Wasting Time Quotes - Page 16

• It's a waste of time to think about what I should have done and what I didn't. I really believe in that. That's how I react to the if-onlys of life. To moan and groan about something I shouldn't have done, could have done, might have done...who knows? It is what it is. You got what you got. I live my life one day at a time.

  Liza Minnelli

  Believe, Thinking, Should Have

  "Super trouper" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2006.

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• I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

  Stephen Hawking

  Hate, Want, I Hate

  "Master of his universe". Interview With Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2008.

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• Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness.

  Russell Lynes

  Negative, Idleness

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• Thanks to properly selecting the clients you will not be unnecessarily wasting time.

  Lee Iacocca

  Clients, Thanks

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• Do what you believe in and believe in what you do. The rest is a waste of time and energy.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Believe, Energy, Waste

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• Life is too short to waste time harboring bad feelings about anyone. Forgive, forget, then move on!

  Denise Austin

  Moving, Life Is Too Short, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Denise Austin from Feb 11, 2012

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• I stopped wasting time on what [other] people claimed a stock was worth and started looking at the numbers.

  Irving Kahn

  Numbers, People

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• It is in quiet that our best ideas occur to us. Don't make the mistake of believing that by a frantic kind of dashing around you are being your most effective and efficient self. Don't assume that you are wasting time when you take time out for thought.

  Napoleon Hill

  Mistake, Believe, Self

  Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone (1991). “Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

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• Instead of of being so metaphorical with the rhyme, I was encouraged to go straight at it and hit it dead on and not waste time trying to cover things.

  Tupac Shakur

  Trying, Waste, Metaphorical

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• Having a highly homogeneous background, education, values, preferences, etc, in the very early team is better than not - cuts down on time-wasting arguments.

  Max Levchin

  Team, Cutting, Etc

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• ...education has but one honorable purpose, one alone, everything else is a waste of time......that is to train the student to be a proper handler of power.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Purpose, Waste, Students

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• To me the biggest waste of time is commuting. First, there is no place that is less than a two-hour commute from New York. You can be half a mile outside of the city limits; you're two hours away by car. I don't care how close they tell you it is. "Oh, it's only thirty miles." Thirty miles? At 8:30 in the morning, thirty miles outside New York, you might as well be starting out in Omaha.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Morning, New York, Cities

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• Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.

  Rex Stout

  Waste, Fool, Philosopher

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• the fact is, that life is too short to be occupied by aught but the present - hope and remembrance are equally a waste of time.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Life Is Too Short, Remembrance, Live In The Moment

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1860). “The Complete Works of L.E. Landon”, p.283

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• Saving time = wasting time.

  Behdad Sami

  Saving, Saving Time

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• As we get older, a lot of societies, education systems and workplaces make us feel that playing is a waste of time. We end up suppressing stupidly brilliant questions for what we think are more serious responsibilities.

  Jessica Walsh

  Responsibility, Thinking, Waste

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• You are far more than your personality, more than your habits, more than your achievements. You are an infinitely complex human being with stories and myths and dreams- and ambitions of cosmic proportions. Don't waste time underestimating yourself. Dream big... Use the energy of your archetype to express the true reason you were born. Life was never meant to be safe. It was meant to be lived right to the end.

  Caroline Myss

  Dream, Ambition, Personality

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• It's easy to get on to something like alcohol or drugs so my advice to musicians is don't lose your perspective because you will waste time in terms of years.

  Joe Walsh

  Years, Perspective, Advice

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Always Postpone Meetings with Time-wasting Morons

  Scott Adams

  Moron, Meetings

  Scott Adams (2012). “Teamwork Means You Can't Pick the Side that's Right”, p.2, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The young are always coming up with the good ideas; it's because they waste time. They follow their passion and do something, not looking for a payoff, just doing what's interesting.

  Kevin Kelly

  Time, Stress, Passion

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• Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.

  Alvin Lee

  School, Years, Way

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• After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working.

  Evan Williams

  School, College, Years

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• Missionaries in the developing world waste a lot of time and money (not to mention the goodwill of non-Christians) proselytizing to the needy. . . . While missionaries do many noble things at great risk to themselves, their dogmatism still spreads ignorance and death. By contrast, volunteers for secular organizations . . . do not waste . . . time telling people about the virgin birth of Jesus. Nor do they tell people in sub-Saharan Africa - where nearly four million people die from AIDS every year - that condom use is sinful.

  Sam Harris

  Christian, Jesus, Ignorance

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• Excellence is a signal to God that we are going to dig our ditches but if You don't make it rain, all of this is a waste of time.

  Jeff Henderson

  Leadership, Christian, Rain

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• I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with-life's too short.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Waste, Cold, Wasting My Time

  "Sir Anthony Hopkins Interview THE WOLFMAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 8, 2010.

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