Quotes About Reflection

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.

I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted.

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 look back and wonder why I wasted my time talking about fried potatoes with the great John Lennon. But that's what was so fabulous about him - he was very down to earth.

When I went to college, I met a new group of friends and looked back on my high-school experience and realized how much time I had wasted on trying to make myself something I wasn't.

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

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.

I was terribly ambitious: I was always thinking why wasn't I in the West End. I really wasted my whole youth.

I wasted a lot of my talent in the '90s because the money was so big, and I was making so much money, I didn't care to practise as much. That is my only regret.

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

I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been doing.

What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

I waste most of the day, then finally start to write around 3 P.M., totally disgusted with myself for my wasteful nature.

I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.

I think that Vietnam, many of us who served in Vietnam thought that was very wasteful, and to what end? To what end? What were we really there for? What were we really fighting for?

The '90s were a time of building for me. Building a life that was sober, drained of harmful, wasteful excess and manufacturing in its place a family of my own.

You're never wasting your time as long as you learn from every single thing you do, whether you feel like those attempts are successful or not.

You have a deeper purpose that drives you. You have to talk to yourself about what that purpose is. If you run through like a hamster to chase fame or money, you might end up wasting your life away. You find what drives you and gives you energy.

The fast pace of life doesn't give you much scope for wasting your time or wallowing in the past or regrets.

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.

All mental hygiene is based on the core practice of doing nothing. Most of us are good at wasting time, staring at the wall while telling ourselves we should be working. We call this doing nothing, but our brains are furiously active. We think constantly, and our thinking is often rife with distress.

For some reason, as time gets short in life, wasting time escaping through entertainment bothers me.