I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.
There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
The Cancer Society here in Nova Scotia is doing nothing, and money is being wasted. I would love to get my hands on the people in Halifax.
I believe the American people spoke loud and clear to the Bush Administration in yesterday’s election that they disapprove of the current direction in the war in Iraq. As a result, the President wasted no time in dumping Secretary Rumsfeld.
When leaders know how to lead great meetings, there’s less time wasted and less frustration. We have more energy to do the work that matters, realize our full potential, and do great things.
I wasted a lot of my talent in the ’90s because the money was so big, and I was making so much money, I didn’t care to practise as much. That is my only regret.
Every language teaches you something, so learning a language is never wasted, especially if it’s different in more than just syntactic trivia.
Basically, I want to make all of humanity more efficient by exploiting the human cycles that get wasted.
If I don’t do something constructive every day, I feel like I have wasted my time, and I almost feel guilty for not doing something I could have learned from.
If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.
I wasted too much time in my twenties. I worked, but I would do theater in the evening, and during the day I would surf and do irascible things. And then, for some reason, as I got closer to my thirties, I thought, ‘Okay Joel, you’ve wasted enough time.’
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
If I don’t learn something every single day, it’s a wasted day.
I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.
I feel like fame is wasted on me.
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
A suit is just a suit: a practical garment, not a ceremonial robe; it can be worn out to dinner with friends or for a visit to an art gallery. Its beauty and craftsmanship are utterly wasted if you think of it as something magical and symbolic.
I was terribly ambitious: I was always thinking why wasn’t I in the West End. I really wasted my whole youth.
I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars – BMW’s mostly – for myself and my family.
My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
I’m not going to waste my time worrying about these Confederate statues. That’s wasted energy.
I have seen many times in 100 Crs films there is no content, in short only money is wasted.
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
Whatever one wants to say about the conduct of the Iraq War, going to war to remove Saddam Hussein in 2003 was a necessary act. It should and could have been done earlier, had not the Clinton White House, which understood the need, not wasted the opportunity through timidity and bluster.
A bad or mediocre meal is more than just an unpleasant taste, it is an unnecessary negation of one of life’s pleasures – a wasted chance to refine our palates, learn about the world, and share a rewarding experience.
There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
A lot of wasted energy in my life has been spent on sorting out problems and issues at Yorkshire cricket. Of course, I know I made mistakes along the way, but I care passionately about the club – I always have done and always will.
Time spent with cats is never wasted.
There have always been a lot of critics of competitive eating. You can be a critic of anything. It’s easy to be a critic. You can say negative things about golf, the amount of water wasted on golf courses. Or NASCAR. There are wastes in everything.
Life is wasted on the living.
I have wasted my hours.
Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.
I hate auditioning; it makes me more nervous than anything ever, and I always feel like I wasted my time and I could have been creating my own thing. With the Internet, you have so much freedom that ‘gatekeepers’ make me terrified.
People opposing dance bars claim that a lot of money is wasted in bars. I want to ask them why not target five star hotels, too, where a lot of money is spent?
I wasted years worrying about what other people thought.
I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change.
Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.
We must cut federal spending – every wasted dollar, every low priority program, and every unconstitutional overreach – every day.
The saddest thing in life is wasted talent and the choices you make will shape your life forever.
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don’t know which half.
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.’
The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal.
I wasted the 1980s. I wasted every minute at Cambridge talking to people who knew more about music than I did.
If I sit idle for one day, I feel 24 hours of my life are wasted.
I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
Life is busy. There are daily concerns and obligations that have to be met, and to take time to think about how precious and special a human life is that you only get one, and that every wasted minute is lost. You can’t get it back.
My time is much too precious to be wasted on people who merely want to talk about being a high performance person and can’t or won’t take action!
All the faith and good will in the world is wasted without direction.
I’m not sure I’d go back and do anything over in my life. I’ve definitely had my fair share of failures and moments where I wasted my time or that of other people, but if I did those moments over, I’d have missed out on so many lessons.
I used to be on the kitchen floor, crying, wasted and thinking of lyrics. That was the only way I could create – as a tortured artist. I’ve learned that you can be stable and taking care of yourself and still create beautiful work.
I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, ‘And now… My Novel!,’ which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.
It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy.
I feel like fame is wasted on me.
For ages I thought I’d wasted my career doing visual effects, I wanted to be a filmmaker. And then I’ve learnt at the end of it all that actually visual effects was probably the best training ground I could have had.
Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it’s fun to know people are watching, and to know that all of your hard work is not sort of wasted.
I never really wanted to write a book in the first place. Never intended to do such. I feel like I wasted a lot of my life, so I didn’t feel like it was worthy of a book.
If I don’t learn something every single day, it’s a wasted day.
What the event will be like, being part of the Olympics and being in London, is too much to think about. You’ve no control over those things, so in a way, it’s wasted energy to think of them.
I stagnated in prison a long time, and I have wasted most of my life.
I grew up completely overwhelmed by TV, and part of the reason why I have gone into television is as a way to justify to myself all those wasted hours of watching TV as a kid. I can now look back and say, ‘Oh, that was research.’
The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington’s readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector.
Getting wasted is only OK when you’re young enough to not know better.
Life is wasted on the living.
If you don’t know what is being said, the rest of the actor’s work is wasted.
I tell you one thing that makes me feel I haven’t wasted my life, and that is I’ve got some grandchildren. You can’t overestimate the kind of opening to the future that gives a person, I think.
