Quotes About Time

I haven't wasted many opportunities that fate gave me.

This is where I have wasted the best years of my life.

In Africa, we filled up all available time busily doing not much, and then we wasted the rest.

I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.

At its heart, 'Fat City' is not about boxing. It is a universal story of grim realities and toxic delusions. It is awash with awareness of chances blown, dreams stymied, precious time wasted, and all future prospects scorched to ashes by the process.

If I don't do something constructive every day, I feel like I have wasted my time, and I almost feel guilty for not doing something I could have learned from.

Project 523 was both a good and a bad thing. They held so many meetings, and there were so many competing centres, it was a real mess. Nearly every province had their own research centre, and they all asked me to share my research, which I did. But that's no way to do science. They wasted a lot of money and a lot of time.

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

Thirty was a big deal for me. It was the age where I reevaluated everything - how I approached life and how I thought about myself. When I look at my 20s, or when I look at any period in my life, I think about how much time I've wasted trying to find the right man.

Life is busy. There are daily concerns and obligations that have to be met, and to take time to think about how precious and special a human life is that you only get one, and that every wasted minute is lost. You can't get it back.

If you waste five minutes of time a day, over the course of a year that adds up to one full work day. Think of five wasted minutes as a slow-release holiday drug. Savour it.

The way I was brought up, there was a little bit of prodding to do something more practical, and I wasted a lot of time trying to be a practical person.

I'm not sure I'd go back and do anything over in my life. I've definitely had my fair share of failures and moments where I wasted my time or that of other people, but if I did those moments over, I'd have missed out on so many lessons.

Nothing except time is wasted in Italy.

I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.

I wasted too much time in my twenties. I worked, but I would do theater in the evening, and during the day I would surf and do irascible things. And then, for some reason, as I got closer to my thirties, I thought, 'Okay Joel, you've wasted enough time.'

I really wasted a lot of time in my 20s.

I wasted the 1980s. I wasted every minute at Cambridge talking to people who knew more about music than I did.

I wasted so many years in my youth.

When you talk to people who are old, some wish they had enjoyed themselves more, but not many wish they had wasted more time.

I feel like I wasted my time in my twenties. When you are beginning to realise your potential you wish you'd realized it earlier.

Every day I'm not working or writing is a wasted day to me.

If I sit idle for one day, I feel 24 hours of my life are wasted.