Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

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.

People try to warn you about certain things, but sometimes you have to experience those things yourself.

Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

I wasn't at all focused on school, and I didn't achieve much. But I've got a sense of urgency now. I feel I can't let any more time waste away.

If fooles should not foole it, they shall lose their season.

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.

To learn and to love, that is what we are here for, any activity which is not grounded in one of these two is a waste of time.

I never waste time looking back.

Don't make your own life your project in your own life: total waste of time.

The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.

time wasted is not always a waste of time.

Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly of misspending time.

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.

We cannot separate our lives from time. Why is it that we are so extravagant, so thoughtless, in our waste of time, especially in youth, when we cling so tenaciously to life? You cannot separate a wasted hour from the same duration of your life. If you waste your time, you must waste your life. If you improve your time, you cannot help improving your life.

Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others.

The 16 years have gone so fast. I came to Minnesota as a 19-year-old kid. Marv Grissom was the pitching coach, an old-timer who taught me quite a bit. Marv didn't like the way I stepped toward the plate. I had a tendency to throw across my body. So, he took me off to the side at Met Stadium and put a chair on the mound. If I threw across my body, I would step on the chair. Marv was trying to hurt me. I fooled him. I started stepping the right way.

Without proper self-evaluation, failure is inevitable.

My Father always told me that a fool at 40 is a fool for life.

He who attempts to do all will waste his life in doing little.

Brick walls are there for reason. And once you get over them-- even if someone has practically had to throw you over-- it can be helpful to others to tell them how you did it.

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.

Don't waste your life believing you can't.

Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.

I thought I knew everything about love and relationships in my 20s, the ignorance of youth is bliss. As you get older, you start to realise that you don't really know anything and life is a great traveling journey. Life is unexpected...you just never know whats going to happen.