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“Ketamine's such a waste of time drug. All you do when you're on ketamine is go: 'Oh, I'm on drugs. I don't feel good, I don't feel bad, I'm just on drugs...'”

Feels Drug Waste Feel Good Wasting Time

Author:Moby

“I think it's rather a waste of time endlessly singing the same songs every night for a year, and it's just not what I want to do.”

Thinking Want Years Night Song Waste Singing Wasting Time Every Night

Author:David Bowie

“Resistance is a result of our mind being attached to having things a certain way rather than the way they actually are. It is a mental habit of the ego that we need to become aware of in order to see the consequences. Only then can we see into our thought system and realize that nothing could be more of a waste of time than to resist and complain about what already is.”

Way Needs Mind Certain Order Realizing Results Habit Ego Waste Consequence Complaining Resistance Wasting Time Our Thoughts

Author:Lee L Jampolsky

“If a guy can't handle your natural hair, he's weak. Why waste time on someone like that?”

Ifs Guy Natural Hair Waste Weak Handle Wasting Time Natural Hair

Author:Petra Collins

“Comedy, I figured, was the thing that came to me the most easily. Playing the trumpet and piano took practice. I thought that was a waste of time. I'd go out on the street corner and be funny. In a minute.”

Practice Comedy Streets Minutes Waste Corners Piano Wasting Time Trumpets Street Corners

Author:George Carlin

“I think it's a waste of time to worry about the motives of why people are supportive of things. I think we should look at the thing itself. And if they're supportive of something that's sexist or racist, then it's a bad thing, but it's not because they're supportive of it that it's a bad thing.”

People Ifs Thinking Should Looks Worry Waste Motive Racist Bad Things Wasting Time Supportive Sexist

Author:Lawrence Weiner

“I don't like to write any music to a script. Experience has taught me that's generally a waste of time.”

Writing Taught Waste Scripts Wasting Time

Author:Cliff Martinez

“Most of us are facing big changes in our lives. But, in our more evolved moments, I think we can all agree that fear-based worries are a waste of time and only create the experiences we are trying to avoid.”

Thinking Trying Moments Bigs Worry Our Lives Waste Agree Wasting Time Big Changes

Author:Brenda Strong

“I think some of the biggest time sucks are regret and guilt, and I have to fight against those things all the time. In a way, it's a good thing, because it can motivate you to make amends and forgive, but regrets are really, I think, a supreme waste of time in many ways.”

Thinking Way Fighting Regret Waste Forgiving Guilt Good Things Supreme Wasting Time Amends

Author:Emily Giffin

“The pleasure of working with somebody who's an actor is they don't waste time with stuff that doesn't matter.”

Matter Actors Stuff Pleasure Waste Wasting Time Don't Waste Time

Author:Tom Hanks

“Remember, don't waste time comparing your life to others who seem more fortunate. Being fortunate is based on how much peace you have, not how many luxuries or conveniences you have. Practice from the heart to make peace with what is.”

Heart Seems Remember Spiritual Practice Waste Luxury Compare Fortunate Wasting Time Convenience Making Peace Don't Waste Time

Book:The how to book of teen self discovery: helping teens find balance, security & esteem

Source: The how to book of teen self discovery: helping teens find balance, security & esteem

“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

“There is no waste of time like making excuses.”

Waste Excuse Wasting Time Making Excuses

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“My daughters had helped me to stop worrying about my appearance over the years. I wasted so many years thinking I wasn't pretty enough and why didn't I have Jessica Lange's body or someone else's legs? What a waste of time.”

Thinking Years Enough Body Worry Waste Daughter Appearance Legs My Daughter Wasting Time Stop Worrying Jessica

Author:Meryl Streep

“I was on a TV show when I was 13, and I had a tutor for high school. Everyone was like "Oh, you're missing out on the high school experience," so I'd go with my cousins to parties where there would be a keg and people doing body shots and playing quarters. I was like, What a waste of time. I didn't want to be doing E [ecstasy] and making out with a guy three years older than me who's a loser.”

“I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.”

Ifs Want Important Waste Important Things Wasting Time Wasted Time Wasting Your Time Not Wasting Time

Author:Dean Kamen

“I don't waste time in flowery small talk, as people do in India.”

People Waste India Wasting Time Small Talk Don't Waste Time

Author:Indira Gandhi

“I met Indira Gandhi in her office in the government palace. The same office that had been her father's - large, cold and plain. She was sitting, small and slender, behind a bare desk. When I entered, she got up and came forward to give me her hand, then sat down again and cut the preliminaries short by fixing me with a gaze that meant: Go ahead with the first question, don't waste time, I really have no time to waste.”

Giving Firsts Hands Government Father Behinds Cutting Cold Mets Office Waste Sitting Give Me Sat Wasting Time Desks Palaces Fixing Slender Don't Waste Time No Time To Waste

Author:Oriana Fallaci

“I'm trying to be present, not thinking and worrying about the past or the future. That's such a waste of time, you know?”

Thinking Knows Trying Past Worry Waste Wasting Time Worrying About The Past

Author:Gwen Stefani

“In terms of trying to re-create an image, I think that's a waste of time. I have no interest in doing that. The decisions I made are done.”

Thinking Trying Made Done Term Interest Decision Waste Wasting Time

Author:George W. Bush

“Too many companies waste time trying to eliminate their employees' weaknesses when, in fact, they should concentrate on developing their strengths.”

Should Trying Facts Company Waste Weakness Developing Employee Wasting Time

Author:Marcus Buckingham

“Many of my students learn different techniques online and I have learnt a lot using this medium. Art is picking up in the Caribbean but it's unfortunate that we still have people looking down on it. Many persons who don't know better think that having a career in art is a waste of time. I guess the public just needs to be educated some more.”

People Thinking Knows Needs Persons Art Stills Different Careers Students Waste Art Is Technique Mediums Educated Online Wasting Time Unfortunate Caribbean Looking Down

Author:St. Lucia

“From 1940 to about 1960, I had been writing just regular comics, the way my publishers wanted me too. He didn't want me to use words of more than two syllables if I could help it. He didn't want me to waste time on worrying about good dialogue or characterization. Just give me a lot of action, lot of fight scenes.”

Ifs Way Want Giving Writing Two Helping Use Action Wanted Fighting Worry Scene Waste Give Me Dialogue If I Could Wasting Time Want Me Publishers 1960s Syllables Characterization

Author:Stan Lee

“It is really crucial that folks focus on their own representatives. If you call or write a member who does not represent you, I can tell you that contact is going to be a waste of time. You might as well just talk to yourself in your living room.”

Ifs Writing Wells Doe I Can Might Rooms Focus Members Waste Folks Contact Crucial Wasting Time Representatives Living Room

Author:Ezra G. Levin

“I used to think Twitter was a waste of time and sort of ran counter to my ability to be productive and to write and now Twitter feels like a really cool part of the creative experience.”

Thinking Feels Writing Used Ability Creative Waste Ran Productive Wasting Time Really Cool

Author:Lena Dunham

“I was sent to the regular public schools until I had to go to Belmont Hill. Because I wasn't doing anything. The public school was nothing, just a total waste of time.”

School Waste Hills Wasting Time Public School

Author:Paul Laffoley

“When you want to have entertainment, it must be a waste of time. I don't like that. I don't like improvisation being pointless.”

Want Waste Entertainment Wasting Time Pointless Improvisation

Author:Keith Johnstone

“I don't like to go in places where women talk and gossip. The atmosphere I don't like, even though you can sometimes meet nice people. For me, it's a waste of time.”

People Sometimes Nice Waste Atmosphere Gossip Wasting Time Nice People

Author:Sophia Loren

“A lack of forgiveness is a waste of time and it's very enriching to forgive and move on but those are things that come with time.”

Moving Waste Forgiving Wasting Time Enriching Forgive And Move On

Author:Kathrine Switzer

“I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.”

Trying Firsts Has Beens Huge Waste Wasting Time Freak

Author:Alan Ball

“I get anxious about a lot of things, that's the trouble. I get anxious about everything. I just can't stop thinking about things all the time. And here's the really destructive part - it's always retrospective. I waste time thinking of what I should have said or done.”

Thinking Should Said Done Trouble Waste Should Have Destructive Anxious Wasting Time Retrospective

Author:Hugh Laurie

“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”

“Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.”

Children Waste Responsible Wasting Time

Author:Wangari Maathai

“My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.”

Writing Heaven Perfect Rooms Waste Paper Sitting Gold Wasting Time Blank Perfect Days Blank Paper

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“I think rehearsal can be important if it's done in a way that works. Often, rehearsal can be a waste of time.”

Ifs Thinking Way Important Done Waste Wasting Time Rehearsal

Author:Ewan McGregor

“I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.”

Life Trying Believe Government Evil I Believe Wise Waste Wasting Time

Author:H. L. Mencken

“I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.”

Ifs Felt Natural Hair Walking Waste Desert Relief Wasting Time Worthwhile Wildlife Every Second

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.”

Men Mind Believe Made I Believe Waste Computer Conscious Tasks Currents Wasting Time Analogies

Book:The View From Nowhere

Source: The View From Nowhere

“I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.”

Should Reason Waste Stones Reason Why No Reason Wasting Time Bronze

Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.”

Hands Inspiration Jobs Waiting Waste Wasting Time Wagner

Author:Ernest Newman

“It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.”

Ifs Thinking Might Black Happened Painting Waste Red Wasting Time Time To Think

Author:Yoko Ono

“It's a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can.”

People Thinking Way Want Trying I Can Certain Honest Waste Wasting Time

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“I don't get jealous of people. Jealousy is such a waste of time because you're jealous of them, and they go about their lives and have a wonderful time, so what's the point?”

People Wonderful Waste Jealous Wasting Time Wonderful Times Get Jealous

Author:Joy Behar

“Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.”

Has Beens Book Literature Waste Interpretation Reviews Wasting Time Book Review Different Interpretations

Author:Manuel Puig

“There's always going to be somebody who takes a dislike to you and you can't waste time worrying about it.”

Worry Waste Wasting Time Dislike

Author:Paula Radcliffe

“I always felt really guilty if I spent too much time playing video games. It's a colossal waste of time. And I can't say it's a very satisfying feeling at the end of the day, if you've spent eight hours playing a video game; you just end up feeling kind of spent, and used.”

Ifs Kind I Can Ends Feelings Used Games Felt Hours Too Much Waste Eight Video Guilty The End Of The Day Satisfying Wasting Time Colossal Playing Video Games

Author:John C. Reilly

“Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.”

Ifs Needs Trying Cases Worry Waste Productions Copies Wasting Time Competitors Breakthrough Toasts Patents

Author:Eric Ries

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