Wasting Time Quotes - Page 25

• She learned to say things with her eyes that others waste time putting into words

  Corey Ford

  Flirty, Eye, Flirting

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• I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.

  Robert Jordan

  Strong Women, Boys, Weak Man

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• If you're going to play what-if --which, by the way, is a huge waste of time and energy, not to mention an act of supreme, center-of-the-universe narcissism-- you have to play it both ways. If you're going to imagine yourself as an accidental villain, you have to give yourself equal time as an unwitting hero. As somebody who prevented God-knows-what dire disaster simply by doing exactly the things you did.

  Jefferson Bass

  Hero, Play, Giving

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• The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and the vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. Loving makes love. Loving makes itself. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love. Wouldn't that be the way to make love stay?

  Tom Robbins

  Creating, People, Perfect

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.122, Bantam

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• What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.

  Seth Godin

  School, Asking, Time And Money

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• Evaluate. Long experience had taught me to evaluate and assess. When the unexpected gets dumped on you, don’t waste time. Don’t figure out how or why it happened. Don’t recriminate. Don’t figure out whose fault it is. Don’t work out how to avoid the same mistake next time. All of that you do later. If you survive.

  Lee Child

  Mistake, Work Out, Long

  FaceBook post by Lee Child from Aug 11, 2015

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• When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Carpe Diem, Remember, Resurrection

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• She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.

  David Nicholls

  Writing, Sleepovers, Resolution

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• A life is not a waste of time

  Nalini Singh

  Patience, Waste, Life Is

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4”, p.187, Penguin

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• Talking to you is like -- like talking to an eel!" "No, is it? I've never tried to talk to an eel. Isn't it as waste of time?" "Not such a waste of time as talking to you!

  Georgette Heyer

  Talking, Eels, Waste

  Georgette Heyer (2011). “Black Sheep”, p.43, Random House

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• I guess we often get the deep blues, both of us, and wonder what it all means- the people, the buildings, the day by day things, the waste of time, of ourselves.

  Charles Bukowski

  Mean, People, Waste

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “Selected Letters Volume 2: 1965-1970”, p.109, Random House

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• Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.

  Arthur Brisbane

  Positive, Regret, Useless

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• The Jersey mentality is: I work, I drink, I stay up all night, I try to meet a girl, it's a waste of time.

  Gerard Way

  Girl, Night, Trying

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• Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.

  Erich Fromm

  Time, Learning, Knowledge

  Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.99, A&C Black

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• Getting up and criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time. Especially as you know in your heart that you would be doing more or less the same thing if you were in his place.

  Ryan Shawcross

  Heart, Would Be, Waste

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• You have to have an objective, a goal, some thought process, some strategy in your mind for whatever you do. Otherwise it's a waste of time.

  Stuart McMillan

  Goal, Mind, Waste

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• I don't have any rules, because I would only be breaking them, so it's a waste of time

  Iris Apfel

  Waste

  ELLE Interview, www.elle.com. April 27, 2015.

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• If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact is what matters.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  What Matters, People, Serendipity

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• The greatest time wasted, is the time getting started.

  Dawson Trotman

  Wasted Time, Getting Started

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• The most important thing to do is to set goals. Training is a waste of time if you don't have goals.

  Samantha Riley

  Motivational, Sports, Goal

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• Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

  Regina Brett

  Envy, Needs, Waste

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• I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.

  Walton Goggins

  Journey, Long, Water

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• Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better? Why hide deficiencies instead of overcoming them? Why look for friends or partners who will just shore up your self-esteem instead of ones who will also challenge you to grow? And why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you? The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. This is the mindset that allows people to thrive during some of the most challenging times in their lives.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Self Esteem, Passion, People

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• If you consider an unsuccessful hunt to be a waste of time, then the true meaning of the chase eludes you all together.

  Fred Bear

  Elude You, Together, Waste

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• My knowledge of pain, learned with the sabre, taught me not to be afraid. And just as in dueling when you must concentrate on your enemy's cheek, so, too, in war. You cannot waste time on feinting and sidestepping. You must decide on your target and go in.

  Otto Skorzeny

  Pain, War, Enemy

  "Skorzeny" by Charles Whiting, (p. 17), 1972.

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