Wasting Time Quotes - Page 12

• What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.

  John Milton

  Lying, Waste, Compliment

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.152

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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 really have to thank Facebook ... I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time. I would never say the people on it are losers, but that's only because I'm polite. People say 'But Betty, Facebook is a great way to connect with old friends.' Well at my age, if I wanna connect with old friends, I need a Ouija Board. Needless to say, we didn't have Facebook when I was growing up. We had phonebook, but you wouldn't waste an afternoon with it.

  Betty White

  Growing Up, People, Old Friends

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• What occurred to me on [‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’], and also with the passing of her mother, is that there's going to come a time when I'm not going to get to be with this person anymore. I'm not going to get to be with my children anymore. Or friends, people I love and respect. And so, if we have a flare-up, it evaporates now. I don't want to waste time being angry at someone I love.

  Brad Pitt

  Mother, Children, Flare Up

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• Regret, is usually a waste of time. As is gloating

  Pierce Brosnan

  Regret, Waste, Gloating

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• I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered.

  Norman Mailer

  Thinking, Waste, Internet

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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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• I was in London. It's a long way to go for a very long party, sitting there for six hours not having a cigarette or a drink. It's a waste of time.

  Albert Finney

  Party, Long, Sitting

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• People think that you're supposed to marry your type well, I didn't marry my type. It's much more practical, and based in a day-to-day existence. So when you have that, and you're happy, and you love her, don't waste time. Because time - and I've learned that at this point in my life - time is my most precious commodity. Nothing is more precious than time. Because when it runs out that's it

  Michael Ealy

  Running, Thinking, People

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• Being in Marin City was like a small town so it taught me to be more [straightforward] with my style. Instead of of being so metaphorical with the rhyme, I was encouraged to go straight at it and hit it dead on and not waste time trying to cover thingsIn Marin City it seemed like things were real country. Everything was straightforward. Poverty was straightforward.

  Tupac Shakur

  Country, Real, Cities

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• Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Latin, Believe, Mean

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• Recent events in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have reaffirmed for me, however, the complete folly of any Republican strategy to increase black representation in the Republican Party by appeals based on race. Whatever the name- 'African American Outreach' or 'Black Republicans for Bush'- any effort to attract blacks or any other ethnic group to the Republican party, based on explicit or implicit appeals to race or ethnic identity, are not only a waste of time and resources, but are also misguided and potentially quite damaging to the nation.

  Ward Connerly

  Party, Names, Race

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• In one sense, reading is a great waste of time. In another sense, it is a great extension of time, a way for one person to live a thousand and one lives in a single lifespan, to watch the great impersonal universe at work again and again That is why I read: I want everything to be okay. That’s why I read when I was a lonely kid and that’s why I read now that I’m a scared adult.

  Mary Ruefle

  Lonely, Reading, Kids

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• It’s a waste of time to be bummed on something, considering the amount of time that we have in this world.

  Coco Ho

  World, Waste, Considering

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• Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do.

  Celia Imrie

  Hurt, Selfish, Love Life

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• We can no longer waste time and money. Every day, more than 2,000 girls in America, age 15-19, give birth - in the wealthiest, most educated nation in the world! Neither you nor I should accept this statistic.

  Jane Fonda

  Birthday, Girl, America

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• You’re probably wasting time on things like eating and sleeping. Cease that, and read all of philosophy and all of literature. Also art. Plus politics and a few other things. The history of everything.

  John Barth

  Art, Philosophy, Sleep

  John Barth (2012). “Final Fridays: Essays, Lectures, Tributes & Other Nonfiction, 1995-”, p.262, Counterpoint Press

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• Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.

  Diane Johnson

  Car, Waste, Realizing

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• I don’t waste time. I move. I finish things. I don’t try and do things to the nth degree. I know what’s important and what’s not. I’ve really learned that. That’s a judgement I’ve learned, what really matters.

  Gail Kelly

  Moving, Judgement, Important

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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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• Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness. If men and women practiced mental calisthenics as they do physical calisthenics, they would purge their brains of this foolishness.

  Arnold Bennett

  Time, Stupid, Men

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• You cannot just waste time. Otherwise you'll die to regret it.

  Harriet Doerr

  Time, Regret, Waste

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• Regret is an appalling waste of time.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Regret, Waste

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