James Cash Penney Quotes

I'm useless scrabbling around at home. I get on everyone's nerves, including my own. I'm not very good at amusing myself.

I don't want to be doing a job where I'm not doing a job, just sitting around in my flat just bored.

I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage.

I was fed up with being just plain Jane.

Long-term boredom can't lead to anything good.

I don't do anything but sleep, when I'm not working. I have no life. I'm no fun. All I want to do is sleep and get ready for the next day. It's awesome.

I'm not very happy idle.

…dull, stupid, lazy, stinking people.

When I'm not thrilled, I get funny.

For me, a bad day is when I have nothing going on.

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.

Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

I'm a person that thinks time is very precious and our only commodity... It's so upsetting when I feel like something has wasted my time.

Cambridge is really understanding and helpful, so that's been good, and it's just a case of trying to get stuff done when I am there and just being efficient with managing my time.

I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.

You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.

I think we're programmed for hardship. In my experience, human beings are happiest when they're working themselves to the bone. People are more likely to feel adrift and unsatisfied when they have too much leisure time. Obstacles are good.

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.

If I can give you any advice, it's this: every hour that you spend sat on the couch doing nothing, put it to good use, because when you have kids, an hour is like a lifetime.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

I feel like I'm wasting time if I repeat myself.

In secondary school I was floating - I wasn't passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless because the competitiveness was too much to bear.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

Acting had become something I did and did well - but didn't particularly enjoy.