Wasting Time Quotes - Page 19

• Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you

  Ken Livingstone

  People, Politics, Waste

  "The Guardian profile: Ken Livingstone" by Kevin Maguire, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.

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• Eternity - waste of time.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Time, Waste, Eternity

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• When your desire is to bring peace and harmony to the world, then you will have to start by finding peace and harmony within your own heart. It is a waste of time talking about peace. You have to seek and find that consciousness of peace which nothing and no one can disturb, and remain in it.

  Eileen Caddy

  Heart, Talking, Inner Peace

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• I'm not going to go around with a long face - that's a waste of time

  Doris Day

  Love, Life, Family

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• Unless it's a soul-nourishing and breath-taking love, the kind that makes you wonder how you got along without them before you met them and makes you be a better, happier person, it is a waste of time. If the person cannot make you smile simply by thinking of them, they're not the one.

  Carlos Salinas

  Love, Thinking, Soul

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• Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.

  Federico Fellini

  Regret, Past, Waste

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• Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the original one ... So long as one sees killing as wrong there is no need to waste time with the deterrent argument, since it would be nonsense to try to prevent a theoretical evil in the future by perpetrating an actual one in the present.

  Auberon Waugh

  Long, Evil, Trying

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• Too many times, people don't try their best. They don't have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it you've got to guard your reputation - every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That's why I don't clown around. I don't believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.

  Bobby Fischer

  Success, Believe, Winning

  Svetozar Gligorić, Bobby Fischer, Boris Vasilyevich Spassky (1972). “Fischer v Spassky: the World Chess Championship Match, 1972”

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• I don't waste time putting money down, I just go straight to who got it and buy it in cash. Pussy so good that you gotta come see me on tour and you gotta fly in first class.

  Drake

  Class, Pussy, Cash

  Song: The Language

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• Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

  Ernest Newman

  Jobs, Inspiration, Hands

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• We can't afford to waste time going slow on changing our party so now is not the time to put our foot on the brake. Now is the time to press on the accelerator.

  David Cameron

  Party, Feet, Waste

  " Cameron defiant over reform of Conservatives" by Will Woodward, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2006.

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• This loving person is a person who abhors waste - waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Time, Forever, Waste

  "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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• Indecision is a major time waster; 80% of decisions should be made the first time they come up

  Brian Tracy

  Decision, Firsts, Made

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• WWW? Nice toy, but what a waste of time.

  Bill Gates

  Nice, Technology, Waste

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• Tell the truth. All the time. About everything. What's the alternative to radical honesty? Waste. Wasted time, wasted money, wasted possibilities-a wasted life.

  Brad Blanton

  Honesty, Alternatives, Waste

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• You can either waste time worrying about a death that might not come or concentrate on what’s left to you.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Worry, Waste, Might

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• My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

  Kim Wilde

  Love, Tears, Waste

  Song: If I Can't Have You

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• People will listen when they're ready to listen and not before. Don't waste time with people who want to argue. They'll keep you immobilized forever. Look for people who are already open to something new.

  Daniel Quinn

  Learning, Knowledge, People

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure”, p.189, Broadway Books

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• Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength... It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Running, Long, Waste

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• I had drunk our great cultural Kool-Aid about regret, which is that lamenting things that occurred in the past is an absolute waste of time, that we should always look forward and not backward, and that one of the noblest and best things we can do is strive to live a life free of regrets.

  Kathryn Schulz

  Motivation, Regret, Inspiration

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• Second guessing a decision is a waste of time.

  Jack O'Neill

  Decision, Guessing, Waste

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• The hang clean is unweighted and is of little use to watch, except that it shows a problem known as a Donkey Kick. As the jump occurs, the heels come up in the back and then stomp back down into place. This is a terrible waste of time and energy, and contributes nothing to making the bar go up. Stop doing this immediately or I will have you killed.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Energy, Watches, Bars

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• After a lifetime of engaging in long, passionate discussions I have come to the conclusion that it is a waste of time trying to convince anyone of anything.

  Michael Foley

  Long, Trying, Passionate

  Michael Foley (2012). “Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Waste

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• If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry - you just pull the trigger. Angry discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger.

  Jim Allchin

  Smile, Needs, Waste

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