Top 100 Waste Your Time Quotes
#1. You need to learn to see and compose. The more time you waste worrying about your equipment the less time you'll have to put into creating great images. Worry about your images, not your equipment.
Ken Rockwell
#2. The best thing you can give me is your time. The easiest way to get me angry is to waste my time.
Lorene Scafaria
#3. I have my work cut out for me where you're concerned, don't I? (Stryker)
Not really. Hate you today. Will hate you tomorrow. What say we don't waste any time? Give me the sword and let me have your throat now. (Zephyra)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#4. Don't waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come.
Mario Quintana
#5. knowing look flashed across Britney's face. "Oh, their royal highnesses Alec and Jasmin. They're pretty distracting all right, but don't waste your time. They'll never waste a thought on you or me, or pretty much anyone.
Dean Murray
#6. Losers, like autodidacts, always know much more than winners. If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not to waste your time on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers. The more a person knows, the more things have gone wrong.
Umberto Eco
#7. Human beings only learn by observing and copying. What does this really mean? It means that your friends will only tell you that your ideas are great once you succeed and never before that. Expecting someone's approval is a waste of time.
Robin Sacredfire
#8. If you do a yoga that does not change the patterns of energy within you, I would say, don't waste your time on it.
Jaggi Vasudev
#9. Don't waste your time,
money,energy and love
on someone who is unappreciative and brings heartache in to your life.
Everyone may deserve love,
but not everyone deserve your love.
Bryant McGill
#10. If you're going to do something, make it right and make it as good as you can. Don't waste anybody's time, especially your own.
Debra Wilson
#11. Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#12. 1. If something is worthwhile doing - do it well. Don't waste your and other's time.
2. Life is brief - never postpone forgiveness when in your power - it may set you free.
Danie Botha
#13. Time will tell if it was well spent.
Time will tell where all your ideas went.
Time will allow you to achieve your goals.
Time is too precious to put on hold.
Don't waste time on meaningless things.
Take advantage of its benefits and all life brings.
Bianca McCormick-Johnson
#14. I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death.
Lloyd Alexander
#15. Don't make your own life your project in your own life: total waste of time.
Lorrie Moore
#16. It's a waste of time and energy to keep thinking about something that you make no progress on. And it only adds to your anxiety about what you should be doing and aren't. Most
David Allen
#17. Every one of us can blame somebody for something that has happened in our lives. But don't waste your time. What we need most is a steady stream of love flowing among us. Love that quickly forgives, willingly overlooks, and refuses to take offense.
Charles R. Swindoll
#18. Mindless action without a real understanding of the ramifications is only likely to result in serious miscalculations or a colossal waste of time. Avoid both by using your judgment, filtered through both knowledge and experience. Use common sense and logic as a counterbalance to emotion.
David Amerland
#19. Live what you love, and love what you live.
Anything less is a painful and frustrating waste of your precious time.
Ralph Marston
#20. In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or energy.
Larry Brooks
#21. Trust this: drinking until you go away from the world only wastes moments of your life. All that time is lost. And time and love are incredibly precious. Yes? Don't waste either.
Damon Suede
#22. We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.
Sheila Heti
#23. If my fans want to do something for me when that time comes, I say, don't waste your money on me. Help the homeless. Help the needy ... people who don't have no food ... Instead of some big funeral, where they come from here and there and all over. Save it.
B.B. King
#24. Our greatest currency is our time and we cannot save it. Spend it wisely and never waste another's or your own.
Kyle Barger
#25. If a guy can't handle your natural hair, he's weak. Why waste time on someone like that? ...
Petra Collins
#26. Life is too short to do what doesn't matter, to waste your time on things that don't amount to much.
Jeff Goins
#27. Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle - maybe there is none.
Franz Kafka
#28. Whatever life may send your way - make the best of it. Don't waste your time and energy worrying about it. Instead, find a way to do something about it. Learn from it, adjust to it, be strong, be flexible and be your best in every situation.
Les Brown
#29. Don't waste your time hating me; you can't change me. Instead, hate your impotent life; THAT you can change.
Steve Maraboli
#30. Today and tomorrow is an illusion, days are all joined together, and if you are waiting for your time, you are wasting your time.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#32. The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
Barbara Bush
#33. When you have got a ticket to send, and you're not a top costumer, it's best not to waste your time.
Abraham Lincoln
#34. There's always tomorrow."
I followed him. "Tomorrow's not going to change anything."
"We'll see."
"There's nothing to see. You're wasting your time."
"When it concerns you, it's never a waste of my time," he replied.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#35. If a hole in your wall is large enough for a rat to get his head in, rats will soon take over your home. If there is a hole in your heart large enough for the devil to get his head in, he'll waste no time moving in too.
Nancy B. Brewer
#36. I started to be much happier in my relationships when I realized that I can only control myself. That way, you don't worry about people and don't waste your time thinking, 'What if he cheats on me?' You can't control that.
Crystal Reed
#37. I know what it's like to squander all your hours and all your tears and all your heart on something which turns out to be nothing. Don't waste your time.
Sophie Kinsella
#38. The audience may not like your work; if you are very sure of your work, don't waste your time defending it, just ignore the audience! Time will come and the new audience will appreciate what you have done! Remember, your time is very valuable!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#39. I hate all those flirty-birty games that women make up. Life's too short. If you ever find a man you love, don't waste time hanging your head and simpering. Go right up to him and say, 'I love you. How about getting married?
Betty Smith
#40. Do not waste time trying to deal with your enemies.
Sunday Adelaja
#41. Don't waste your time chasing things that will never be beneficial to your future.
April Mae Monterrosa
#42. Use your God given time wisely, don't waste it in paltry things.
Euginia Herlihy
#43. Go ahead with your life, your plans ... Don't waste time by stopping before the interruptions have started.
Richard L. Evans
#44. There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.
Marcia Wallace
#45. We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!
Andre Aciman
#46. Happiness is not in getting what you want, but in learning to want what you get. Don't waste your time crying over what you're not given. When you have tears in your eyes, you can't see all the beautiful things around you.
Lisa Wingate
#47. Don't waste your time trying to live an average life. You aren't average. And that is your greatest advantage.
Heidi Priebe
#48. Please waste time just playing with your kids!
Pope Francis
#49. 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
#50. If you felt like a smoke and couldn't find a pipe, a book was your man every time. Cohen realized people wrote things in books. It had always seemed to him to be a frivolous waste of paper.
Terry Pratchett
#51. Worry does no good and can impact your life in negative ways. I'm sure you have noticed how absolutely powerless you feel when you worry or you're anxious and troubled, because worry is indeed completely useless. It is a waste of time and energy because it never changes your circumstances.
Joyce Meyer
#52. Don't waste your time trying to turn ducks into eagles. Hire people who already have the motivation and drive to be eagles and then just let them soar.
Jim Rohn
#53. It would be very tempting to say that why paint because we have Michelangelo, we have Leonardo [Da Vinci], we have all these guys. Why waste your time, because most likely you're not going to be on that level anyway.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
#54. Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again.
Emil Cioran
#55. Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don't waste this breath, if your heart isn't crazy, since "the rest of your life" won't last forever.
Omar Khayyam
#56. Ignore and avoid the negative. Just don't waste your time. Keep committed to the positive. Seek Allah's mercy & guidance.
Yusuf Badat
#57. Preserve your peace of mind. There is not much time; all things end in death. Do not lament the past too much, or fear the future too acutely, ot waste too much energy on other peoples' woes, in case the present dissolves altogether.
Fay Weldon
#58. Life is a waste of time, and time is a waste of life. Get wasted all the time, and you'll have the time of your life!
Billy Connolly
#59. Don't waste your time trying to win people over that can never be won over.
Joel Osteen
#60. A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.
Jef Raskin
#61. Don't waste your time thinkin' about bad things.
Jimi Hendrix
#62. Life's too awesome to waste your time thinking about someone who doesn't treat you right.
Jack Barakat
#63. The fallacy of trying to time the highs and lows Trying to time the highs and lows of the market is a fool's game. It can't be done with any reliability, and you shouldn't waste your time trying.
Jesse Mecham
#64. Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues.
Jon Bon Jovi
#65. The old man pushed into his cane and heaved himself up. "Why do you waste your time, Meghan, running through the folds of it?
Erin Cole
#66. Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.
Dream Hampton
#68. Don't waste your time with procrastinating, because that time you won't get back. Be productive, even if it means sitting in your bed and reading :D
Anonymous
#69. You seem to like everybody. It's unnatural. It's also unfortunate. You're going to waste so much time before you've worked out who the people are it's worth your while to know.
Paul Scott
#70. Each and every minute spent reviewing one's lifestyle is never wasted. A better life comes when one takes time to re-order his/her steps, having learnt lessons worth applying!
Israelmore Ayivor
#71. You have to have an objective, a goal, some thought process, some strategy in your mind for whatever you do. Otherwise it's a waste of time.
Stuart McMillan
#72. When the storm has passed, put your energy into rebuilding your life, don't waste time looking back.
Leon Brown
#73. Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change.
- Paradox: Life is a mystery; don't waste your time trying to figure it out.
- Humor: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure
- Change: Know that nothing ever stays the same.
Dan Millman
#74. Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.
George Bernard Shaw
#75. To spend your time trying to make your body flawless is to waste your time. Even if it appears to match some externalized ideals of perfection for a moment, your physical self will wrinkle and age. Work on your mind. Work on your legacy.
Vironika Tugaleva
#76. Stop doing things that waste time. Don't replace time with your family or things that you need to do. I needed to put together two fantasy teams this weekend because that's something I enjoy, but I did stop playing Nintendo Wii for hours on end.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#77. Do not waste time bothering whether you 'love' your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
C.S. Lewis
#78. You need to associate with people who inspire you,
people that challenge you to raise higher,
people that make you better.
Don't waste your valuable time with people that are not adding to your growth.
Your destiny is too important.
Joel Osteen
#79. Being aware of who you are, you will ensure that you do not waste your time spending energy on unnecessary things
Sunday Adelaja
#80. Don't waste your time, it is too short, Valuable and irreplaceable.
Mike Murdock
#81. DO NOT WASTE YOUR PRECIOUS TIME GIVING ONE SINGLE CRAP ABOUT WHAT ANYBODY ELSE THINKS OF YOU.
Anonymous
#82. When life brings you mountains, you don't waste your time asking why; you spend your time climbing over them.
A.J. Darkholme
#83. Don't waste your time obsessing over stupid actions of stupid people
Elle Kennedy
#84. 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
#85. If you have to walk up the endless-looking stairs to reach your target, do never waste your time thinking, just walk up the stairs!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#86. Sometimes, you turn left on life's road; sometimes, you turn right. But once you've made that decision, you have to march ahead and push through anything in your way. Never waste time thinking about what it would have been like if you'd taken the other path.
Arthur T. Bradley
#87. If you love someone and they don't love you back, wait for them. If they still don't love you after waiting, they aren't really worth your time. Darn, why did I waste all that time waiting then?
Sage Cohen
#88. Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself
Baz Luhrmann
#89. When you think about the wasted time, you waste your time again.
Steven Shaw
#90. I shook my head. "Don't bother making excuses," I said. "Don't waste your time because, the fact is, I am the Duff. But so is everyone else in the world. We're all fucking Duffs."
"I'm not the Duff," Wesley said confidently.
"That's because you don't have friends."
"Oh. Right.
Kody Keplinger
#92. If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#93. Don't waste your precious time on people who do not appreciate your value. Learn to use your perfume on the pigs when they also learn to bath.
Israelmore Ayivor
#94. Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.
Lionel Shriver
#95. There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell them.
As the great philosopher of uncertainty Yogi berra once said, Don't waste your time trying to fight forecasters, stock analysts, economists and social scientists, except to play pranks on them.
Nicholas Nassim Taleb
#96. Time is a measurement of our past, present and future. Do you value your time or do you waste it.
Vicki Salter
#97. 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
#98. There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time.
Henry Rollins
#99. Fears are a complete waste of your time. Nine times out of ten, whatever you're afraid of is not dangerous or life threatening. In fact, it's probably not even real.
Sean Stephenson
#100. Don't waste your time to appease people who have already stumbled in you because of what you stand for. Respect their decision & move on...
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