Wasting Time Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• Planning is not just guessing, it is harmful guessing, because it is a waste of time. All the time you spend doing your five year plan you can use to worry about tomorrow.

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  Years, Worry, Use

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• I don't waste time in flowery small talk, as people do in India.

  Indira Gandhi

  People, India, Waste

  Source: sangam.org

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• I met Indira Gandhi in her office in the government palace. The same office that had been her father's - large, cold and plain. She was sitting, small and slender, behind a bare desk. When I entered, she got up and came forward to give me her hand, then sat down again and cut the preliminaries short by fixing me with a gaze that meant: Go ahead with the first question, don't waste time, I really have no time to waste.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Father, Cutting, Government

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• the fact is, that life is too short to be occupied by aught but the present - hope and remembrance are equally a waste of time.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Life Is Too Short, Remembrance, Live In The Moment

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1860). “The Complete Works of L.E. Landon”, p.283

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• It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.

  May Sarton

  Real, People, Effort

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to untimely death. Yet there are those who sincerely feel that disarmament is an evil and international negotiation is an abominable waste of time.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Race, Evil

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• For me, the work begins with a rough cut of the film. I can't do much with the script. I've tried to write music to a script prior to seeing the film, but I've found it turns out to be a waste of time.

  Cliff Martinez

  Writing, Cutting, Waste

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• Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with it: don't dwell on the past. Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.

  Allegra Huston

  Drama, Past, Important

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

  M. Shadows

  Hate, People, Trying

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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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• For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and praying is a waste of time; to shed tears is weak and womanish, to be needy is degrading; to suffer defeat is a disgrace and hardly fitting for one who scarcely permits the greatest of kings to kiss the toes of his sacred feet; and finally, death is an unattractive prospect, and dying on a cross would be an ignominious end.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Kings, Teaching, Hard Work

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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• I can hardly think of an occasion when I've got into a stand-up fight with any political opponent. I've got my views, people know what they are, they can agree or they can choose to disagree. I'm not going to waste time just rubbishing everybody else.

  Charles Kennedy

  Fighting, Thinking, Views

  "Gently does it?" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2005.

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• For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Doctors, Long, Waste

  “Jonathan Safran Foer” by Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14 & 21, 2010.

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• I'm trying to be present, not thinking and worrying about the past or the future. That's such a waste of time, you know?

  Gwen Stefani

  Past, Thinking, Worry

  Source: www.glamour.com

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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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• In terms of trying to re-create an image, I think that's a waste of time. I have no interest in doing that. The decisions I made are done.

  George W. Bush

  Thinking, Decision, Trying

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• Too many companies waste time trying to eliminate their employees' weaknesses when, in fact, they should concentrate on developing their strengths.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Trying, Weakness, Waste

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Many of my students learn different techniques online and I have learnt a lot using this medium. Art is picking up in the Caribbean but it's unfortunate that we still have people looking down on it. Many persons who don't know better think that having a career in art is a waste of time. I guess the public just needs to be educated some more.

  St. Lucia

  Art, Thinking, Careers

  Source: arcthemagazine.com

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• From 1940 to about 1960, I had been writing just regular comics, the way my publishers wanted me too. He didn't want me to use words of more than two syllables if I could help it. He didn't want me to waste time on worrying about good dialogue or characterization. Just give me a lot of action, lot of fight scenes.

  Stan Lee

  Writing, Fighting, Two

  Source: www.npr.org

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