Reading time is precious. Don’t waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.
Popping broad beans out of their skins can be therapeutic, but it isn’t everybody’s favourite waste of time.
I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.
At least in my life, I cannot hold onto grudges. It’s a waste of energy, a waste of time.
You can’t control how you are perceived, and you are a fool if you waste any energy trying to do so. Vanity will get you nowhere.
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
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.
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.
When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filling it with purpose and productivity, it lives on forever.
I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
I used to be hung up on my figure, but it’s a waste of time. I don’t believe in diets. Have four pints one night, be healthy the next.
Liberal interventions that enable all children to shoot for their potential aren’t just moral, they are pragmatic – any society that wastes talent to poverty or oppression isn’t just evil: it is stupid.
I’m a permanently curious person. I probably waste my time being curious about things that have got nothing to do with the business sometimes. What keeps me alive, certainly, is curiosity.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
I’ve got some Jewish ancestry and I don’t like waste.
It’s good to be a martyr for your art, but it’s just such a waste of time.
What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don’t judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.
In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money… and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.
If you want to be negative about the whole thing you can say all guitar bands after the Beatles were just a waste of time because the Beatles were the best. I think it’s far better to give new records a try.
I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I’d never do that. Dave does the cooking.
The good thing about Curtis is he’s very confident and secure in himself, so he doesn’t waste his energy on any negative comments.
If you lose emotion, and you gain it back, you realise that hate and love are very important to distribute properly. So I’m not going to waste any kind of emotion on things that aren’t related to me.
There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so, just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the worst one and that’s plutonium.
I don’t want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.
I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said ‘Happy Birthday’ on it. I didn’t want to waste it so I just wrote ‘Jesus’ on it.
Shame on me if I don’t try to do more with what I have. It would be… a terrible thing to waste this opportunity to try to make a difference.
Madness is a waste of time. It creates nothing.
The American people do not want to waste billions of dollars on a wall that won’t stop illegal immigration but will make America look fearful and foolish.
The most important thing is to not waste your money.
To be a good manager, a manager tries to constantly fight to reduce waste.
Pollution is a serious one. Water pollution, air pollution, and then solid hazardous waste pollution. And then beyond that, we also have the resources issue. Not just water resources but other natural resources, the mining resources being consumed, and the destruction of our ecosystem.
I’m not gonna waste your time, so I wouldn’t expect you to waste my time.
You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out.
Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.
A weaker currency is a national tariff. After we get a weaker currency, we have to take advantage of that. Or else, we will waste it once more in inflation and in the inability to raise competitiveness.
Preparing to fight wild fires is only part of the solution, we must be more pro-active and prevent the fires before they start, or reduce their intensity by removing forest waste and fuel build up.
The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.
The things you cannot change you can’t waste your time on.
I believe in doing what I am best at. I don’t want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.
Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
My mother and father raised their eyebrows at first when I said I wanted to be an actor because I was in this industrial city. My dad had done a bit of boxing on the side, but he was a welder first and foremost. I was 17, and I said, ‘I want to be an actor.’ They worried it was a waste of time.
If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
Hardcore bands were coming out with names like Urban Waste and The Mob, you know, a lot of kind of tough names. So Beastie Boys was the stupidest name we could come up with. And unfortunately, it stuck.
Don’t waste your time away thinkin’ ’bout yesterday’s blues.
Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers’ money.
I can’t waste more time worrying unless something surfaces that should legitimately cause fear.
Some of us don’t respect water. We waste it and pour it out. But a lot of disastrous stuff involves water. Tsunamis. Hurricanes.
Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government.
My strength is in finding ways to make the government work for the people: finding waste, or money that is not being properly used… or finding opportunities that are out there and making them work for the community.
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
I was already in a band, and the teachers called my mum in and said: ‘Abbey’s so clever, it’s a total waste if she follows her dream’. But I never wanted to do a job I didn’t love, and I’d always wanted to be a model or an actress or a singer.
Any mechanism that will ensure benefits to consumer, any mechanism that will ensure that we do not waste food grains, any mechanism that helps the poorest of the poor is a welcome step.
All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.
There’s always going to be somebody who takes a dislike to you and you can’t waste time worrying about it.
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.
Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America’s toxic waste sites.
I like to keep a high pace, violent fight. I don’t like to waste time, and I don’t like to go to the judges. I feel like I’ve fought long enough where I can adapt to just about any situation.
I waste most of the day, then finally start to write around 3 P.M., totally disgusted with myself for my wasteful nature.
I have long believed there is a lot of waste in the defense budget.
Capitalists make money by exploiting labor and by externalizing the costs of the wastes produced by the productive process by imposing the wastes on the environment.
