Famous Quotes & Sayings

L. Frank Baum

Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness.

Lorrie Moore

Don't make your own life your project in your own life: total waste of time.

Mary Schmich

Don't waste your time on jealousy...

Patti Smith

I didn't waste my time on things I didn't love.

Oswald Chambers

Don't waste time asking God to keep you from doing things. Don't do them.

Kenneth Clarke

I have never read it. You should not waste your time.

Mahatma Gandhi

Time is wealth, and the Gita says the Great Annihilator annihilates those who waste time.

Elmore Leonard

I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.

Henry Ford

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.

Khaled Hosseini

It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.

Norman Mailer

The greater the power of any subjective state, the more total is a Romantic's assumption that everyone understands exactly what he is about to do, therefore waste not a moment by stopping to tell them.

Terrell Owens

I'm not gonna waste your time, so I wouldn't expect you to waste my time.

Henry Ford

Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another.

Jack Welch

Managers can waste a lot of time at the outset of a crisis denying that something went wrong. Skip that step.

Jimi Hendrix

Don't waste your time thinkin' about bad things.

Ralph Nader

This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs.

Live what you love, and love what you live. Anything less is a painful and frustrating waste of your precious time.

Don't waste time on excuses. Just get it done.

Shaun Donovan

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.

John Piper

It is better to lose your life than to waste it.

John Piper

God doesn’t waste anything for those who are yielded to him.

Nick Cave

After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won't be a waste of time.

Theodore Roosevelt

The wolf is the arch type of ravin, the beast of waste and desolation.

Michelangelo

The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.

James Beard

It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.

Plautus

To waste one's breath; to pump into a sieve.

John Ray

Spend and be free, but make no waste.

James Richardson

If I do not waste time, I am wasting my time.

Johnny Carson

I never analyze it. Analyzing it would just be a waste of time. I just go out and do it.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually .

Mike Murdock

Don't waste your time, it is too short, Valuable and irreplaceable.

Norman Cousins

Pessimism is a waste of time.