“ Follow your desire as long as you live; do not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit. ”
- Ptahhotep- Copy
“ Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life. ”
- Jackie Robinson- Copy
“ If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul. ”
- Clifford Odets- Copy
“ War is not a word, it's an acronym for Wasting Another's Resources. ”
- Ramman Kenoun- Copy
“ When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
“ Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
“ If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed? ”
- Bruce Jenner- Copy
“ If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema. ”
- Serge Daney- Copy
“ Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time. ”
- Edgar Watson Howe- Copy
“ Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
“ Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities. ”
- Orison S. Marden- Copy
“ If we can prevent the Government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
“ Teamwork is wasting half of one's time explaining to others why they are wrong. ”
- Georges Wolinski- Copy
“ If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
“ instead of wasting hundreds of millions of pounds on compulsory ID cards as the Tory Right demand, let that money provide thousands of extra police officers on the beat in our local communities. ”
- Tony Blair- Copy
“ I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
“ Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
“ The measure of our future success and happiness will not be the quality of the cards we are dealt by unseen hands, but the poise and wisdom with which we play them. Choose to play each hand to the best of your ability without wasting the time or energy it takes to complain about either the cards or the dealer or the often unfair rules of the game… ”
- Joe Klock- Copy
“ I know when I go outside, there'll be a van or two and they'll probably follow us four out of seven days a week, trying to get something. But I'm just going across town and I know they're just wasting their day, so it doesn't bother me anymore. ”
- Brad Pitt- Copy
“ I am in love - and, my God, it's the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love, if you haven't done so already. You are wasting your life. ”
- David Herbert Lawrence- Copy
“ I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life. ”
- David Herbert Lawrence- Copy
“ I'm going to continue doing what I want to do. And if it means I want to go and make a big movie, if it has something to say, I will want to make it. I don't want to spend my life wasting my time. If it's a big movie, I want to do it. If it's a small movie, I want to do it. ”
- Jake Gyllenhaal- Copy
“ I'm not a big believer in disciplined writers. What does discipline mean? The writer who forces himself to sit down and write for seven hours every day might be wasting those seven hours if he's not in the mood and doesn't feel the juice. I don't discipline equals creativity. ”
- Bret Easton Ellis- Copy
“ Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it. ”
- Greg Anderson- Copy
“ Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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