voice, and follow what your heart says. The rest is secondary.

Ashish Patel

#28. It's not that I'm racist or anything, because I'm not, but I just don't think we should be wasting our time helping people that are going to die soon anyway.

Zach Braff

#29. People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time - even when hard at work.

Marcus Aurelius

#30. It is truly sad how some people find pleasure in wasting other people's time.

Ben Tolosa

#31. A girl would be lucky to have you, but not like this, Carmine. Not the way you treat people now. You're wasting your time, and it's not worth it. You need to find something that is. So, maybe your life isn't boring, but it has to be unfulfilling.

J.M. Darhower

#32. I believe that once you find something you love, something that works, why keep looking for more? People always think there is something better around the corner. I decided a long time ago I'd stop wasting my time looking for something better and enjoy what I had.

Wendy Mass

#33. If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth.

Roberto Clemente

#34. We are used to thinking that what we give is the same as what we receive, but people who love, expecting to be loved in return, are wasting their time.
Love is an act of faith, not an exchange.

Paulo Coelho

#35. [Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

George Bernard Shaw

#36. My friend, stay positive! It is really good to always stay positive. You don't really give a damn to negative people, circumstances and things! You only learn lessons from them that can help you take precautions to always stay positive for positive footprints!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#37. What meant to be, will always find a way to you.
What wasn't meant to be, will never reach you.
Stop wasting time running behind things and people,
just do your thing and let the meant to be find you.

- World Hypnotized Making of the Fuhrer

Akash Lakhotia

#38. I was supposed to be at the condo, wasting time on the beach, just Dad and me, figuring out college and my life and spending time together. Instead, I was in a new house with new people - including a future stepbrother who'd seen me naked.

Kody Keplinger

#39. Stop wasting your time with people who don't value your help or who you are. They take with one hand & disrespect you with the other. Move on with your life.

Timothy Pina

#40. I stopped wasting time on what [other] people claimed a stock was worth and started looking at the numbers.

Irving Kahn

#41. The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else
we are the busiest people in the world.

Eric Hoffer

#42. We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already ... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.

Malcolm X

#43. I'm so an all-or-nothing person in dating, always. I'm big on not wasting time. And so, yeah, if something's not working, it's time to not hold people back.

Ginnifer Goodwin

#44. Some people I see are so talented that they are just wasting their time on writing at Facebook. Talent must be productive..

Himmilicious

#45. There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not.

Bill Mollison

#46. Smart people still enjoy wide open spaces, much more even than their less bright neighbors, but when they hang with friends they're less happy. One theory as to why is that they feel like they're wasting time.

Satoshi Kanazawa

#47. The one thing I don't understand is when people make comments who are clearly not fans of mine. I think, why are you here? Why are you wasting your time? It's fascinating.

Madonna Ciccone

#48. You can tell the people that if they succeed in killing me, that I forgive and bless those who do it. Hopefully, they will realize they are wasting their time. A bishop will die, but the church of God, which is the people, will never perish.

Oscar Romero

#49. When you spend time worrying, you're simply using your imagination to create things you don't want.

Shannon L. Alder

#50. [T]he people who are close to Allah worry so much about wasting time that they call themselves to account for every breath they spend - how many of us wonder about how we spend our day, let alone each breath?

Ethar El-Katatney

#51. I think it's actually the more polite thing to do, because I'm not coercing partygoers into some big farewell moment with me. Then other people feel like they have to stop what they're doing and hug me, too. It's time-wasting dominoes.

Mindy Kaling

#52. The Buddha also counseled the monks and nuns to avoid wasting any precious time by engaging in idle conversation, oversleeping, pursuing fame and recognition, chasing after desires, spending time with people of poor character, and being satisfied with only a shallow understanding of the teaching.

Nhat Hanh