Wasting Quotations

I felt I ought not to be wasting time, and I hurried to graduate from high school to enroll at UCSD. I also hurried to finish college, to go on to higher studies. By the time I was in my teens, I had a strong sense of mission, wanting to discover something important or solve a major problem in biology or medicine.

I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.

There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.

Indie writers who promote their book instead of writing the next book are wasting their time. The more books you've written, the more books you'll sell. That's how it works. That's how it's always worked.

We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.

I try to wear a watch all the time, because I think guys get the short end of the stick when it comes to jewelry and accessories. A watch is a very chic men's item, and you're sort of wasting it if you just look at your cell phone.

If everybody knows where everything is kept you can avoid wasting time looking for things.

Please, all you MCs out there, all you fans out there, don't think Big gonna make a record dissing 2Pac or the West Coast because it's not going down like that. I cant even see me wasting my time or my talent to disrespect another black man.

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn't mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

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.

If you can't define a winning exit strategy for the American people, where we somehow come out ahead, then we're wasting our money, and we're wasting our strategic resources.

If we sleep more than is needful for the refreshment of the body, it is wasting the time with which the Lord has entrusted us as a talent, to be used for his glory, for our own benefit, and the benefit of the saints and the unbelievers around us.

Music, even if I ended up doing something different or do end up doing something different in the long run, it's just something that is life blood. If I'm not participating in some way, I feel like I'm wasting my time.

I always believe a woman should have 5 non-negotiables that she should stick to when attracting a mate. If the guy does not have these five major things - then she should not give the guy a chance as she's wasting her time. The rest is up to the magic and wiggle room the universe gives.

I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Earth. I'm glad I made that decision. Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. Sometimes, as with film, you can hybridize, but I think it's basically the space part of my brain wanting equal footing with the time part.

We know it is impossible to go on finding, moving and wasting oil, leveling forests, paving land, dumping poisons, and multiplying our numbers. A new way of life, a new set of thoughts must be found.

I feel as if my mission is to write, to see, to observe, and I feel lazy if I'm not reaching conclusions. I feel stupid. I feel as if I'm wasting my time.

Wasting is part of her life. She wasted her life, wasted my son's life and would keep on wasting lives if she gets the opportunity.

We're spending a lot more tax dollars and we're wasting lives because we're not treating them early enough to keep them from deteriorating.

Unless and until a man does not stop wasting his energy in seeking sensual pleasures, he will not be able to achieve anything substantial.

There is a real danger that the public will not heed official advice to stop wasting water if they continue to see the water company as the biggest culprit.

There are some things that one does maybe a little better than the other, but we would not fall into that trap of wasting time working on plays that either one couldn't work or run.

We're a pretty good offensive team. We just have to quit wasting a lot of at-bats. Every day there's progress. We're making progress like the turtle, but at least we're going in the right direction.

Lose a few of these, or let them become obsolete, and you're wasting significant dollars.

Many of us in the jockeys' room are wasting to ride many pounds below our natural weight, but all the while you are doing that, you also want to ensure that you are as strong as possible so that you can give your mount every possible chance in a race.

Most of the time multitasking is an illusion. You think you are multitasking, but in reality you're actually wasting time switching from one task to another.

Maybe Exxon will go up a little bit today because they beat the earnings; but remember, the stock has dropped 7 points in the last couple of weeks. So I would say this is really not a very dynamic investment. People like it and get a little dividend. You are really wasting your time with these stocks because you invest money in them and in two years, you have the same price as you had from the time you invested. So you really, in a sense, lose money by owning these stocks.

I was going to be a part of something, but I really ain't a part of nothing. So I'm pretty much wasting my f---in' time. You try to be a professional, but f--- professionalism.

I wouldn't be wasting my time if I didn't think he had a chance. He does have a chance and that is why we are fired up.

I guess if I'm not doing something I'm wasting my time. I was blessed to be in school and to be here, and I want to take advantage of that. A lot of people don't understand that it's not a right to be in school - it's a privilege.

If we keep wasting time, if we keep running in circles ... we will keep having more poverty,

If we continue thinking about them (anti-Senate faction) we would be wasting our time. Let us finish them between now and February and forget about them. We need to focus on getting into power in the next five years.

I am in love - and, my God, it's the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love, if you haven't done so already. You are wasting your life.

I am tired of wasting my time and money on this child I could be helping children who really need it.

But for every man who drinks others are involved -- the wife who trembles in fear of the next debauch; the mother and father who see their son wasting away.

Because they want more advertisements, they are destroying what is a very important part of the society - news reporting. It is wasting important national space that should be used in a more productive manner.

I hate sitting down and getting a concept of a program with numbers in front of me ... rather than what the music tells you. If you want to do a swooping movement that's really glorious, you can't take the time to do it because you're losing points by wasting the time.

I have absolutely no interest in wasting my time with Joe Calzaghe any more,

I have absolutely no interest in wasting my time with Joe Calzaghe anymore.

I feel like you should go out and perform here. If you don't, you're wasting an opportunity to be seen by the entire league.

For women the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.

If we're wasting water here, it implies there is water to waste. Getting our own house in order is the best way to hold off those outside the region who view the lakes as a giant canteen for their convenience.

We can look back through ice-core data and see over 800,000 years, relationships between carbon dioxide and the temperature of the world. So those people who deny the importance of climate change are just wasting their time. They're also being diversionary because if we don't act the risks are enormous.

Going to these sites is a very tempting thing to do. People say they can earn anywhere from $5 to $500 a month, ... I try to gently remind them that going to these sites is wasting the firm's resources.

He's been working on an assortment of pitches to use if that opportunity is ever presented to him. I think he's wasting his time.

Unless we arrest the wasting decline of our public schools America is destined to be an also-ran in the emerging digital economy,

He'd been ill for about a year. He was a heavy drinker and smoker and he had problems with his heart. He was wasting away. By the end, it was a relief because he was in so much pain and he was so weak. He died in the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy and we were all there.

It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.

I think we have to use it real wisely because if not, we'll be just wasting a lot of money just throwing it away.

I think extending the school year is really wasting the tax payers money.

Really the last couple of times out we've really done a much better job of pitch selection with our hitting. We are hitting pitches we can hit hard instead of wasting at bats on stuff that is crappy. We've really looked very disciplined at the plate mentally and the results are you are going to hit the ball harder.

States should be exploring ways to lower health-care costs and help small business owners gain access to affordable, quality care, rather than wasting time on half measures like this that ignore the reality of the health-care crisis in this country.

I won't come back. That's all I can say to you right now ... It took me a while to get back to the player I was in Pittsburgh ... I just don't want to be wasting my time coming back.

I think I'm one of those people that if I wasn't doing something, I'd feel like I was wasting my time.

That's what I remember, being a kid, and he's got so much love right now for this game. That's how you need to be in this game. You've got to have that. And when you don't have that, you're wasting everybody's time.

Why would we pray to a God who would do such a thing, and if he doesn't exist, why are we wasting time with him?

You know what is going to happen. There won't be a shortage, we'll have our clinics, then we'll have a shortage. Then we'll start rationing the vaccine, and we'll end up wasting some of it at the end of the season.

You knew you weren't wasting your time and money.

We've been getting questions about them, mostly from people who worry we're wasting money. But in the long run, I think the new signs will be cheaper.

We have a tendency when we're faced with great tension to get some relief by writing about it in a way that's less than serious. The effect was that people were plainly suffering and maybe to release some nervous energy he exchanged some emails about how he looked on TV and how his clothes were. It made him look like he was insincere, like he couldn't deal with serious issues, and that all he was interested in was how he looked. It also made him look like he was wasting time when there was no time to waste.

We're not wasting money on polling. Instead, we're putting all our resources into message.

We're not taking the worst part, because we'd just be beating our head against a wall. But we're not going to take the best part or we're wasting our time. Let's work on something manageable that needs help.

We want to hold a quick meeting without wasting more time to discuss the issue of aggression on Palestinians, in particular,

What I don't want to become numb to is wasting those taxpayer dollars.

we will continue to see this government's policy of stealing (land) and wasting time.

We would have a session set up to do vocals and my nose would really close up and we'd have to stop and reschedule. We were wasting money. I had to go somewhere else where I could breathe.

We're trying not to complain too much, but we're in a difficult spot because we're essentially creating two plans and wasting time on one of them. But we just don't feel like we can wait until the last minute to put things in place. It's tough when you don't know what's going to happen.

We see so many people who try their first stab at landscaping and end up wasting their money on the wrong things. They say, 'I can't afford professional help,' and they try to do it themselves. Then, when they realize they've made a mistake, they've already spent their money.

We see it as a tool to convince people during dry summers that their sprinkling during the daytime hours was not beneficial to them or to the utility. They're wasting their water. They're wasting our water.

We need to see a lot more than these 'concessions' from the US if they are serious about wanting to ensure the success of the Summit. Contrary to their claims, they are not negotiating with urgency and in a spirit of compromise. Women's organizations call on the US to stop wasting time of governments and the UN.

This way, if the case is referred to the DB, the DB can meet before the Council Meeting where any decision taken can be endorsed immediately, instead of wasting time.

What this is is a sucker punch .... wasting hours and hours on the Senate floor, ... slap in the face.

We showed great pride to avoid defeat although I can't congratulate my players for drawing, ... It was only when we were losing 2-0 that some players lost their fear of wasting a pass.

We're very efficient at picking because we're not wasting much motion. Once we go through the pick path, we're basically picking everything that's needed for those six stores. In the old world we had to do six walks up and down the aisle.

You'd think that the person who left the deer and basically wasted it could be cited with wasting wild game,

Violet: Look, I've had a rough couple of days, are you really the owner? Cuz the last think I need is a waitress on a power trip wasting my time. Lil: You start Friday night.

We are wasting time again today working on a bill that has been vetoed and will never see the light of day,

We are wasting our water mostly by putting waste into it. One cubic meter of wastewater can pollute ten cubic meters of water. Discharging wastewater into oceans turns freshwater into the less useful salty stuff, and desalination is expensive.

(Cosell) was the best. When you heard that voice, you knew a big-time event was going on. Still, to this day, no one could ever emulate the things he had done. No one could ever try because they'd be wasting their time. He made it exciting to watch Monday Night Football .

The time we enjoy wasting is usually a good indicator of our real values The best things in life feel like we feel when we waste our time!

The union wanted to go on strike two months ago. The association has been on my case. They feel we've been wasting time.

I still come to the stadium early, and I keep working on things. If I get my opportunity, I will be ready, because I have not been wasting my time.

I use Facebook quite a lot to keep up with my friends, although I had to delete 'Words With Friends' from my phone because it was wasting too much of my time.

I've tried meditation and it feels like I'm wasting my time. This is meditative and relaxing but I produce something out of it.

Some workers would be wasting time in other ways anyhow. This estimate also assumes that they aren't going to be making up that time, that they aren't going to get all their work done. It's an outdated model that they're using.

People refuse to answer many questions because they feel that we are wasting their airtime. This is the reason why the police call for help while they are already at the scene.

Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.

The moment you start thinking it?s going to take a year, you?re wasting your time. I?m just going to go out and play. It?s going to be a transition, but I?m not going to walk in and say it?s going to take me a year because I?m losing a year; I?m wasting a year.

Ah, you're wasting you're time. They can't track us over rocks.

You're supposed to throw strikes in that situation instead of wasting pitches. You don't want to stand out there walking guys, creating situations.

You say: "I don't know much about your firm, but I thought I'd contact you anyway." Investor thinks: "You're a lazy idiot--why are you wasting my time?

You sit there and you're wasting gas and people get madder.

You're not wasting time teaching kids things they already know.

They told me they hated to see me sitting on the bench and wasting away. I told them I thought I could play for them and that I hoped I'd get the opportunity.

They paved a one-mile section that goes from nowhere to nowhere for speculation. How come we are wasting all this money?

It seems like he's trying to go after everybody. He's wasting too much energy on that instead of concentrating on playing.

It's federally mandated. It will not be covered. You are wasting your time calling anywhere.

It's a shame instead of offering constructive advice and assistance, a United States congressman is wasting our time with stereotypes and accusations, ... Louisiana will rebuild with or without Mr. Tancredo's help.

It's a shame. Instead of offering constructive advice and assistance, a United States congressman is wasting our time with stereotypes and accusations, ... Louisiana will rebuild with or without Mr. Tancredo's help.

It's a small field (in Buxton), and it's another reason why we encouraged more passing, because you couldn't dribble anyway it was too crowded. We tried to keep it wide, and it was one issue we had this past weekend and against Cape Henry (all losses), we were getting the ball wide and making crosses, and the inside people weren't following the play, and we were wasting crosses.