Wasting Time Quotes - Page 12

• Don't waste time asking God to keep you from doing things. Don't do them.

  Oswald Chambers

  Waste, Asking, Don't Waste Time

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Run Today's Race: A Word from Oswald Chambers for Every Day of the Year”, p.22, Discovery House

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• Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time.

  Neal Stephenson

  Believe, Men, Different

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• The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!

  Kenneth Oppel

  Moving, Meat, Waste

  Kenneth Oppel (2012). “This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• Rest is by no means a waste of time.

  John Lubbock

  Mean, Waste

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• Never, never waste a minute on regret. It's a waste of time.

  Harry S. Truman

  Regret, Waste, Minutes

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• I'm not a potato sack; I've never sat on my couch. If I'm home, I'm cleaning, feeding my dogs, doing stuff. Life is too precious to waste time.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Dog, Home, Stuff

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• But in that moment she realized how false most smiles were and what a tremendous waste of time.

  Anna Godbersen

  Waste, Moments, That Moment

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• It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.

  Robertson Davies

  Mistress, Waste, Royal

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• The Master knows better than to exhaust His servants and quench the light of Israel. Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Light, Israel, Waste

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Lectures to My Students”, p.194, Zondervan

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• Striving to achieve a dream is never a waste of time.

  Félix J. Palma

  Dream, Waste, Strive

  Félix J. Palma (2012). “The Map of Time: A Novel”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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• If you're wasting time, you're wasting money... and that's just sick.

  Mr. Krabs

  Sick, Wasting Money, Ifs

  "Fictional character: Mr. Krabs". TV Series "SpongeBob SquarePants" ("Wet Painters/Krusty Krab Training Video", 2002), www.imdb.com. 1999-.

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• In the long run, all I care about is making good music & not wasting time being in the public eye.

  Galcher Lustwerk

  Running, Eye, Long

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• 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

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• As a writer of criticism, the consumer thing is the least interesting thing, but as a critic, the single worst thing you can do is send a reader to waste time and money on something - even if it's something you personally love. You have to indicate the reasons why you love it and they'll hate it.

  Jonathan Gold

  Hate, Love You, Interesting

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• 'Teachers Lounge' is a web series I co-created with Hollis James. We intentionally left the apostrophe out to turn 'Lounge' into a verb. The show is about teachers lounging around, wasting time.

  Ted Alexandro

  Teacher, Verbs, Lounging

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• Drinking beer with friends is perhaps the most underestimated of all Reformation insights and essential to ongoing reform; and wasting time with a choice friend or two on a regular basis might be the best investment of time you ever make.

  Carl R Trueman

  Drinking, Beer, Two

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• Waste of time is the leading feature of our present education. Not only are we taught a mass of rubbish, but what is not rubbish is taught so as to make us waste over it as much time as possible.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Waste, Rubbish, Taught

  Peter Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin (kni︠a︡zʹ), George Woodcock (1993). “Fields, factories, and workshops”, Consortium Book Sales & Dist

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• Consider the word “time.” We use so many phrases with it. Pass time. Waste time. Kill time. Lose time. In good time. About time. Take your time. Save time. A long time. Right on time. Out of time. Mind the time. Be on time. Spare time. Keep time. Stall for time. There are as many expressions with “time” as there are minutes in a day. But once, there was no word for it at all. Because no one was counting. Then Dor began. And everything changed.

  Mitch Albom

  Expression, Long, Mind

  Mitch Albom (2012). “The Time Keeper”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• Wasting time with the wrong person is just time wasted.

  Greg Behrendt

  Wrong Person, Wasted Time, Persons

  Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• It is never a waste of time to study the history of a word.

  Lucien Febvre

  Waste, Study

  "Civilisation: Evolution of a Word and a Group of Ideas" (1930)

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• The search for a "suitable" church makes the man a critic where God wants him to be a pupil. What he wants from the layman in church is an attitude which may, indeed, be critical in the sense of rejecting what is false or unhelpful but which is wholly uncritical in the sense that it does not appraise- does not waste time in thinking about what it rejects, but lays itself open in uncommenting, humble receptivity to any nourishment that is going.

  C. S. Lewis

  Attitude, Humble, Men

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• We waste time, so you don't have to.

  Stephen Hawking

  Waste

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• The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.

  Ed Bliss

  Perfection, Healthy, Excellence

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• I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.

  Ned Vizzini

  Depression, Suicide, Lying

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• Mr. Sagunuma: We can never escape who we are. Instead of wasting time worrying about it, why don't you cut to he chase and love yourself?

  Bisco Hatori

  Love Yourself, Cutting, Worry

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