Wasting Time Quotes - Page 21

• Instead of of being so metaphorical with the rhyme, I was encouraged to go straight at it and hit it dead on and not waste time trying to cover things.

  Tupac Shakur

  Trying, Waste, Metaphorical

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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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• 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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• 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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• The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.

  Laini Taylor

  Appreciate, Brain, Wish

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• It's tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I'm wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.

  Dave Grohl

  Sleep, Night, Thinking

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• The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden-that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.

  C. S. Lewis

  Couple, Husband, Book

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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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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• Perfectionism is a time waster - 20 percent of the effort you put into any project accomplishes 80 percent of the outcome - so this is a time to ask yourself when good enough is enough and then stop.

  Mira Kirshenbaum

  Positive, Effort, Outcomes

  Mira Kirshenbaum (1999). “The Gift of a Year: How to Give Yourself the Most Meaningful, Satisfying, and Pleasurable Year of Your Life”, Dutton Adult

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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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• 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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• The young are always coming up with the good ideas; it's because they waste time. They follow their passion and do something, not looking for a payoff, just doing what's interesting.

  Kevin Kelly

  Time, Stress, Passion

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• I try not to waste time feeling bad for myself, because when I do, there's no room for happiness.

  Sam Berns

  Feelings, Trying, Waste

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• It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Taken, Animal, Desire

  Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1957). “Experimental psychology, and other essays”

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• I usually write very few stage directions. I think a lot of that is a waste of time. The art of screenwriting is in its terseness, saying a lot with a little. I have no patience when I read a script where the writer describes this guy and what he's wearing and his glasses and his hair.

  Scott Frank

  Art, Writing, Thinking

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• If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial.

  Lou Holtz

  Priorities, Important, Waste

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• Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Waste, Collecting

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

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• If the first ‘Hangover’ movie were this awful, there never would have been a Part Two. This is a joyless, unfunny mix of comedy and drama, a complete waste of time, with exactly one good joke in the entire movie. It comes in the first minute. After that, you can leave.

  Mick LaSalle

  Drama, Hangover, Two

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• After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won't be a waste of time.

  Nick Cave

  Waste, Great Freedom

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• I don't like going where I've already been. Life is a myriad of territories to discover. I don't want to waste time with what I already know.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Want, Territory, Waste

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• I'm fortunate enough to have learned not to waste time getting frustrated with my kids, or co-workers, or friends and family for not doing everything I wish they would. If someone doesn't respond to me the way I want them to, I understand that it doesn't have anything to do with me.

  Chandra Wilson

  Kids, Frustrated, Wish

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

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• When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were, and none of them plotted a course they could have predicted, so it seemed a waste of time to plan too long-term. Since then, I've always gone on my instincts.

  Anderson Cooper

  Long, Adults, Gone

  Buography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out.

  Stanley Crouch

  Strong, School, Personality

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• I want to go working with good people on something that's good, because otherwise it's a big waste of time. I don't have that much time.

  Stockard Channing

  People, Want, Waste

  "Actress Stockard Channing". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 17, 2011.

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• I'm so an all-or-nothing person in dating, always. I'm big on not wasting time. And so, yeah, if something's not working, it's time to not hold people back.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  People, Dating, Yeah

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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