Wasting Time Quotes - Page 25

• Talking to you is like -- like talking to an eel!" "No, is it? I've never tried to talk to an eel. Isn't it as waste of time?" "Not such a waste of time as talking to you!

  Georgette Heyer

  Talking, Eels, Waste

  Georgette Heyer (2011). “Black Sheep”, p.43, Random House

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• I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.

  Robert Jordan

  Strong Women, Boys, Weak Man

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• If you're going to play what-if --which, by the way, is a huge waste of time and energy, not to mention an act of supreme, center-of-the-universe narcissism-- you have to play it both ways. If you're going to imagine yourself as an accidental villain, you have to give yourself equal time as an unwitting hero. As somebody who prevented God-knows-what dire disaster simply by doing exactly the things you did.

  Jefferson Bass

  Hero, Play, Giving

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• The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and the vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. Loving makes love. Loving makes itself. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love. Wouldn't that be the way to make love stay?

  Tom Robbins

  Creating, People, Perfect

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.122, Bantam

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• The world is full of ways and means to waste time.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mean, World, Way

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• Evaluate. Long experience had taught me to evaluate and assess. When the unexpected gets dumped on you, don’t waste time. Don’t figure out how or why it happened. Don’t recriminate. Don’t figure out whose fault it is. Don’t work out how to avoid the same mistake next time. All of that you do later. If you survive.

  Lee Child

  Mistake, Work Out, Long

  FaceBook post by Lee Child from Aug 11, 2015

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• Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.

  Erich Fromm

  Time, Learning, Knowledge

  Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.99, A&C Black

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• I guess we often get the deep blues, both of us, and wonder what it all means- the people, the buildings, the day by day things, the waste of time, of ourselves.

  Charles Bukowski

  Mean, People, Waste

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “Selected Letters Volume 2: 1965-1970”, p.109, Random House

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• Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.

  Arthur Brisbane

  Positive, Regret, Useless

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• She learned to say things with her eyes that others waste time putting into words

  Corey Ford

  Flirty, Eye, Flirting

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• Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise, for the result is waste of time and general stagnation.

  Sun Tzu

  War, Fate, Winning

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.29, Lulu.com

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• If I had my wilderness, nature could be my lover. What can I do in the paved streets for my thirsty roots? I waste time. I encourage fools. I slip the vital hours into penny slot machines -- to pass time, to start my stuck wheels only love can oil.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Oil, Roots, Machines

  Elizabeth Smart, Alice Van Wart (1991). “Necessary secrets: the journals of Elizabeth Smart”, Grafton Books

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• I never took a lesson until I was 20, and I'm glad I had those years living the life of a normal person. I don't consider that time wasted.

  Glenn Tipton

  Live Life, Years, Lessons

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• I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.

  Fritz Zwicky

  Time, Exercise, Brain

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• The greatest time wasted, is the time getting started.

  Dawson Trotman

  Wasted Time, Getting Started

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• Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

  Regina Brett

  Envy, Needs, Waste

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• There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.

  Marcia Wallace

  Silly, Answers, Waste

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• Do you love life? Then don't waste time, because time is life!

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love Life, Waste, Time Management

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• Performance shots are a waste of time, they look like everyone else's. If you want to shoot a performer, then grab them, own them, you have to own people, then twist them into what you want to say about them.

  Art Kane

  People, Want, Waste

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• Something that looks like a protocol but does not accomplish a task is not a protocol—it’s a waste of time.

  Bruce Schneier

  Doe, Tasks, Looks

  Bruce Schneier (1996). “Applied cryptography: protocols, algorithms, and source code in C”, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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• Today we may face some boring task or idle conversation that feels like a complete waste of time. Perhaps next week or next year we'll understand that nothing is wasted, that in the economy of our universe even a weed is simply a flower whose use has yet to be discovered.

  Mort Crim

  Weed, Flower, Next Week

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• Those of us who are pro-life should demand more from Congress. While we waste time on stuff like this, genuine legislation to protect life is ignored.

  Justin Amash

  Pro Life, Demand, Stuff

  "Rival’s Ad Hurls Misleading Abortion Attack At Justin Amash" by Eugene Kiely, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 14, 2014.

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• Take the long way. Do the hard work, consistently and with generosity and transparency. And then you won't waste time doing it over.

  Seth Godin

  Hard Work, Long, Generosity

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• If you consider an unsuccessful hunt to be a waste of time, then the true meaning of the chase eludes you all together.

  Fred Bear

  Elude You, Together, Waste

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• I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.

  Walton Goggins

  Journey, Long, Water

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