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• We only deliberately waste time with those we love -- it is the purest sign that we love someone if we choose to spend time idly in their presence when we could be doing something more 'constructive.

  Sheila Cassidy

  Waste, Spend Time, End Times

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• I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.

  Phil Donahue

  Stupid, Silly, Feelings

  Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

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• The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect.
  The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile. Therefore strive for excellence not perfection.

  Alan Kulwicki

  Frustration, Perfect, Excellence

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• I don’t waste time. I move. I finish things. I don’t try and do things to the nth degree. I know what’s important and what’s not. I’ve really learned that. That’s a judgement I’ve learned, what really matters.

  Gail Kelly

  Moving, Judgement, Important

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• What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.

  Horace

  Parent, Age, Doe

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• Innovation without imitation is a complete waste of time.

  Mike Rowe

  Innovation, Waste, Imitation

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• We [Virgin Group] have been successful not by wasting time scrutinising our competitors but by looking at ourselves from the point of view of our customers do and seeking feedback through listening.

  Richard Branson

  Successful, Views, Listening

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• If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to be a waste of time.

  Steven Pinker

  Self, People, Political

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• Flow is hard to achieve without effort. Flow is not 'wasting time.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Effort, Flow, Achieve

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• Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time.

  Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross

  Waste, Fellows, Seems

  Interview with Tom Stacey for the Daily Express, as quoted in "The Independent", July 11, 2003.

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• Such an experiment without actual conditions of war to support it is a foolish waste of time. . . . I once saw a man kill a lion with a 30-30 caliber rifle under certain conditions, but that doesn't mean that a 30-30 rifle is a lion gun.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Mean, Men

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• Just as our view of work affects our real experience of it, so too does our view of leisure. If our mindset conceives of free time, hobby time, or family time as non-productive, then we will, in fact, make it a waste of time.

  Shawn Achor

  Real, Views, Waste

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• Oh, you'll not be any poorer if you smile along your way. And your lot will not be harder for the kindly things you say. Don't imagine you are wasting time for others that you spend. You can rise to wealth and glory and still pause to be a friend.

  Edgar Guest

  Way, Wealth, Imagine

  Edgar Guest (1916). “A Heap o' Living'”

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• Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives.

  Tom Peters

  Phrases, Waste, Daydreaming

  FaceBook post by Tom Peters from Aug 19, 2013

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• Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do.

  Ray Bradbury

  Men, Games, Video

  "Ray Bradbury Is on Fire!". Interview with James Hibberd, www.salon.com. August 29, 2001.

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• We kid ourselves that we're trying to be empathetic with the human condition from a distance, but I don't think that is it at all. It's stupid; it's a waste of time. But when the earth flexes its muscles, that's rather different. That's a powerful reminder of where we are.

  Simon Winchester

  Powerful, Distance, Stupid

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• I spend way too much time on Facebook and MySpace to feel too uncomfortable at this. I like to think of the Internet as an effective way to waste time and time.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Thinking, Too Much, Way

  "Ask Jim Gaffigan". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. November 28, 2007.

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• What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.

  John Milton

  Lying, Waste, Compliment

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.152

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• While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Principles, Abiding, Patents

  Thorstein Veblen (1993). “A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism”, p.31, M.E. Sharpe

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• Time-wasting activities are the dessert. Oftentimes discoveries are made through the back door.

  Jean Wilson

  Discovery, Doors, Dessert

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• To learn and to love, that is what we are here for, any activity which is not grounded in one of these two is a waste of time.

  Anne Rice

  Two, Waste, Grounded

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• Facebook revamped its search feature. Now you can search for any post that has ever appeared on your page. It's helpful if you want to waste time this year remembering exactly how you wasted time last year.

  Conan O'Brien

  Years, Want, Pages

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• Did people waste time before the internet existed?

  Matt McGorry

  People, Waste, Internet

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• Workaholics don't actually accomplish more than nonworkaholics. They may claim to be perfectionists, but that just mean they're wasting time fixating on inconsequential details instead of moving on to the next task.

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  Moving, Mean, Details

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• Sorry wastes time. You have to live your life like you'll never be sorry. It's easier just to do the right thing from the start so there's nothing to apologize for.

  Jennifer Niven

  Sorry, Live Your Life, Waste

  Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.129, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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