Wasting Time Quotes - Page 21

• Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Trying, Culture, Waste

  Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman (2014). “First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Country, Travel, Character

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• Time means a lot to me because, you see, I, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing and simplifying. If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

  Bruce Lee

  Life, Time, Mean

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.10, Tuttle Publishing

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• It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving to nowhere in particular, for listening to music, for talking about books, for obsessing over pop culture, but mostly for laughing, talking, and simply being together. There was nothing one could say that the other would find too cruel or too kind. And on those rare occasions when they did tire of each other, they needed only go a day without talking before they yearned to reconnect.

  Galt Niederhoffer

  Book, Talking, Ideas

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• Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Expectations, Waiting

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• But mostly I remember every morning before school. How she'd say "Hey, honey!" just I was walking out the apartment door. And me stopping and turning around and saying "What?" And her saying "I love you." And me rolling my eyes like I just wanted to hurry up so I didn't miss the bus. I'd start going again and she'd say "Hey, honey!" and I'd pretend I was so annoyed 'cause she was wasting time and I had to go catch the bus. And how secretly it was my favorite part of every day.

  Matt de la Pena

  Morning, Love You, School

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• It feels like I am wasting time. I mean, that's always the case. My life doesn't add up to anything.

  David Levithan

  Mean, Add, Cases

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.26, Egmont UK

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• Look at those two. Wasting time. You wouldn't catch me doing that.

  Eoin Colfer

  Two, Looks, Catch Me

  Eoin Colfer (2009). “Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox”, p.116, Penguin UK

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• Any true wizard, faced with a sign like 'Do not open this door. Really. We mean it. We're not kidding. Opening this door will mean the end of the universe,' would automatically open the door in order to see what all the fuss is about. This made signs rather a waste of time, but at least it meant that when you handed what was left of the wizard to his grieving relatives you could say, as they grasped the jar, 'We told him not to."

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Grieving, Doors

  "The Last Continent". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1998.

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• Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did you hear.

  Lauren Oliver

  Waste, Slipping, Minutes

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.229, Hachette UK

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• Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Men, Waste

  'Richard II' (1595) act 5, sc. 5, l. 42

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• She would have colored gracefully with embarrassment had she not possessed the complexion of one of those “heathen Italians,” as her mother said, who never colored, gracefully or otherwise. (Convincing her mother that Christianity had, to all intents and purposes, originated with the Italians, thus making them the exact opposite of heathen, was a waste of time and breath.)

  Gail Carriger

  Mother, Opposites, Purpose

  "Soulless". Book by Gail Carriger, October 1, 2009.

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• What fools call "wasting time" is most often the best investment.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Fool, Investment, Best Investment

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.28, Random House

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• Methods for predicting the future: 1) read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls . . . collectively known as "nutty methods;" 2) put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer . . . commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time."

  Scott Adams

  Time, Tea Leaves, Tarot

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• Imagine a man besottedly in love: he won't waste time speculating whether other women equally merit his affection.

  Huston Smith

  Love, Men, Waste

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• I try not to waste time feeling bad for myself, because when I do, there's no room for happiness.

  Sam Berns

  Feelings, Trying, Waste

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• You can't even trade a single fart with the next guy. Each and every one of us has to live out his own life. Don't waste time thinking about who's most talented.

  Kodo Sawaki

  Thinking, Guy, Waste

  "Zen ni kike (To you)" by Kodo Sawaki (Tokyo: Daihorinkaku), 1987.

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• Just as important as getting enough sleep is thinking about sleep in the right way. Stop thinking of sleep and naps as “downtime” or as a “waste of time.” Think of them as opportunities for memory consolidation and enhancing the brain circuits that help skill learning. Nor should you feel guilty about sleep. It's just as crucial a part of successful brain work as the actual task itself.

  Richard Restak

  Memories, Sleep, Successful

  Richard Restak (2009). “Think Smart: A Neuroscientist's Prescription for Improving Your Brain's Performance”, p.41, Penguin

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• For a moment this good time would never end
  You and me
  Just wasting time
  I was kissing you
  You were kissing me love
  From good day into a moonlight

  Dave Matthews

  Time, Good Day, Kissing

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• I equate inspiration with desire – the desire that moves us to be artists in the first place. To attempt to make a painting without this motivation is a waste of time.

  Nita Engle

  Motivation, Inspiration, Moving

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• Fooling around with alternating currents is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. It's too dangerous . . . it could kill a man as quick as a bolt of lightning. Direct current is safe.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Dream, Men, Safe

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• If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Words Of Wisdom, Waste, Fruit

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• The single biggest time waster in the world is not completing what you start.

  John Nance Garner

  World, Completing

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• Getting lost is not a waste of time.

  Jack Johnson

  Getting Lost, Waste, Lost

  Song: What You Thought You Needed, Album: Sleep Through The Static, 2008

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• The great-at-anything do not set to work because they are inspired, but rather become inspired because they are working. They don't waste time waiting for inspiration.

  Ernest Newman

  Inspiration, Waiting, Waste

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