David Fincher Quotes

Procrastination is still the thief of time.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Mostly, I just waste my time.

But why do only unimportant things?" asked Milo, who suddenly remembered how much time he spent each day doing them. "Think of all the trouble it saves," the man explained, and his face looked as if he'd be grinning an evil grin--if he could grin at all. "If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won't have the time. For there's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing, and if it weren't for that dreadful magic staff, you'd never know how much time you were wasting.

The world is full of ways and means to waste time.

I hate wasting time.

I'm a terrible procrastinator.

I am one of the great wasters of time. I have made it an art form. I can get up at 8 o'clock in the morning, be out of the house by 8:30 and back by 5 P.M., and I'll be going all day long and accomplish absolutely nothing. It's an amazing talent.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

It is easier to waste time on bureaucratic reorganization than it is to accomplish anything concrete.

I spend much too much time on the Web with e-mail and surfing and reading my key sites, and a whole day can go by, and you wonder, 'What did I do today?'

In Africa, we filled up all available time busily doing not much, and then we wasted the rest.

Procrastination comes in two types. Some of us procrastinate in order to pursue restful activities - spending time in bed, watching TV - while others delay difficult or unpleasant tasks in favor of those that are more fun.

Human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions.

I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered.

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.

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.

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

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one.

Killing time is the chief end of our society.

Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.

Television is obviously an enormous intruder. Quite often people say they have no time, but in fact they waste a lot of time on things that are not healthy.

Killing time is not an easy job.

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.