Top 1200 Wasted Time In Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Do I rue a life wasted doing crosswords? Yes, but I do know the three-letter-word for regret.

Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.

Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.

If I could get the ear of every young man but for one word, it would be this: make the most and best of yourself. There is no tragedy like a wasted life--a life failing of its true end, and turned to a false end.

So watch me strike a match on all my wasted time. As far as I'm concerned you're just another picture to burn.

Time is the most valuable commodity we have, worth more than gold, yet wasted more than all else. Efficient use of time begins with prayer.

A product which is unceremoniously wasted to landfill at end of life surely can't be considered good design!

I wouldn't have wasted a lot of time pursuing music. I was very lucky that my first demos got accepted.

No time is wasted time

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

As a mother, I always have something better to be doing. I love work still, but I'm less tolerant of my time being wasted.

In Africa, we filled up all available time busily doing not much, and then we wasted the rest.

You have not wasted your time; you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy.

The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have wasted your life.

Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in wasted time.

We wasted a lot of creative energy in that immediate post colonial era, when there was a struggle between, you know, the Cold War between the capitalism and communism. Many writers just wasted their energy and their talent because they want to be ideologically correct and of course all they produced was propaganda.

I never quite know how to fill that anxious, semi-wasted time before a midday flight home.

Our life seems not present, so much as prospective; not for the affairs on which it is wasted, but as a hint of this vast- flowingvigor.

They say time is money, but that's not true. Time is life. And if I want the fullest life, I need to find fullest time... the busyness of your life leaving little room for the source of your life... God gives us time. And who has time for God? Which makes no sense.

The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.

The first twenty years of my life were wasted. I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other.

You must not think that I feel, in spite of it having ended in such defeat, that my "life has been wasted" here, or that I would exchange it with that of anyone I know.

What do you imagine the American people would think of me if I wasted my time going to the ball game?

I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy.

Worrying is wasted time. Use the same energy for doing something about whatever worries you.

Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.

No lifetime is a loss if you've leaned something, because that learning stays with you. There is no such thing as a wasted life, if you have learned.

There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life?

Life is wasted in the necessary preparation of finding what is the true way, and we die just as we enter it.

The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean-when boredom seems the very stuff of life.

I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been doing.

Moving. Someone said this to me a long time ago, it's bhuddist saying, I think: 'There is no wasted effort'.

Our whole life is a fooling around. You can do it because you are not aware of how you waste time, how you waste energy - how life is wasted you are not aware. It is going down the drain. Everything is going down the drain. Only when death comes to you, you may become aware, alert: What have I been doing? What have I done with life? A great opportunity has been lost. What was I doing fooling around? I was not sober. I never reflected upon what I was doing.

If you're gonna get wasted, get wasted elegantly.

I feel like I wasted my time in my twenties. When you are beginning to realise your potential you wish you'd realized it earlier.

If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm.

Facebook revamped its search feature. Now you can search for any post that has ever appeared on your page. It's helpful if you want to waste time this year remembering exactly how you wasted time last year.

And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?

If the chi is being wasted by useless activities, emotions and associations that drain us, then we don't have enough power when it comes time to perform.

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I've chosen not to be.

I never want someone to come out of one of my films and say, "Damn. I wasted an hour and a half of my life." I'm trying to avoid that.

Once I started taking drama classes, I asked myself why I had ever wasted so much time on a football team.

I suspect that a huge amount of the anxiety and suffering that we see around can be closely traced to our wanton misuse of our resources. Just look at any garbage dump and see what is wasted. In a sense, we've wasted our souls.

Hell is when we look back during that fraction of a second and know that we wasted an opportunity to dignify the miracle of life. Paradise is being able to say at that moment: “I made some mistakes, but I wasn’t a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do.

The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts.

Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.

War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of us is too foolish to live, and it is not I.

Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it.

Everytime you fall down or take the wrong path, it isn't wasted. You will surely develop and grow over time.

The scene I had just witnessed (a couple making love in the ocean) brought back a lot of memories – not of things I had done but of things I had failed to do, wasted hours and frustrated moments and opportunities forever lost because time had eaten so much of my life and I would never get it back. I envied Yeoman and felt sorry for myself at the same time, because I had seen him in a moment that made all my happiness seem dull.

I spent a lot of time in college studying theater of the absurd and Beckett and Genet, and then I spent a lot of time after that at 'Gossip Girl' auditions, thinking, 'Wow, I really wasted my money.'

It isn't necessarily easier if you know what it is you're meant to do-- but at least you don't waste time in questioning or doubting. If you're honest--well, that isn't necessarily easier, either. Though I suppose if you're honest with yourself and know what you are, at least you're less likely to feel that you've wasted your life, doing the wrong thing.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.

If we lose our money while traveling, think how frantically we search for it! In the same way, if we are unable to do japa even for a brief moment, we should grieve: 'Alas, Lord, I have lost so much time!' If there is such anguish, even the time we spend sleeping will not be wasted.

Don’t worry that you’ve wasted time. Each moment -- no matter how frozen or confused -- was a useful and necessary lesson.

Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil.