Lorrie Moore Quotes

My time is far too valuable for me to spend any of it trying to improve myself.

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.

I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life.

If your activities don't match your priorities, you are wasting your life.

I tell my girlfriends - 'Imagine if all the time you put into waxing and primping, you took all of that energy and put it into something useful.'

Personally, my twenties were a complete waste of time. Professionally, I hope some good came of them.

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.

I'm not running from any particular problems, I just want to take some time and figure out in my life where I can keep doing what I'm doing but in a way that I can also honor what I want to do for myself.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.

Whenever I'm trying to decide how to spend my precious time, energy, or money, I ask myself a series of questions. 'Will this broaden or deepen my relationships?' 'Will this contribute to an atmosphere of growth in my life?' 'Is this a way to 'Be Gretchen?' and 'Will this help connect me to my past?'

This gives us more time to attend the inner need.

As you have learnt something of time, value and make a proper use of it. Once past, it knows no return; how necessary, then, that you spend it in improving your mind and fitting it for future happiness and usefulness.

So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.

If your focus in life is on being productive, when things are not happening... one has to ask oneself, 'Is this worth a grown man's time?'

Is my body a temple, or is my life a temple? I'm definitely in the latter category, and I think my life has been better since thinking that way.

We can say, 'OK, I'm going to be in the car for an hour; what can I do to improve my quality of life during that hour?'

If I was to sit there and think about anything, it would be, 'What can you look forward to, what can you put your time into, and what can help you grow up?'

My generation spends too much time in the mirror and not enough looking inside ourselves.

I think it's important how you spend your time. I try to make sure that I'm growing.

We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.

I prime my mind. I wake up every morning and say, "Look, if you don't have 10 minutes for yourself, you don't have a life." I take 10 minutes.

That man is idle who can do something better.

Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?