Creativity is the residue of time wasted.
I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.
Out of love, No regrets-- Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets-- Though the return Be never.
When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities, which again have no further end than to prolong a wretched existence; and then that all our satisfaction concerning certain subjects of investigation ends in nothing better than a passive resignation. . . when I consider all this. . . I am silent.
Wasted is when you have a hankering for ice cream.
I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.
My name is Adam. My father's name is Adam. Having the same name as your father, it's alright until your voice changes. My friends would always call up, 'Is Adam there?' My father would say, 'This is Adam. ' My friends would say, 'Adam, you were so wasted last night. '
Time goes by so fast and worry is really wasted time and energy.
I never regret my past. . . Only time I wasted was on the wrong people.
Anger is a wasted emotion.
Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life. '
They always say 'youth is wasted on the young' - there's something to that.
I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.
The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.
It’s too bad if a heart lacks fire, and is deprived of the light of a heart ablaze. The day on which you are without passionate love is the most wasted day of your life.
The aster has not wasted spring and summer because it has not blossomed. It has been all the time preparing for what is to follow, and in autumn it is the glory of the field, and only the frost lays it low. So there are many people who must live forty or fifty years, and have the crude sap of their natural dispositions changed and sweetened before the blossoming time can come; but their lives have not been wasted.
Everywhere I go, people hear Ricky Williams and the next thing they think is marijuana or wasted talent.
No time is wasted time
What amazes me is that most days feel useless. I don't seem to accomplish anything-just a few pages, most of which don't seem very good. Yet, when I put all those wasted days together, I somehow end up with a book of which I'm very proud.
Had I mentioned to someone around 1795 that I planned to write, anyone with any sense would have told me to write for two hours every day, with or without inspiration. Their advice would have enabled me to benefit from the ten years of my life I totally wasted waiting for inspiration.