Wasting Time Quotes - Page 27

• Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don’t waste time.

  Michelangelo

  Inspiration, Waste, Antonio

  Hugo Chapman, Perrin Stein, Michelangelo Buonarroti, British Museum (2005). “Michelangelo drawings: closer to the master”

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• No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good.

  Brenda Ueland

  Writing, Imagination, Creative

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Eye, Mad

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.256, Penguin

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• time wasted is not always a waste of time.

  Terri Blackstock

  Waste, Wasted Time

  Terri Blackstock (2009). “Seaside”, p.8, Zondervan

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• If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Waste, Next

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• No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dragons, Trying, Fascination

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.119, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Silence, Trying, Needs

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “THE BLUE CASTLE (Unabridged)”, p.115, e-artnow

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• Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness.

  L. Frank Baum

  Waste, Reason, Given

  L. Frank Baum (2007). “The Adventures of Trot & Cap'n Bill Before They Went to Oz - The Sea Fairies, Sky Island”, p.66, Lulu.com

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• I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. We find so many people impatient to talk. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Reality, Talking

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• I will not waste time on second thoughts. My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement.

  Andy Andrews

  Life, Apology, Waste

  Andy Andrews (2004). “The Young Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions That Determine Personal Success”, p.18, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.

  Kurt Cobain

  Funny, Humor, Alcohol

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• The tradition of Italian cooking is that of the matriarch. This is the cooking of grandma. She didn't waste time thinking too much about the celery. She got the best celery she could and then she dealt with it.

  Mario Batali

  Food, Grandma, Italian

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• Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.

  Philip Yancey

  Prayer, Important, Use

  Philip Yancey (1995). “The Jesus I Never Knew”, p.296, Harper Collins

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• Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.

  C. S. Lewis

  War, Love You, Christian Love

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist, and quite good reasons for believing that they do not exist and never have. It has all been a gigantic waste of time and a waste of life. It would be a joke of cosmic proportions if it weren't so tragic.

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Religion, Atheism

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• That's a waste of time. If you really understand Zen... you can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could use Alice in Wonderland. You could use the dictionary, because... the sound of the rain needs no translation.

  Alan Watts

  Rain, Book, Sound

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• Faultfinding without suggestions for improvement is a waste of time.

  Ralph C. Smedley

  Suggestions, Waste, Faults

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• When we waste our time, our time wastes us

  Robin Sharma

  Waste, Our Time

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Mar 30, 2014

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• When the storm has passed, put your energy into rebuilding your life, don't waste time looking back.

  Leon Brown

  Life, African American, Storm

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• The child, unhampered, does not waste time.

  Caroline Pratt

  Children, Doe, Waste

  Caroline Pratt (2014). “I Learn from Children: An Adventure in Progressive Education”, p.23, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• They come out of nowhere, instantaneously materialize and just as quickly they break and vanish. Chasing after such fleeting mirages is a complete waste of time. That is what I choose to do with my life.

  Miki Dora

  Life, Time, Choices

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• Stop wasting time in playing a role or a concept. Instead, learn to ACTUALIZE YOURSELF, your potential.

  Bruce Lee

  Roles, Concepts

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.177, Tuttle Publishing

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• Our great whirling planet, our human individuality, were not given to us merely that we might exist for a time and then vanish into nothingness, but that we might question what it is all about.
  To live without understanding the purpose of life is foolish, a waste of time. The mystery of life surrounds us; we were given intelligence in order to solve it.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Order, Understanding, Individuality

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• Nothing has transformed my life more than realizing that it's a waste of time to evaluate my worthiness by weighing the reaction of the people in the stands.

  Brené Brown

  People, Waste, Realizing

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.247, Penguin

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• Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

  Regina Brett

  Attitude, Hate, Life Is Too Short

  Regina Brett (2010). “Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness”, p.12, Hachette UK

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