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“I trained for less than three-quarters of an hour, maybe five days a week - I didn't have time to do more. But it was all about quality, not quantity - so I didn't waste time jogging, ever.”

Three Hours Quality Five Week Waste Quarters Wasting Time Quantity Jogging Quality Not Quantity

Author:Roger Bannister

“In a 22-page comic, figuring an average of four to five panels a page and a couple of full-page shots, a writer has maybe a hundred panels at most to tell a story, so every panel he wastes conveying a.) something I already know, b.) something that's a cute gag but does nothing to reveal plot or character, or c.) something I don't need to know is a demonstration of lousy craft.”

Knows Needs Doe Book Character Stories Five Four Couple Waste Pages Hundred Shots Average Crafts Comic Cute Plot Comic Book Demonstration Gags Conveying

Author:Mark Waid

“I'm definitely more talented than most of the guys I know. A lot of guys who just want to have sex will sit with the same woman and try all night. I'm able to look at a woman, have a five-minute conversation with her, and tell if it's a waste of time or not. I figure things out a lot faster.”

Ifs Knows Want Trying Looks Able Night Guy Sex Five Minutes Figures Conversation Waste Faster Wasting Time Five Minutes All Night

Author:Tyrese Gibson

“Trout fishing is like any other sport. It is waste of words to try to give anyone who has never tried it any idea of what it means to land a five-pound trout on a gossamer leader.”

Giving Trying Mean Ideas Sports Leader Five Land Waste Fishing Pounds Trout Trout Fishing

Author:Cornelia Parker

“As to the number of novels I've abandoned... I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that's a gruesome enough figure. But not necessarily a waste of effort.”

Thinking Enough Numbers Effort Novel Five Figures Waste Thrown Abandoned Waste Of Effort

Author:Mark Haddon

“Just five years ago, it was almost impossible to waste a million dollars building a Web site.”

Years Millions Five Impossible Building Waste Years Ago Dollars Five Years Site Million Dollars

Author:David Walker

“The environment is the most important, the most fundamental, civil-rights issue.... Four out of every five toxic-waste dumps in America is in a black neighborhood.”

Important America Black Issues Environment Five Four Rights Waste Fundamentals Civil Rights Neighborhood Toxic Dump Toxic Waste

Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“Planning is not just guessing, it is harmful guessing, because it is a waste of time. All the time you spend doing your five year plan you can use to worry about tomorrow.”

Years Use Worry Five Plans Tomorrow Waste Planning Five Years Wasting Time Guessing Five Year Plans

Author:David Heinemeier Hansson

“I would not waste five years of my life in order to send to the Israeli readers a simple message such as, "Let us change a policy or stop the settlements," Or, "Let us strive for peace." This is not what it is about.”

Years Order Simple Five Policy Reader Waste Messages Strive Five Years Israeli Settlement

Author:Amos Oz

“I don't think we should be putting first-time drug offenders in jail for five years. It's a waste of resources.”

Thinking Should Years Firsts Five Drug Waste Resources First Time Five Years Jail Offenders

Author:Charles Schumer

“There are five known gyres spinning around in our world's oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents created by a high pressure system of air currents. A spinning soup, so to speak, is made of what exists in the water. And in this case, the gyres are spinning with millions of tons of our discarded and forgotten about plastic waste!”

World Made Moving Speak Water Known Millions Cases Five Air Waste Ocean Pressure Forgotten Currents Our World Plastic Soup Spinning Spirals Discarded Spinning Around Ocean Currents

Author:Brandon Boyd

“At the moment, he is in shock," said Magnus. "He has believed one thing for five years, and now he has realized that all this time he has been looking at the world through a faulty mechanism - that all the things he sacrificed in the name of what he thought was good and noble have been a waste, and that he has only hurt what he he loved." "Good God," said Woolsey. "Are you quite sure you've helped him?”

World Years Has Beens Said Moments Names Hurt Five One Thing Waste Noble Five Years Shock Mechanism Good God

Book:Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Seventy-five years. That's how much time you get if you're lucky. Seventy-five years. Seventy-five winters, seventy-five springtimes, seventy-five summers, and seventy-five autumns. When you look at it like that, it's not a lot of time, is it? Don't waste them. Get your head out of the rat race and forget about the superficial things that pre-occupy your existence and get back to what's important now.”