Source: The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
“Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak. Then come back.
Don't worry. You won't have lost time. Your energy will be more direct and less wasted.”
Essay, "The Goody Two-Shoes Nature". p.140
Writing Down the Bones (1986)
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Source: Books, Spiritual Warrior, Volume I: Uncovering Spiritual Truths in Psychic Phenomena (Hari-Nama Press, 1996), Chapter 1: Dreams: A State of Reality, p. 28

Another excerpt from the Tris Speaker speech – featuring a much more familiar version of the "wasting your time" warning – as quoted in "Standing Cheer for Roberto" by Houston Chronicle sportswriter John Wilson, in The Sporting News (February 20, 1971), p. 44.
Other, <big><big>1970s</big></big>, <big>1971</big>
Context: We must all live together and work together no matter what race or nationality. If you have an opportunity to accomplish something that will make things better for someone coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth.

Source: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
“You won't know until it's over. You won't find me in time.”
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

“You won't even know you've crossed the line until it's way back in your rearview mirror.”
Source: I Hunt Killers
“I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life