Top 100 Quotes About Wasting
#1. I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.
Jesse Jackson
#2. It's not words, but years we should be editing. Remember: time spent on bad art is a form of redundancy, doing the same thing twice is a form of tautology, and wasting precious moments complaining about life is a form of pleonasm. We should all learn to live our lives concisely.
Anthony Marais
#3. I've always wanted to have kids of my own, it's just tough finding a woman I wouldn't be wasting my DNA on.
Zach Braff
#4. Memories and hope are not so different; one is "having done" the other is "to do." Neither constitutes action. You are what you do; thus, if you do nothing, you are nobody. If you once did great things, you think you are great. You coast along on dead, preserved laurels, lifeless and wasting away.
Mark Twight
#5. If a relationship is on-and-off within the first year, that's an immediate sign you are wasting your time.
Sherry Argov
#6. There's a spirit that grabs me, and it's in every one of you guys, but the questions is, how much time are we wasting?
Ray Lewis
#7. Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can't accept who you are.
Turcois Ominek
#8. Judging others is just wasting your time,
giving your advice to men who don't pay.
Toba Beta
#9. I'm sorry if he's bleeding internally. I hope he's not. But I'm not wasting a healing spell on a guy that pointed a gun at us."
"Can you do an 'I'm sorry' spell? I don't wanna get too near him."
"It's not the Staff of Hallmark, Mol.
Joss Whedon
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. The administration has proved that it is addicted to wasting taxpayers' money ...
Doug Bandow
#13. Wasting a fortune is evaporation by a thousand imperceptible means.
Samuel Johnson
#14. I'm trying to correct what is wrong in journalism today: wasting users' time.
Jason Calacanis
#15. It came to me with great force that I was wasting my life, that I was wasting it by living from day to day in a state of waiting, that I had in effect given myself up as a prisoner to this war.
J.M. Coetzee
#16. How strange! You lose a little from you and you cry. And your whole life is wasting and you're laughing
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
#17. Is love something that will always be available? Will it always be confined and untrustworthy like it feels today? Is there enough to go around? Am I wasting mine on strangers?
A.S. King
#18. 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
#19. You don't just sit in the car and let some guy drive you through life, wasting your time.
Steve Harvey
#20. Mrs Forrester said you could ruin a thing by wishing for something else. If you're having fun at the beach, like we are, but you spend all your time here wishing you could be here all the time, you're wasting the time you're here.
Diane Chamberlain
#21. The hell with "love" anyway, and with every other phony, time-wasting, half-assed emotion in the world.
Richard Yates
#22. There is someone out there that will love you.They'll want you for you.Don't settle for less.Life is short and I'm tired of wasting it
Abbi Glines
#23. If we can't be the best, are we just wasting our time?
Cara Chow
#24. No one answered. Wasting no time, Clementine speed-limped, doing
Brad Meltzer
#25. 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
#26. If you seem something that is true and do not act then you are wasting your life. And life is too precious. It is all that we have.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#27. The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine - 100s of words a day.
Marc Maron
#28. Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
Paolo Sorrentino
#29. You can tell yourself anything you want, but until you believe what you're telling yourself, you're wasting words.
James Frey
#30. I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting your time reading books.
Jimmy Carr
#31. A theology whose god is a metaphor is wasting its time.
Mason Cooley
#32. I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.
Steve Martin
#33. As long as we draw breath, we owe it to the ones we loved and lost to live out our lives without wasting them on regrets.
Sharon Sala
#34. I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing.
John Fahey
#35. To us, waiting is wasting. To God waiting is working.
Louie Giglio
#37. No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.
Jim Morrison
#38. 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
#39. Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn't mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.
Virat Kohli
#40. So get rid of the unnecessary obligations, time-wasting distractions, and useless burdens that stand in your way.
Daniel H. Pink
#41. If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life.
James Broughton
#42. What a pair they were - a Mistborn who felt guilty wasting coins to jump and a nobleman who thought balls were too expensive.
Brandon Sanderson
#43. It's all the same, only the names will change, everyday it seems we're wasting away. Another place, where the faces are so cold, I'd drive all night just to get back home.
Jon Bon Jovi
#44. What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? If you're not, you're wasting away.
Seth Godin
#45. To the men and women who own men and women
those of us meant to be lovers
we will not pardon you
for wasting our bodies and time
Leonard Cohen
#46. If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I would feel like a charlatan and a fraud.
Peter Ackroyd
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. Destroy the Spineless. Show me it's real. Wasting our last chance to come away. Just break the silence 'cos I'm drifting away, away from you..."
~New Born
Matthew J. Bellamy
#50. The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.
Charles Spurgeon
#51. We go round and round trying to convince one another that our opinion makes more sense. And the only winner is time for making us look like fools by wasting it.
S.A. Tawks
#52. Treat distractions as the enemy. The internet is brilliant but it is one very efficient way of wasting your time.
David Hieatt
#53. No point in wasting time with false vanity when you possess the real thing.
Alan Bradley
#54. 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
#55. You're wasting your time if you try to make someone see reason when reason is not influencing the decision.
Scott Adams
#56. My two favourite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library.
Peter Golkin
#57. Thanks to properly selecting the clients you will not be unnecessarily wasting time.
Lee Iacocca
#58. If we sleep more than is needful for the refreshment of the body, it is wasting the time with which the Lord has entrusted us as a talent, to be used for his glory, for our own benefit, and the benefit of the saints and the unbelievers around us.
George Muller
#59. Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.
A. J. Jacobs
#60. 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
#61. If you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward
Oprah Winfrey
#62. It was essential to feel thankful for the few who stopped to watch or listen, instead of wasting energy on resenting the majority who passed me by.
Amanda Palmer
#63. Unless you can change the past, you're wasting the present on this guilt
Christopher Moore
#64. 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
#65. Although I am not averse to wasting a few hours playing computer games, I have never tried my hand at Doom . Judging by sales figures and testimonials, playing the game has to be an infinitely preferable experience to watching this pathetic excuse for a movie.
James Berardinelli
#66. Don't prepare, do. Don't let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later.
Steven Pressfield
#67. In the long run, all I care about is making good music & not wasting time being in the public eye.
Galcher Lustwerk
#68. If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.
Billy Joel
#69. Your reality is yours. Stop wasting time looking at someone else's reality while doing nothing about yours.
Steve Harvey
#70. I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand your gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you.. to make each day count.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#71. Be yourself, and live your life. Time wasted is never retrieved. Stop wasting time and use it profitably ... !
Reason Nkosinathi Makhubela
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. No, I'll repine at death no more, But with a cheerful gasp resign To the cold dungeon of the ground These dying, withering limbs of mine. Let worms devour my wasting flesh, And crumble all my bones to dust:
My God shall raise my frame anew, At the revival of the just.
Isaac Watts
#75. I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.
Henry Rollins
#77. You shouldn't be wasting your time worrying about what's going to happen after you die. It's pointless. Think about what's happening now. In your life. That's what's important. So change the subject, will you?
Clare Furniss
#78. Many people make the mistake of saving money by wasting time.
J.R. Rim
#79. Why exactly do you go to yoga classes? You're such a calm, well-balanced person, and a woman who knows what she wants. Aren't you wasting your time? My heart starts beating again. I don't answer. I simply smile and stroke his face.
Paulo Coelho
#80. Know what you love and do what you love. If you don't do what you love, you're just wasting your time.
Billy Joel
#81. What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.
Hugh Prather
#82. [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
#83. Work can provide the opportunity for spiritual and personal, as well as financial, growth. If it doesn't, we're wasting far too much of our lives on it.
James Autry
#84. The social rights of children must be recognized so that a world suited to their needs may be constructed for them. The greatest crime that society commits is that of wasting the money which it should use for children on things that will destroy them and society itself as well.
Maria Montessori
#85. Socrates ... brought human wisdom back down from heaven, where she was wasting her time, and restored her to man ... It is impossible to go back further and lower. He did a great favor to human nature by showing how much it can do by itself.
Michel De Montaigne
#86. I've heard Braggadocio about excess baggage charges, multiple unused hotel rooms, and rental cars held unused for long periods of time, which makes me lose respect for certain photographers. Sometimes it's worth it to spend money on a good idea, but wasting money makes me ill.
Peter Menzel
#87. Anytime I'm not reading my Bible or praying, I feel like I'm wasting my time. [Mark's brother-in-law, Matt , speaking]
Mark Batterson
#88. If I'm not pointing people to Jesus then I'm wasting my life.
Aaron Gillespie
#89. I'm too tired to fight against you anymore, too tired to say you are wrong. Too tired apologizing, keeping me uping all nighting- criming by wasting my precious timing. Straggling against what I once called charming.
Coco J. Ginger
#90. Power comes from doing meditation, leading a controlled life, being conservative, not wasting all your energy on drugs, alcohol and sex and other pastimes. The guideline for all experience is how you feel afterwards.
Frederick Lenz
#91. Bond loathed and despised tea, that flat, soft, time-wasting opium of the masses,
Ian Fleming
#92. If everybody knows where everything is kept you can avoid wasting time looking for things.
Anthea Turner
#93. I love wasting time and learning to lip-sync to songs; it's a silly hobby of mine.
Allison Janney
#94. She could only write with him at night and she was wasting her days just sitting around. So he thought I could write with her during the day. And that was Carole King.
Cynthia Weil
#95. You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life.
Chuck Palahniuk
#96. Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
John Lennon
#97. ...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
#98. If I had learned anything about life and love, it was that they were tenuous things that could end at any moment. Caution was essential - but not at the cost of wasting your life.
Richelle Mead
#99. If your activities don't match your priorities, you are wasting your life.
Rick Warren
#100. There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.
Eddie Plank
