Bruce Lee
Martial Artist, Actor, Director
"Stop wasting time in playing a role or a concept. Instead, learn to ACTUALIZE YOURSELF, your potential."
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Wasting Time
155 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
John Lennon
Musician, Activist
"A day spent wasting time, that you enjoyed, is not time wasted."
Michelangelo
Sculptor, Painter, Architect, Poet
"Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don’t waste time."
Dalai Lama
Spiritual Leader
"If there is no solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it. If there is a solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it."
Brian Tracy
Author, Speaker
"The sad fact is that people are poor because they have not yet decided to be rich. People are overweight and unfit because they have not yet decided to be thin and fit. People are inefficient time wasters because they haven't yet decided to be highly productive in everything they do."
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"Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness."
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"If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time."
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"Until we have established reliability there is no sense at all in wasting time trying to make the thing go faster."
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"We waste time, so you don't have to."
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"It’s a waste of time to be bummed on something, considering the amount of time that we have in this world."
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"Don't waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better."
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"What fools call "wasting time" is most often the best investment."
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"Getting lost is not a waste of time."
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"Nothing has transformed my life more than realizing that it's a waste of time to evaluate my worthiness by weighing the reaction of the people in the stands."
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"I never analyze it. Analyzing it would just be a waste of time. I just go out and do it."
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"Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage."
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"We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. - Octavio Paz The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
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"I never waste time looking back."
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"Indecision is a major time waster; 80% of decisions should be made the first time they come up"
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"I never rehearse. Never! I think it's a waste of time."
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"I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time."
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"Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material."
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"Time is wealth, and the Gita says the Great Annihilator annihilates those who waste time."
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"It must be a conviction Government. As Prime Minister I could not waste time having internal arguments."
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"When we waste our time, our time wastes us"
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