Words matter. These are the best Too Much Time Quotes from famous people such as Walter Matthau, Elizabeth Banks, Jonathan Agnew, Ginnifer Goodwin, Brian Clough, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Perfection, to me ,means you spend much too much time trying to be perfect.
‘Thank you’ is often an admission that you needed something that wasn’t being fulfilled or you couldn’t do on your own, so you needed someone else. There is also guilt. We think, ‘Well, too much time has gone by, and it doesn’t matter,’ but it does. It always matters.
I spend too much time away from home. I love travelling, but we can be away for as much as four months during the winter.
I really am super lazy and doing long hair, especially mine, is a big pain in the butt. It’s filled with cowlicks and kinks and curls and frizz – and it was taking too much time in the morning.
That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can’t keep goal with hair like that.
I am often criticized for spending too much time off the ice, but if you were in my shoes, you’d see how necessary it is.
Don’t waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it’ll make you bugnutty.
I’m this real creative guy who was really good at design and coding stuff, but wasn’t that kind of manager. I spent too much time in self-doubt and limiting my impact because I was trying to be somebody I wasn’t.
My daily style is easy and effortless – I don’t like to take too much time getting ready.
I really admire people who concern themselves more with how they perceive the world rather than how the world perceives them. I think, as an artist, it’s very important to do that. You can limit yourself a lot if you spend too much time caring about what people think of you.
When I was young, it was television that was taking off, and so you had people worried that people were spending too much time watching television.
We spend too much time talking about each other, at each other, past each other, and not enough time talking with each other.
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
You feel good if you’ve done hard work. You sleep better. You get stuck in your head if you have too much time to think.
I see many founders waste too much time trying to work their networks and/or ultimately settle for mediocre but available candidates. You will definitely have to interview hard for cultural fit, but the best talent isn’t cheap.
Some people spend too much time with their job, not enough with their family. You’ve got to balance things out.
The people in Washington spend too much time in Washington, so they think Washington-centric thoughts.
We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we’re not working hard enough.
What I do is spend too much time thinking. Most of the time I just walk around annoyed. Would I describe myself as relatively happy, I suppose, but society gets to me. And the people that have mastered life seem to not care, and then they die, and then the grenade goes off.
I always have a very complex personal life as far as romance goes. Sometimes I have a little too much time to get into too much trouble… and drama. It’s either I’m working, or I have nothing to do but focus on my personal life. It’s a little hectic.
I don’t want to spend too much time dwelling on what I’ve already done because there is still so much to do.
A lot of time, if you spend too much time in Nashville, songwriters get caught up in charts and numbers and the music business politics.
The Moon! Mars! Asteroids! Rockets! Helium 3! Space solar power! Space tourism! We go through fads, swarm around the hero de jour, and spend far too much time trashing the other guy’s ideas in favor of our own.
I’ve spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.
I hate spending too much time idling around.
We spend too much time fretting over the way the industry produces programming, and too little worrying about the way the public consumes it.
Spend too much time alone with your own words, and your writing grows anemic, in dire need of a transfusion.
When you are making a record and if you spend too much time over it, you have to record it a tone lower or cut the tones lower because you can’t reach some of the notes, I find this. But when you go on stage, you have to put the key up and it really changes the whole thing.
I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, ‘What was it that all of them had in common?’ They had too much time on their hands. Even though they were pretty, they lacked something. A woman could be less attractive but with ambition and drive, that’s the most beautiful thing.
Before I had kids I’d go out on the road for months and months at a time, but now I don’t think I’d want to do that anymore, because I’d miss too much time at home, so it’s just a matter of monitoring how much work that I do and how much time I’m on the road.
I don’t like the camera. I get very self-conscious with it and then spend way too much time not looking self-conscious instead of being free, as I do on stage, to do my work.

Fortunately, I don’t spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process – throughout my whole life – is to try to be happy.
Really, I’ve been at the BBC too long and have spent too much time out on the road to worry about being judged as a clothes horse.
People in politics tend to spend far too much time on higher profile issues affecting few people and too little time on such basic processes that affect thousands or millions and which we know how to do much better.
Spending too much time focused on others’ strengths leaves us feeling weak. Focusing on our own strengths is what, in fact, makes us strong.
Every time I sit down to write, I need to commit to a word count goal, otherwise I waste too much time editing and re-editing my previous work, staring dreamily off into space, pretending that I’m thinking profound, poetic thoughts when really I’m just thinking, ‘Look at me being a writer! I’m so happy I’m a writer!’
If you give yourself too much time, you kind of over-obsess about the music. It’s not supposed to be like that.
You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.
My parents had job jars because my father would say, ‘Kids today have too much time, too much money and no responsibility. You’re going to have no time, no money and a lot of responsibility.’
I think a lot of people have too much time on their hands.
Some critics say I spent too much time on politics. I don’t put much stock in the critics.
I don’t spend too much time on social media, so I can protect my mind space.
I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move on.
I came off Snapchat. I was done with it… I think I spent too much time on it.
I’m an impromptu cook. It’s fun if it doesn’t take too much time!
You can’t go to college and develop into an Olympics champion. It takes too much time, too much training.
I’m not willing to spend too much time away from my kids, so I usually don’t work that much.
Do you feel bored and stuck in a rut? Is work drudgery? If so, you are spending far too much time bemoaning your fate and how the universe is not cooperating with your desires. Be present with and in your current situation.
You can look at stats as much as you want – and we do – but you can have too much of it. You can spend too much time looking at computers rather than looking at the real thing which is out there on the pitch. I still think that being a good judge of players is the most important thing.
I used to own two homes in Atlanta. But it was a lot of trouble. There are leaky roofs; you have to call people. It takes up too much time to own property everywhere. Now I stay at the St. Regis. I used to like cars a lot, too. I had 25 of them: Porsches, Ferraris.
You cannot always make such big exhibitions, because they consume too much time and energy.
We had to tell a hero’s story, and the minute you have too many characters, it will take too much time in a two-hour film. We cannot do justice to each and every character.
I want to be a member of the team that helps in any way possible for the evolution of people’s souls. Because too much encourages us to spend too much time with our lower nature, and we have a higher nature as well.
If salary is your most important consideration, make sure you don’t take too much time off beyond the allotted 12-14 weeks of maternity leave – and certainly don’t leave altogether.
I can be a bit extreme. I’ll spend too much time running round the park, doing yoga and drinking green tea. I can get a bit obsessive. I have to rein it in sometimes.
It’s hard on the road, you don’t get too much time to sit down and focus.
We spent too much time attacking Gordon Brown and Labour rather than setting out our own plans. People had decided they wanted change – the thing they were not sure about was the alternative we were offering, so going on and on about Labour missed the point.
We do spend too much time on the telephone, and you know something? We love it.
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
Fortunately, the way I play tennis, I don’t have to spend too much time analyzing or worrying about my opponents. I typically try to focus on my own game, and I know if I do that and execute, I can beat anyone.
I try not to spend too much time online but at the same time if I didn’t, I’d be isolated.

My guess is that my mom and dad are very actively involved in the affairs of the next life, and they don’t spend too much time looking back. My dad used to say he always looks forward; he never looks back.
You can love something too much, you can spend too much time with something – that’s when you’ve got to learn how to balance.
I don’t think you can spend too much time as an artist believing what other people think.
I don’t believe in writer’s block. Think about it – when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn’t it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer’s block is having too much time on your hands.
People are spending way too much time thinking about climate change, way too little thinking about AI.
I love watching TV, I probably spend too much time on my phone, but it’s probably not very good for your mental health is it? It indulges some of your worst personality traits, like staring at other people’s lives on Instagram for hours on end.
I spend too much time sitting in an office. So I need to play sports on a regular basis, that’s why I play golf and tennis.
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.’
I spend… too much time… in my own head.
Even though it’s a shortened format of the game, Twenty20 allows people with different skills to play in a team and play their specific roles. Obviously there’s not too much time to waste balls, but if you look at guys who play well in the top six, they have a fairly decent amount of good cricketing ability.
Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn’t pay very well.
I used to play videogames, but I don’t have too much time anymore. I used to have 3DO, but I could never find any games, really. I used to play it all the time. Games like ‘Road Rash.’
I don’t regret what I did in the Sixties. I was young and took myself terribly seriously. In the Seventies, I spent too much time in inner-party factional disputes.