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The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!
Sep 25, 2025
If I wasted my time trying to be like everybody else when I was 10 and 11, I wouldn't be me today. So if you are gonna be the future rockstars, the future somebody, whatever you wanna be then you're wasting your time trying to be somebody else, because you'll never get to you.
My life hasn't been perfect, yet I've never wasted my time envying anyone else. If something wasn't the best it could be - I made it better.
I'm not gonna waste your time, so I wouldn't expect you to waste my time.
And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?
They have terrified my poor wife and threatened my very person!" Halt eyed the man impassivley until the outburst was finished. Worse than that," he said quietly, "they've wasted my time.
I always had the uncomfortable feeling that if I wasn't sitting in front of a computer typing, I was wasting my time - but I pushed myself to take a wider view of what was "productive." Time spent with my family and friends was never wasted.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
Regret for wasted time is more wasted time
I do not regret my youth and its beliefs. Up to now, I have wasted my time to live. Youth is the true force, but it is too rarely lucid. Sometimes it has a triumphant liking for what is now, and the pugnacious broadside of paradox may please it. But there is a degree in innovation which they who have not lived very much cannot attain. And yet who knows if the stern greatness of present events will not have educated and aged the generation which to-day forms humanity's effective frontier? Whatever our hope may be, if we did not place it in youth, where should we place it?
…It’s hard to appreciate the beauty of a world when one doubts its very validity….But I’ve long since lost all such doubts, Ono,’ he continued. ‘When I am an old man, when I look back over my life and see I have devoted it to the task of capturing the unique beauty of that world, I believe I will be well satisfied. And no man will make me believe I’ve wasted my time.
I hate auditioning; it makes me more nervous than anything ever, and I always feel like I wasted my time and I could have been creating my own thing. With the Internet, you have so much freedom that 'gatekeepers' make me terrified.
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
I'm a person that thinks time is very precious and our only commodity... It's so upsetting when I feel like something has wasted my time.
When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Only when the clock stops does time come to life
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.
What do you imagine the American people would think of me if I wasted my time going to the ball game?
You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.
If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
You may delay, but time will not.
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.
No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire today.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
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