A Quote by Jeff Vandermeer
You can either waste time worrying about a death that might not come or concentrate on what’s left to you.
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I don't waste my time doing my head in about stupid things that don't really matter and don't waste time worrying over nothing.
Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying about what I look like, because it's out of my shaky hands. I don't control it. So why would I waste one second of my life worrying about it?
All things happen in their proper time. Everything in life happens in the time allocated for it. Don't waste energy worrying about end results. Worrying only distracts you from living day to day and enjoying life!
If there is no solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it. If there is a solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it.
Worrying about where to begin puts you in a fair way to waste your life worrying, without getting noticeably closer to beginning.
There's no point thinking about dying, because it's going to happen anyway, isn't it? I don't waste my time worrying about that.
If we destroy the biosphere, then mankind will die. We all waste our time worrying about stupid wars and petty jealousy and greed, and all the time, we're sitting on a time bomb.
There's always going to be somebody who takes a dislike to you and you can't waste time worrying about it.
I'm not going to waste my time worrying about these Confederate statues. That's wasted energy.
Nothing is a bigger waste of time than regretting the past and worrying about the future.
I'm trying to be present, not thinking and worrying about the past or the future. That's such a waste of time, you know?
There are so many variables that go into a fight, you shouldn't waste your time worrying about the other fighters.
As a cancer survivor, I am very aware of how many wasted minutes I don't have. The surest way to waste what is left of your life is to worry about what might happen or what might have been.
Worrying about inflation now is like worrying about the measles when you might get the plague.
I saw one of the absolute truths of this world: each person is worrying about himself; no one is worrying about you. He or she is worrying about whether you like him, not whether he likes you. He is worrying about whether he looks prepossessing, not whether you are dressed correctly. He is worrying about whether he appears poised, not whether you are. He is worrying about whether you think well of him, not whether he thinks well of you. The way to be yourself ... is to forget yourself.
Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%.
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