I don’t like paying too much for anything or wasting it. I think that I’m more of a balanced individual rather than a dichotomy.
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.
If you sit and feel sorry for yourself, you’re wasting your time. You should be in acting class, instead of feeling sorry for yourself. You should be working.
Be honest: if your pitch is 90 minutes and you only have 60 set aside for a business lunch or a cup of coffee, there is no way that you can give an honest representation of your company or products. You’re lying to yourself and wasting your own time as well as that of your prospect or partner.
We should stop wasting taxpayer funds on ridiculously expensive government missions to nowhere that return little value and blaze no useful trail for others to follow. Of course we should spend much more on science – and yes, use robots to do that science when it makes sense.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
I’m not a big sleeper. It just feels like wasting time. If I wake up, and it’s after 5 A.M., I stay up.
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.
Time bandits come at all hours, wanting conversations, wasting conversations, wanting meetings, wasting meetings, and all with no purpose.
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.
My first ambition was to be a show jumper. I did a bit of dressage as part of it, and the dressage trainer saw me and said, ‘Why are you wasting your time with the other stuff? You should be concentrating on this.’
If you were really a feminist, you’d support housewives. You’d see them as the heroes and women who work as just wasting their time!
I always believe a woman should have 5 non-negotiables that she should stick to when attracting a mate. If the guy does not have these five major things – then she should not give the guy a chance as she’s wasting her time. The rest is up to the magic and wiggle room the universe gives.
There are some phone calls where it’s not even worth wasting the electrons on.
With ‘World of Warcraft,’ I like the potential for wasting time.
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.
You can make more money – you can buy a new body – but you can’t buy time. If you are wasting it, make different choices. Don’t wait.
When I was eight, an uncle, great uncle, gave a violin to me, and my father took me off to have lessons. After about six weeks, the violin teacher told my father he was wasting his money, wasting his time, and wasting my time, and it’s one of my big regrets.
Anybody that pays attention to hate really is wasting their time. I don’t subscribe. I don’t buy in.
I don’t believe in wasting anybody’s time. I like to be honest. I like to be clear.
I’ve told my agent to push the idea of me as a director for hire off the table. Otherwise, we’re wasting people’s time.
Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.
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 am against wasting water.
There are things we control – but things that are not in control, no point wasting time and energy into that.
The bile makes it better. I am an information wasting machine – 100s of words a day.
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’m going to continue doing what I want to do. And if it means I want to go and make a big movie, if it has something to say, I will want to make it. I don’t want to spend my life wasting my time. If it’s a big movie, I want to do it. If it’s a small movie, I want to do it.
I’m not into fame. I’m not into making money, outside of financing my books. I’m not into status. My thing is basically about time – not wasting it.
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.
We had two cameras, so they could turn it on and shoot as much as we wanted. You don’t have to worry about wasting money on film. A lot more takes are possible.
Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.
Junk love are relationships in which you know you’re not getting the emotional nutrition that you need. You’re probably wasting emotional calories on people who aren’t giving you enough back.
If I am not enjoying my exercise regime, I am not enjoying my life, which means I am wasting it!
Home for me is London now, and my weekend will start on a Saturday morning when I’ll try to have a lie-in until 8 A.M. Anything longer than that feels like I’m wasting my day.
She could only write with him at night and she was wasting her days just sitting around. So he thought I could write with her during the day. And that was Carole King.
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.
Geneticists in the early 1900s believed that nature – in an effort to avoid wasting precious space within chromosomes – would pack as many genes into each chromosome as possible.
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.
I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.
One of the nice things about becoming a stand-up, one of the great things about becoming a stand-up, is you realise you haven’t been wasting all those years you thought you’d been wasting.
There’s some ignorant people in the world, and if I spend time trying to convince people to think like me, I’ll be wasting valuable time I could use to be growing my business, perfecting my craft as a fighter, watching film, studying, or just enjoying time with my family. Or just sleeping.
The purpose of business is to make a reasonable return by making products and services that people want and value. If you are not, you are wasting resources.
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