Top 100 Spend More Time Quotes
#1. If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics.
Tony Benn
#2. I spend more time with the living, than the dead now.
Jennifer Hotes
#3. I like to think that I've gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it's stayed the same.
Al Yankovic
#4. We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.
Alice Waters
#5. I would like to spend more time with Spanish poetry. I know French better than Spanish, but Spanish was my first language, and my father spoke it to us.
Helen Vendler
#6. To reduce stress, avoid excitement. Spend more time with your spouse.
Robert Orben
#7. This is a deeply spiritual issue ... Do we want to spend more time trying to care for our fellow man or do we want to just pursue more virtual reality? That's the issue before us.. and it's being played out in the world of the environment.
Ed Begley Jr.
#8. Spend more time in study and prayer. That's the secret of successful evangelism.
Billy Graham
#9. This generation must spend less time waiting for manna from heaven, but spend more time in the fields building and producing.
Sunday Adelaja
#10. I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.
Dave Eggers
#11. If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you're drawing it.
Sergio Aragones
#12. If you carry a paperback book in your back pocket, but spend more time on your hair than you do reading it, you're probably a bad actor.
Dov Davidoff
#13. If we had loads of money as a family, things would be different and they'd come to visit more and I'd get to spend more time here. But I'm laying down roots in America so when I'm there, just being at home, it's harder to break away from that.
Rick Allen
#14. To be Americanized was to be disobedient to your elders, to dress less conservatively, and to spend more time with your friends than your family. Cursing, drinking, and dating were simply unfathomable.
Nabeel Qureshi
#15. You mean the fact that Tom Arnold would spend more time with the hair and makeup people than I would?
Lisa Guerrero
#16. Families must spend more time together in work and recreation.
Ezra Taft Benson
#17. Sports is remarkably cognitive. I think it's underrated just how smart it is. Actually, if I had more time, I would spend more time with sports. Watching it, reading about it, I think it's oddly underrated.
Tyler Cowen
#18. Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
Henry Ford
#19. We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.
Edward Abbey
#20. I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.
Nancy Travis
#21. If I was mentoring a young fighter, I'd tell him to spend more time on boxing. That doesn't mean I would ignore kickboxing - you still need to learn the defenses - but in stand-up, it's hard to beat good, solid boxing.
Chael Sonnen
#22. Most of us spend more time with advertisements than with Scripture.
Mark Buchanan
#24. Sometimes we spend more time than we should defending the old thing, instead of working to take advantage of the new thing.
Seth
#25. The decision in my case to become a stay-at-home dad, which people do all the time, I guess wouldn't have meant as much to people if I had had a very simple kind of make-a-living existence and decided I needed to spend more time at home.
Rick Moranis
#26. Flora had not seemed to mind the excessive amount of time their parents demanded from them, which had meant that he could spend more time in his room working on his model houses and less time downstairs in the den, fidgeting through one of his father's interminable Ozu film festivals.
Hanya Yanagihara
#27. And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right.
Alan Shepard
#28. Doctors who spend more time talking into their tape recorders instead of looking into the eyes of their patients. (Spare us the "HMOs only give us so much time" diatribe. Medicine is about giving scared people comfort and help for people whose pain level is matched only by their anxiety level.)
Karl Albrecht
#29. It's just like nurses in a hospital tend to know more than the doctors most of the time; if you really want to get the answers to a question about court, you should spend more time buttering up the clerks than the judges.
Jodi Picoult
#30. Most people spend more time planning a one-week vacation than they spend planning their life.
Michael Hyatt
#31. The only reason ever to make a sequel is to spend more time with the characters that people love: to tell more of their story.
Elizabeth Banks
#32. Part of keeping space open is not to try to choose a form - to spend more time thinking about content, and let form take care of itself.
Holly Near
#33. I'd love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to buy parts for the compressor. And Norman Wisdom's a neighbour; I salute him occasionally.
John Rhys-Davies
#34. When I go to Africa and spend more time there with people who are the least of the least, those in desperate situations, I am broken by it. But I also find people with so much more joy and freedom living with nothing than I see walking down the streets of my own community here in Tennessee.
Steven Curtis Chapman
#35. Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.
Zig Ziglar
#36. Choose your tools carefully, but not so carefully that you get uptight or spend more time at the stationery store than at your writing table.
Natalie Goldberg
#37. I remember thinking that I'd way rather give my parents my money, and not have to like have them go to work anymore, you know what I mean. Because I'd way rather spend more time with them.
Shaun White
#38. After my touring life, I'd love to be more involved with charity. It gives me a lot of fulfillment, you know? I would love to get people who are into my music more active in charity work. In the future, when I have more time, I'd love to do spend more time on that.
Tiesto
#39. With any good projects, I feel like the off-screen chemistry factors on-screen. It's great when you don't have to force it, but when it's not there you better focus on getting there, because as we live with these characters we spend more time with one another than we do our families at home.
Aldis Hodge
#40. Spend more time smiling than frowning and more time praising than criticizing.
Richard Branson
#41. Self-deprecating or arrogant, it's all selfish. Hard as it is, life's better when you spend more time on the rest of the world
Patrick Stump
#42. After I finish PO5, I would like to get a dog. I want to be able to spend more time with my pet, and I don't have the time right now.
Scott Wolf
#43. Farmers spend more time at Conventions than they do plowing.
Will Rogers
#44. Hyper-communication can mean we spend more time on Facebook than we do face-to-face with the people we care about.
Brene Brown
#45. I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.
Jilly Cooper
#46. I spend more time being confused than not, I answered.
Haruki Murakami
#47. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid says he will not seek re-election. Harry said he wants to spend more time with his family. As I always say, check with your family.
David Letterman
#48. If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.
Jack Welch
#49. I believe many Harley guys spend more time revving their engines than actually driving anywhere; I sometimes wonder why they bother to have wheels on their motorcycles.
Dave Barry
#50. At thirteen, I thought more about my acne than I did about God or world peace. At thirteen, many girls spend more time in front of a mirror than they do on their studies. Small flaws become obsessions. Bad hair can ruin a day. A broken fingernail can feel tragic.
Mary Pipher
#51. I'd rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It's the process I like - the same with getting dressed. If I've got someplace to be, I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event. Sometimes. Even in my own closet, I love to dig and search and find.
Iris Apfel
#52. I go back to South Africa at least once a year, sometimes twice, and usually for a month. And probably, I'm guessing, I'll spend more time back there as I get older.
Dave Matthews
#53. I probably spend more time with my kids than the average stay-at-home mother.
Kirstie Alley
#54. He wished he could be with her longer, spend more time with her, have a good, leisurely talk. But she had her own life, most of which occurred offstage, in a place he didn't yet know about, doing things that had nothing to do with him.
Haruki Murakami
#55. We always spend more time on the throwing events and a little bit more on the long jump. They're my weaker events - they don't come as naturally to me as running and jumping. I like the hurdles and the high-jump, I'm a springy, speedy athlete so those suit me.
Jessica Ennis
#56. I don't claim to be someone that knows every verse in the Bible. I wish I did. I truly do. It just means I need to spend more time in those pages.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck
#57. I feel the time is right, I want to spend more time with my young family and concentrate fully on my career [on retiring from international football at age 30
Robbie Savage
#58. (What I find ironic is that if people would spend more time giving back in a meaningful way and sharing the love they already have with others, they would realize how successful they already are.)
Jairek Robbins
#59. Most effectively, if we are made to feel accountable in our judgments, we will spend more time looking at angles and possibilities before making up our minds - and so will expend the correctional
Anonymous
#60. There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.
Gordon Ramsay
#61. As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
Park Chan-wook
#62. I will tell you what rule I observed when I was young, and too much addicted to childish diversions-never to spend more time in mere recreation in one day than I spent in private religious devotions.
Susanna Wesley
#63. I'll tell you what: If I could do it all over again, I'd spend more time helping others. All I've ever done is dig tunnels. Some of them were real beauties too, but they're all hidden underground, where they're no good to anyone but me.
Peter Brown
#64. And you cycle throughout so that you do about five to six cycles throughout the night. And we spend more time in REM later on in the night than we do earlier on.
Shelby Harris
#65. You don't ever do something just because it makes you feel good?" The assistant shrugs. "Mademoiselle, you need to spend more time in Paris.
Jojo Moyes
#66. Because I was more often happy for other people, I got to spend more time being happy. And as I saw more light in everybody else, I seemed to have more myself. (250)
Victoria Moran
#67. If you were smart, you'd probably spend more time stretching, he said & I said, If I were really smart, I'd probably spend more time just sitting in the shade drinking lemonade.
Brian Andreas
#68. I miss the physicality of drumming. There's immediateness about it that I'm always striving for in my acting. Maybe I'm in the wrong profession. I certainly wish I could spend more time pursuing music. It feels like a part of me I'm neglecting.
Trevor St. John
#69. The people you work with are just people you were thrown together with. Y'know, you don't know them, it wasn't your choice. And yet you spend more time with them thanyou do your friends or your family.
Tim Canterbury
#70. This is my real secret to being a joyful person: I make my life easy. I spend more time being grateful for what I have instead of focusing on what isn't working. I no longer believe that people have to do things my way and that I have to be perfect.
Ellen DeGeneres
#71. As I get close to my election, I want to spend more time in my district and focus on my reelection.
Henry Cuellar
#72. there are now millions of people who spend more time watching food being cooked on television than they spend actually cooking it themselves.
Michael Pollan
#73. Do not whine ... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.
Joan Didion
#74. Acting is the most insecure of all the trades, the most risky. In their professional lifetime most actors rehearse longer than they play, spend more time traipsing from office to office in search of jobs than they rehearse and play combined.
Tallulah Bankhead
#75. I would spend more time with my children. I would make my money before spending it. I would learn the joys of wine instead of hard liquor. I would not smoke cigarettes when I had pneumonia. I would not marry a fifth time.
John Huston
#76. Too many people spend more time planning how to get the job than on how to become productive and successful in that job.
Zig Ziglar
#77. You're trying to figure out a way to go back in time and spend more time with your father. Who wouldn't want to do that?
Jeremy Piven
#78. I want to spend more time with those kids. I want to dedicate my time to train those kids and teach them what it takes, what they need to do to get to this level.
Thomas Dooley
#79. If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.
Daniel Dennett
#80. I will always find something that I want to try and become better at. I always love to spend more time with my friends, more time with my family, my extended family. I always want to read more books.
Connie Nielsen
#81. I have always said to myself, 'I never want to say I'm leaving a job because I want to spend more time with my family.' I feel sorry for people when they say that. But my advice to them is that you shouldn't have taken the job in the first place.
Louis Freeh
#82. We spend more time learning how to make a living than we do learning to make a life.
Muhammad Ali
#83. You can intentionally choose to spend more time with the people you enjoy most and engage your strengths as much as possible.
Tom Rath
#84. We will spend more time in America, we're going to get a place in LA as hotels aren't great for the baby.
Anna Friel
#85. My assistants and I often would spend more time planning a practice than the actual practice itself
John Wooden
#86. I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
Jet Li
#87. We spend more time asking what would Jesus do instead of what did Jesus do.
Tullian Tchividjian
#88. You should spend more time with your families; write that novel you've always wanted to write. You know, the one about the fearless reporter who stands up to the administration. You know - fiction.
Stephen Colbert
#89. We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.
Hayden Fry
#90. You're going to spend more time with yourself than with anyone else in your life. You want to spend that whole time fighting who you are?
Alex Sanchez
#91. After Michael Jordan recently criticized President Obama's golf game, Obama responded by saying that Jordan should spend more time thinking about his basketball team, the Charlotte Hornets. Then Jordan said, 'Do you really want to talk about whose team got crushed this week?'
Jimmy Fallon
#92. Whether or not I tour forever, I'm not sure. I would love to spend more time living in harmony with nature rather than flying all over the world and contributing to global warming, you know what I mean?
Jason Mraz
#93. If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing research in physics, teaching, and running a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower women in Cambodia.
Alan Lightman
#94. Do not sit long with a sad friend. When you go to a garden do you look at the weeds? Spend more time with the roses and jasmines.
Rumi
#95. First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.
Zadie Smith
#96. If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.
Mikhail Botvinnik
#97. I wish there were a way to spend more time on the surface. But oh well. 31 sols will have to do.
Andy Weir
#98. There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.
Elon Musk
#99. Christian patriots spend more time washing feet than waving flags.
Charles W. Colson
#100. I've got to quit trying to play the Holy Spirit's role by forcing, manipulating, talking, and programming people into the change I want to see. Instead I've got to spend more time praying that the Holy Spirit would come into their lives and regenerate them.
Francis Chan
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