Wasting Your Time Quotes

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  If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.

  Serge Daney

  Believe, Cinema, Littles

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• You may delay, but time will not.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.43, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Time, Attitude

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  Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Change, Time

  Teacher, Volume 43, 1971.

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• Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.74, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

  Auguste Rodin

  Inspirational, Leadership, Summer

  "Heads and Tales". Book by Malvina Hoffman, p. 47, 1936.

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• You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

  Charles Buxton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.220

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• Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Time, Short Life

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.2, Nayika Publishing

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• If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.43, Tuttle Publishing

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• The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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  If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.

  Billy Joel

  Love, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Billy Joel from Aug 04, 2013

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• There's no good way to waste your time. Wasting time is just wasting time.

  Helen Mirren

  Way, Waste, Wasting Time

  "Helen Mirren: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. August 2011.

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• I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.

  Dean Kamen

  Important, Want, Waste

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• The function of man is to live, not to exist.

  Jack London

  Short Life, Men, Atoms

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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• You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Time, Golden

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

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Carpe Diem, Wasting Time, Remember

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• Regret for wasted time is more wasted time

  Mason Cooley

  Time, Regret, Wasted Life

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• Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

  E. W. Howe

  Men, Thinking, Talking

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• Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it.

  Guy Finley

  Worry, Needs, May

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Sep 13, 2014

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• If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Poor Richard, Ifs

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.249

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• The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

  Jack London

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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• It's hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they keep getting out of line and wasting your time.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Trying, Lines

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• I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

  Ian Fleming

  Motivational, Witty, Time

  Ian Fleming (2012). “You Only Live Twice: James Bond 007”, p.273, Random House

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• Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.

  Denis Waitley

  Time, Procrastination, Past

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• If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is tied up with mine, then let us work together.

  Lilla Watson

  Work, Volunteer, Community

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