Quotes with wasting

  • When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Robert Townsend A good manager doesn't try to eliminate conflict; he tries to keep it from wasting the energies of his people. If you're the boss and your people fight you openly when they think that you are wrong - that's healthy.
    Robert Townsend
    American businessman
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  • Robert Doisneau Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.
    Robert Doisneau
    French photographer (1912 - 1994)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Stephen Hawking I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Arthur Rimbaud I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
    Arthur Rimbaud
    French poet (1854 - 1891)
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  • Anthea Turner If everybody knows where everything is kept you can avoid wasting time looking for things.
    Anthea Turner
    English television presenter (1960 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Serge Daney If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.
    Serge Daney
    French movie critic
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  • C. K. Williams If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, you're wasting it.
    C. K. Williams
    American poet, critic and translator (1936 - 2015)
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  • Caitlyn Marie Jenner If you're going to dedicate every second to winning the decathlon, what are you doing wasting your time in bed?
    Caitlyn Marie Jenner
    American television personality and decathlete (born Bruce Jenner)
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  • George Eliot Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Greg Anderson Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.
    Greg Anderson
    American author (1947 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bill Mollison There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not.
    Permaculture: A Designers Manual chapter 14.10
    Bill Mollison
    Australian author, teacher and biologist (1928 - 2016)
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  • John Lennon Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Oscar Wilde When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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