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Quotes About Waste

Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time.
~ Don Paterson
I don't need to waste my time with a computer just because I am a computer scientist.
~ Edsger Dijkstra
Regret is an appalling waste of time.
~ Katherine Mansfield
When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.
~ Marianne Moore
I've never really been a big fan of comedy songs, frankly. I think I enjoy the emotional payoff that the best music achieves to want to waste too much time turning good music into a joke.
~ Keith Murray
Most time is wasted, not in hours, but in minutes. A bucket with a small hole in the bottom gets just as empty as a bucket that is deliberately kicked over.
~ Paul J. Meyer
A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.
~ Honore de Balzac
What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.
~ Horace
It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaign to discredit my investigation, nor to waste time trying to prove negatives.
~ Jim Garrison
Your time is too valuable, your destiny is too great, and your future is too bright to waste a single moment. Be a now person.
~ Joel Osteen
Increasing recycling in Delaware is an idea whose time has come and, if put off, may not come again.
~ Ruth Ann Minner
In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that, if properly applied might remove the cause.
~ Samuel Johnson
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.
~ Sophia Loren
I hate wasting time or money and that happens all the time for no good reason, and then people save money by skimping on the important things.
~ Rick Baker
We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can't get across that gully.
~ Adam Duritz
To the Maker the archetype, the self-sustainer, human interaction is usually a waste of the most precious thing in his vital existance: time.
~ Anton Szandor LaVey
Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.
~ Arthur Hays Sulzberger
I can't understand what's holding up our missile program. It's the first time the government ever had trouble making the taxpayers' money go up in smoke.
~ Bob Hope
The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
~ Barbara Bush
Time is a perishable commodity.
~ David Hume
Time is wealth, and the Gita says the Great Annihilator annihilates those who waste time.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
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.
~ Keith Johnstone
This loving person is a person who abhors waste - waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.
~ Leo Buscaglia
And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.
~ Lewis Carroll