“It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.”

— May Sarton

Source: Journal of a Solitude

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American poet, novelist, and memoirist 1912–1995

James Richardson (1950) American poet

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“I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

“It seems that I have spent my entire time trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.”

Alfred Jules Ayer (1910–1989) English philosopher

As quoted in The Observer (17 August 1986).

“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.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

LOVE (1972)

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.”

William Shakespeare Richard II

Source: Richard II

“Wasting time with the wrong person is just time wasted.”

Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian

Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

“Personally, then I have no reason to lash out at the education system. Quite the contrary. Yet a lifetime of experience, plus a quarter century of reading and reflection, convince me that our education system is big waste of time and money. Almost every politician vows to spend more on education. As an insider, I can't help gasping, "Why? You want to waste even more?"”

Bryan Caplan (1971) American political scientist

[The Case against Education, 1, https://books.google.com/books?id=Mws8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1]
The Case against Education (2018)

“If I live to be a hundred--and I hope I do--I won't have time to read all the books I want to read, or talk to the people I want to know. Not party talk. That's a waste of time. Real talk.”

Brian Keith (1921–1997) actor

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“I'm here to change the world, and if I am not, I am probably wasting my time.”

Utah Phillips (1935–2008) American labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller and poet

Kupfer, David, "Utah Phillips" http://progressive.org/mag/interview/utahphillips, The Progressive. September 2003. Web. August 6, 2013.

“Do I look like the kind of person who wastes time turning goats into pin cushions?”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 1

“It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.”

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