Quotes About Time-wasting

There is much reading material that is available which is either time-wasting or corrupting. The best yardstick to use in discerning the worth of true knowledge and learning is to go first and foremost to the words of the Lord's prophets.

A fair proportion of each teacher's day is frittered away on pointless paperwork and bureaucracy...In my long experience ,meetings rarely achieve anything useful;they consist of of hours of endless,tortuous waffle and no decisions about anything.

The energy-draining, time-wasting, silo-creating effect of this justification seeking is one of the most debilitating of organizational problems.

Bond loathed and despised tea, that flat, soft, time-wasting opium of the masses

When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask if I'm leaving.

A los hombres que me apartan de mis vicios sólo para hacerme perder el tiempo, mi compañía no les resulta agradable.

I'm a serial scroller, and whenever I have a minute to spare, you'll find me on my phone scrolling through Instagram.

What Facebook wants to create an association with is every time you're bored, every time you have a few minutes. We know that, psychologically speaking, boredom is painful. Whenever you're feeling bored, whenever you have a few extra minutes, this is a salve for that itch.

Academe was one of the last strongholds of the professional time-waster.

Dangerous, free time on your hands. You can only jerk off so often.

To kill time, a committee meeting is the perfect weapon.

Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. —DAVE BARRY, Pulitzer Prize–winning American humorist

Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. —DAVE BARRY, Pulitzer

Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.

One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.

People commonly use the word 'procrastination' to describe what they do on the Internet. It seems to me too mild to describe what's happening as merely not-doing-work. We don't call it procrastination when someone gets drunk instead of working.

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be: "meetings." —DAVE BARRY

Self-obsession, that treacherous time waster.

Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos... two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.

Fred, Robert Arctor, ne aveva già fatte sei di riunioni come quella, così da sapere bene che cosa dire e anche che cosa ci fosse in serbo per lui: tipi assortiti e varie gradazioni di domande da stronzi e un'ottusa stupidità collettiva. In aggiunta, un inutile spreco del suo tempo, più una bella dose di rabbia e un senso ogni volta più grande di futilità.

We see our need for forgiveness daily. We continually sin. We treat money as our idol. We let cell phones waste our time. We fail to protect children. We brag about material things. We undervalue life of all ages. We drive in rage. We shift our focus from God's good deposits to our shallow pleasures.

I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late.

I believe the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time. This is why the devil tries so hard to get Christians to be religious. If he can sink a man's mind into habit, he will prevent his heart from engaging God. I was into habit.