Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes

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 you don't plan your time, someone else will help you waste it.

If you do improvising, it can sometimes end up being a waste of time. And if you do that, it's more or less based on a writing process.

You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.

There is no excuse not to give two minutes today to intend your tomorrow.

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

Time is wealth, and the Gita says the Great Annihilator annihilates those who waste time.

Waste is unjustified, and especially the waste of time limited as that commodity is in our days of probation. One must live, not only exist; he must do, not merely be; he must grow, not just vegetate.

Go ahead with your life, your plans.... Don't waste time by stopping before the interruptions have started.

Your life is your own, to develop or to destroy. You can blame others little and yourself almost totally if that life is not a productive, worthy, full, and abundant one.

Also, I had not yet found out about time; I was still under the illusion that I had plenty of time - time for this, time for that, time for everything, time to waste.

It is hard to know when we have done enough for the Atonement to change our natures and so qualify us for eternal life. And we don't know how many days we will have to give the service necessary for that mighty change to come. But we know that we will have days enough if only we don't waste them.

The moment that you place blame somewhere, you undermine your resolve to change anything.

So if you don't like your life, change it. How would you change it? You decide. There's no action without first decision. Decision is the mother or the father of action, and action is what changes your life.

You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.

I've been going a long time now along the way I've learned some things. You have to make the good times yourself take the little times and make them into big times and save the times that are all right for the ones that aren't so good.

When I made that statement that the person discovers the secret of their success by their daily agenda, all of a sudden it hit me that if I could teach people to make today count; if I could really teach them what they need to do today to have a good day, that tomorrow would really take care of itself.

Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

Time elaborately thrown away.

Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives.

An enemy is like a man's most prized flower. It brings him joy to see it buried in the ground.

The only thing I have to say to people - try being the hero of your own world one day. Don't spend your life thinking about what somebody did or if they failed at this or if they did great at that or they got caught with a monkey, in a bathtub, having sex. You should at one point become the hero of your own world.