Wasting Time Quotes - Page 23

• Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding.

  Moses Finley

  Understanding, Sake, Waste

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• I don't like going where I've already been. Life is a myriad of territories to discover. I don't want to waste time with what I already know.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Want, Territory, Waste

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• An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophy, Intelligent, Self

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• I don't want to waste time being angry at someone I love.

  Brad Pitt

  Anger, Angry At Someone, Want

  "Brad Pitt reveals he DID fall in love with Angelina Jolie on set of Mr And Mrs Smith while still married to Jennifer Aniston" by Jody Thompson, www.mirror.co.uk. December 11, 2008.

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• Some people have a team of ten people - Waste of money, waste of time. I do it on my own when I'm in the ring.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Team, People

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• After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won't be a waste of time.

  Nick Cave

  Waste, Great Freedom

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• If the first ‘Hangover’ movie were this awful, there never would have been a Part Two. This is a joyless, unfunny mix of comedy and drama, a complete waste of time, with exactly one good joke in the entire movie. It comes in the first minute. After that, you can leave.

  Mick LaSalle

  Drama, Hangover, Two

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• Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Waste, Collecting

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm so an all-or-nothing person in dating, always. I'm big on not wasting time. And so, yeah, if something's not working, it's time to not hold people back.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  People, Dating, Yeah

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm fortunate enough to have learned not to waste time getting frustrated with my kids, or co-workers, or friends and family for not doing everything I wish they would. If someone doesn't respond to me the way I want them to, I understand that it doesn't have anything to do with me.

  Chandra Wilson

  Kids, Frustrated, Wish

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial.

  Lou Holtz

  Priorities, Important, Waste

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• Customers don't know what they want. There's plenty of good psychology research that shows that people are not able to accurately predict how they would behave in the future. So asking them, 'Would you buy my product if it had these three features?' or 'How would you react if we changed our product this way?' is a waste of time. They don't know.

  Eric Ries

  People, Psychology, Want

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• Thinking is usually a waste of time and energy, since thinking is essentially a rehashing of what we already know. As a matter of fact, thinking is an easy way to confuse yourself. The more you think, the less you know.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Mindfulness

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• When I was nine, I asked my Dad, ‘Can I have your movie camera? That old, wind-up 8-millimeter movie camera that’s in your drawer?’ And he goes, ‘Sure, take it.’ And I took it, and I started making movies with it, and I started being as creative as I could, and never once in my life did my parents ever say, ’ What you’re doing is a waste of time.’ Never….. I know there are kids out there that don’t have that support system. So, if you’re out there and you’re listening, listen to me: If you wanna be creative, get out there and do it. It’s not a waste of time.

  Michael Giacchino

  Dad, Kids, Support Systems

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• Truth cannot be given to you; especially if you are following an organized religion, then truth will be as far from you as darkness is from light. Truth is not found by observing rituals, undertaking pilgrimages or reading the scriptures. It is simply a waste of time.

  Anandmurti Gurumaa

  Reading, Light, Darkness

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• Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Time, Wells, My Friends

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• I want to go working with good people on something that's good, because otherwise it's a big waste of time. I don't have that much time.

  Stockard Channing

  People, Want, Waste

  "Actress Stockard Channing". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 17, 2011.

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• We cannot separate our lives from time. Why is it that we are so extravagant, so thoughtless, in our waste of time, especially in youth, when we cling so tenaciously to life? You cannot separate a wasted hour from the same duration of your life. If you waste your time, you must waste your life. If you improve your time, you cannot help improving your life.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Time, Duration, Waste

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• If I think something's a waste of time or inappropriate I don't wait to point it out. I say it right away. It's real time. So you might hear me say 'That's the dumbest idea I have ever heard' many times during a meeting.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Leadership, Real

  "A candid conversation with the sultan of software about outsmarting his rivals". Interview with David Rensin, tech-insider.org. July 1994.

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• Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.

  Theophrastus

  Time, Waste, Expenses

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• He played with enormous energy and great fighting spirit. Offering him a draw was a waste of time. He would decline it politely, but firmly. "No, thank you," he would say and the fight would go on and on and on.

  Lubomir Kavalek

  Fighting, Offering, Energy

  "Chess Great Bent Larsen Dies" by Lubomir Kavalek, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2010.

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• Yes I never go to the gym otherwise because I think it's a waste of time and the most boring thing on earth.

  Izabella Scorupco

  Thinking, Earth, Waste

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• I think that any sort of hindsight, especially in this wrestling industry, is a waste of time, and time is extremely valuable. I don't control that. People ask me to do something, and it is our job, as entertainers, to do the best that we can to accomplish that goal. What I get upset about in this business is that so many people talk about the "what if," instead of the "what is." The "what is" is more important. If someone were to go back 15 years and say, "You should have done this," it's too late. I was told to do "X," and I was trying to do "X" the best way that I could.

  John Cena

  Wrestling, Thinking, People

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I don't have holiday nightmares, but the worst part about holidays is airports for me. It's the travelling to it that's the pain really. But if there's a problem, I just sort it out and get on with it. What's the point of letting it ruin your holiday? It's a waste of time and a waste of life otherwise. Just open that champagne and have a ball. I've always got a drink in my hand, have you noticed that?

  Jane McDonald

  Pain, Holiday, Nightmare

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• Women are very good at judging the risk and don't want to waste time with losing. So not that they're not as competitive, and certainly once they're in the race they're every bit as competitive, but they make that choice to compete in a more calculated way sensitive to the odds.

  Po Bronson

  Judging, Choices, Risk

  Source: www.pbs.org

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