Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes

I hate wasting time.

It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.

When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.

If you are killing time, it's not murder. It's suicide.

What a greater crime. Than loss of time.

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.

Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.

There's no good way to waste your time. Wasting time is just wasting time.

As I get older, the idea of wasting time is becoming more and more abhorrent to me and I can't stand the idea of simply lying in bed.

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material.

Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

Life, however short, is made still shorter by waste of time.

Short-cuts lead to long delays.

When you kill a little time, you may be murdering opportunity.

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

There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary.

The time you waste now you'll wish you used well at the end.

We told him to get on with it. We liked wasting time, but almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth wasting it on.

If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes.

Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.

Two hours. One hundred and twenty minutes. Anything might be done in that time. Anything. Nothing. Oh, he had had hundreds of hours, and what had he done with them? Wasted them, spilt the precious minutes as though his reservoir were inexhaustible.

…. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth.

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