Top 69 Wastes Time Quotes
#1. Sorry wastes time. You have to live your life like you'll never be sorry. It's easier just to do the right thing from the start so there's nothing to apologize for.
Jennifer Niven
#3. I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually.
Kate Adie
#4. Multitasking doesn't save time - it wastes time.
Gary Keller
#5. You don't need to use your hand to Push," Gemmel grumbled at him. "Wastes time.
Brandon Sanderson
#6. Sleep is an unfortunate biological requirement that both wastes time and leaves one vulnerable.
Douglas Preston
#7. If you would sooner drown in wine, say the word and it shall be done, and quickly. Drowning cup by cup wastes time and wine both.
George R R Martin
#8. Do I look like the kind of person who wastes time turning goats into pin cushions?
L.J.Smith
#9. Successful people are decisive people. When opportunities come their way, they evaluate them carefully, make a decision, and take appropriate action. They know that indecision wastes time that could be spent on more productive tasks.
Napoleon Hill
#10. I don't believe in hate. To me it wastes too much time. People who hate waste so much of their life hating that they miss out on all the other stuff out here.
Jaycee Dugard
#11. The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.
Carl Sandburg
#12. Competing with other women wastes a lot of time, and I'm just not very good at it.
Sandra Bullock
#13. Just as the waste of time nourishes the hell of leisure, so technological wastes nourish the hell of war. Wastes which incarnate the secret violence of this society, uncoerced and non-degradable defecation.
Jean Baudrillard
#14. He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.
Jack London
#15. Never automate something that can be eliminated, and never delegate something that can be automated or streamlined. Otherwise, you waste someone else's time instead of your own, which now wastes your hard-earned cash. How's that for incentive to be effective and efficient?
Timothy Ferriss
#16. Almost time to go home - and he had come to rely on the desolate wastes of time that lay between these pleasures as an invalid comes to rely on the certainty of recurring pain. It was a part of him.
Richard Yates
#17. I realise myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy, and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and positive use.
Julian Lennon
#18. Your lack of commitment to being different is what kills you. It is the insanity of doing the same thing every time and expecting a different result that wastes your time.
Shannon L. Alder
#19. A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates only when surrounded by love. It is bound to wilt in a world where the rich have no time and the cultivated no money. But it never harmonizes with borrowed greatness.
Ernst Junger
#20. Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous.
David Mitchell
#21. There is a saying along the lines of not trying to teach a pig to sing because it wastes your time and annoys the pig. I want you to know how many times I have stood in pig-filled rooms, and longed to annoy. I
John Scalzi
#22. Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#23. What a shot! Now tell me Zurov wastes his time making holes in five-kopeck pieces! From forty paces straight into the back of the head, and you have to take the poor light into account.
Boris Akunin
#24. We enter a time of calamity. Blood on the tarmac. Fingers in the juicer. Towers of air frozen in the lunar wastes. Models dead on the runways, with their legs facing backward. Children with smiles that can't be undone. Chicken shall rot in the aisles. See the pillars fall.
M T Anderson
#25. No divine terror will ever be found in the work of the man who wastes a colossal strength in elaborating toys; for the first lesson that terror is sent to teach us is, the value of the human soul, and the shortness of mortal time.
John Ruskin
#26. If Time have any wrinkle graven there; If any, be a satire to decay, And make time's spoils despised every where. Give my love fame faster than Time wastes life, So thou prevent'st his scythe and crooked knife.
William Shakespeare
#27. He wastes no time pulling me closer. Rests his chin on my head, his hands on my back.
And we stand like that until I'm too old to remember a world without his warmth.
Tahereh Mafi
#28. As soap wastes away each time when used, so a prostitute wastes away each time she gives of herself.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#29. All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes.
Taiichi Ohno
#30. Someone or something that wastes your time, makes you lose a part of your life. One you can never get back.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#31. The Enlightened one (Gnani Purush) never wastes his time in counting money; focus of the awareness of the self (upayog) is wasted in doing this. One's focused awareness (upayog) is where he has 'interest'!
Dada Bhagwan
#32. There is always an incredible amount of things vying for our attention at home. I'm not saying you should never do the laundry, or pay attention to the kids, but for most of us, we're not present to how much time we spend on those. Anything that wastes your time is a waste of money.
Rory Vaden
#33. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert A. Heinlein
#34. Here's an example of how it wastes some time. To be judged on or to be talked about on appearance - say chest size - it makes me wear layers, it makes me have to waste time figuring out what am I going to wear so that nobody will look in an area that I don't need them to look at.
Sarah Palin
#35. And you, whiner, who wastes your time
Dawdling over the remorseless earth,
What evil, what unspeakable crime
Have you made your life worth?
W. D. Snodgrass
#36. If you spend a lot of energy on things that are wastes of time, then you waste energy, get sick, and die faster.
James Altucher
#37. What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had of being, for the first time in my life, entirely alone, a Crusoe shipwrecked and stranded in the limitless wastes of a boundless and indifferent ocean.
John Banville
#38. Life is agid, life is fulgid. Life is what the least of us make most of us feel the least of us make the most of. Life is a burgeoning, a quickening of the dim primordial urge in the murky wastes of time.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#39. Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives.
Tom Peters
#40. 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
#41. Then of thy beauty do I question make,
That thou among the wastes of time must go,
Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake,
And die as fast as they see others grow.
William Shakespeare
#42. The thing about eating is that there are so many other more interesting things to do. I feel the same way about sleeping. Complete wastes of time.
Jennifer Niven
#43. Slow and steady wins the race, then wastes no time grinding salt-caked glass in your open wounds.
R. K. Milholland
#44. Monday is a sloppy umbrella day, which makes everybody a little blue. Cole, dropping by my office in the morning, wastes no time in blowing off steam. "You can TAKE this DAY and SHOVE IT where the SUN DOESN'T SHINE," he growled.
"Too late. Somebody already DID THAT.
Giorge Leedy
#45. The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how.
Norman Vincent Peale
#46. Employment wastes the productive time of our lives
Sunday Adelaja
#47. For love was a kind of folly, a losing game. The greatest of all Wastes of Time. But then, that depended on what you thought time was for.
Cassandra Golds
#49. Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.
Edmund Waller
#50. I believe that anyone who flies in an airplane and doesn't spend most of his time looking out the window wastes his money.
Marc Reisner
#51. Only in time of peace can the wastes of capitalism be tolerated.
F. R. Scott
#52. When we waste our time, our time wastes us
Robin Sharma
#53. Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in wasted time.
Cyril Connolly
#54. Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. a
George S. Clason
#55. Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.
Robert A. Heinlein
#56. What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism, which is sure to select what belongs to it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#57. Don't try to make them happy, you'll only get in trouble. Don't try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it irritates the pig.
Anthony De Mello
#58. A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
Honore De Balzac
#59. Lying wastes more time than anything else in the modern world.
Margery Allingham
#60. Blame is a thief. It robs us blind while it wastes our time, time we could be spending as a family, making memories, supporting each other.
Penny Reid
#61. The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.
Annie Besant
#62. In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.
Samuel Johnson
#63. One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old.
George Sand
#64. What I'm continuing to do is cutting out the equation that wastes the most amount of time - and that is working within the system.
Rod Coronado
#65. He can barely stand it when he wastes his own time; for someone else to waste it is unconscionable.
David Levithan
#66. Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.
Wendy Kopp
#67. Anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong, we shall soon find out and can do the other thing. But not to decide wastes both time and money and may ruin everything.
Ulysses S. Grant
#68. Time is life. Anyone who wastes my time is killing me. Please don't!
Phyllis Chesler
#69. I like company lunches because I think going out wastes valuable time; plus, a lot of good ideas come up over lunch.
Anne Wojcicki
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