Seneca the Younger Quotes

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

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.

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

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

I recommend to you to take care of the minutes; for hours will take care of themselves. I am very sure, that many people lose two or three hours every day, by not taking care of the minutes.

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

The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.

We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.

As he that lives longest lives but a little while, every man may be certain that he has no time to waste. The duties of life are commensurate to its duration; and every day brings its task, which, if neglected, is doubled on the morrow.

When we waste our time, our time wastes us

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

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.

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

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.

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

The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune.

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

What has not wasting time impaired?

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.

We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

I think of all my time as existing in 15-minute blocks. Most people think in terms of 30-minute chunks, but I've found that when I free up more time, I waste it.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.