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• To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Men, Complaining, Yardsticks

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2010). “Mind of the Maker”, p.19, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspiration, Waiting, Waste

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2012). “Life's Little Instruction Book: Simple Wisdom and a Little Humor for Living a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.620, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Did people waste time before the internet existed?

  Matt McGorry

  People, Waste, Internet

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• Innovation without imitation is a complete waste of time.

  Mike Rowe

  Innovation, Waste, Imitation

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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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• Women are good listeners, but it's a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there's something specific you want him to do.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Men, Listening, Want

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.47, BookBaby

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• In Western society, and particularly in American society, imagination is stulified from infancy. The imaginative child is discouraged and upbraided. He is told that the process is mere dreaming, that it wastes time and leads nowhere. It is said to be "impractical." As the child grows and its imagination inevitably leads it to express unconventional ideas and to try new behavior, it is chided and even viciously punished for such signs of unorthodoxy.

  Philip Wylie

  Dream, Children, Ideas

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• There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Happiness, Fun, Occupation

  Jerome K. Jerome (2015). “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.6, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I do sometimes think I could have done without the drugs actually; that was a waste of time, and a huge risk. But then again, there's nothing I can change, so in a way regret is pointless.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Music, Regret, Thinking

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• I don't dwell in the past; I don't wallow in old events and emotions. I don't waste time on regret. No use going over and over the details of what already happened.

  Yanni

  Single, Regret, Past

  Yanni, David Rensin (2003). “Yanni in Words”, Miramax Books

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• You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.

  Edgar Degas

  Artist, Waste, Aim High

  Edgar Degas' remark to E. Rouart (1904), as quoted in Franois Fosca "Renoir: His Life and Work" (p. 274), 1961.

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• Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

  Mary Schmich

  Jealousy, Waste, Sometimes

  "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young". Chicago Tribune, June 1, 1997.

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• Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?

  David Baldacci

  Trying, Waste

  David Baldacci (2011). “The Whole Truth”, p.62, Pan Macmillan

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• The people of Sydney who can speak of my work [on flying-machine models] without a smile are very scarce; it is doubtless the same with American workers. I know that success is dead sure to come, and therefore do not waste time and words in trying to convince unbelievers.

  Lawrence Hargrave

  Success, Hard Work, Science

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• There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Criticism, Literature, Waste

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• Wasting time has an esthetics to it.

  Fernando Pessoa

  "A Factless Autobiography". Book by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, 2006.

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• Eternity: what a waste of time.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Waste, Eternity

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.115, New Victoria Publishers

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• I think the best way to waste time is to try to save time.

  Francoise Sagan

  Time, Thinking, Trying

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• I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation.

  Henry Rollins

  Jealous, Pride, Degradation

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• I was never a cokehead or anything like that. I always despised that drug. I thought it was a waste of time, pointless.

  Johnny Depp

  Alcohol, Drug, Waste

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• Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

  Arnold Bennett

  Stupid, Worry, Brain

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• I'm definitely more talented than most of the guys I know. A lot of guys who just want to have sex will sit with the same woman and try all night. I'm able to look at a woman, have a five-minute conversation with her, and tell if it's a waste of time or not. I figure things out a lot faster.

  Tyrese Gibson

  Sex, Night, Guy

  "Ty Me Up, Ty Me Down". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. June 20, 2007.

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• Obsessing about weight is a big old waste of time.

  Anne Hathaway

  Weight, Waste, Bigs

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

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• I felt I should have been the happiest person in the world. But I looked inside, and that happiness was only on the surface, not so deep. Beneath it was hollow. Up until that time, I had been thinking meditation was a joke, a fad and a waste of time.

  David Lynch

  Thinking, Should Have, Meditation

  "His Mission to Change the World Through Meditation". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2014.

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• Each individual has their own opinions about whether war is an answer to any problems. Personally I think it's a waste of time, but I think more importantly, that it's is an issue that we haven't had any say in. That's why I feel so strongly about it. I don't feel like we've really been given any choice in this matter. I think if you had a referendum tomorrow, Tony Blair would have no choice but to call off the war.

  Damon Albarn

  War, Thinking, Issues

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