Quotes about wasting-time

William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels only when the clock stops does time come to life.

Lindy West -

We only get one life. Wasting someone’s time is the subtlest form of murder.

Katie Dale - Someone Else's Life

Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.

April Mae Monterrosa -

Moving on will show you a lot about who you are, what you truly want, & what you have no desire to waste your time on.

Karen Essex - Stealing Athena

Lovers of words have no place where honest work must be done.

Maddy Malhotra - Be Successful and Happy

If each psychology student could help one patient rather than formatting their thesis every semester, then millions of sufferers would benefit each year.

Seneca -

All the greatest blessings are a source of anxiety, and at no time should fortune be less trusted than when it is best; to maintain prosperity there is need of other prosperity, and in behalf of the prayers that have turned out well we must make still other prayers. For everything that comes to us from chance is unstable, and the higher it rises, the more liable it is to fall. Moreover, what is doomed to perish brings pleasure to no one; very wretched, therefore, and not merely short, must the l

Eyad Ayman Kaifi -

No more relationships ! No more wasting time !No more feelings !

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Idiot

The repugnance to what must ensue almost immediately, and the uncertainty, were dreadful, he said; but worst of all was the idea, 'What should I do if I were not to die now? What if I were to return to life again? What an eternity of days, and all mine! How I should grudge and count up every minute of it, so as to waste not a single instant!' He said that this thought weighed so upon him and became such a terrible burden upon his brain that he could not bear it, and wished they would shoot him q

Izey Victoria Odiase -

Work on Purpose - Play on Purpose -Rest on Purpose -Do not let yourself or anyone else waste your time.

Johnnie Dent Jr. -

Do not waste time attempting to make sense out of nonsense.

Carlos Wallace - The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity

There will never be a point in my life where it is acceptable to waste time.

Stewart Stafford -

The quickest way to run out of time is to think you have enough of it,

Amit Abraham -

Time is not money because it never returns.

Brian Tracy - Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.

Girolamo Cardano -

I prefer solitude to companions, since there are so few men who are trustworthy, and almost none truly learned. I do not say this because I demand scholarship in all men -- although the sum total of men's learning is small enough; but I question whether we should allow anyone to waste our time. The wasting of time is an abomination.

Elisabeth Tova Bailey - The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties…Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.

Anuj Kr. Thakur -

Do not seduce yourself to temporary person, as you may aware that people doesn't have much time to remember that feeling which you were shared.

Shaun Hick - The Army of Five Men

When the time comes for you to leave this earth, if it doesn’t become a lesser place with your absence, then you have wasted your life.

Ahmed Mostafa - Heartbreak & Other States

Don't think you're living when you just exist!

Jack London -

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Bill Watterson -

There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.

Norton Juster - The Phantom Tollbooth

But why do only unimportant things?" asked Milo, who suddenly remembered how much time he spent each day doing them."Think of all the trouble it saves," the man explained, and his face looked as if he'd be grinning an evil grin--if he could grin at all. "If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won't have the time. For there's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing, and if it we

Margaret Thatcher -

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing." ~ Margaret Thatcher

Joyce Rachelle -

Sometimes exhaustion is not a result of too much time spent on something, but of knowing that in its place, no time is spent on something else.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -

Your time and your true relevance are just like your shadow, the more you take steps into the darkness, the more they disappear!

Omar Khayyám - Quatrains - Ballades

Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don’t waste this breath, if your heart isn’t crazy, since "the rest of your life" won’t last forever.

Steve Maraboli - Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Stop wasting your time looking for the key to happiness… the door is open and unlocked… just walk through it.

Etgar Keret - The Seven Good Years

Flights are expansive moments when the phone doesn't ring and the Internet doesn't work. The maxim that flying time is wasted time liberates me from my anxieties and guilt feelings, and it strips me of all ambitions, leaving room for a different sort of existence. A happy, idiotic existence, the kind that doesn't try to make the most of time but is satisfied with merely finding the most enjoyable way to spend it.

April Mae Monterrosa -

Don't waste your time chasing things that will never be beneficial to your future.

April Mae Monterrosa -

When it comes to love and loss, acceptance is never easy. We can't make someone see all we have to give, make them love us, or make them change. All we can do is move on and stop wasting time.

Jennifer Egan - A Visit from the Goon Squad

So this is it ⎯ what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty.

J.R. Rim -

Many people make the mistake of saving money by wasting time.

James luke -

If you are wasting time , wasting money ....

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