Joseph Hall Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 still the thief of time.

When we waste our time, our time wastes us

Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.

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

The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it wisely or foolishly. The Bisy Backson has practically no time at all, because he's too busy wasting it by trying to save it. And by trying to save it, he ends up wasting the whole thing.

What has not wasting time impaired?

We cannot separate our lives from time. Why is it that we are so extravagant, so thoughtless, in our waste of time, especially in youth, when we cling so tenaciously to life? You cannot separate a wasted hour from the same duration of your life. If you waste your time, you must waste your life. If you improve your time, you cannot help improving your life.

Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.

Time alone is irreplaceable. Waste it not.

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.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment.

It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

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.

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.

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.