Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

All that time is lost which might be better employed.

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.

One of the few things that can't be recycled is wasted time.

Lost time is never found again.

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 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.

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

It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to read might have been spared in my education, for I never read.

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

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

Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.

Time is your most important resource. You can do so much in ten minutes. Ten minutes; once gone is gone for good.

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

he who finds he has wasted a shilling may by diligence hope to fetch it up again; but no repentance or industry can ever bring back one wasted hour.

Lists today are a way of trying to get through the day, because we are losing a sense of time.

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.

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

There's enough time in the day: If you go to bed at 10 and start your day at 6, there's a lot you can do in a day!

Remember that lost time does not return.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.

You are right that I don't have a lot of spare time because I love to stay busy and keep my calendar full.

There's no good way to waste your time. Wasting time is just wasting time.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

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

If you in the morning Throw minutes away, You can't pick them up In the course of a day. You may hurry and scurry, And flurry and worry, You've lost them forever, Forever and aye.