Best 34 quotes in «waste of time quotes» category

Every thought, every action, every statement should have meaning.

I esteem his understanding and subtlety highly, but I consider that they have been put to ill use in the greater part of his work, where the author studies things of little use... {Writing about Isaac Newton}

If LOVE is a waste of time; then romeo and Juliet wasted their whole life doing that

If you try to do a task at your odd hours, you will waste so much time only to find out that you did a poor job after all.

Love isn't a waste of time; if done with the right person

Not even a book on prosperity can prosper you, when what is expected of you is given, your time won't be wasted.

It wasn't a waste of time if you learned that it was a waste of time.

One of the biggest wastes of time is doing something well that didn’t need to be done at all.

Only worry about what you absolutely know about,' Mr. Worthington said to me, putting my mind back where it belonged. 'That's the key. Worrying about anything else is just a waste of time and emotion. I know that seems obvious but honestly, the more information you have, the less your imagination can run away with you so the secret is to find out as much as you can about what your particular problem is....and you'll be amazed at how this simplifies things. You no longer have to worry about the what ifs.

My father did not bring it up, but of course I knew that he had another reason to worry about my decision to write. Though he was a reader, he was not a lover of fiction, because fiction is not true, and for that flaw it was forever inferior to fact. If reading fiction was a waste of time, so was the writing of it. Why is it, I wonder, that humor didn't count? Wodehouse, for one, whom both of us loved, was a flawless fiction writer.

Regret is a waste of time.

Regrets are a waste of time and waste of time brings about regrets. It's the best ironic cycle after life and death!

Spreading rumours is our national past time

Religion is the subjective experience. Science is the objective reality. To argue either is a ridiculous waste of time and energy.

She wasted my heart, my time.

Stop wasting your life and discover who you are

Profanity enjoyed sexual congress with profanity in this hail storm of the vile, the tautological and the physically ridiculous.

There will never be a point in my life where it is acceptable to waste time.

The probability of something not happening does not decrease as we increase the number of times we worry about the possibility of it happening.

When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their clients, it is to save the court time.

What bothered me was all of the time he wasted by drumming, and all the time I wasted by listening to him drum, by taking pleasure in it, for pleasure is almost always a waste of time.

When you are on a time bound purposeful journey, rest is not just idleness but wastefulness.

Today is a new day and it brings with it a new set of opportunities for me to act on. I am attentive to the opportunities and I seize them as they arise. I have full confidence in myself and my abilities. I can do all things that I commit myself to. No obstacle is too big or too difficult for me to handle because what lies inside me is greater than what lies ahead of me. I am committed to improving myself and I am getting better daily. I am not held back by regret or mistakes from the past. I am moving forward daily. Absolutely nothing is impossible for me.

When it concerns you, it's never a waste of my time.

When you wait for the right time, you'll never know when it's already too late.

Work on Purpose - Play on Purpose - Rest on Purpose - Do not let yourself or anyone else waste your time.

You can’t live your life for someone else, and you can’t let someone else tell you how to live your life. People spend so much time judging the shit out of each other—it’s a waste of energy.

With wisdom comes the rare ability to tell whether or not trying to change someone’s mind would be a waste of time.

You know how we sometimes sigh, "Well, that was a waste of time."? Or we snap at somebody: "You're wasting my time!" What does that even mean in the age of texts and tweets, TV and video games?

...and I realized no matter what you do it’s bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.

all charity only tends to perpetuate the wretchedness it aims to eradicate

Almost no one gets into an argument hoping to be proven wrong if they are wrong.

A manager is only wasting time, beyond energy.

A meeting is a collective tacit confession of participants’ unwillingness to work.