Lorene Scafaria Quotes

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Here's the deal: I believe - and I attempt to live my life this way - we all have more time than we think we do. We all waste so much time.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

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.

We think about time as something not to waste, not as something to invest.

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.

You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Argh... I could be better with my time. I like to be punctual, but I could be better.

I always have said that the most valuable thing I have isn't money; it's my time.

I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

If you waste five minutes of time a day, over the course of a year that adds up to one full work day. Think of five wasted minutes as a slow-release holiday drug. Savour it.

The most precious resource we have is time.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, “the greatest prodigality'; since, as he elsewhere tells us, 'Lost time is never found again'; and 'What we call time enough always proves little enough'. Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity.

Time must be explicitly managed, like money.

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

We must improve our time; time goes with rapid foot.

There is nothing of which we are apt to be so lavish as of time, and about which we ought to be more solicitous; since without it we can do nothing in this world.

Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.

If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm.