A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
—Milton Berle
Any time not spent on love is wasted.
—Torquato Tasso
Ninety percent of [my salary] I spent on booze and women, and the other 10 percent I wasted.
—Tug McGraw
The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
—Nicolas Chamfort
The last thing I need right now is another reminder of how much of my life I wasted on him.
—Sarah Dessen in Along for the Ride
If I can't change something, I don't waste energy on it.
—Jennifer Castle in The Beginning of After
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
—George Bernard Shaw
I've wasted a lot of time in my life. I've thought too much about what people will say or what they're gonna think. And sometimes it's over silly things like going to the grocery store or going to the post office. But there have been times when I really stopped myself from doing something special. All because I was scared someone might look at me and decide I wasn't good enough.
—Julie Murphy in Dumplin