Top 100 Time Wasting Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.
Brian Tracy
#4. 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
#5. Love is a fever which, so to speak, drives off without wasting time on the address.
P.G. Wodehouse
#6. 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
#8. 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
#9. Wasting time in a relationship that blows is just that - wasted time.
Greg Behrendt
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. I didn't waste my time on things I didn't love.
Patti Smith
#14. It is never a waste of time to study the history of a word.
Lucien Febvre
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. If you don't wake up at three in the morning and want to do something, you're wasting your time.
Harold Eugene Edgerton
#19. Life is too short to waste time on things that have no lasting significance.
T. B. Joshua
#20. 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
#21. 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
#23. So when we spend all of our time trying to separate that which is already joined, it's a waste of time.
Wynton Marsalis
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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.
#28. If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?
Caitlyn Jenner
#30. 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
#31. Wasting time is worse than death, because death separates you from this world whereas wasting time separates you from Allah
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. I find it more enjoyable investing time doing what pleases me, rather than wasting precious time attempting to please everyone else.
Greg Reid
#37. 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
#38. I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered.
Norman Mailer
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.
John Milton
#43. 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
#44. It is truly sad how some people find pleasure in wasting other people's time.
Ben Tolosa
#45. Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.
Paulo Coelho
#46. 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
#47. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money.
Sharon Salzberg
#53. Don't waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
Seth Godin
#54. We struggle with a seditious inner voice that says, "You're wasting time. Get up and do something with your life.
Pamela D. Blair
#55. 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
#56. I stop wasting time on tears.
I live another fifty years.
It's not enough!
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#58. Sometimes, sitting there on the cushion failing to watch your breath, it can feel like you're the only weirdo weird enough to be wasting your time in this way. But you're not! There are generations of weirdos, monasteries full of them, and we have the benefit of their accumulated wisdom.
Jay Michaelson
#60. 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
#61. Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.
Katie Dale
#63. 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
#64. Until you find where the goal post is, you shall only exert all your precious energy and ability shooting in the direction of goal kick without scoring any goal
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#65. No one owns anything. Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them. And if nothing belongs to me, then there's no point wasting my time looking after things that aren't mine.
Paulo Coelho
#66. 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
#67. It takes so long to write a script, thinking to yourself, "Am I wasting my time? Am I putting everything into this thing that maybe just won't ever exist?" I always think, God, acting is so much easier. At least for acting you have the source material already.
Jason Schwartzman
#68. Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion!
L. Ron Hubbard
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. Until we have established reliability there is no sense at all in wasting time trying to make the thing go faster.
Carroll Smith
#72. 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
#73. Moving on will show you a lot about who you are, what you truly want, & what you have no desire to waste your time on.
April Mae Monterrosa
#74. Dear Depression, please keep your distance. Don't be nasty. Find some other person with more reason than me to look in the mirror and say: "What a pointless existence." Whether you like it or not, I know how to defeat you. You're wasting your time.
Paulo Coelho
#76. Stop killing and wasting time. Get something done today
Sunday Adelaja
#77. Vous perdez votre temps! (You're wasting your time.)
Kathleen Flinn
#78. If the monkey really wanted to get the weasel, he would've stopped wasting time and burned down the mulberry bush.
M.E. Castle
#79. 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
#80. I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.
Bam Margera
#81. So what should we say when children complete a task - say, math problems - quickly and perfectly? Should we deny them the praise they have earned? Yes. When this happens, I say, Whoops. I guess that was too easy. I apologize for wasting your time. Let's do something you can really learn from!
Carol S. Dweck
#82. It must be a conviction Government. As Prime Minister I could not waste time having internal arguments.
Margaret Thatcher
#83. [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
#84. 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
#85. Go ahead and do what you really love to do! Do nothing else! You have so little time. How can you think of wasting a moment doing something for a living you don't like to do? What kind of a living is that? That is not a living, that is a dying!
Neale Donald Walsch
#86. If you were ready to sleep with me we wouldn't be in this bar, but in my room not wasting any more time.
Stephanie Witter
#87. 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
#88. You don't understand. You've never hated anybody.
No, I never have. We're allotted just so much time on earth, and I wouldn't want the Lord to see me wasting mine in any such manner.
Truman Capote
#89. 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
#90. This is the most uncomfortable coffin I've ever been in. You are wasting my time.
Bela Lugosi
#91. Stop wasting time in playing a role or a concept. Instead, learn to ACTUALIZE YOURSELF, your potential.
Bruce Lee
#92. I try to wear a watch all the time, because I think guys get the short end of the stick when it comes to jewelry and accessories. A watch is a very chic men's item, and you're sort of wasting it if you just look at your cell phone.
Derek Blasberg
#93. If we don't live by God's heartbeat, by what He has in His heart, then we are wasting our time and life
Sunday Adelaja
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. Time is not money because it never returns.
Amit Abraham
#99. Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit?
Pat Conroy
#100. 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
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