Top 121 Waste Of Time Quotes

Life is not a waste of time.

I think rehearsal can be important if it’s done in a way that works. Often, rehearsal can be a waste of time.

You put choice on the table, you change the whole game. Everything is about control. If an ad is interesting to you, you’ll have the conversation with the brand. If it’s not, it’s a waste of time.

Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.

It’s a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can.

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.

I really hate drama. It’s draining; it’s mentally draining. It’s a waste of time.

I would love nothing more than compromise. But I would say to you that compromise that’s not a solution is a waste of time.

I’ve used the term ‘Facebook for the enterprise,’ and everyone goes, ‘We don’t want Facebook in the enterprise,’ because it conjures up that it’s not secure, and it’s going to be a waste of time. All these things are true, which is why Facebook is not in the enterprise.

I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.

The single biggest misconception about games is that they’re an escapist waste of time.

Sometimes I wonder if I loved anybody, and yet I think of all the tears I shed and the heartache. It was all such a waste of time.

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one’s art and exaggerates one’s value.

No boyfriends please. They are just waste of time, and frankly speaking I don’t have time or energy to run after boyfriends.

I wouldn’t give Peter Dutton any of my time. It’s a waste of time speaking to someone like him because they just spread lies and propaganda. He doesn’t represent me, he doesn’t care about people, and I wouldn’t give him the time of day, to tell you the truth.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all.

When I was 14 my mum told my chemistry teacher she thought it was a waste of time girls going to university because they’d only just get married. I remember being so angry with her.

The biggest waste of time is to do well something that we need not do at all.

I don’t want to write any more screenplays, I’ll tell you that right now. It’s a waste of time. You’ve got too many people who think they have the answer to a good screenplay and they don’t. No one knows.

To pay attention to flattery or criticism is a waste of time for artists.

I can do whatever I want. They will tell me if what I am doing is stupid or a total waste of time. I may tell them that they are wrong, and we will come to an agreement.

We had a few non-fiction books at home, but my dad was of the opinion that fiction was a complete and utter waste of time because it wasn’t real – so what was the point of reading it?

I like reading books with both hands, with my heart pumping, with blood on the page. So I’m interested in people who make stuff, and I’m interested in the lives that make the text. To read a book or watch a movie any other way, to me, personally, feels like a waste of time and misapplication of energy.

After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working.

You can’t just walk away when somebody recognizes you. You have to take some time out and talk to them. It’s not a waste of time – I just love talking to people. And I don’t do this to sell records. The truth is, I do what I do because I love it.

Gary Neville said he thought it was a waste of time playing for England because he has not won anything. I kind of understand where he is coming from. But the players we have here, a lot of them have won things and have the attitude that we need to win.

Nothing is a bigger waste of time than regretting the past and worrying about the future.

I don’t get involved in politics. I think that it is a waste of time and money because very often a politician cannot do much, and if you give him money, you embarrass him, so he can’t do anything.

As a fan, when I hear that a film is going to be turned into a television show, I do go to that place immediately of, ‘Is it going to be any good? Is it going to be a waste of time? Why are they doing it?’ It’s ’12 Monkeys,’ and ’12 Monkeys’ is awesome, so I wanted to be a part of it and work on it.

It may seem like sort of a waste of time to play ‘World of Warcraft’ with your son. But you’re actually interacting with each other. You’re solving problems. They may seem like simple problems, but you’re solving them. You’re posed with challenges that you have to overcome. You’re on a quest to gain certain capabilities.

In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The other 10 percent of all atoms are helium.

Insecurity is such a waste of time.

I never rehearse. Never! I think it’s a waste of time.

I’m never sick. Why get sick? It’s a waste of time.

Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.

I don’t wake up saying, ‘Oh, I’m going to die.’ It’s a waste of time. It really is.

It seems like a gross waste of time to continue our career predicated on the idea that we’re going to divide opinion. What’s more important is just doing something that you love.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

I completely understand social media as a method of promotion and digesting information, but it just seems like a colossal waste of time to me, and there’s a million other ways I’d rather waste my time.

I soon became convinced… that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.

I want to go working with good people on something that’s good, because otherwise it’s a big waste of time. I don’t have that much time.

Film work can be anything from just really hard and stressful and you’re subjected to really weird deadlines to really draconian and weird and disconnected. You’re working in service of the thing, and that can be really amazing for everyone involved, or be kind of just a waste of time.

Madness is a waste of time. It creates nothing.

The ‘Net is a waste of time, and that’s exactly what’s right about it.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it’s a relief. If I’m walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

Don’t live in the past. There’s no point. You can’t change anything. What a waste of time.

Regret is a waste of time and energy and doesn’t do a thing for me.

Inequality is a terrible waste of time, a waste of people’s resources.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

It’s good to be a martyr for your art, but it’s just such a waste of time.

School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.

My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was… nothingness.

I went to one year of college. I only went to class twice a quarter to pass the tests. I thought it was a waste of time.

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don’t do that.

I don’t play videogames and generally think that online activism is a giant waste of time.

Some people have iconic directors in their mind, or they want to make particular styles of films they have seen before. I think this is a waste of time and energy.

People who have got to know Western educational methods always claim that the reading of the Classics was a useless waste of time and should be abolished. Such chatter is to be heard from hundreds of people and cannot be stopped. But it is a serious mistake.

Popping broad beans out of their skins can be therapeutic, but it isn’t everybody’s favourite waste of time.

Criticising the other fellow because he’s in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time.