Quotes About Time

I'm always working. I don't really set limits. I tend to go in bursts. And in between, I'm doing my taxes, answering the phone, and all those kinds of things. I waste a lot of time. Computers take a lot of time. I love computers.

A film is a terrible thing to waste.

I like company lunches because I think going out wastes valuable time; plus, a lot of good ideas come up over lunch.

Sometimes, you have to be frustrated and do something unscalable and a waste of your time to be inspired.

The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.

Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste my time with them.

Night is the best time to visit sewers, because the businesses dispelling the most waste are closed, and the flows are calmer.

I see many founders waste too much time trying to work their networks and/or ultimately settle for mediocre but available candidates. You will definitely have to interview hard for cultural fit, but the best talent isn't cheap.

If you spend a lot of energy on things that are wastes of time, then you waste energy, get sick, and die faster.

As a person gets older, time gets more interesting. As a kid, you waste so much of it.

It's such a waste, sleep. You're just lying there.

I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?

I think I'm realising that careers for tennis players are very short. On the women's side now, players are starting to peak later on, but the average age is about 31, 32 when you finish playing, so I want to make the most of it while I'm young, fit, and healthy. I don't want to waste any time.

You reach a point at which you have to view your life through the things you've spent so much time doing. The alternative is a perilous feeling of waste.

I don't want to sound pretentious or meta or anything, but I don't write until it comes to me... People know when something is inspired and when something is not, and I don't want to waste anyone's time.

That's what people expect: They don't want to read a slight novel. People don't want to waste their time on anything less than 'great.'

Our life is our life. If we waste it, we're fools.

We already spend too few days in Congress working on meaningful legislation; we simply can't afford to waste more time on legislation that doesn't move the needle to improve the lives of everyday Americans.

There are millions of people who do want help. I'm not going to waste my time convincing people who aren't receptive.

I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and energy. And she deserves to be treated like a princess because that's how you should treat your girls. And if I can't give them that time and that devotion because of my dedication to football, then I don't feel like I should almost waste their time.

One thing I refuse to do is force it. So I've canceled many auditions because nothing has come up, and I don't want to waste anybody's time. God forbid they outright give it to me and I don't connect with it.

All of us just go to college and waste our time and to pass our exams. So just learning journalism does not mean I'm good at it or any of the journalists are, either. There is no difference; it's just class, and it's just college.

Don't waste the time you do have.

Don't waste your time with a good-for-nothing man.