Top 1200 Not Wasting Time Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

For a moment this good time would never end You and me Just wasting time I was kissing you You were kissing me love From good day into a moonlight

I do love Turner Classic Movies, because I feel like I'm not wasting as much time. I'm almost educating myself if I watch that.

So sure, start with a slogan. But don't bother wasting any time on it if you're merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.

The Buddha also counseled the monks and nuns to avoid wasting any precious time by engaging in idle conversation, oversleeping, pursuing fame and recognition, chasing after desires, spending time with people of poor character, and being satisfied with only a shallow understanding of the teaching.

If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth.

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

It's not that I'm racist or anything, because I'm not, but I just don't think we should be wasting our time helping people that are going to die soon anyway.

I've told my agent to push the idea of me as a director for hire off the table. Otherwise, we're wasting people's time.

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one.

Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down.

Young man, I am afraid you are wasting your time. If there were any more planets they would have been found long before this.

I continued for too long to do things that I already knew how to do, or to write stories that I was assigned instead of fighting for stories that I couldn't get, or doing ones that I thought were important on my own. The wasting of time is the thing I worry about the most. Because time is all there is.

I was wasting my time, praying for love. For a love that never comes, from someone who does not exist.

I don't see why a book shouldn't be intellectually sound, entertaining, and fun to read. Historians who write academic history, which is unreadable, are basically wasting their time.

I'm happiest when I'm working. If I'm not working, I feel like I'm wasting my time.

There will always be people for and against you, and its pointless wasting time trying to win over some of the people who are against you. Spend time with people who are for you. Those realtionships are worth it.

All you can do in this life is follow your dreams. Otherwise you're just wasting your time.

My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.

I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life.

What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.

Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time.

Wasting time just going mindless, watching your charades. When you were younger, did it occur to you 10 years from then you'd act the same age?

You…you need to move on,” I managed. Yes, that was a sound reason. “You need to find someone else. You know I don’t—that I can’t. Well, you know. You’re wasting your time with me.” He remained firm. “It’s my time to waste.

Stop wasting time in playing a role or a concept. Instead, learn to ACTUALIZE YOURSELF, your potential.

It feels like I am wasting time. I mean, that's always the case. My life doesn't add up to anything.

The fast pace of life doesn't give you much scope for wasting your time or wallowing in the past or regrets.

You're never wasting your time as long as you learn from every single thing you do, whether you feel like those attempts are successful or not.

I like street performance because it's garbage time. The subway is garbage time: no one can say I'm wasting their time because they've already thrown that time into the subway. If they don't want to see me they can go to the other end of the platform. But on the street I do feel this disgust towards the audience: why would you waste your time looking at me? Why are you being so respectful of me? You should attack me.

When your intention is great enough you will ALWAYS find the time and energy to accomplish your desires. You can state excuses to the contrary, but holding on to your old stories is just another way of wasting precious time.

I'm here to change the world, and if I am not, I am probably wasting my time.

I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.

Mr. Sagunuma: We can never escape who we are. Instead of wasting time worrying about it, why don't you cut to he chase and love yourself?

I don't believe in wasting anybody's time. I like to be honest. I like to be clear.

If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don’t do that, you are wasting your time on this Earth.

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not.

As an actor or anybody as a human being, I feel more and more like I want to spend time doing something significant. Because what's the alternative? Spend your life wasting your time.

What I do is I keep trying to focus on what I am doing now, instead of wasting time thinking about what went wrong in the past or will happen in the future.

If you are looking at data over and over you better be taking away valuable insight every time. If you are constantly looking at data that isn't leading to strategic action stop wasting your time and look for more Actionable Analytics.

If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.

I love the Internet, and I love wasting time on the Internet - even though it sometimes ends up being not being a waste of time.

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.

I'm not a big sleeper. It just feels like wasting time. If I wake up, and it's after 5 A.M., I stay up.

Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it.

Adrian gave me a look that said I was wasting his time. "Because Jet sounds badass.

I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.

People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.

Flow is hard to achieve without effort. Flow is not 'wasting time.

They [Chinese] will need a sympathetic intercessor with other people in the world to avoid conflict and create trust, and of course, Dalai Lama would be ideal. In another ten years from now though, he won't have the time to be really effective for them. They're truly wasting their time not using him now.

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

I felt I ought not to be wasting time, and I hurried to graduate from high school to enroll at UCSD. I also hurried to finish college, to go on to higher studies. By the time I was in my teens, I had a strong sense of mission, wanting to discover something important or solve a major problem in biology or medicine.

Any time you find the government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people, then you are wasting your time going to that government expecting redress. Instead, you have to take that government to the World Court and accuse it of genocide and all of the other crimes that it is guilty of today.

Y'know, we're all wasting our time writing this hack science fiction! You wanta make real money, you gotta start a religion!

I'm not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It's just I don't believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.

If at first you don't succeed, sure, try again... but if you keep not succeeding, you should probably concentrate on something (or someone) else worthwhile & quit wasting your time.

I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.

Staying in Likud means wasting time in political squabbles rather than acting on behalf of the good of the country.

Women can be made to feel like that makes them seem 'too demanding,' but it's better than wasting time on someone who isn't planning any future with you.

Snark from nerds is a leading indicator that I'm wasting their time and when I find it, I ask questions until I understand the inefficiency so I can change it or explain it.

If you aren't working on your goals, you aren't working. You're just wasting time.