Wasting Time Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 Jews already have a covenant with God and that has never been replaced by Christianity.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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• 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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• Teach kids not to fight. Can they change taxes? I'd get rid of all the congestion charges, because they've not stopped traffic. They're a waste of time, not that I'm getting all political.

  Peter Andre

  Kids, Fighting, Political

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I think golf is a waste of time and a waste of a sunny afternoon. I also stink at it. I have never found anything, including divorce and a sexual harassment suit, more frustrating.

  Jay Mohr

  Divorce, Golf, Thinking

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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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• If you want to be negative about the whole thing you can say all guitar bands after the Beatles were just a waste of time because the Beatles were the best. I think it's far better to give new records a try.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Thinking, Guitar, Giving

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• Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.

  Sophia Loren

  Mean, Feelings, Waste

  Interview with Alain Elkann, alainelkanninterviews.com. June 9, 2014.

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• Politics is a waste of time.

  Michelle Obama

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• It's a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• There's always going to be somebody who takes a dislike to you and you can't waste time worrying about it.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Worry, Waste, Dislike

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• I trained for less than three-quarters of an hour, maybe five days a week - I didn't have time to do more. But it was all about quality, not quantity - so I didn't waste time jogging, ever.

  Roger Bannister

  Quality Not Quantity, Jogging, Three

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• After a lifetime of engaging in long, passionate discussions I have come to the conclusion that it is a waste of time trying to convince anyone of anything.

  Michael Foley

  Long, Trying, Passionate

  Michael Foley (2012). “Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• Imaginary testing is unreliable, and in many cases, it's a huge waste of time and energy. In truth you just don't know what will happen until you try. You may start a business, and it could take off in ways no one could predict. Or it could be a complete failure. You could ask for a date and end up with the partner of your dreams. Or you could be rejected cold. It's great to visualize what you want, but you never really know what's going to happen until you act.

  Steve Pavlina

  Dream, Trying, Way

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• Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Waste

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• If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry - you just pull the trigger. Angry discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger.

  Jim Allchin

  Smile, Needs, Waste

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• I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Country, Travel, Character

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• Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Trying, Culture, Waste

  Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman (2014). “First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• Our whole life is a fooling around. You can do it because you are not aware of how you waste time, how you waste energy - how life is wasted you are not aware. It is going down the drain. Everything is going down the drain. Only when death comes to you, you may become aware, alert: What have I been doing? What have I done with life? A great opportunity has been lost. What was I doing fooling around? I was not sober. I never reflected upon what I was doing.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Opportunity, Energy

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• WWW? Nice toy, but what a waste of time.

  Bill Gates

  Nice, Technology, Waste

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• This loving person is a person who abhors waste - waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Time, Forever, Waste

  "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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