#waste time

Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense. ↗

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#concentrating #generation #ignoring #immense #negative

More than 100 people are involved in a transplant operation... and we can't waste time and resources if there is a chance the caretakers aren't up for an awesome responsibility. ↗

— Leonard Bailey

#awesome responsibility #caretakers #chance #involved #more

Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration. ↗

— Ernest Newman

#bach #beethoven #day #down #hand

There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#cannot #conferences #congresses #criticism #extent

There's always going to be somebody who takes a dislike to you and you can't waste time worrying about it. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#always #dislike #going #somebody #takes

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#brand new #break #chip #heart #just

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. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#before #disciplined #forces #invented #me

Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it? ↗

— David Baldacci

#discover #easily #time #truth #trying

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#love #love life #made #time #up

No, no, no. Dick Cheney forbade me to waste time on his image. I would have liked to have done more. ↗

— Mary Matalin

#dick cheney #done #forbade #his #i