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• Worrying is wasted time. Use the same energy for doing something about whatever worries you.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Worry, Energy, Use

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• So watch me strike a match on all my wasted time. As far as I'm concerned you're just another picture to burn.

  Taylor Swift

  Watches, Strikes, Watch Me

  Song: Picture To Burn, Album: Taylor Swift

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• Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Time, Faithful, Arguing

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.65, Basic Books

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• A day spent wasting time, that you enjoyed, is not time wasted.

  John Lennon

  Time, Wasting Time, Enjoyed

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  Anything lost, can be found again, except for time wasted
  A vision without action is merely a dream
  Action, it's the grind, it's the hustle, it's the persistence

  Kevin Gates

  Dream, Persistence, Vision

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• And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.

  Donald Miller

  Together, Stories, Taste

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  Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

  John Lennon

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Time spent in prayer is never wasted.

  Francois Fenelon

  Time, Prayer, Time Spent

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• Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

  James Anthony Froude

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  James Anthony Froude (1872). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.317

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• Creativity is the residue of time wasted.

  Albert Einstein

  Time, Creativity

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• Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material.

  Henry Ford

  Doe, Waste, Wasting Time

  Henry Ford (2006). “The Great To-Day and Greater Future”, p.142, Cosimo, Inc.

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• While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does.

  Tony Campolo

  Government, Doe, Program

  Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo (2012). “Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?”, p.187, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I said, in talking, that I felt more and more the time wasted that was not spent in Ireland.

  Lady Gregory

  Feels, Ireland

  "Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography".

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• Waiting time is not wasted time. Something is being worked out - in us, in someone else, in the Universe.

  Melody Beattie

  Waiting, Universe

  Melody Beattie (1990). “The Language of Letting Go”, p.293, Hazelden Publishing

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• In case you haven't heard, my girlfriends and I have declared the summer of 2012 as the best summer ever. The best way to document said 'best summer ever' is with a good ol' disposable camera. Smile, click, move on! Nobody gets pic approval, and there's no time wasted gathering around the camera to analyze a moment that just happened.

  Candice Accola

  Summer, Girlfriend, Moving

  "Candice Accola Is in a '90s Cover Band and Other Fun Facts From The Vampire Diaries Star" by Caitlin Brody, www.glamour.com. August 2, 2012.

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• Since I've got on the Internet, it's opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she's an Internet widow.

  Mick Ralphs

  Wife, Widows, World

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• If I want my time wasted, I'll waste it myself.

  Mason Cooley

  Time, Want, Waste

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• Don’t worry that you’ve wasted time. Each moment -- no matter how frozen or confused -- was a useful and necessary lesson.

  Martha Beck

  Confused, Worry, Lessons

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• Until you have wasted time in a city, you cannot pretend to know it well.

  Julian Green

  Cities, Wells, Knows

  "Paris: The Collected Traveler". Book by Barrie Kerper, 2011.

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• When I look back I can think that of course I've been lazy and haven't practiced as much as I could have and have wasted time. Still though, I look back on my life and I think that really, I am very happy that I lived my life the way I have and I would never ever have wished it any other way - especially, the six years with my lama and then the 18 in Lahul.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Thinking, Years, Lazy

  Source: fpmt.org

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• Japan never considers time together as time wasted. Rather, it is time invested.

  Donald Richie

  Travel, Japan, Together

  Donald Richie (1998). “A Lateral View: Essays on Culture and Style in Contemporary Japan”, p.16, Stone Bridge Press, Inc.

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• Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Philosophy, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Fear, Doe, Useless

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Lexicon”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• Cause' I don't wanna' spend my life jaded, waiting to wake up one day and find that I've let all these years go by wasted. Oh I don't wanna' keep on wishing, missing, but still every morning the color of the night, I ain't spending no more time wasted.

  Carrie Underwood

  Morning, Night, Color

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• Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Men, Waste

  'Richard II' (1595) act 5, sc. 5, l. 42

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