Wasting Time Quotes - Page 14

• The pleasure of working with somebody who's an actor is they don't waste time with stuff that doesn't matter.

  Tom Hanks

  Actors, Matter, Stuff

  "Q&A: Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks pay tribute to a pilot who had to act quickly in 'Sully'". Interview with Rebecca Keegan, www.newsok.com. September 7, 2016.

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• From 1940 to about 1960, I had been writing just regular comics, the way my publishers wanted me too. He didn't want me to use words of more than two syllables if I could help it. He didn't want me to waste time on worrying about good dialogue or characterization. Just give me a lot of action, lot of fight scenes.

  Stan Lee

  Writing, Fighting, Two

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I don't waste time in flowery small talk, as people do in India.

  Indira Gandhi

  People, India, Waste

  Source: sangam.org

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• Most of us are facing big changes in our lives. But, in our more evolved moments, I think we can all agree that fear-based worries are a waste of time and only create the experiences we are trying to avoid.

  Brenda Strong

  Thinking, Worry, Trying

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• It is really crucial that folks focus on their own representatives. If you call or write a member who does not represent you, I can tell you that contact is going to be a waste of time. You might as well just talk to yourself in your living room.

  Ezra G. Levin

  Writing, Focus, Doe

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• Planning is not just guessing, it is harmful guessing, because it is a waste of time. All the time you spend doing your five year plan you can use to worry about tomorrow.

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  Years, Worry, Use

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• I don't like to go in places where women talk and gossip. The atmosphere I don't like, even though you can sometimes meet nice people. For me, it's a waste of time.

  Sophia Loren

  Nice, Gossip, People

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Facebook has revealed their estimated net worth - $96 billion. That's almost as much money as businesses lose every year from their employees wasting time looking at Facebook.

  Jay Leno

  Years, Employee, Billions

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• Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with it: don't dwell on the past. Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.

  Allegra Huston

  Drama, Past, Important

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• I made 10 times as many images as the other students," he says of the early years. "I destroyed all those negatives except a few. I did it as a reminder that you can't afford to waste time: take it seriously.

  Emmet Gowin

  Photography, Years, Waste

  "Emmet Gowin: 'Everyone thought my photographs were incestuous'". Interview with Sarah Moroz, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2014.

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• Personally, my twenties were a complete waste of time. Professionally, I hope some good came of them.

  Sharon Horgan

  Twenties, Waste

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• The Small Business 'common app' would function much like the one that students complete to apply to multiple colleges and universities simultaneously. It would ensure that small businesses across the country can concentrate on growing and creating jobs - not wasting time, filling out mountains of repetitive paperwork.

  Kay Hagan

  Country, Jobs, College

  "All-in-one stop for small business". www.politico.com. May 16, 2012.

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• Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Genius, Resentment, Wasted Time

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• How many times will this Congress waste time on an issue that a majority of Americans do not want?

  Raul Grijalva

  Issues, Want, Waste

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• Remember that setbacks are only challenges in disguise. Look at them as lessons . . . don't waste time beating yourself up. Just get back on track and focus on what you want. It's up to you , and you will do it!

  Jorge Cruise

  Track, Focus, Challenges

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• You can't just walk away when somebody recognizes you. You have to take some time out and talk to them. It's not a waste of time - I just love talking to people. And I don't do this to sell records. The truth is, I do what I do because I love it.

  Kenny G

  Talking, People, Records

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Trying to impress people who hate you is just a big waste of time.

  M. Shadows

  Hate, People, Trying

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• Having a little boy has taken me to a very deep place. I am starting to realize everything I ever worried about was such a waste of time.

  David Caruso

  Taken, Boys, Waste

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• Moses, Aaron, Abraham, they're all a waste of time. It's your ass that's on the line.

  Frank Zappa

  Religious, Religion, Lines

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• I mean, I think everybody realizes that calling people racist is a waste of time, nobody buys it anymore.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Bernie Goldberg on Far Left Calling Tea Party 'Terrorists'". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. August 1, 2011.

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• In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest; -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Dark, Men, Fire

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.302

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• I haven't made a movie for a while, but I've watched a lot. It's my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Waiting, Waste, Made

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• My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Running, Father, Thinking

  "Q & A with Haile Gebrselassie". CNN Interview, edition.cnn.com. November 9, 2007.

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• For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Doctors, Long, Waste

  “Jonathan Safran Foer” by Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14 & 21, 2010.

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• For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and praying is a waste of time; to shed tears is weak and womanish, to be needy is degrading; to suffer defeat is a disgrace and hardly fitting for one who scarcely permits the greatest of kings to kiss the toes of his sacred feet; and finally, death is an unattractive prospect, and dying on a cross would be an ignominious end.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Kings, Teaching, Hard Work

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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