Top 100 Quotes About Wasting Time
#1. Love is a fever which, so to speak, drives off without wasting time on the address.
P.G. Wodehouse
#2. Workaholics don't actually accomplish more than nonworkaholics. They may claim to be perfectionists, but that just mean they're wasting time fixating on inconsequential details instead of moving on to the next task.
David Heinemeier Hansson
#3. Don't keep your own schedule - that will eat too much of your time keeping your own schedule. And when you are tired, stop. Because if you are too tired, you become not productive, and you are wasting time.
Christine Quinn
#4. We waste too much time being afraid, when what we should really fear is wasting time.
Stephanie Shirley
#5. 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
#6. Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time.
Deborah Eisenberg
#7. Drinking beer with friends is perhaps the most underestimated of all Reformation insights and essential to ongoing reform; and wasting time with a choice friend or two on a regular basis might be the best investment of time you ever make.
Carl R. Trueman
#8. Oh, you'll not be any poorer if you smile along your way. And your lot will not be harder for the kindly things you say. Don't imagine you are wasting time for others that you spend. You can rise to wealth and glory and still pause to be a friend.
Edgar Guest
#9. Men are tight-fisted in keeping control of their fortunes, but when it comes to the matter of wasting time, they are positively extravagant in the one area where there is honour in being miserly.
Seneca.
#10. Teachers Lounge is a web series I co-created with Hollis James. We intentionally left the apostrophe out to turn Lounge into a verb. The show is about teachers lounging around, wasting time.
Ted Alexandro
#11. With all of the choices we have in this world, why would you ever spend your time running behind one that is not even willing to walk towards you. Stop wasting time with those who have other priorities, you too have options. -AHCIII
A.H. Carlisle III
#12. Any writer who has difficulty in writing is probably not onto his true subject, but wasting time with false, petty goals; as soon as you connect with your true subject you will write.
Joyce Carol Oates
#13. Writing is not always a writer's playtime. It's actually a work in progress. Few understand this and mistakenly believe we're wasting time. But it's never a waste of time when doing what you love.
David Lucero
#14. Wasting time with the wrong person is just time wasted.
Greg Behrendt
#15. If you are wasting time and energy trying to be as much like everyone else as you can, you are throwing away something precious: your individuality. When you embrace your difference, your DNA, your look or heritage or religion or your unusual name, that's when you start to shine.
Bethenny Frankel
#16. I'd rather deal with thick-face people rather than wasting time with two-faced ones.
Jhinang
#17. Facebook has revealed their estimated net worth - $96 billion. That's almost as much money as businesses lose every year from their employees wasting time looking at Facebook.
Jay Leno
#18. Stop wasting time on Cute Overload! Not getting any younger! Sagittarius:
Michael Murray
#19. She's so fucking beautiful it don't bear thinking about. I could hardly keep my eyes on the fucking road. I sort of felt like I was wasting time whenever I wasn't looking at her face.
Irvine Welsh
#20. You can only waste time relative to some context or goal. While you are reading this book, you are wasting time relative to your goal of getting to the store before you have to pick up your kids. In fact, from some perspective, you are always wasting time.
Anonymous
#22. If first of all you have a wrong idea, then it's kind of wasting time. No matter how hard that you try with a wrong idea, it makes it difficult to be successful.
Stephen Chow
#23. Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness.
Russell Lynes
#24. You know, you only get to live life once, so there are two things that that yields. One is that there's no point in crying over spilt milk, but secondly you hate wasting time, energy, and whatever talent you've got.
David Miliband
#26. I love the Internet, and I love wasting time on the Internet - even though it sometimes ends up being not being a waste of time.
Claire Cameron
#27. There's no good way to waste your time. Wasting time is just wasting time.
Helen Mirren
#28. I waste my life. I want to. It's the thing to do with a life. We were wrong about work
it isn't the best thing, no matter how much you love it. Wasting time is better.
Patricia Hampl
#29. Grant me the wisdom to know when to keep trying and when to stop wasting time, the patience to keep going with the 1st, and the courage & serenity to let go of the 2nd.
Jay Woodman
#30. So why sit around wasting time dwelling on what could have gone wrong? Shouldn't we be celebrating all the things that went right?
Katie Kacvinsky
#31. It feels like I am wasting time. I mean, that's always the case. My life doesn't add up to anything.
David Levithan
#32. If you're producing a movie you're involved in every aspect of the movie and that can be daunting and then going and doing a movie where you're just an actor for hire, and you can kind of sit back and giggle where you can see somebody sitting over there wasting time and wasting money.
Mark Wahlberg
#33. I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.
Dean Kamen
#34. Dreaming big is better than wasting time achieving perfection
Me XD
#35. The best way to maximize your time is by not wasting time. This requires planning and having an awareness of how you spend your time throughout the day.
Tasha Hoggatt
#36. 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
#37. I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.
Stephen Hawking
#38. No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#39. You are wasting time by suffering twice. I mention this only to show how many things the mind cannot will itself to do, even if it wants to.
Elizabeth Strout
#40. 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
#41. Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
Paolo Sorrentino
#43. Wasting time just going mindless, watching your charades. When you were younger, did it occur to you 10 years from then you'd act the same age?
David Archuleta
#44. 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
#45. Isn't better to excel in your work than wasting time on fruitless things ... after all to become the history, you have to write it.
Zeeshan Ahmed
#46. No point in wasting time with false vanity when you possess the real thing.
Alan Bradley
#47. Thanks to properly selecting the clients you will not be unnecessarily wasting time.
Lee Iacocca
#48. I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.
Stephen Fry
#49. Anger is a powerful, transformative emotion, one that can light the fire under us that propels us ever higher. However, the woman wasting time at the grocery story, the man cutting us off, the website that will not load are not the right targets for our energy.
Thomm Quackenbush
#50. In the long run, all I care about is making good music & not wasting time being in the public eye.
Galcher Lustwerk
#51. Your reality is yours. Stop wasting time looking at someone else's reality while doing nothing about yours.
Steve Harvey
#52. Be yourself, and live your life. Time wasted is never retrieved. Stop wasting time and use it profitably ... !
Reason Nkosinathi Makhubela
#53. Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.
Plato
#54. Many people make the mistake of saving money by wasting time.
J.R. Rim
#55. 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
#56. Waiting on God isn't wasting time; it's training time. Whether
Wendy Pope
#57. Stop wasting time! Time is growing short for you to accomplish what you came to Earth to do!
Dolores Cannon
#58. If you aren't working on your goals, you aren't working. You're just wasting time.
Steve Pavlina
#59. [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
#60. If everybody knows where everything is kept you can avoid wasting time looking for things.
Anthea Turner
#61. I love wasting time and learning to lip-sync to songs; it's a silly hobby of mine.
Allison Janney
#62. ...I ask myself whether I am investing time, spending time, or just wasting time...but of late I've decided it doesn't matter, for if it feels right...it probably is
Rick Valicenti
#63. We would understand much more about life's complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting time
on identities and coherences, seeing as these have a duty to provide their own explanations.
Jose Saramago
#64. We don't live for sixty, eighty, or even a hundred years. We live for the few precious moments that happen in those sixty, eighty, or a hundred years. If not, then we're just taking up space and wasting time until we die.
Christina Daley
#65. I believe the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time. This is why the devil tries so hard to get Christians to be religious. If he can sink a man's mind into habit, he will prevent his heart from engaging God. I was into habit.
Donald Miller
#66. Look at those two. Wasting time. You wouldn't catch me doing that.
Eoin Colfer
#67. If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Benjamin Franklin
#68. I believe that the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time. This is why the devil tries so hard to get Christians to be religious. If he can sink a man's mind into habit, he will prevent his heart from engaging God.
Donald Miller
#69. If you are not enjoying yourself, you are wasting time.
Susan Jeffers
#70. It's not wasting time when you sit and look upon the roses, they remind you, every rose has a thorn!
F.J. Namini
#71. What's done
is done. Say good-bye to the past, and hello to the future And we're
wasting time, when already we've wasted enough. We've got everything
ahead, waiting for us.
Just the right words to make me feel real, alive, free! Free enough to
forget thoughts of revenge.
V.C. Andrews
#72. For those of us who have come to believe that unless we are thinking we are wasting time, it may be challenging to simply linger with a beautiful sunset, an exquisite painting, or an arresting piece of music. The intellect often reacts to the seductions of beauty by attempting to recapture us.
Carolyn Baker
#73. Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
E.W. Howe
#74. Wasting time is when seconds, minutes and hours are passing without being converted
Sunday Adelaja
#75. Why do I ask for directions? Because I hate wasting time.
Harrison Ford
#76. I wish I were not quite so lonely - and so poor. And yet I love both my loneliness and my poverty. The former makes me appreciate the companionship of the wind and rain, while the latter preserves my liver and prevents me wasting time in dancing attendance upon women.
Algernon Blackwood
#77. He had always thought of solitary diners as sad. But now that he was the solitary diner, he felt rather superior. On account of the book, mostly. Learning something while everyone else was wasting time. Like working at night.
Mark Haddon
#78. I walk fast. I have an aversion to wasting time. My sense of constant motion is one of the reasons that my eldest daughter, Amy, nicknamed me 'the Tasmanian Devil' when she was in her teens.
Jim Webb
#79. 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
#80. The chaos indicates you're smart enough to spend your time fighting for what matters, instead of wasting time adhering to society's useless mores about what a home should look like. Speaks to your power.
Stephanie Rowe
#81. It's tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I'm wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.
Dave Grohl
#82. Stop wasting time in playing a role or a concept. Instead, learn to ACTUALIZE YOURSELF, your potential.
Bruce Lee
#83. We [Virgin Group] have been successful not by wasting time scrutinising our competitors but by looking at ourselves from the point of view of our customers do and seeking feedback through listening.
Richard Branson
#84. I think everyone's journey through this crazy, weird, wild, wonderful area of work named acting is really their own. And if you're going for something that isn't yours, you're wasting time. You could be focused on your own work instead of thinking about somebody else.
Laura Linney
#85. I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.
Bam Margera
#86. If the monkey really wanted to get the weasel, he would've stopped wasting time and burned down the mulberry bush.
M.E. Castle
#87. Stop killing and wasting time. Get something done today
Sunday Adelaja
#88. Until we have established reliability there is no sense at all in wasting time trying to make the thing go faster.
Carroll Smith
#89. Reality is never what you imagined it would be. Sometimes it's better. Sometimes it's worse. And sometimes it's just different. It's not worth wasting time and energy trying to predict how things are going to turn out. Just go with the flow and keep your eyes and ears peeled.
Abby Rosmarin
#90. Wasting time is worse than death, because death separates you from this world whereas wasting time separates you from Allah
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
#91. 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
#92. Wasting time in a relationship that blows is just that - wasted time.
Greg Behrendt
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#99. I stop wasting time on tears.
I live another fifty years.
It's not enough!
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#100. For a long time I was cautious of working with my parents because I wanted to feel separate from them in the community. Now there's no more wasting time.
Lily Rabe
