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“Facebook has revealed their estimated net worth - $96 billion. That's almost as much money as businesses lose every year from their employees wasting time looking at Facebook.”

Years Loses Billions Employee Wasting Time Net Worth

Author:Jay Leno

“Don't use time and words carelessly - neither can be retrieved.”

Use Words Neglect Wasting Time Rapper Careless Spoken Word Carelessness Negligence Don't Waste Your Time

Author:LeCrae

“Nothing has transformed my life more than realizing that it's a waste of time to evaluate my worthiness by weighing the reaction of the people in the stands.”

People Realizing Waste Reactions Wasting Time Transformed Evaluate Worthiness Weighing

Book:Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“Life is too short to waste time on things that have no lasting significance.”

Life Is Waste Significance Lasting Wasting Time Too Short Life Is Too Short

Author:T. B. Joshua

“One of the recurring themes in Marcus' handbook is leadership's responsibility to work intelligently with what it is given and not waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.”

People World Choices Given Perfect Responsibility Waste Wasting Time Flawless Responsibility Of Leadership

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.”

Wells School Courses Left Heard College Waste Bored Grades Awards Wasting Time Amber Correspondence

Author:Amber Heard

“I wasn't at all focused on school, and I didn't achieve much. But I've got a sense of urgency now. I feel I can't let any more time waste away.”

Feels I Can School Achieve Waste Focused More Time Wasting Time Urgency Sense Of Urgency

Author:Robert Pattinson

“I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.”

Firsts School Felt High School Quitting Grades Wasting Time I Quit

Author:Bam Margera

“Don't waste time. If you love someone tell them because sooner or later someone else is going to.”

Ifs Love Waste Wasting Time Sooner Or Later Love Someone Don't Waste Time If You Love Someone

Author:Katrina Kaif

“The reason that I think it is a waste of time to engage in moral value judgements about people's violence, is because it doesn't advance by one iota our understanding of either the causes or the prevention of the violent behaviour.”

People Thinking Reason Values Politics Causes Understanding Moral Violence Waste Violent Judgement Wasting Time Behaviour Prevention Moral Values

Author:James Gilligan

“This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name which is wise, and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal which is also very wise. No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time to trying to understand it.”

Ifs Way Want Trying Courses Names Wise Dragons Flats Wasting Time Fascination Refusal Very Wise

Book:The Hobbit

Source: The Hobbit

“The Eeyore Educational System sees childhood as a waste of time, a luxury that society cannot afford . . . Put children in school at the earliest age possible; load them down with homework; take away their time, their creativity, their play, their power; then plug them into machines.”

Children Play Age School Education Creativity Childhood Waste Machines Educational Luxury Wasting Time Load Homework Plugs Educational System

Author:Benjamin Hoff

“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”

“To be a good trader, you need to trade with your eyes open, recognize real trends and turns, and not waste time or energy on regrets and wishful thinking.”

Thinking Needs Real Eye Turns Energy Regret Waste Trade Trends Wasting Time Wishful Thinking Traders

Book:The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management

Source: The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management

“Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.”

Life Is Hate Attitude Waste Wasting Time Too Short Sock Life Is Too Short Life It Too Short Life Too Short God Never Blinks Hating Someone

Book:Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness

Source: Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness

“If you are not enjoying yourself, you are wasting time.”

Ifs Happiness Enjoy Attraction Law Of Attraction Wasting Time

Author:Susan Jeffers

“It is idle to waste time and discuss whether it was within our power and duty to see whether we could prepare a Bill better than the Remedial Bill.”

Power Duty Waste Bills Wasting Time Idle Idleness

Author:Charles Tupper

“I usually write very few stage directions. I think a lot of that is a waste of time. The art of screenwriting is in its terseness, saying a lot with a little. I have no patience when I read a script where the writer describes this guy and what he's wearing and his glasses and his hair.”

Thinking Writing Littles Art Guy Stage Hair Waste Scripts Glasses Crafts Wasting Time This Guy Screenwriting No Patience I Have No Patience Stage Directions

Author:Scott Frank

“A person can't brood over one mistake, or waste time feeling sorry for himself, or take on any sort of persecution complex. Today I realize that once you have made a mistake, you must accept it, profit by it, and then totally dismiss it from your mind.”

Mind Persons Made Feelings Today Sports Realizing Mistake Accepting Waste Complexes Sorry Profit Wasting Time Persecution Made A Mistake Feeling Sorry One Mistake

Author:Bart Starr

“If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial.”

Ifs Important Asks Waste Priorities Wasting Time What's Important

Author:Lou Holtz

“Nothing done with the focus on God is ever a waste of time.”

Done Focus Waste Wasting Time Trust In God Commitment To God Intimacy With God God Within Us Focus On God

Author:Lysa TerKeurst

“Facebook is like jail, you sit around and waste time, you write on walls and you get poked by people you don't know”

People Knows Writing Wall Waste Jail Wasting Time

Author:Will Ferrell

“I don’t believe in courtship.It’s a waste of time. If I love the person, I’ll tell her right away. But for you, I’ll make an exception. Just love me now, and I’ll court you forever.”

Ifs Believe Persons Forever Waste Court Don't Believe Exception Wasting Time Courtship Just Love Me

Author:Ferdinand Marcos

“Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.”

People Waste Wasting Time Collecting Autographs Don't Waste Time

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“If the first ‘Hangover’ movie were this awful, there never would have been a Part Two. This is a joyless, unfunny mix of comedy and drama, a complete waste of time, with exactly one good joke in the entire movie. It comes in the first minute. After that, you can leave.”

Ifs Firsts Has Beens Two Comedy Minutes Drama Waste Jokes Awful Wasting Time Hangover

Author:Mick LaSalle

“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.”

Waste Wasting Time Great Freedom

Author:Nick Cave

“Anything lost, can be found again, except for time wasted A vision without action is merely a dream Action, it's the grind, it's the hustle, it's the persistence”

Dream Action Found Lost Vision Persistence Wasting Time Grind Hustle Kevin Wasted Time

Author:Kevin Gates

“I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.”

Littles Atheism Waste Useless Wasting Time Nothingness Useless Things

Author:Frances Farmer

“It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.”

People Ifs Persons I Can Real Shows Social Effort Waste Crosses Surface Upset Poison Wasting Time Wasted Time Real Person

Book:Journal of a Solitude

Source: Journal of a Solitude

“A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to untimely death. Yet there are those who sincerely feel that disarmament is an evil and international negotiation is an abominable waste of time.”

World Feels Humans War Evil Race Waste International Human Race War Of The Worlds Folly Wasting Time Ashes Negotiation Testimony Sincerely Disarmament Mute Untimely Death

Book:Strength to Love

Source: Strength to Love

“For me, the work begins with a rough cut of the film. I can't do much with the script. I've tried to write music to a script prior to seeing the film, but I've found it turns out to be a waste of time.”

Writing I Can Film Turns Found Cutting Seeing Waste Scripts Rough Wasting Time

Author:Cliff Martinez

“Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with it: don't dwell on the past. Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.”

Persons Important Bigs Past Spirit Drama Waste Admire Generous Wasting Time Don't Waste Time Dwell On The Past

Author:Allegra Huston

“I made 10 times as many images as the other students," he says of the early years. "I destroyed all those negatives except a few. I did it as a reminder that you can't afford to waste time: take it seriously.”

Years Made Students Waste Photography Photographer Destroyed Wasting Time Reminders

Author:Emmet Gowin

“Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.”

Can Do Genius Wasting Time Resentment Only Time Daydreaming Wasted Time

Author:Dorothy Dunnett

“Remember that setbacks are only challenges in disguise. Look at them as lessons . . . don't waste time beating yourself up. Just get back on track and focus on what you want. It's up to you , and you will do it!”

Want Looks Remember Challenges Focus Lessons Waste Track What You Want Get Back Wasting Time Disguise Up To You Setback Don't Waste Time Back On Track Beating Yourself Beating Yourself Up

Author:Jorge Cruise

“Trying to impress people who hate you is just a big waste of time.”

People Trying Bigs Hate Waste Wasting Time Impress Hate You

Author:M. Shadows

“In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest; -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.”

Men World Light Dark Fire Waste Sacred Priests Wasting Time Pillars Pilgrimage Sacredness Light Of The World

Book:The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle

“My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.”

Thinking Running Father Wasting Time Sensible

Author:Haile Gebrselassie

“For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and praying is a waste of time; to shed tears is weak and womanish, to be needy is degrading; to suffer defeat is a disgrace and hardly fitting for one who scarcely permits the greatest of kings to kiss the toes of his sacred feet; and finally, death is an unattractive prospect, and dying on a cross would be an ignominious end.”

Source: Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis

“I can hardly think of an occasion when I've got into a stand-up fight with any political opponent. I've got my views, people know what they are, they can agree or they can choose to disagree. I'm not going to waste time just rubbishing everybody else.”

People Thinking Knows I Can Political Fighting Views Waste Agree Occasions Opponents Disagree Wasting Time Political Opponents

Author:Charles Kennedy

“For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.”

Long Waste Long Time Doctors Profession Wasting Time

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“I don't like going where I've already been. Life is a myriad of territories to discover. I don't want to waste time with what I already know.”

Knows Want Life Is Waste Territory Wasting Time

Author:Jeanne Moreau

“I haven't made a movie for a while, but I've watched a lot. It's my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.”

Made Waiting Havens Waste Majors Wasting Time

Author:Bernardo Bertolucci

“I'm fortunate enough to have learned not to waste time getting frustrated with my kids, or co-workers, or friends and family for not doing everything I wish they would. If someone doesn't respond to me the way I want them to, I understand that it doesn't have anything to do with me.”

Ifs Way Want Enough Kids Wish Waste Workers Fortunate Wasting Time Frustrated Family And Friends Co Worker

Author:Chandra Wilson

“When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were, and none of them plotted a course they could have predicted, so it seemed a waste of time to plan too long-term. Since then, I've always gone on my instincts.”

Long Courses Term Gone Plans Waste Adults Instinct Long Term Wasting Time

Author:Anderson Cooper

“You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out.”

Ifs Persons Might School Young Strong Personality Waste Convince Wasting Time Enthusiastic Strong Person Strong Personality

Author:Stanley Crouch

“I want to go working with good people on something that's good, because otherwise it's a big waste of time. I don't have that much time.”

People Want Bigs Waste Good People Wasting Time

Author:Stockard Channing

“I'm so an all-or-nothing person in dating, always. I'm big on not wasting time. And so, yeah, if something's not working, it's time to not hold people back.”

People Ifs Persons Bigs Dating Yeah Working It Wasting Time Old People Not Wasting Time

Author:Ginnifer Goodwin

“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.”

Needs Humans Long Water Journey Drink Long Time Desert Wasting Time Spills

Author:Walton Goggins

“I mean, I think everybody realizes that calling people racist is a waste of time, nobody buys it anymore.”

People Thinking Mean Realizing Calling Waste Racist Wasting Time

Author:Bernard Goldberg