Wasting Your Time Quotes - Page 2

• Your life will become better by making other lives better.

  Will Smith

  Growth, Personality Types

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• You don't just sit in the car and let some guy drive you through life, wasting your time.

  Steve Harvey

  Car, Guy

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• I don't think there are any secrets to writing in the - everybody has their own techniques. You must be widely read, that's one thing, because you have to resolve a tremendous amount of background information. Also, you should know what the competition is writing, just so you're not wasting your time doing the same thing. Unless you do it better, of course.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Writing, Thinking, Competition

  Source: www.salon.com

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• If you're doing things that you don't want to be doing or you're working with people who aren't making you better and you're not learning, if things aren't challenging you, you could be wasting your time. You might be making some money, but you might not be improving as an actor.

  Luke Grimes

  People, Challenges, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Rock 'n' roll and playing live is very addictive. But you have to really be careful, because you don't want to do it all the time. It's like when you are young and you think if you are not having sex you're wasting your time. But as you get older you realise everything has its place. It's the same thing with performing.... Performing is a great thing to do but you don't want to have to be doing it every night.

  Mick Jagger

  Sex, Night, Thinking

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• Young man, I am afraid you are wasting your time. If there were any more planets they would have been found long before this.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Science, Men, Long

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• Vous perdez votre temps! (You're wasting your time.)

  Kathleen Flinn

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• If you pray for an angel to visit you, you know what he'll do if he comes. He'll just quote the scriptures to you - so you know you're wasting your time waiting for what we already have. I'm quite serious about that.

  Hugh Nibley

  Angel, Visits You, Waiting

  Hugh Nibley (1989). “Approaching Zion”, Shadow Mountain

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• Sometimes, sitting there on the cushion failing to watch your breath, it can feel like you’re the only weirdo weird enough to be wasting your time in this way. But you’re not! There are generations of weirdos, monasteries full of them, and we have the benefit of their accumulated wisdom.

  Jay Michaelson

  Watches, Generations, Sitting

  Jay Michaelson (2013). “Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment”, p.108, North Atlantic Books

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• Know what you love and do what you love. If you don't do what you love, you're just wasting your time.

  Billy Joel

  Love You, Ifs, What You Love

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• Any time you find the government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people, then you are wasting your time going to that government expecting redress. Instead, you have to take that government to the World Court and accuse it of genocide and all of the other crimes that it is guilty of today.

  Malcolm X

  Rights, Government, People

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Detroit Version)". Malcolm X's speech at a meeting sponsored by the Congress for Racial Equality in Detroit, Michigan, April 12, 1964.

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• If you're not learning, you're wasting your time.

  Pharrell Williams

  Ifs

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• [Eugene] O'Neill made a living, certainly, at least. But each of these forms have sort of died the death in turn, and it's a simple fact of that universe that talent then migrates away from these forms, and then the amateurs get in, like lunatics in the ruins, sort of pretending to be artists. If you're ambitious enough to want to be a writer to begin with, you want to be a writer in some circumstances where there are rewards, where there's notice, where you don't have to be a teacher, and where you're frankly not nuts for wasting your time.

  William Monahan

  Teacher, Artist, Simple

  Source: collider.com

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• If I wasted my time trying to be like everybody else when I was 10 and 11, I wouldn't be me today. So if you are gonna be the future rockstars, the future somebody, whatever you wanna be then you're wasting your time trying to be somebody else, because you'll never get to you.

  Pink

  Trying, Today, Wasted My Time

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• There are no normal people, there are just different kinds of weird, all of it is human and all humanity is better than everything inhuman. So I urge you to keep expressing yourself as honestly as you can, and know that the backpedals and second-guesses really aren't necessary - they don't hurt but they're wasting your time - because when you are truly human, as we all are, and when that is your honest message to anyone, you are beyond reproach, there is no way to screw it up.

  Dan Harmon

  Hurt, People, Humanity

  Redit AMA, www.reddit.com. August 22, 2012.

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• I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting your time reading books.

  Jimmy Carr

  Book, Reading, Parent

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• I think in the Western world we have gotten overly identified with doing, and we've kind of forgotten about the art of being. And we don't see value in it; we think that if you're not doing something all of the time, being very active and producing something, then you're sort of wasting your time.

  Shakti Gawain

  Art, Thinking, World

  "An interview with Shakti Gawain about transformation locally and globally". Lotus Guide interview, lotusguide.com. June 6, 2012.

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• If you're not getting better in the summer, you're wasting your time.

  Chris Bosh

  Summer, Get Better, Ifs

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• The one thing I don't understand is when people make comments who are clearly not fans of mine. I think, why are you here? Why are you wasting your time? It's fascinating.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Thinking, People, Fans

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• If you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Moving, Responsibility, Waiting

  "‘Be Responsible for Your Own Life,’ Says Oprah". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 31, 2012.

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• You…you need to move on,” I managed. Yes, that was a sound reason. “You need to find someone else. You know I don’t—that I can’t. Well, you know. You’re wasting your time with me.” He remained firm. “It’s my time to waste.

  Richelle Mead

  Moving, Waste, Sound

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• If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time.
  Your life will become better by making other lives better.

  Will Smith

  Inspirational, Confidence, Personality Types

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• If you don't wake up at three in the morning and want to do something, you're wasting your time.

  Harold Eugene Edgerton

  Morning, Three, Wake Up

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• All you can do in this life is follow your dreams. Otherwise you're just wasting your time.

  David Walliams

  Dream, Life Is, This Life

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• Give yourself completely to the one you call God. If you are not doing it you are wasting your time here.

  Rumi

  Emotional, Giving, Ifs

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