Wasting Time Quotes - Page 13

• Careers very rarely are a waste of time; jobs usually are.

  Donald Glover

  Jobs, Careers, Waste

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly

  Jayne Ann Krentz

  Life, Book, Waste

  Jayne Ann Krentz (2008). “Running Hot: An Arcane Society Novel”, p.98, Penguin

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• But what I really long to know you do not tell either: what you feel, although I've given you hints by the score of my regard. You like me. You wouldn't waste time or paper on a being you didn't like. But I think I've loved you since we met at your mother's funeral. I want to be with you forever and beyond, but you write that you are too young to marry or too old or too short or too hungry - until I crumple your letters up in despair, only to smooth them out again for a twelfth reading, hunting for hidden meanings.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Mother, Reading, Writing

  "Ella Enchanted". Book by Gail Carson Levine, 1997.

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• Please waste time just playing with your kids!

  Pope Francis

  Kids, Waste, Please

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• Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Alive, Useless, Emotion

  A. J. Jacobs (2011). “A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment”, p.623, Simon and Schuster

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• Evelyn Waugh was in error when he said that in New York there was a neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistook for energy. There was, rather, a tensile excitement in the air which made one think - made me think for many years - that time spent asleep in New York was somehow time wasted. Whether this thought has lengthened or shortened my life I shall never know, but it has certainly colored it.

  Christopher Hitchens

  New York, Thinking, Air

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.195, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It's a lie, you know, to pretend that nothing is important to you. It's hiding. Believe me, I know because I hid for a long time. But now I won't do it anymore. The truth is bioluminescent. I don't lie, and I don't waste time on people who do.

  Ellen Wittlinger

  Lying, Believe, Long

  Ellen Wittlinger (2012). “Hard Love”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Teaching 23-year-olds in an MBA programme strikes me as largely a waste of time. They lack the background of experience. You can teach them skills - accounting and what have you - but you can't teach them management.

  Peter Drucker

  Teaching, Years, Mba

  "Peter Drucker" by Peter Starbuck, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2005.

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• And I would do it again. I love you, Jace Wayland-Herondale-Lightwood-whatever you want to call yourself. I don't care. I love you and I will always love you, and pretending it could be any other ways is just a waste of time.

  Cassandra Clare

  Love You, Care, Want

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• Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless."Anger" was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.

  Barry Lyga

  Energy, Labels, Useless

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• This is why we shouldn't be afraid. There are two possibilities: One is that there's more to life than the physical life, that our souls "will find an even higher place to dwell" when this life is over. If that's true, there's no reason to fear failure or death. The other possibility is that this life is all there is. And if that's true, then we have to really live it - we have to take it for everything it has and "die enormous" instead of "living dormant," as I said way back on "Can I Live." Either way, fear is a waste of time.

  Jay-Z

  Two, Soul, Way

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.301, Random House Group

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• I generally find subtlety a waste of time.

  Cindy Gerard

  Waste, Subtlety

  Cindy Gerard (2007). “To the Brink”, p.45, Macmillan

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• Imaginary testing is unreliable, and in many cases, it's a huge waste of time and energy. In truth you just don't know what will happen until you try. You may start a business, and it could take off in ways no one could predict. Or it could be a complete failure. You could ask for a date and end up with the partner of your dreams. Or you could be rejected cold. It's great to visualize what you want, but you never really know what's going to happen until you act.

  Steve Pavlina

  Dream, Trying, Way

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• Japan never considers time together as time wasted. Rather, it is time invested.

  Donald Richie

  Travel, Japan, Together

  Donald Richie (1998). “A Lateral View: Essays on Culture and Style in Contemporary Japan”, p.16, Stone Bridge Press, Inc.

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• Too many companies waste time trying to eliminate their employees' weaknesses when, in fact, they should concentrate on developing their strengths.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Trying, Weakness, Waste

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I think some of the biggest time sucks are regret and guilt, and I have to fight against those things all the time. In a way, it's a good thing, because it can motivate you to make amends and forgive, but regrets are really, I think, a supreme waste of time in many ways.

  Emily Giffin

  Regret, Fighting, Thinking

  "Emily Giffin Talks Life, Relationships, and Her New Novel, First Comes Love". Interview with Laura Marie Meyers, www.popsugar.com. July 19, 2016.

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• One thing about other people, when they come to the gym, they might waste time wrapping hands, doing stretching and things. I don't like that. If I come to the gym, if one hour - all work. If two hours - all. I don't want to do this stuff so I can stay like two hours in the gym training only one hour. I want to do my own - quick, quick.

  Joshua Clottey

  People, Training, Hours

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• I was sent to the regular public schools until I had to go to Belmont Hill. Because I wasn't doing anything. The public school was nothing, just a total waste of time.

  Paul Laffoley

  School, Waste, Hills

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• I met Indira Gandhi in her office in the government palace. The same office that had been her father's - large, cold and plain. She was sitting, small and slender, behind a bare desk. When I entered, she got up and came forward to give me her hand, then sat down again and cut the preliminaries short by fixing me with a gaze that meant: Go ahead with the first question, don't waste time, I really have no time to waste.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Father, Cutting, Government

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• Until we have established reliability there is no sense at all in wasting time trying to make the thing go faster.

  Carroll Smith

  Trying, Reliability, Faster

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• I'm trying to be present, not thinking and worrying about the past or the future. That's such a waste of time, you know?

  Gwen Stefani

  Past, Thinking, Worry

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I think comedy is so much easier to do on the page than it is in real life. When I'm writing, comedy is an easy way to win over the reader. You're automatically more disposed to keep reading, thinking maybe, "I'll get another laugh or two." I think it's a survival instinct in me. I mean, you don't want to lose these guys within five or ten pages. You want them to keep going. I think to some extent it's a desperate measure that I throw out there, because a novel isn't a complete waste of time if it made you laugh.

  Joshua Ferris

  Real, Reading, Mean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In terms of trying to re-create an image, I think that's a waste of time. I have no interest in doing that. The decisions I made are done.

  George W. Bush

  Thinking, Decision, Trying

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• Remember, don't waste time comparing your life to others who seem more fortunate. Being fortunate is based on how much peace you have, not how many luxuries or conveniences you have. Practice from the heart to make peace with what is.

  Doc Childre

  Spiritual, Heart, Practice

  Doc Lew Childre (1992). “The how to book of teen self discovery: helping teens find balance, security & esteem”, HeartMath

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• Many of my students learn different techniques online and I have learnt a lot using this medium. Art is picking up in the Caribbean but it's unfortunate that we still have people looking down on it. Many persons who don't know better think that having a career in art is a waste of time. I guess the public just needs to be educated some more.

  St. Lucia

  Art, Thinking, Careers

  Source: arcthemagazine.com

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