Jon Evans Quotes

When I get ready to go out, it's half hour and we're out of the door. I don't want to waste time getting ready: I want to go and have fun.

The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

Interviews are my least favorite thing to do.

America, I'm gonna shoot straight with you, I think I've wasted your time. I think this is the first time I have wasted an hour of your time. I apologize for that.

I always have an idea before we even start the movie because if you hire the wrong person, within a couple of days you're going to know that and you're going to be really panicked.

Killing time is the chief end of our society.

Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

Dad was a philosopher and had what he called his Theory of Purpose, which held that everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time.

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

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

Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.

I’d rather interview 50 people and not hire anyone than hire the wrong person.

Life is too short to waste time on things that have no lasting significance.

I firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything.

It's very possible that I could look like a kleptomaniac and a pathological liar and that's why I keep getting hired.

Never, never waste a minute on regret. It's a waste of time.

Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.

Most of the best hires that I've made in my entire life have never done that thing before.

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

I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.

What characteristics do I look for when hiring somebody? That's one of the questions I ask when interviewing. I want to know what kind of people they would hire.

The laws of custom make our [returning a visit] necessary. O how I hate this vile custom which obliges us to make slaves of ourselves! to sell the most precious property we boast, our time;--and to sacrifice it to every prattling impertinent who chooses to demand it!

If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may be found; what we are robb'd of may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can never be recovered; yet we squander it as tho' 'twere nothing worth, or we had no Use for it.

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