Megan McCafferty Quotes

No time is wasted time

Every moment waited is a moment wasted.

One of the few things that can't be recycled is wasted time.

We think about time as something not to waste, not as something to invest.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. In the one year during which I kept that kind of record, I read twenty-five books while waiting for people. In offices, applying for jobs, waiting to see a dentist, waiting in a restaurant for friends, many such places.

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material.

We're burnin' daylight!

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.

The time you waste now you'll wish you used well at the end.

To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.

I think the great trick of doing my sort of thing is to learn to use your downtime, and of course in the media and especially in television, there's a heck of a lot of time of waiting around. And I think the trick is to use that.

time wasted is not always a waste of time.

Two hours. One hundred and twenty minutes. Anything might be done in that time. Anything. Nothing. Oh, he had had hundreds of hours, and what had he done with them? Wasted them, spilt the precious minutes as though his reservoir were inexhaustible.

…. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth.

Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune.

he who finds he has wasted a shilling may by diligence hope to fetch it up again; but no repentance or industry can ever bring back one wasted hour.

People do not realise the immense value of utilising spare minutes.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.

Time is the most valuable thing you have - and I'm not just talking about the minutes for which you're paid.

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.