#waste of time

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#destroy #everything #goes #good #memory

You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#enthusiastic #goes #meet #might #out

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it. ↗

— William Gibson

#about #exactly #net #right #time

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#characters #countries #create #i #i can

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away. ↗

— Kim Wilde

#i #love #tears #time #turn

I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of. ↗

— Fritz Zwicky

#became #brain #consists #convinced #empty

Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time. ↗

— Thomas Nagel

#attempts #beings #believe #computers #conscious

There have been times when I've reflected on my international career and just thought: 'Well that was a massive waste of time.' Sorry for sounding sour, but my best mate, David Beckham, got butchered after the World Cup in 1998, then my brother, Phil, after Euro 2000. ↗

— Gary Neville

#beckham #been #best #brother #career

I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#educating #expected #grew #home #i

You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#blaming #cards #dealt #did #failures