Wasting Time Quotes - Page 15

• A person can't brood over one mistake, or waste time feeling sorry for himself, or take on any sort of persecution complex. Today I realize that once you have made a mistake, you must accept it, profit by it, and then totally dismiss it from your mind.

  Bart Starr

  Sports, Sorry, Mistake

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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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• The first and most important rule to observe...is to use our entire forces with the utmost energy. The second rule is to concentrate our power as much as possible against that section where the chief blows are to be delivered and to incur disadvantages elsewhere, so that our chances of success may increase at the decisive point. The third rule is never to waste time. Finally, the fourth rule is to follow up our successes with the utmost energy. Only pursuit of the beaten enemy gives the fruits of victory.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Blow, Giving, Enemy

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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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• The government in business may waste time and money without rendering service. In the end the public pays in taxes. The corporation cannot waste or it will fall. It cannot make unfair rulings or give high-handed, expensive service, for there are not enough people willing to accept inferior service to make a volume of business that will pay dividends.

  Henry Ford

  Fall, Government, Giving

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• ...And another item from the growing file of people who voluntarily wear dunce caps... You'll be talking cordially to someone and make an offhand reference, 'I recently read where--' and they'll cut you off and say, 'Oh, I don't read'... This is a tragedy on so many different levels. First, because they don't read, they don't know enough to keep it to themselves. Next, and this is the most amazing part, they use a demeaning tone like I'm the stupid one for wasting time with books.

  Tim Dorsey

  Stupid, Book, Cutting

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

  M. Shadows

  Hate, People, Trying

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• One of the recurring themes in Marcus' handbook is leadership's responsibility to work intelligently with what it is given and not waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Responsibility, People, Perfect

  "The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations".

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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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• 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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• 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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• Is it ever really a waste of time to love someone, truly and deeply, with everything you have?

  Rhoda Janzen

  Waste, Love Someone

  Rhoda Janzen (2011). “Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home”, p.217, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Serenity and inner beauty come when we wait upon God. "Waiting" like that is not merely wasting time.

  Eva Burrows

  Waiting, Serenity, Inner Beauty

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• Having a little boy has taken me to a very deep place. I am starting to realize everything I ever worried about was such a waste of time.

  David Caruso

  Taken, Boys, Waste

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• You can't just walk away when somebody recognizes you. You have to take some time out and talk to them. It's not a waste of time - I just love talking to people. And I don't do this to sell records. The truth is, I do what I do because I love it.

  Kenny G

  Talking, People, Records

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• How many times will this Congress waste time on an issue that a majority of Americans do not want?

  Raul Grijalva

  Issues, Want, Waste

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• Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength... It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Running, Long, Waste

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• I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

  Stephen Fry

  Lazy, Way, Divine

  "Big Think Interview With Stephen Fry". bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• For a long time I was cautious of working with my parents because I wanted to feel separate from them in the community. Now there's no more wasting time.

  Lily Rabe

  Long, Community, Parent

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

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