Top 51 Wasted Work Quotes
#1. Sometimes the way comes later, when I'm not working or thinking about it at all. When stories don't work, you try to convince yourself that all of that time and energy wasn't wasted, that it will make you a better writer, if nothing else.
Mary J. Miller
#3. I used to be on the kitchen floor, crying, wasted and thinking of lyrics. That was the only way I could create - as a tortured artist. I've learned that you can be stable and taking care of yourself and still create beautiful work.
Mary Lambert
#4. I do believe in doing the work and getting yourself together because love can be right in your face, but if you're not ready to receive it, it will be wasted.
Wendy Raquel Robinson
#5. Nothing is wasted when you are a writer. The stuff that doesn't work has to be written to make way for the stuff that might;
Abigail Thomas
#6. Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it's fun to know people are watching, and to know that all of your hard work is not sort of wasted.
James Denton
#7. When leaders know how to lead great meetings, there's less time wasted and less frustration. We have more energy to do the work that matters, realize our full potential, and do great things.
Justin Rosenstein
#8. You either waste, spend or invest time. Make your choice wisely
Sunday Adelaja
#9. What is the tactful, the effective way of announcing that your life's work has been wasted?
Francis Spufford
#10. Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.
Tim Ferriss
#11. How to "change the world" in two words: S.T.A.R.T. N.O.W.
1. START - Serve. Thank. Ask. Receive. Trust.
2. NOW - No Opportunity Wasted
Richie Norton
#12. If you waste five minutes of time a day, over the course of a year that adds up to one full work day. Think of five wasted minutes as a slow-release holiday drug. Savour it.
Douglas Coupland
#13. You need to see time correctly for you not to waste your life
Sunday Adelaja
#14. Let no body lie you that there is a future other than a moment you are able to walk and talk.
Auliq Ice
#15. And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change. Change is freedom, change is life
Ursula K. Le Guin
#16. Because nothing should be wasted
In a world where sparrows work hard
To prove there is enough.
Gary Soto
#17. As of today, I rebel against death! Work seems frivolous; I'm a proud man, and a lifetime's work would be too brief an agony for me. At the last moment, I'd attack ... to the right ... to the left ... And then - oh! - sweet old soul of mine, eternity would not have been wasted on us!
Arthur Rimbaud
#18. If you don't know what is being said, the rest of the actor's work is wasted.
Tom Stoppard
#19. Wasted strokes, like missed deadlines, are preventable and costly.
Lorii Myers
#20. As a mother, I always have something better to be doing. I love work still, but I'm less tolerant of my time being wasted.
Cindy Crawford
#21. Every piece of work in the shops moves. Save 10 steps a day for each of the 12,000 employees, and you will have saved 50 miles of wasted motion and misspent energy.
Henry Ford
#22. Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.
Thomas Hunt Morgan
#23. These were the moments when I was disappointed and frustrated, when I got so low because it seemed all my hard work had been wasted. But the moments passed, and the motivation to go back to rehab was there again.
Kim Clijsters
#24. I esteem his understanding and subtlety highly, but I consider that they have been put to ill use in the greater part of his work, where the author studies things of little use...
{Writing about Isaac Newton}
Christiaan Huygens
#25. Less talk - more work! There is too much talking going on. Because of excessive talking, spiritual energy is being wasted.
Sathya Sai Baba
#26. But thy strong Hours indignant work'd their wills, And beat me down and marr'd and wasted me, And tho' they could not end me, left me maim'd To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#27. I am invigorated by work, wasted by pleasure.
Mason Cooley
#28. Across my life only one work will be written: "waste" _ waste of love, waste of talent, waste of enterprise.
Violet Trefusis
#29. Elite runners are genetically gifted, sure, but without intense training, those gifts are wasted. Their training creates a strong work ethic that leaves humility in its wake. There are no short cuts in marathoning, so anyone who is a marathoner has worked hard.
Jeff Horowitz
#30. How terrible, Jack thought, to be old and know that your life has been wasted.
Ken Follett
#32. A life without increase, production and multiplication is a wasted one
Sunday Adelaja
#33. Control yourself every passing second and make sure that no unit of time is being wasted
Sunday Adelaja
#34. Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.
Mickey Rooney
#35. I accepted the official line so completely that even now, after all I've read and heard, I still have a minute hope that our lives weren't entirely wasted. It's the self-preservation instinct at work.
Svetlana Alexievich
#36. If at all the energies of the Soul (Atmashakti) gets wasted, it is due to conflicts. Endless energy is lost due to conflicts! Even with slightest collision (conflict) it is all over! If we maintain equanimity with awareness and do not conflict with the other person, then work will go on.
Dada Bhagwan
#37. Moving. Someone said this to me a long time ago, it's bhuddist saying, I think: 'There is no wasted effort'.
Lauren Graham
#38. God created us to live with a single passion: to joyfully display his supreme excellence in all spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion. God calls us to pray and think and dream and plan and work, not to be made much of, but to make much of him in every part of our lives.
John Piper
#39. A crisis of self-respect. What makes me feel strong? Being in love and work. I must work. I'm being wasted by self-pity and self-contempt.
Susan Sontag
#40. If you were to gather all the minutes wasted on insignificant, immaterial yik yak spent throughout the day and add them up, how much misspent time do you think you'd have? One hour? Two hours? Consider the sunk cost on that. It's unacceptable. One minute wasted is one minute too much.
Ari Gold
#41. It pains me to say this, Colin, but if you wish to continue to grow intellectually, you need to work harder right now than you ever have before. Otherwise you, you risk wasting your potential."
"Technically," Colin answered, "I think I might have already wasted it.
John Green
#42. I said, I like my life. If Ihave to give it back, if theytake it from me, let me onlynot feel I wasted any, let menot feel I forgot to love anyoneI meant to love, that I forgotto give what I held in my hands,that I forgot to do some littlepiece of the work that wantedto come through.
Marge Piercy
#43. It is the natural instinct of a child to work from within outwards; "First I think, and then I draw my think." What wasted efforts we make to teach the child to stop thinking, and only to observe!
Ananda Coomaraswamy
#44. Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables
Edward Abbey
#46. All I see is my father's tax money being wasted on shooting satellite pictures of South America like you guys work for the Travel Channel.
Todd Dooley (BLACK MARIAH - A Calling)
Richard Finney
#48. No knowledge is ever wasted. To quote the apostle Paul: "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God" (Romans 8:28).
Ben Carson
#49. The compensation we receive from employment is not enough for the time being wasted
Sunday Adelaja
#50. How much time have I wasted on diets and what I look like? People are saying 'We love you and love what you do' and you're sitting there thinking 'I'm not skinny enough or pretty enough.' It's taken a lot of work to get over that.
America Ferrera
#51. Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
Karel Capek
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