Wasting Time Quotes - Page 18

• Politics is a waste of time.

  Michelle Obama

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Comedy, I figured, was the thing that came to me the most easily. Playing the trumpet and piano took practice. I thought that was a waste of time. I'd go out on the street corner and be funny. In a minute.

  George Carlin

  Practice, Piano, Waste

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• Go ahead with your life, your plans.... Don't waste time by stopping before the interruptions have started.

  Richard L. Evans

  Stopping, Waste, Plans

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• I love wasting time and learning to lip-sync to songs; it's a silly hobby of mine.

  Allison Janney

  Song, Silly, Hobbies

  "Allison Janney Talks 'Mom,' 'Sex' & 'The Jackal'". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. September 30, 2013.

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• We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing my time so uselessly when it could have been so importantly employed at home.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Regret, Home, Giving

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• The government in business may waste time and money without rendering service. In the end the public pays in taxes. The corporation cannot waste or it will fall. It cannot make unfair rulings or give high-handed, expensive service, for there are not enough people willing to accept inferior service to make a volume of business that will pay dividends.

  Henry Ford

  Fall, Government, Giving

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• It must be a conviction Government. As Prime Minister I could not waste time having internal arguments.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Government, Waste, Argument

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• Wasting time in a relationship that blows is just that - wasted time.

  Greg Behrendt

  Blow, Wasted Time

  Greg Behrendt, Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt (2005). “It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy”, p.15, Harmony

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• We could park the van and walk to town, find cheapest bottle of wine that we could find. And talk about the road behind, how getting lost is not a waste of time.

  Jack Johnson

  Wine, Bottles, Getting Lost

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• Thomas Edison reads not for entertainment but to increase his store of knowledge. He sucks in information as eagerly as the bee sucks honey from flowers. The whole world, so to speak, pours its wisdom into his mind. He regards it as a criminal waste of time to go through the slow and painful ordeal of ascertaining things for one's self if these same things have already been ascertained and made available by others. In Edison's mind knowledge is power.

  B. C. Forbes

  Flower, Science, Self

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• Anything that doesn't lead us to that - to better know and serve God - is a waste of time.

  Charles de Foucauld

  Waste, Serving God, Knows

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• Naturally, in 10 years, you change as a person and you learn a lot from your mistakes. You also learn a lot about wasting time and the right way to handle things. We're not touring as much. We're not doing eight or nine months of the year, so I've got a bit more time to get a perspective on what I do. I think I've improved my songwriting. I'm every bit as enthusiastic about playing as ever and I'm still learning.

  Rory Gallagher

  Mistake, Thinking, Eight

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• There's always some days you wish things had never happened, like you'd never been born, that sort of thing but I'm not the kind of person anyway that can just sit around and say, "gee, I wish that never happened." I don't ever do that. There's no point. That is a total and complete waste of time.

  Patty Hearst

  Wish, Waste, Kind

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• Never waste time and energy wishing you were somewhere else, doing something else. Accept your situation and realize you are where you are, doing what you are doing, for a very specific reason. Realize that nothing is by chance, that you have certain lessons to learn and that the situation you are in has been given to you to enable you to learn those lessons as quickly as possible, so that you can move onward and upward along this spiritual path.

  Eileen Caddy

  Spiritual, Moving, Somewhere Else

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• If I want my time wasted, I'll waste it myself.

  Mason Cooley

  Time, Want, Waste

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• Do good work and let that speak for itself. Don't waste time arguing with someone. Instead, show them in your work. That's easier said than done, but it really is the best solution. No one can argue with good work.

  Megan Alexander

  Waste, Done, Arguing

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• The first and most important rule to observe...is to use our entire forces with the utmost energy. The second rule is to concentrate our power as much as possible against that section where the chief blows are to be delivered and to incur disadvantages elsewhere, so that our chances of success may increase at the decisive point. The third rule is never to waste time. Finally, the fourth rule is to follow up our successes with the utmost energy. Only pursuit of the beaten enemy gives the fruits of victory.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Blow, Giving, Enemy

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• It is not true that people who accomplish things don't waste time and that people who waste time don't accomplish things. The very concept is ill-informed. You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment.

  James Gleick

  People, Waste, Moments

  "James Gleick's survival lessons" by David Diamond, www.wired.com. August 1, 1999.

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• The hell with "love" anyway, and with every other phony, time-wasting, half-assed emotion in the world.

  Richard Yates

  Half, World, Emotion

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• There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary.

  Thomas Sowell

  Waste, Bigger

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• I think watching a movie that simply confirms my feelings is a waste of time. That applies not only to movies, but also to books and every form of art.

  Michael Haneke

  Art, Book, Thinking

  "Michael Haneke Talks AMOUR, His Inspiration for the Film, His Casting Decisions, Physical and Emotional Demands of the Film and Shooting the Film in French". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. December 14, 2012.

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• Don't waste time blaming yourself when you can spend time planning how to destroy our enemies.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Enemy, Waste, Planning

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2014). “Unmade (The Lynburn Legacy Book 3)”, p.120, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• ...let us save what remains; not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Eye, Locks, Use

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.122, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I think it's a waste of time to worry about the motives of why people are supportive of things. I think we should look at the thing itself. And if they're supportive of something that's sexist or racist, then it's a bad thing, but it's not because they're supportive of it that it's a bad thing.

  Lawrence Weiner

  Thinking, People, Worry

  Source: frontrow.dmagazine.com

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• Nothing done with the focus on God is ever a waste of time.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Focus, Done, Waste

  Twitter post from Dec 24, 2015

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