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• Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of time. There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with and love shouldn't be one of them.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Love, Dream, Things In Life

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• You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment.

  James Gleick

  Time, Waste, Moments

  "James Gleick's Survival Lessons". Interview with David Diamond, www.wired.com. August 01, 1999.

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• Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.

  Edward Bond

  Years, Play, Literature

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• just because something is fun doesn't mean it's a waste of time.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Fun, Mean, Waste

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• I can do whatever I want. They will tell me if what I am doing is stupid or a total waste of time. I may tell them that they are wrong, and we will come to an agreement.

  Bill Budge

  Stupid, Agreement, May

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• Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care of scholars. At present the whole University system is rotten to the core, and an appalling waste of time, energy and money.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Education, Taken, Hands

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.148, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Our growing ability to eliminate the slow-moving aspects of entertainment and go hopping from one peak to another is not without cost. Stand-up comics, movie-makers and others who earn their living entertaining no longer "waste" time with setups and plot development, lest we reach for the remote and click them off our screen. The result is a loss of subtlety, anticipation and nuance and, in the process, a coarsening of our discourse.

  William Raspberry

  Life, Moving, Loss

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• It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Taken, Animal, Desire

  Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1957). “Experimental psychology, and other essays”

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• When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were, and none of them plotted a course they could have predicted, so it seemed a waste of time to plan too long-term. Since then, I've always gone on my instincts.

  Anderson Cooper

  Long, Adults, Gone

  Buography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill.

  Charles Tupper

  Power, Bills, Waste

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• If you are not enjoying yourself, you are wasting time.

  Susan Jeffers

  Happiness, Law Of Attraction, Enjoy

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• If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, “the greatest prodigality'; since, as he elsewhere tells us, 'Lost time is never found again'; and 'What we call time enough always proves little enough'. Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Purpose, Littles

  "The Autobiography and Other Writings".

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• To be a good trader, you need to trade with your eyes open, recognize real trends and turns, and not waste time or energy on regrets and wishful thinking.

  Alexander Elder

  Regret, Real, Eye

  Alexander Elder (2014). “The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management”, p.3, John Wiley & Sons

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• The Eeyore Educational System sees childhood as a waste of time, a luxury that society cannot afford . . . Put children in school at the earliest age possible; load them down with homework; take away their time, their creativity, their play, their power; then plug them into machines.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Education, Children, Creativity

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• This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name which is wise, and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal which is also very wise. No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time to trying to understand it.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wise, Dragons, Names

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.119, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The reason that I think it is a waste of time to engage in moral value judgements about people's violence, is because it doesn't advance by one iota our understanding of either the causes or the prevention of the violent behaviour.

  James Gilligan

  Thinking, People, Understanding

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• Don't waste time. If you love someone tell them because sooner or later someone else is going to.

  Katrina Kaif

  Love, Waste, Sooner Or Later

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• I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.

  Bam Margera

  School, Firsts, Quitting

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• School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.

  Amber Heard

  School, College, Awards

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• We now know that something between 85 and 90 percent of most software product features are unwanted and unneeded by customers. That is an enourmous ammount of waste of time and money that ends up on the floor.

  Steve Blank

  Waste, Ends, Software

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• There have been times when I've reflected on my international career and just thought: 'Well that was a massive waste of time.' Sorry for sounding sour, but my best mate, David Beckham, got butchered after the World Cup in 1998, then my brother, Phil, after Euro 2000.

  Gary Neville

  Brother, Sorry, Careers

  "Ashley Young emerges from the fog to give England a winger windfall" by Paul Hayward, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2011.

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• ‎To focus on matters beyond our control is to misdirect energy, waste time, and doom us to frustration and failure.

  Harvey Dorfman

  Frustration, Focus, Energy

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• I usually write very few stage directions. I think a lot of that is a waste of time. The art of screenwriting is in its terseness, saying a lot with a little. I have no patience when I read a script where the writer describes this guy and what he's wearing and his glasses and his hair.

  Scott Frank

  Art, Writing, Thinking

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• Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.

  Ian Fleming

  Jobs, Might, Waste

  Ian Fleming (1961). “gilt-edged bonds”

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• You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out.

  Stanley Crouch

  Strong, School, Personality

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