Wasting Time Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• We can create as magnificent an environment as we like, but unless we change the heart it's all a waste of time.

  John Hagee

  Change, Heart, Waste

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• Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

  David Lloyd George

  Time, Political, Politics

  On preparation for the Paris Peace Conference, November 1918.

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• The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

  Ernest Newman

  Jobs, Work, Inspiration

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• It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

  Stephen Hawking

  Life, People, Complaining

  "Return of the time lord". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2005.

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• I never waste time looking back.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Success, Waste, Looking Back

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• Life is so short. Grudges are a waste of time. Laugh when you can, apologise when you should, and trust God with what you cannot change.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Laughing, Waste, Trust In God

  Twitter post from Jun 14, 2016

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• In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the results and we get caught up in being more and more active to generate results. In the East-especially in India-I find that people are more content to just be, to just sit around under a banyan tree for half a day chatting to each other. We Westerners would probably call that wasting time. But there is value to it. Being with someone, listening without a clock and without anticipation of results, teaches us about love. The success of love is in the loving-it is not in the result of loving.

  Mother Teresa

  Time, Love Is, People

  Mother Teresa (1995). “A Simple Path-Open Market”

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• Have fun, work hard and money will come. Don't waste time - grab your chances. Have a positive outlook on life. When it's not fun, move on.

  Richard Branson

  Success, Fun, Moving

  Sir Richard Branson (2011). “Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life and Business”, p.35, Random House

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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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  Anything lost, can be found again, except for time wasted
  A vision without action is merely a dream
  Action, it's the grind, it's the hustle, it's the persistence

  Kevin Gates

  Dream, Persistence, Vision

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• A day spent wasting time, that you enjoyed, is not time wasted.

  John Lennon

  Time, Wasted Time, Enjoyed

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• Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?

  Carol S. Dweck

  Get Better, Waste, Growth Mindset

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.7, Random House

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• In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a speculative undertaking.

  Seth Klarman

  Reality, Trying, Investing

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• Any writer who has difficulty in writing is probably not onto his true subject, but wasting time with false, petty goals; as soon as you connect with your true subject you will write.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Goal, Difficulty

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• Don't worry. You don't know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin' out loud. It's a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Worry, Waste

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