Quotes About Wasting Someone's Time

#1. We only get one life. Wasting someone's time is the subtlest form of murder.

Lindy West

#2. You aren't in the ivy halls of your miserable literature pursuit now. Without wasting more time, will thou cometh to the pointeth? Dost thou wanteth us to stayeth or leaveth?

Pawan Mishra

#3. Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.

Sharon Salzberg

#4. It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.

Ivan Pavlov

#5. Life is the best and only timekeeper.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#6. I decided that in order to become a big famous rock star, I would need to write my very own songs instead of wasting my time learning other peoples music too much. It may act as an obstruction in developing your very own personal style.

Kurt Cobain

#7. For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.

Isabel Allende

#8. Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

Paulo Coelho

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

Ben Tolosa

#10. Snark from nerds is a leading indicator that I'm wasting their time and when I find it, I ask questions until I understand the inefficiency so I can change it or explain it.

Rands

#11. What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.

John Milton

#12. For a moment this good time would never end
You and me
Just wasting time
I was kissing you
You were kissing me love
From good day into a moonlight

Dave Matthews

#13. 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

#14. Time Progression: Wasting Spending Managing Investing

Elizabeth Grace Saunders

#15. I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered.

Norman Mailer

#16. It is in quiet that our best ideas occur to us. Don't make the mistake of believing that by a frantic kind of dashing around you are being your most effective and efficient self. Don't assume that you are wasting time when you take time out for thought.

Napoleon Hill

#17. I find it more enjoyable investing time doing what pleases me, rather than wasting precious time attempting to please everyone else.

Greg Reid

#18. Young man, I am afraid you are wasting your time. If there were any more planets they would have been found long before this.

Clyde Tombaugh

#19. When it comes to love and loss, acceptance is never easy. We can't make someone see all we have to give, make them love us, or make them change. All we can do is move on and stop wasting time.

April Mae Monterrosa

#20. 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

#21. You could spend a lifetime waiting for someone to love the real you but if you don't know who you really are, you are wasting your time.

Keysha Jade

#22. We only deliberately waste time with those we love
it is the purest sign that we love someone if we choose to spend time idly in their presence when we could be doing something more 'constructive.

Sheila Cassidy

#23. The only reason to build a website is to change someone. If you can't tell me the change and you can't tell me the someone, then you're wasting your time.

Seth Godin

#24. Plus, if someone is doing community service for a pat on the back, then they're wasting their time. Giving of yourself or your money is meaningless if you're only doing it because you want to be seen or praised.

Melody Anne

#25. There are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, "This is worthless. I'm wasting my time, and I would be wasting the time of someone who tried to read this." It happens all the time.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#26. You're wasting your time if you try to make someone see reason when reason is not influencing the decision.

Scott Adams

#27. Your reality is yours. Stop wasting time looking at someone else's reality while doing nothing about yours.

Steve Harvey

#28. Because if I'm going to spend at least seventy-five percent of my waking hours doing something, I want that something to have meaning. I am tired of wasting my time. I am starting to realize that I want my life to matter in every way that it can.

Julie Buxbaum

#29. I was wasting my time, praying for love.
For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist.

Morrissey

#30. If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better.

Will Smith

#31. You ... you need to move on," I managed. Yes, that was a sound reason. "You need to find someone else. You know I don't - that I can't. Well, you know. You're wasting your time with me."
He remained firm. "It's my time to waste.

Richelle Mead

#32. When i dated someone, my goal is to marry her, i date to get married one day, i don't date a girl just to have sex and leave her, why wasting your time if the goal is not to get married?

Werley Nortreus

#33. Don't waste time. If you love someone tell them because sooner or later someone else is going to.

Katrina Kaif

#34. If you feel like you're at 50 percent with someone and that's as far as you'll get, you're wasting precious time. You should always be with someone who enriches your life and inspires you to be the best you can be.

Jenna Ushkowitz

#35. We all do have a vision in life and we all wish to achieve something in life. We all ought to note that vision is there for everyone but, achievement is there for someone!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#36. The Blu-ray is the real cinematech of world cinema. That's how it's being preserved. All of these guys that are trying to preserve 35mm negatives? They are wasting their time. There are better ways to see and project this stuff. It's called digital.

William Friedkin

#37. Fantastic days are what you wish upon those who have so few sunrises left, those whose lungs are so lesion-spangled with new cancer that they should be embracing as much life as they can. Time's a-wasting, go out and have yourself a fantastic day! Fantastic days are for goners.

David Rakoff

#38. And maybe I was wasting time trying to make sense of things: sometimes things don't happen for a reason, sometimes things just happen.

Marian Keyes

#39. It is never a waste of time to study the history of a word.

Lucien Febvre

#40. I didn't waste my time on things I didn't love.

Patti Smith

#41. We often tell ourselves off for wasting time in chairs, fully dressed, when we could be doing the same lying down in bed, face to face and naked.

Ian McEwan

#42. Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it.

Guy Finley

#43. 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

#44. Wasting time in a relationship that blows is just that - wasted time.

Greg Behrendt

#45. I mean its an obsession, you follow the obsession but at the same time you have so many doubts, you know. Why am I wasting so much money going back to this place, taking more pictures? What's the point of it? No one cares about it. I think I care about it but maybe I am deceiving myself.

Alex Webb

#46. Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Marthe Troly-Curtin

#47. I was one of the haves, and one of the secrets of being a have is not wasting your time on empathy.

Peter S. Beagle

#48. Love is a fever which, so to speak, drives off without wasting time on the address.

P.G. Wodehouse

#49. Trump is running for president and he's wasting no time getting down to business. In fact, just after his announcement he demanded to see Jeb Bush's birth certificate.

Jimmy Fallon

#50. One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.

Brian Tracy

#51. Mr. Sagunuma: We can never escape who we are. Instead of wasting time worrying about it, why don't you cut to he chase and love yourself?

Bisco Hatori

#52. If at first you don't succeed, sure, try again ... but if you keep not succeeding, you should probably concentrate on something (or someone) else worthwhile & quit wasting your time.

Ingrid Weir

#53. You're wasting your time
Giving me that speech
you try to don't reach:
your smile <3
You're holding your tears
Your insides are dead
You're eating your fears,
In a cigarette.
You've waited too long,
to finally see ...
Sunshine in the rain
is as deep as the sea.

Ed Sheeran

#54. If you don't wake up at three in the morning and want to do something, you're wasting your time.

Harold Eugene Edgerton

#55. Life is too short to waste time on things that have no lasting significance.

T. B. Joshua

#56. 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

#57. One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is to come, which may or may not happen, then you will only be wasting precious days you will wish in the future you could have cherished a bit longer.

R.J. Gonzales

#58. Time flies, whether you're wasting it or not.

Crystal Woods

#59. So when we spend all of our time trying to separate that which is already joined, it's a waste of time.

Wynton Marsalis

#60. She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.

David Nicholls

#61. Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against your human inclinations. Often, in the beginning, you will think that you are wasting time, but you must go on, be determined and persevere in it until death, despite all the difficulties.

Brother Lawrence

#62. True, it would not be a new venture for him. But need it be? Could one possibly accuse him of nostalgia or idleness, of wasting his time simply because he had read the story two or three times before?

Amor Towles

#63. Please, all you MCs out there, all you fans out there, don't think Big gonna make a record dissing 2Pac or the West Coast because it's not going down like that. I cant even see me wasting my time or my talent to disrespect another black man.

The Notorious B.I.G.

#64. If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?

Caitlyn Jenner

#65. Wasting time is a stupid thing to do in this big ol' ugly world.

Rochelle Maya Callen

#66. While you're worrying about becoming famous, there is someone out there putting in work and not wasting a second of their time. Which person will you be?

Torron-Lee Dewar

#67. Wasting time is worse than death, because death separates you from this world whereas wasting time separates you from Allah

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

#68. As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's no guarantee you'll create anything worth all your effort. You're always haunt by the idea you're wasting your life.

Chuck Palahniuk