Top 100 Waste Time Sayings
#1. I don't dwell in the past; I don't wallow in old events and emotions. I don't waste time on regret. No use going over and over the details of what already happened.
Yanni
#2. Dogs die. But dogs live, too. Right up until they die, they live. They live brave, beautiful lives. They protect their families. And love us. And make our lives a little brighter. And they don't waste time being afraid of tomorrow.
Dan Gemeinhart
#3. A person can't brood over one mistake, or waste time feeling sorry for himself, or take on any sort of persecution complex. Today I realize that once you have made a mistake, you must accept it, profit by it, and then totally dismiss it from your mind.
Bart Starr
#4. They say you waste time asleep, but I'm just trying to dream.
Mac Miller
#5. If you ever seem to be sliding back into the very thing you've already been set free of, don't even waste time getting discouraged. Often what seems like the same old thing coming back again may be a new layer surfacing that needs to come off. You're not going backwards - you are going deeper.
Stormie O'martian
#6. By contrast, no one in Alphinland ever demanded a blowjob. But then, no one in Alphinland had a toilet either. Toilets weren't necessary. Why waste time on that kind of routine bodily function when there were giant scorpions invading the castle?
Margaret Atwood
#7. People don't change that much. Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in. That is hard enough (Buckingham and Coffman 1999).
Jim Highsmith
#8. People will listen when they're ready to listen and not before. Don't waste time with people who want to argue. They'll keep you immobilized forever. Look for people who are already open to something new.
Daniel Quinn
#9. Have fun, work hard and money will come. Don't waste time - grab your chances. Have a positive outlook on life. When it's not fun, move on.
Richard Branson
#10. Please waste time just playing with your kids!
Pope Francis
#11. Do good work and let that speak for itself. Don't waste time arguing with someone. Instead, show them in your work. That's easier said than done, but it really is the best solution. No one can argue with good work.
Megan Alexander
#13. Every person living has made mistakes. Those who proceed with living never waste time licking their wounds. New ideas take them the next step of the way." ~ Raymond Charles Barker from The Power of Decision
Amber Foster
#14. I'm a pretty tough guy, you know. I'm a pretty hard man. I've got a lot of compassion, but I don't waste time with people.
Anthony Hopkins
#16. You'll do well, if you don't mire in self-pity. Self-pity only gets you more of the same. Don't waste time on it.
Robin Hobb
#17. There's a pretty woman for ever lucky man in the world: every man in the world is a lucky man if he only knew it, so why waste time?
William, Saroyan
#18. I think the best way to waste time is to try to save time.
Francoise Sagan
#19. The man of leadership caliber will work while others waste time, study while others sleep, pray while others play. There will be no place for loose or lazy habits in word or thought, deed or dress. He will observe a soldierly discipline, diet and deportment, so that he may wage a good warfare.
J. Oswald Sanders
#20. Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
Wangari Maathai
#21. I don't waste time. I move. I finish things. I don't try and do things to the nth degree. I know what's important and what's not. I've really learned that. That's a judgement I've learned, what really matters.
Gail Kelly
#22. I will not waste time on second thoughts. My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement.
Andy Andrews
#23. Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.
Orison Swett Marden
#24. If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
Bruce Lee
#25. My only regrets are the moments when i doubted myself and took the safe route. Life is too short to waste time being unhappy.
Dan Howell
#26. Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.
Sophia Loren
#27. Life is too short to waste time harboring bad feelings about anyone. Forgive, forget, then move on!
Denise Austin
#28. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love.
Unknwn
#29. Don't waste time asking God to keep you from doing things. Don't do them.
Oswald Chambers
#30. I'm fortunate enough to have learned not to waste time getting frustrated with my kids, or co-workers, or friends and family for not doing everything I wish they would. If someone doesn't respond to me the way I want them to, I understand that it doesn't have anything to do with me.
Chandra Wilson
#31. A chimpanzee who is really gearing up for a fight doesn't waste time with gestures but just goes ahead and attacks.
Frans De Waal
#32. This is not a romance - I have too often faced the music of life to the tune of hardship to waste time in snivelling and gushing over fancies and dreams [author's introduction]
Miles Franklin
#33. It's better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money.
Hal Sparks
#34. Facebook revamped its search feature. Now you can search for any post that has ever appeared on your page. It's helpful if you want to waste time this year remembering exactly how you wasted time last year.
Conan O'Brien
#35. Always think positively, don't smoke, don't drink, don't dwell on bad thoughts, don't waste time brooding, and go for a walk every day!
Karsten Thormaehlen
#36. You know, the thing that I do to waste time is think of things I want to make. That's how my mind is employed.
Joss Whedon
#37. I would rather read a mediocre book than waste time sitting around with people making small talk.
James D. Sass
#38. The most powerful women in Sachaka and all you do is waste time gossiping and matchmaking
Trudi Canavan
#40. He tried the diversion of reciting all the bones in the body, working down the left side, down to the toes and then back up. Each toe and finger separately, just to waste time. He lost his place somewhere on the right hand.
Ruth Downie
#41. I don't waste time putting money down, I just go straight to who got it and buy it in cash. Pussy so good that you gotta come see me on tour and you gotta fly in first class.
Drake
#42. Don't waste time. Avoid the company of wasteful people who lack the desire to achieve. Become assertive and action-oriented.
Archibald Marwizi
#43. A true King would not waste time justifying or explaining. He would simply state his will.
Stephen King
#44. I am successful because I did not waste time bothering about what others were doing but focussed on what I was doing.
Amit Abraham
#45. You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.
Steven Moffat
#46. Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with it: don't dwell on the past. Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.
Allegra Huston
#47. If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.
L.M. Montgomery
#48. If there is no solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it. If there is a solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it.
Dalai Lama XIV
#49. It's a lie, you know, to pretend that nothing is important to you. It's hiding. Believe me, I know because I hid for a long time. But now I won't do it anymore. The truth is bioluminescent. I don't lie, and I don't waste time on people who do.
Ellen Wittlinger
#50. I'm not trying to brainwash my critics. If they're critics, they're critics, and that's their job to be critical, but I certainly enjoy the involvement I have with my fans. I enjoy the time I get to spend with them, and I don't waste time with someone stubborn who is not going to come around.
John Cena
#51. Don't waste time waiting for opportunity to surface; it may never happen that way. Spend time to create one and many more will unfold in series!
Israelmore Ayivor
#52. If you can change things, change them, but don't waste time worrying about things you can't change.
Cate Tiernan
#53. Being a mother is the perfect experience for any writer. You learn how to not waste time. The writing hours become incredibly precious and concentrated because the rest of your day is completely packed with diapers, edible liquid foods that look like pooh, tiny bathtubs, and unconditional love.
Chiara Barzini
#54. We can no longer waste time and money. Every day, more than 2,000 girls in America, age 15-19, give birth - in the wealthiest, most educated nation in the world! Neither you nor I should accept this statistic.
Jane Fonda
#55. Fighting is a very emotionally draining sport. I don't want to waste time on drama beforehand.
Holly Holm
#56. She was a finisher, unlike them -- she didn't wait for leaves to fall and see where they'd land, or even waste time anticipating which way the wind would blow them. No, she was the storm that ripped the leaves from trees and determined their path...
-SHEgo, 2010
Tania Zaverta Chance
#57. Life's too short to waste time living it any other way.
Cora Carmack
#58. The NYPD has too urgent a mission and too few officers for us to waste time and resources on broad, unfocused surveillance. We have a responsibility to protect New Yorkers from violent crime or another terrorist attack - and we uphold the law in doing so.
Raymond Kelly
#59. Don't waste time. Don't let a minute pass doing nothing or doing something that is not as per your Wish. Grab hold of each minute and do what you want to do.
R.v.m.
#60. One of Obama's most impressive attributes is his quiet confidence: Voters sense that he is comfortable in his own skin, a dedicated father and friend who won't waste time with the phony rituals of Washington.
Ron Fournier
#61. Don't waste Time, you can't get more of it. Even if you give away all you have, you can't get back a Minute.-RVM
R.v.m.
#62. It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaign to discredit my investigation, nor to waste time trying to prove negatives.
Jim Garrison
#64. When the storm has passed, put your energy into rebuilding your life, don't waste time looking back.
Leon Brown
#65. I'm not going to waste time being angry about things I can't control. If I only have one life, I should make the most of it.
Jodi Meadows
#67. Time is wealth, and the Gita says the Great Annihilator annihilates those who waste time.
Mahatma Gandhi
#68. My knowledge of pain, learned with the sabre, taught me not to be afraid. And just as in dueling when you must concentrate on your enemy's cheek, so, too, in war. You cannot waste time on feinting and sidestepping. You must decide on your target and go in.
Otto Skorzeny
#69. Don't waste time on how it starts until you know how it ends,
Roger Ebert
#70. You can either waste time worrying about a death that might not come or concentrate on what's left to you.
Jeff VanderMeer
#71. I trained for less than three-quarters of an hour, maybe five days a week - I didn't have time to do more. But it was all about quality, not quantity - so I didn't waste time jogging, ever.
Roger Bannister
#72. Don't waste time making enemies. As long as you're active, you'll have plenty.
George Hammond
#73. Life is a funny thing. We only get so many years to live it, so we have to do everything we can to make sure those years are as full as they can be. We shouldn't waste time on things that might happen someday, or maybe even never.
Colleen Hoover
#74. 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
#75. A Warrior of the Light knows what he wants. And he has no need to waste time on explanations.
Paulo Coelho
#76. Yes ... That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those ... about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion or another.
Linda Dillow
#77. We create the race by creating ourselves and then to our great astonishment we will have created something far more important: We will have created a culture. Why waste time creating a conscience for something that doesn't exist? For, you see, blood and skin do not think!
Ralph Ellison
#78. For me, books are music for my mind and my imagination. When I am stuck in something I'm writing, I simply read my way out of being stuck. You can never waste time reading.
Cynthia Kadohata
#79. To create an organization that's adaptable and innovative, people need the freedom to challenge precedent, to 'waste' time, to go outside of channels, to experiment, to take risks and to follow their passions.
Gary Hamel
#80. Take the long way. Do the hard work, consistently and with generosity and transparency. And then you won't waste time doing it over.
Seth Godin
#81. Success comes to those who do not waste time looking and criticizing what others are doing but focusing on honest self-evaluation and what they have to do.
Amit Abraham
#82. You don't waste time on suspecting or second guessing when you confront.
Sunday Adelaja
#83. Don't waste time and energy being an imitation. Let God make you into an original.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#84. 'Troll 2' is one of the rare sequels where you don't have to waste time watching the first one, since the films have absolutely nothing to do with one another.
Eli Roth
#85. You can't even trade a single fart with the next guy. Each and every one of us has to live out his own life. Don't waste time thinking about who's most talented.
Kodo Sawaki
#86. The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!
Kenneth Oppel
#87. Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?
David Baldacci
#88. I'm just surprised your parents let you go online, Call said. It was such a regular, non-fancy way to waste time. When he imagined her outside the Magisterium, having fun, he imagined her riding a polo pony, although he wasn't exactly sure what that was or how it was different from a regular pony.
Cassandra Clare
#89. Did people waste time before the internet existed?
Matt McGorry
#90. People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
Henrik Ibsen
#91. I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.
Vivienne Westwood
#92. Is it stupid to waste time on stuff like that in a world like this? When everything might fall apart any minute?
Isaac Marion
#93. To be productive, effective and to live a life of understanding and wisdom is not to waste time
Sunday Adelaja
#95. You cannot just waste time. Otherwise you'll die to regret it.
Harriet Doerr
#96. Facebook is like jail, you sit around and waste time, you write on walls and you get poked by people you don't know
Will Ferrell
#97. Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
Bill Watterson
#98. Most folks here got rules 'bout trespassing. Warning shot's fired right close to the head. Get they's attention. Next shot gets a lot more personal. Now I'm too old to waste time firing a warning shot ...
David Baldacci
#99. Raise your self-esteem to such a level that you only allow loving experiences in your life. Don't waste time trying to get even. It doesn't work. What we give out always comes back to us. So lets drop the past and work on loving ourselves in the now. Then we will have a wonderful future.
Auliq Ice
#100. This, I've discovered, is the best way to waste time, because it isn't really wasted
surrounded by friends, talking crap and sometimes talking for real, with snacks around and something on a screen.
David Levithan
