A Quote by E. W. Howe

Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

E. W. Howe

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Business Half Half The Time Men Talking Think Time Wasting Wasting Time

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E. W. Howe
American - Novelist
May 3, 1853 - October 3, 1937

There's some ignorant people in the world, and if I spend time trying to convince people to think like me, I'll be wasting valuable time I could use to be growing my business, perfecting my craft as a fighter, watching film, studying, or just enjoying time with my family. Or just sleeping.

Tyron Woodley

There's no good way to waste your time. Wasting time is just wasting time.

Helen Mirren

There are still many different ways to get stuck, existentially stuck. Feeling like, "This is worthless. I'm wasting my time, and I would be wasting the time of someone who tried to read this." It happens all the time.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.

Jesse Jackson

Teamwork is wasting half of one's time explaining to others why they are wrong.

Georges Wolinski

We told him to get on with it. We liked wasting time, but almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth wasting it on.

Joshua Ferris

The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it wisely or foolishly. The Bisy Backson has practically no time at all, because he's too busy wasting it by trying to save it. And by trying to save it, he ends up wasting the whole thing.

Benjamin Hoff

When I was eight, an uncle, great uncle, gave a violin to me, and my father took me off to have lessons. After about six weeks, the violin teacher told my father he was wasting his money, wasting his time, and wasting my time, and it's one of my big regrets.

Roger Moore

I spent a lot of time on Diane Arbus film, not only writing it, but running around talking through various production issues. All this crud, and then it didn't happen. There's a lot of time-wasting stuff that happens in life with movies.

Tamara Jenkins

Most men of business think "Anyhow this system will probably last my time. It has gone on a long time, and is likely to go on still.

Walter Bagehot

The hell with "love" anyway, and with every other phony, time-wasting, half-assed emotion in the world.

Richard Yates

You can always look back and see where you might have done something differently, changed this or that. If you can learn something, fine, but never second-guess yourself. It's wasted effort.... Does worrying about it, complaining about it, change it? Nope, it just wastes your time. And if you complain about it to other people, you're also wasting their time. Nothing is gained by wasting all of that time.

John Wooden

Wasting time is worse than death, because death separates you from this world whereas wasting time separates you from Allah

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

If you are a gamer, it’s time to get over any regret you might feel about spending so much time playing games. You have not been wasting your time. You have been building up a wealth of virtual experience that, as the first half of this book will show you, can teach you about your true self: what your core strengths are, what really motivates you, and what make you happiest.