Top 1200 Wasting Your Time Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name which is wise, and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal which is also very wise. No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time to trying to understand it.

In the long run, all I care about is making good music & not wasting time being in the public eye.

When a teacher tries to teach something to the entire class at the same time, chances are, one-third of the kids already know it; one-third will get it; and the remaining third won’t. So two-thirds of the children are wasting their time.

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.

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

I hate wasting time getting dressed. I like to put something on and just think, 'Yes. That's it.'

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 only reason to build a website is to change someone. If you can't tell me the change and you can't tell me the someone, then you're wasting your time.

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

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 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.

I come from - I came from Wales, and it's a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn't waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with - life's too short.

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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.

How strange! You lose a little from you and you cry. And your whole life is wasting and you're laughing

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

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.

The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else--we are the busiest people in the world.

For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.

I think it could get passed in a lame duck? Probably tough. But impossible? No, or I wouldn't be wasting my time. It's going to take some leadership, and it takes a time where leadership is more important than people's political career at times.

Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did you hear.

You have been a very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontellier setting me free! I am no longer one of Mr. Pontelliere's possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose. If he were to say, 'Here Robert, take her and be happy; she is yours,' I should laugh at you both.

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

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.

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

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

If you lead a sloppy life, if you indulge in your emotions, if you're always upset, freaked out, stressful, and not happy, you are wasting power and your power level will get very low.

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 you don't try and explore genres and have freedom of creativity, you're just wasting your position as a pop band.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

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

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.

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.

Too many times, people don't try their best. They don't have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it you've got to guard your reputation - every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That's why I don't clown around. I don't believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.

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.

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

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.

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

I stopped wasting time on what [other] people claimed a stock was worth and started looking at the numbers.

Until we have established reliability there is no sense at all in wasting time trying to make the thing go faster.

Our competition has always been anything that is wasting your time when you're bored at work. In a broad sense. We want people to come to reddit to find out what's new and interesting online, but we realize they usually do this when they should be working or perhaps when they start or when they end their day. And that's always been the goal.

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.

Yes, there will be challenges, and things will blow up in your face, but learning experiences are different from wasting your life pushing a boulder up a hill.

The win-win situation is the basis for America's entire business world. Instead of wasting our time attempting to defeat each other, let's find a way that will make both of us gain and go home satisfied. In Israel, it doesn't work because the only meaning of victory is seeing your rival's body lying trampled on the floor.

Business and the environment: Wasting resources costs the earth - and lowers your competitive edge

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Serenity and inner beauty come when we wait upon God. "Waiting" like that is not merely wasting time.

I don't think there are any secrets to writing in the - everybody has their own techniques. You must be widely read, that's one thing, because you have to resolve a tremendous amount of background information. Also, you should know what the competition is writing, just so you're not wasting your time doing the same thing. Unless you do it better, of course.

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

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.

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