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• Vexation of spirit is a waste of time Negative thinking, don't you waste your thoughts Verbal conflict is a waste of word Physical conflict is a waste of flesh People will always be who they want And that's what really makes the world go round Unconditional love is scarce.

  Damian Marley

  Unconditional Love, Love Is, Thinking

  Song: There For You, Album: Welcome to Jamrock, 2005

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• Facebook is like jail, you sit around and waste time, you write on walls and you get poked by people you don't know

  Will Ferrell

  Wall, Writing, Jail

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• Politics is a waste of time.

  Michelle Obama

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Look at those two. Wasting time. You wouldn't catch me doing that.

  Eoin Colfer

  Two, Looks, Catch Me

  Eoin Colfer (2009). “Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox”, p.116, Penguin UK

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• I made 10 times as many images as the other students," he says of the early years. "I destroyed all those negatives except a few. I did it as a reminder that you can't afford to waste time: take it seriously.

  Emmet Gowin

  Photography, Years, Waste

  "Emmet Gowin: 'Everyone thought my photographs were incestuous'". Interview with Sarah Moroz, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2014.

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• Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Genius, Resentment, Wasted Time

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• Remember that setbacks are only challenges in disguise. Look at them as lessons . . . don't waste time beating yourself up. Just get back on track and focus on what you want. It's up to you , and you will do it!

  Jorge Cruise

  Track, Focus, Challenges

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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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• Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did you hear.

  Lauren Oliver

  Waste, Slipping, Minutes

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.229, Hachette UK

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• It feels like I am wasting time. I mean, that's always the case. My life doesn't add up to anything.

  David Levithan

  Mean, Add, Cases

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.26, Egmont UK

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• It is best if we do not listen to or look at the person whom we consider to be the cause of our anger. Like a fireman, we have to pour water on the blaze first and not waste time looking for the one who set the house on fire. "Breathing in, I know that I am angry. Breathing out, I know that I must put all my energy into caring for my anger." So we avoid thinking about the other person, and we refrain from doing or saying anything as long as our anger persists. If we put all our mind into observing our anger, we will avoid doing any damage that we may regret later.

  Nhat Hanh

  Regret, Caring, Thinking

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• But mostly I remember every morning before school. How she'd say "Hey, honey!" just I was walking out the apartment door. And me stopping and turning around and saying "What?" And her saying "I love you." And me rolling my eyes like I just wanted to hurry up so I didn't miss the bus. I'd start going again and she'd say "Hey, honey!" and I'd pretend I was so annoyed 'cause she was wasting time and I had to go catch the bus. And how secretly it was my favorite part of every day.

  Matt de la Pena

  Morning, Love You, School

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• Trying to impress people who hate you is just a big waste of time.

  M. Shadows

  Hate, People, Trying

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• It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving to nowhere in particular, for listening to music, for talking about books, for obsessing over pop culture, but mostly for laughing, talking, and simply being together. There was nothing one could say that the other would find too cruel or too kind. And on those rare occasions when they did tire of each other, they needed only go a day without talking before they yearned to reconnect.

  Galt Niederhoffer

  Book, Talking, Ideas

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• In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest; -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Dark, Men, Fire

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.302

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• My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  Running, Father, Thinking

  "Q & A with Haile Gebrselassie". CNN Interview, edition.cnn.com. November 9, 2007.

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• Time means a lot to me because, you see, I, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing and simplifying. If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

  Bruce Lee

  Life, Time, Mean

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.10, Tuttle Publishing

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• Do not waste time trying to overcome your weaknesses and failures. Simply raise your consciousness, transcend and free your thoughts from limitation and illusion, and find within the very center of your being a wholeness and completeness! Cease wallowing in your imperfections and never accept limitations! Aim high, and you will get there. It is only your thoughts that hold you back.

  Eileen Caddy

  Imperfection, Trying, Weakness

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• I haven't made a movie for a while, but I've watched a lot. It's my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Waiting, Waste, Made

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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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• We can't afford to waste time going slow on changing our party so now is not the time to put our foot on the brake. Now is the time to press on the accelerator.

  David Cameron

  Party, Feet, Waste

  " Cameron defiant over reform of Conservatives" by Will Woodward, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2006.

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