Robert Rodriguez Quotes

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.

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.

Sleep is a waste of time.

If I could read while I was driving, showering, socializing or sleeping, I would do it.

We can say, 'OK, I'm going to be in the car for an hour; what can I do to improve my quality of life during that hour?'

When I was young I just regarded not sleeping as a fantastic way to pack more into my days. I always reasoned that life's so short, it seemed crazy to waste it sleeping.

Even though I need only two or three hours' sleep a night, there are never enough hours in the day.

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

It seems to me so shocking to see the precious hours of a man's life - the priceless moments that will never come back to him again - being wasted in a mere brutish sleep.

It is not shortage of time that should worry us, but the tendency for the majority of time to be spent in low-quality ways.

It's not important to be defined, it's only important to use your time well.

For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.

Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.

Every moment waited is a moment wasted.

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?

The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.

This loving person is a person who abhors waste - waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.

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.

Without time for loss you don't have time for soul.

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