Top 1200 Wasted Time In Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

A busy life is a wasted life.

Since my mid-20s I have put more time than I would like to admit into keeping a youthful appearance. Most of that time was spent just buying random products, hoping some of them might actually work! Sadly that method resulted in a huge amount of time and money wasted.

I like being old, even if the names I hear are more and more unfamiliar. Maybe, to paraphrase Goethe who said that, "Youth is wasted on the young," we should add that "Age can be wasted on the aged," unless one's capacity to wonder increases.

Until you have wasted time in a city, you cannot pretend to know it well.

Appreciate your body now. One day, you'll look back and regret all the time you wasted worrying about not looking perfect, because you were perfect the whole time.

Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.

Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.

Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

I thought I was so ugly for so long, and I wasted so much of my life on this dumb notion.

No time you spend writing will be wasted - even if you write something that's bad.

I've always been conscientious and hardworking. I've never wasted time.

No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire today.

If you already know the answer, Ms. Lane, don’t waste my time. You just wasted a month of it.” -Barrons

Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.

I love the idea of the big life - the life that matters, the life that makes a difference. The life where stuff happens, where people take action. The opposite of the life where the girl can't even speak to the boy she likes; the opposite of the life where the friends aren't even good friends, and lots of days are wasted away feeling bored and kind of okay, like nothing matters much.

One of the great events in my life was my first meeting with Edison. This wonderful man, who had received no scientific training, yet had accomplished so much, filled me with amazement. I felt that the time I had spent studying languages, literature and art was wasted; though later, of course, I learned this was not so.

Evelyn Waugh was in error when he said that in New York there was a neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistook for energy. There was, rather, a tensile excitement in the air which made one think - made me think for many years - that time spent asleep in New York was somehow time wasted. Whether this thought has lengthened or shortened my life I shall never know, but it has certainly colored it.

Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

Don't forget: one of the saddest things in life is wasted talent.

I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.

The neglect this implied, the suffering and wasted quality of human life were appalling.

Time is never wasted coming to an old man bar.

For me, not making the playoffs is a wasted season, a waste of time.

If you learned how to make a cloud, your time is not wasted.

No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.

You’re seventeen,” Magnus said. “You can’t have wasted a life you’ve barely lived.

It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.

Cancer taught me to stop saving things for a special occasion. Every day is special. You don't have to get cancer to start living life to the fullest. My post-cancer philosophy? No wasted time. No ugly clothes. No boring movies.

I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.

Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.

Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.

Things happen every day. You can't spend your whole life trying to guard against something happening. If you do that, in my opinion, you've wasted your life.

I never regret my past... Only time I wasted was on the wrong people.

I've wasted a lot of time pretending to be interested in people who weren't terribly interesting.

Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not only takes up time when you might be doing individual private things, but it prevents you storing up the psychic energy that can then be released to create art or whatever it is. It's terrible the way we scotch silence & solitude at every turn, quite suicidal. I can't see how to avoid it, without being very rich or very unpopular, & it does worry me, for time is slipping by , and nothing is done. It isn't as if anything was gained by this social frivolity, It isn't: it's just a waste.

I’m so sorry that I wasted your time because you really do mean a lot to me and I hope you have a very nice life because I really think you deserve it. I really do. I hope you do, too. Okay, then. Goodbye.

I'm not going to waste my time worrying about these Confederate statues. That's wasted energy.

If I sit idle for one day, I feel 24 hours of my life are wasted.

Remember that no time is ever wasted that makes two people better friends.

There ain't no time to be wasted, the world is going under... Nowadays, can't tell Fall from Spring, and Winter from Summer.

Life comes in the form of opportunities, which are easy to recognize, after they have been wasted.

If you don't invest your life in what you really care for, your life will be wasted. You will not fly - you will just drag yourself through life.

I always had the uncomfortable feeling that if I wasn't sitting in front of a computer typing, I was wasting my time - but I pushed myself to take a wider view of what was "productive." Time spent with my family and friends was never wasted.

More time is wasted in front of computers than on highways.

So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.

Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.

Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted.

Life is too short to be wasted in finding answers. Enjoy the questions.

We have to live life with a sense of urgency so not a minute is wasted.

To not to have entirely wasted one's life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.

If you are going to get wasted, then get wasted elegantly.

And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent

No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have all of tomorrow. Success depends upon using it wisely by planning and setting priorities. The fact is, time is worth more than money, and by killing time we are killing our own chances for success.

The 1990s was not just Japan's 'wasted decade,' it was also a wasted decade for the India-Japan relationship.

Time will make it worse! You're...the other half of his soul. He's never going to get over you. And no matter how much you hope that you will... you'll never get over him. You're going to wake up one day and realize what you've done, and you're going to regret the time you wasted apart from him for the rest of your life.

My father always said, 'The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.'