Waste Time Quotes (36 quotes)

“Modern man thinks he loses something—time—when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains—except kill it.”
― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

tags: 1956, killing-time, love, modern-man, quickly, time, waste-time

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“Whatever your passion is, keep doing it. Don't waste time chasing after success or comparing yourself to others. Every flower blooms at a different pace. Excel at doing what your passion is and only focus on perfecting it. Eventually people will see what you are great at doing, and if you are truly great, success will come chasing after you.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: achievement, ambition, attitude, blooms, chase, comparing-to-others, comparison, comparison-to-others, doubt, drive, excel, excellent, faith, fear, flower, focus, great, greatness, insecurity, life, motivation, passion, passionate, skill, success, successful, time, waste-time, willpower

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“You cannot respect someone but disrespect their time.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: disrespect, late, meeting, mortal, punctual, punctuality, respect, time, waste-of-time, waste-time

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“Some people would not waste any part of today if they knew that by this time tomorrow they will be dead.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: death, immortality, life-is-short, life-is-too-short, make-each-day-count, mortality, on-the-shortness-of-life, productivity, time, waste-time

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“We would not deem life too short if we always remembered that we do not have to watch TV.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: life, life-is-short, life-is-too-short, short, television, time-wasted, tv, waste-time, watch, watching

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“Distractions can make a day feel like an hour.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: distracted, distracting, distractions, entrepreneurship, productive, productivity, social-media, television, tv, waste-time

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“Telling some people not to waste time is a waste of time.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: buddhism, discipline, mortality, productivity, stoicism, time, waste-of-time, waste-time, wasted-time, wasting-time

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“Don't waste time defending yourself to people who don't need a reason not to like you. Treat your time and energy like the commodities they are.”
― Andrena Sawyer

tags: defending-yourself, enemies, enemies-and-opposition, explaining-yourself, haters-quote, mental-health, peace-of-mind, personal-growth, self-love, waste-time

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“When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their clients, it is to save the court time.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adage, adages, advocate, advocates, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, client, clients, court, court-of-law, courts, deep, defendant, defendants, dictum, dictums, disprove, disproved, disproving, epigram, epigrams, gnome, gnomes, guilt, guilty, guilty-until-proven-innocent, humor, humour, innocence, innocent, innocent-until-proven-guilty, insightful, judge, judges, jury, law, lawyer, lawyers, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, plaintiff, plaintiffs, presumption-of-guilt, profound, prosecute, prosecutor, prosecutors, prove, proved, proven, proverb, proverbs, proving, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, role, roles, satire, satirical, save, save-time, saying, sayings, the-law, thought-provoking, thoughtful, time, waste-of-time, waste-time

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“You cannot fast-forward time, you cannot rewind it, and you cannot pause it; you can only waste or benefit from it.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

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“There is a correlation between how foolish a man is and how tolerant he is of people who waste his time.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: buddhism, foolish, life-is-short, life-is-too-short, on-the-shortness-of-life, stingy, stoicism, time, waste-time, wisdom

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“Time and money are almost always saved to be wasted.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: money, pessimism, saving, stoicism, time, time-saving, waste-money, waste-of-money, waste-of-time, waste-time

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“We would rarely waste time if it were earned.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: distracted, distracting, distractions, entrepreneurship, productive, productivity, time, waste, waste-time, wasteful

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“I cannot waste my time teaching mediocrity," to J. Henry Harper, when he quit teaching an open-to-all illustrating class at Drexel Institute... from Where Your Heart Is...The Story of Harvey Dunn, Artist. page 32.”
― Howard Pyle

tags: mediocrity, teaching, waste-time

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“It is foolish to waste time in order to save money.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: death, life, money, save-money, saving, stoicism, time, waste-of-money, waste-of-time, waste-time

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“To waste time is to waste your life.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: death, distraction, distractions, focus, life, mortality, productivity, time, waste-time, wasting-time

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“We would rarely waste time if our existence were earned.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: life, on-the-shortness-of-life, pessimism, philosophy, stoicism, time, waste, waste-time, wisdom, words-to-remember

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“We cannot really save time. We can merely avoid wasting it.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: life, pessimism, save-time, saving-time, stoicism, time, timesaver, timesaving, waste-time, wasting-time

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“Many millions of people have lost their lives while trying to save a few minutes.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: dead, death, ironic, irony, save, save-time, time, time-waster, timesaver, waste-time

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“Stealing someone’s money is not nearly as bad as wasting their time.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: immortal, immortality, money, mortal, mortality, steal, stealing, theft, time, waste-time

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“The success of social media companies largely depends on our failure not to spend too much time on their platforms.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: addictive, advertising, attention, failure, social-media, social-networking, spam, success, too-much-time, waste-time

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“A few minutes wasted regularly can amount to over a year within a decade.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: coaching, leadership, life, life-is-short, life-is-too-short, management, mortality, productivity, time, waste-time

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“Be a person of value, but don’t waste time trying to find your worth.”
― Debasish Mridha

tags: be-a-person-of-value, debasish-mridha, debasish-mridha-md, find-your-worth, inspirational-quotes, person-of-value, philosophy, quotes, waste-time

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“I wish I'd been able to introduce Maile and Ariel years ago. Even if they share nothing more than a single dance, that's worth it. If there's one thing I've learned, it's that you shouldn't waste time not being with people who bring you joy.”
― Alisha Rai, Hurts to Love You

tags: dance, joy, love, people, waste-time

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“Most of us love timesavers because they give us more time to waste.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: life-is-short, life-is-too-short, mortality, productivity, save-time, time, timesaver, timesavers, waste-of-time, waste-time

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“It is impossible to waste time prolonging your life.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: death, exercise, health, life, long-life, mortality, survival, time, waste, waste-time

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“Whether or not working for money is a waste of time depends on whether or not the money is needed, or will be wasted.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: financial-advice, financial-advisor, financial-freedom, financial-literacy, money, saving, waste-money, waste-of-money, waste-of-time, waste-time

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“Saving money, when buying an unnecessary thing, leads to wasting time, when using the thing.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: materialism, money, on-the-shortness-of-life, pessimism, save-money, saving, shopping, spirituality, stoicism, waste-time

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“Time can be bought only figuratively.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: buy-time, delegate, delegation, eternity, immortality, mortality, outsource, outsourcing, time, waste-time

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“Leave not the stars to chase after fireflies.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain

tags: finding-direction, finding-purpose, fireflies, fleeting, lasting, long-lasting, pursuits, timeless, timeless-wisdom, waste-time

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