“The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.”

“It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.”

“We think about time as something not to waste, not as something to invest.”

“Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason […] When we waste time, we waste happiness.”

“We told him to get on with it. We liked wasting time, but almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth wasting it on.”

“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.”

“Sometimes we spend so much time and energy thinking about where we want to go that we don't notice where we happen to be.”

“What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.”

“We spend a lot of time thinking about the ways that prestige and resources and belonging to elite institutions make us better off. We don’t spend enough time thinking about the ways in which those kinds of material advantages limit our options.”

“We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.”