Top 100 Waste Your Time Quotes
#1. SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
Gary Wolf
#2. Life is over in a blink of an eye - so why waste your time being anything but happy that you've been given another day to live?" "Hey,
Rachel Van Dyken
#3. I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus you don't have to waste your time in either attacking or defending.
Isaac Asimov
#4. If you got something outside the common run that's got to be done and cant wait, dont waste your time on the menfolks; they works on what your uncle calls the rules and the cases. Get the womens and the children at it; they works on the circumstances.
William Faulkner
#5. Don't waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come.
Mario Quintana
#6. Vote; it's the most important right granted to you as a citizen. But unless you are a politician, stay out of politics because your gains will not change anything and your losses will only make you waste your time and many friendships.
Ben Tolosa
#7. Half of love is restraint. Patience and respect. Don't waste your time on the unworthy.
Aleksandr Voinov
#8. 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
#9. Don't waste your time with people who will ultimately destroy you, but concentrate instead on those who will appreciate your responsibility to them, and, likewise, feel responsible to you.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#10. Of course you should only be nice to nice people!" Vid looked at Dakota in the rearview mirror. "You hear that, Dakota? Don't waste your time on people who are not nice!
Liane Moriarty
#11. Time is life. To waste your time is to waste your life.
Douglas Merrill
#12. Give me a reason, to end this discussion, to break with tradition, to fall and divide. So let's not get carried, away with the process, of healing relations, I don't want to waste your time!
Aurelien Budynek
#13. Don't waste your time lookin' over your shoulder; those loves from the past ain't getting' no closer. When I look in my future, you're all I can see, so honey, don't go lovin' on nobody but me.
Blake Shelton
#14. Your thoughts and your actions are fixed forever in their terms. That is slavery. I, on the other hand, brought you freedom. Freedom is expensive, but the price is not impossible. So, fear your captors, your masters. Don't waste your time and your power fearing me.
Carlos Castaneda
#15. It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#16. Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who.
Jim Rohn
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. What's the point of having weak enemies? They just waste your time.
Steven Brust
#21. Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#22. 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
#23. If you see a door to happiness, do not waste your time knocking it, just open the door and walk in!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#24. You can't be different for different's sake, and this doesn't always work, but you have to separate yourself from the normal read. Of course, it has to be truthful. If it's not truthful, don't waste your time.
Brad Pitt
#25. 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
#26. You said you didn't want to waste your time on people who aren't going to matter," I said, and he nodded. "But how do you know they're not going to matter? Unless you give it a shot?
Morgan Matson
#27. I have never read it. You should not waste your time.
Kenneth Clarke
#28. Don't waste your time being envious of what you don't have or who you want to be. Instead, focus on what you do have and who you can become.
April Mae Monterrosa
#29. Don't waste your time with fear.. Fear won't keep you safe from being hurt.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#30. 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
#31. Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.
Michael LeBoeuf
#32. Do not dash if you only have the strength to walk, and do not waste your time pushing on the walls that will not give. More importantly, don't shove where a pat would be sufficient.
Brandon Sanderson
#33. I necessarily fear change except that it's so seldom for the better. It's just that I can live with any number of things going straight to hell as long as these streams continue to hold up. If this amounts to living in a fool's paradise, don't waste your time trying to explain that to the fool.
John Gierach
#34. I just don't want you to worry about me, or think you've met me, or waste your time anymore.
Stephen Chbosky
#35. We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.
Sheila Heti
#36. You never waste your time. That's why I have to do it for you.
John Knowles
#37. The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.
Seth Godin
#38. Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
Alfred Hitchcock
#39. In life I Have learned a lot of things, One of the main things I learned is that If you waste your time with problem women you will end up with nothing but women problems
Kenny D. Eichenberg
#40. Time is life. It is irreversible and irreplaceable. To waste your time is to waste your life, but to master your time is to master your life and make the most of it.
Alan Lakein
#41. Your LIFE is a PUZZLE, don't waste your time trying to place people where they don't fit
Thabang Gideon Magaola
#42. Life is too short to do what doesn't matter, to waste your time on things that don't amount to much.
Jeff Goins
#43. Anyway, it fell through because they ran out of money. That was when I learned not to waste your time getting your hopes up or to believe something until it actually happens. We broke up for various reasons, but it was a good band. Jim and Don produced some magical music.
Jamie Muir
#44. Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle - maybe there is none.
Franz Kafka
#45. 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
#46. Don't waste your time hating me; you can't change me. Instead, hate your impotent life; THAT you can change.
Steve Maraboli
#47. Never be picky and choosy about means of escaping disembowelment, or waste your time trying to find reasons for the persecution you're a victim of. Escape is good enough for the wise.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#48. Never waste your time trying to convince someone else of your worth. If they can't see it, they are not worth the effort.
Amari Soul
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. Don't waste your time searching and wishing. Grow and be ready ... and you'll see God will give you a love story far better than you could ever dreamed of.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#54. If you're going to do something, do something that matters. Don't waste your time doing stupid things with even bigger losers going nowhere.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#55. Don't waste your time chasing things that will never be beneficial to your future.
April Mae Monterrosa
#56. Don't waste your time on me you're already the voice inside my head
Blink-182
#57. I'm not against ambition and reach, but if you can say it in four lines, why waste your time saying it in more? Challenge the world by all means, but it's bad for your poetry to take steroids.
Michael Longley
#58. Don't waste your time being what someone wants you to become, in order to feed their list of rules, boundaries and insecurities. Find your tribe. They will allow you to be you, while you dance in the rain.
Shannon L. Alder
#59. Don't waste your time to make new dreams. but waste it to make one of your lifetime dream, come true.
Olivia Sinaga
#60. If you don't like me, why do you waste your time making fun of me?
Chad Anderson
#62. Don't waste your time in the race looking back to see what the other guy is doing. It's not about the other guy. It's about what can you do. You just need to run that race as hard as you can. You need to give it everything you've got, all the time, for yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
#63. 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
#64. Don't waste your time trying to live an average life. You aren't average. And that is your greatest advantage.
Heidi Priebe
#65. Don't be silly and don't waste your time.
Bob Newhart
#66. The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public. Do not waste your time with music that is trite or ignoble. Life is too short to spend it wandering in the barren Saharas of musical trash.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
#67. Time equals life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.
Alan Lakein
#68. If you're looking to become an entrepreneur then don't waste your time going to university or business school - just get on and do it.
Richard Branson
#69. I'm not gonna waste your time, so I wouldn't expect you to waste my time.
Terrell Owens
#70. 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
#72. Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.
Laurence Olivier
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. If you waste your time and energy on things that don't matter in the outcome of the game, then when you get to the game you're not going to give your teammates the best that you have to offer.
Tom Brady
#76. Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.
Paulo Coelho
#77. Don't waste your time dying over the past, spend it living in the present.
Saim .A. Cheeda
#78. Ignore and avoid the negative. Just don't waste your time. Keep committed to the positive. Seek Allah's mercy & guidance.
Yusuf Badat
#79. That's Edward. He's gorgeous, of course, but don't waste your time. He doesn't date. Apparently none of the girls here are good-looking enough for him.
Stephenie Meyer
#80. Don't waste your time trying to get into my head. There's nothing there.
William Shatner
#81. Don't waste your time or time will waste you.
Muse
#82. There's a saying in Hardorn," she continued. "'You shouldn't attempt to teach a goat to sing. It will waste your time, hurt your ears, and annoy the goat.' I can say without fear of contradiction that the goat is getting annoyed.
Mercedes Lackey
#83. Don't take life too seriously and have fun. Don't waste your time on things that your ego will try and convince you are important.
RuPaul
#84. Don't waste your time trying to win people over that can never be won over.
Joel Osteen
#85. Nothing will change if you blame. Rather it will aggravate negative emotions within you. Don't waste your time blaming.
Maddy Malhotra
#86. A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.
Jef Raskin
#87. Don't waste your time thinkin' about bad things.
Jimi Hendrix
#88. Life's too awesome to waste your time thinking about someone who doesn't treat you right.
Jack Barakat
#90. 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
#91. Everyone cannot like you. Don't waste your time trying to change those who do not. Just be you.
Stella Oladiran
#92. Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues.
Jon Bon Jovi
#93. If you truly love someone, don't waste your time finding reasons to hate them. Spend it remembering why you love them in the first place.
Jinxx
#94. 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
#95. All students need to know about color is the basic color wheel and complimentary colors. There are many books on color theory; do not waste your time and money.
Sergei Bongart
#96. Do not waste your time with people who have shown you they really mean no good for you.
Oprah Winfrey
#97. Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.
Dream Hampton
#99. 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
#100. Don't waste your time trying to explain yourself to people that are committed to misunderstanding you. Instead, commit your time to explaining who they are to them. When you get a person to see the positive similarities you share, it begins to restore the loss of respect between you.
Shannon L. Alder
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