Top 40 Wasting Time Quotes

It’s tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I’m wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.

All mental hygiene is based on the core practice of doing nothing. Most of us are good at wasting time, staring at the wall while telling ourselves we should be working. We call this doing nothing, but our brains are furiously active. We think constantly, and our thinking is often rife with distress.

Women can be made to feel like that makes them seem ‘too demanding,’ but it’s better than wasting time on someone who isn’t planning any future with you.

Don’t keep your own schedule – that will eat too much of your time keeping your own schedule. And when you are tired, stop. Because if you are too tired, you become not productive, and you are wasting time.

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 I’m half as good as everybody said I am, I’m far too good to be wasting time with ordinary people. But I seem to be spending my life with ordinary people, who are the best people in the world.

It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.

I’m so an all-or-nothing person in dating, always. I’m big on not wasting time. And so, yeah, if something’s not working, it’s time to not hold people back.

I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.

‘Washio’ provides laundry and dry cleaning on demand. They pick it up, clean it, and return it within 24 hours – and often with a cookie. No more forgetting to pick up the dry-cleaning or wasting time in line.

I have no patience for wasting time.

I’m very direct, I don’t believe in wasting time, in wasting words.

I hate wasting time.

You know, you only get to live life once, so there are two things that that yields. One is that there’s no point in crying over spilt milk, but secondly you hate wasting time, energy, and whatever talent you’ve got.

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.

Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.

I want guys that are sincerely interested in coming to Clemson. I don’t need any practice recruiting, and I don’t like wasting time. I want to be transparent, and I want prospects to be transparent, and if they’re really interested in Clemson, then they’re going to come here unofficially on their own.

The reason I want to be able to teleport is that I don’t like waiting around. It’s one of my pet peeves. I also don’t like traveling, because I don’t like sitting on a plane for six hours, doing nothing, essentially wasting time. You know what would be awesome? Bam, I’m in New York.

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

Instead of wasting time on proposals which are difficult to forge consensus on, such as public nomination and party nomination, it’s better to focus the discussion on how to form the nominating committee and the nomination process.

For a long time I was cautious of working with my parents because I wanted to feel separate from them in the community. Now there’s no more wasting time.

It wasn’t just about doing films to be cool or to have people remember you for one film. I wanted to be proud of whatever work I did and if I wasn’t learning anything or not enjoying what I was doing, there was no point wasting time.

If everybody knows where everything is kept you can avoid wasting time looking for things.

I feel like I’m wasting time if I repeat myself.

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

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

For some reason, as time gets short in life, wasting time escaping through entertainment bothers me.

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

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

As I get older, the idea of wasting time is becoming more and more abhorrent to me and I can’t stand the idea of simply lying in bed.

I love the Internet, and I love wasting time on the Internet – even though it sometimes ends up being not being a waste of time.

The Small Business ‘common app’ would function much like the one that students complete to apply to multiple colleges and universities simultaneously. It would ensure that small businesses across the country can concentrate on growing and creating jobs – not wasting time, filling out mountains of repetitive paperwork.

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.

I walk fast. I have an aversion to wasting time. My sense of constant motion is one of the reasons that my eldest daughter, Amy, nicknamed me ‘the Tasmanian Devil’ when she was in her teens.

I like refried beans. That’s why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they’re just as good and we’re just wasting time. You don’t have to fry them again after all.

In Los Angeles, I feel like I’m wasting time while I’m driving, so now I listen to NPR and the ‘Serial’ podcast. I’m like, ‘Yay! I can learn something while driving.’

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

There are things we control – but things that are not in control, no point wasting time and energy into that.