Wasting Time Quotes - Page 19

• I never knew I could suffer so much. And then, at the same time, you think, now I'm ready to open myself up to life in another way, to make it worth something and make it about the right things and not waste time.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Grief, Thinking, Suffering

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• Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Expectations, Waiting

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• Thanks to properly selecting the clients you will not be unnecessarily wasting time.

  Lee Iacocca

  Clients, Thanks

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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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• Do what you believe in and believe in what you do. The rest is a waste of time and energy.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Believe, Energy, Waste

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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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• Until we have established reliability there is no sense at all in wasting time trying to make the thing go faster.

  Carroll Smith

  Trying, Reliability, Faster

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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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• Japan never considers time together as time wasted. Rather, it is time invested.

  Donald Richie

  Travel, Japan, Together

  Donald Richie (1998). “A Lateral View: Essays on Culture and Style in Contemporary Japan”, p.16, Stone Bridge Press, Inc.

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• Facebook has revealed their estimated net worth - $96 billion. That's almost as much money as businesses lose every year from their employees wasting time looking at Facebook.

  Jay Leno

  Years, Employee, Billions

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• I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with-life's too short.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Waste, Cold, Wasting My Time

  "Sir Anthony Hopkins Interview THE WOLFMAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 8, 2010.

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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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• Having a highly homogeneous background, education, values, preferences, etc, in the very early team is better than not - cuts down on time-wasting arguments.

  Max Levchin

  Team, Cutting, Etc

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• I wasn't at all focused on school, and I didn't achieve much. But I've got a sense of urgency now. I feel I can't let any more time waste away.

  Robert Pattinson

  School, Waste, Achieve

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

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• To me the biggest waste of time is commuting. First, there is no place that is less than a two-hour commute from New York. You can be half a mile outside of the city limits; you're two hours away by car. I don't care how close they tell you it is. "Oh, it's only thirty miles." Thirty miles? At 8:30 in the morning, thirty miles outside New York, you might as well be starting out in Omaha.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Morning, New York, Cities

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• Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.

  Rex Stout

  Waste, Fool, Philosopher

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• Saving time = wasting time.

  Behdad Sami

  Saving, Saving Time

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• The perpetrators of the actual bad stuff that does real and lasting harm to people, like leakage of industrial chemicals into water systems, seem to get not so much as a second glance; the bloviation from media pundits and think tanks creates false problems that waste time and energy debunking.

  Henry Rollins

  Real, Thinking, Media

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• It must be a conviction Government. As Prime Minister I could not waste time having internal arguments.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Government, Waste, Argument

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• Wasting time in a relationship that blows is just that - wasted time.

  Greg Behrendt

  Blow, Wasted Time

  Greg Behrendt, Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt (2005). “It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy”, p.15, Harmony

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• We could park the van and walk to town, find cheapest bottle of wine that we could find. And talk about the road behind, how getting lost is not a waste of time.

  Jack Johnson

  Wine, Bottles, Getting Lost

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• 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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• There's always some days you wish things had never happened, like you'd never been born, that sort of thing but I'm not the kind of person anyway that can just sit around and say, "gee, I wish that never happened." I don't ever do that. There's no point. That is a total and complete waste of time.

  Patty Hearst

  Wish, Waste, Kind

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• Nothing done with the focus on God is ever a waste of time.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Focus, Done, Waste

  Twitter post from Dec 24, 2015

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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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