Wasting Time Quotes - Page 11

• Regret is an appalling waste of time.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Regret, Waste

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• Whatever your passion is, keep doing it. Don't waste time chasing after success or comparing yourself to others. Every flower blooms at a different pace. Excel at doing what your passion is and only focus on perfecting it. Eventually people will see what you are great at doing, and if you are truly great, success will come chasing after you.

  Suzy Kassem

  Success, Flower, Passion

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• We need to review the process for the election of Speaker. We've got to reform Question Time, which is really a waste of time. There are so many things that we need to do to reform our Parliament and I think it's bigger than that. It's all about the sort of leadership that people are getting at the moment. They're fed up with this sorta day-to-day bickering, not putting the national interest ahead of these narrow partisan interests.

  Richard Di Natale

  Thinking, People, Waste

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Focus groups are a waste of time, filled with people telling you what you want to hear so they can go home.

  Sergio Zyman

  Home, People, Focus

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• I don't really believe in going with somebody to have tea and chat. I don't do that. It's just a waste of time.

  Yoko Ono

  Believe, Tea, Waste

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 26, 2013.

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• I remember coming home from school one time and saying very calmly to my mum, 'I'm not going any more. It's a waste of time. I gotta get going with this music thing. School's getting in the way.' It freaked her out.

  Kid Rock

  Home, School, Way

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• We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. - Octavio Paz The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wasted Time, Enjoy, Bits

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• If first of all you have a wrong idea, then it's kind of wasting time. No matter how hard that you try with a wrong idea, it makes it difficult to be successful.

  Stephen Chow

  Successful, Ideas, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect.
  The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile. Therefore strive for excellence not perfection.

  Alan Kulwicki

  Frustration, Perfect, Excellence

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• Philosophy would long ago have reached a high level if our predecessors and fathers had put this into practice; and we would not waste time on the primary difficulties, which appear now as severe as in the first centuries which noticed them. We would have the experience of assured phenomena, which would serve as principles for a solid reasoning; truth would not be so deeply sunken; nature would have taken off most of her envelopes; one would see the marvels she contains in all her individuals.

  Marin Mersenne

  Nature, Truth, Father

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• Courtesy is a waste of time; it weakens you and undermines you.

  Yasmina Reza

  Waste, Courtesy

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• In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Memories, Educational, Book

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time

  Sara Paretsky

  Girl, Home, Kansas

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• Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.

  E. M. Forster

  Running, Character, Long

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.129, RosettaBooks

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• Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time.

  Deborah Eisenberg

  Writing, Fiction, Done

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• Careers very rarely are a waste of time; jobs usually are.

  Donald Glover

  Jobs, Careers, Waste

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

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• If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to be a waste of time.

  Steven Pinker

  Self, People, Political

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• Flow is hard to achieve without effort. Flow is not 'wasting time.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Effort, Flow, Achieve

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• Here's an example of how it wastes some time. To be judged on or to be talked about on appearance—say chest size—it makes me wear layers, it makes me have to waste time figuring out what am I going to wear so that nobody will look in an area that I don't need them to look at.

  Sarah Palin

  Example, Needs, Looks

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• I'm not trying to convert the Jewish people to the Christian faith... In fact, trying to convert Jews is a waste of time. Jews already have a covenant with God and that has never been replaced by Christianity.

  John Hagee

  Christian, Covenant With God, People

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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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• 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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• Unless you're a true prodigy, you're going to have to practice for a while being bad before you get any good. And it will seem like a waste of time. I remember that feeling well. But don't worry about wasting time, because it'll be so worth it. It's my experience that in the end, life lessons and guitar lessons begin to blur in all sorts of interesting ways.

  Brad Paisley

  Life Lesson, Guitar, Practice

  Brad Paisley, David Wild (2012). “Diary of a Player: How My Musical Heroes Made a Guitar Man Out of Me”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not trying to brainwash my critics. If they're critics, they're critics, and that's their job to be critical, but I certainly enjoy the involvement I have with my fans. I enjoy the time I get to spend with them, and I don't waste time with someone stubborn who is not going to come around.

  John Cena

  Jobs, Trying, Fans

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.

  Phil Donahue

  Stupid, Silly, Feelings

  Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

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