So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.

- Elijah Wood

I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted.

- Joan Didion

Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.

- Geoffrey Boycott

Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.

- Gustav Mahler

This is where I have wasted the best years of my life.

- Greta Garbo

I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.

- George Saunders

Youth is wasted on the young.

- George Bernard Shaw

Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.

- Freddy Fender

Menstruation not only carries with it the connotation of a productive system that has failed to produce; it also carries the idea of production gone awry, making products of no use, not to specification, unsalable, wasted, scrap.

- Emily Martin

I wasted most of my 20s being so frustrated I forgot to have fun. I was so concentrated on one thing - 'Must make movie.'

- Amy Heckerling

Nothing is wasted.

- E. V. Lucas

In part, slacktivism is what happens when the energy of otherwise dedicated activists is wasted on approaches that are less effective than the alternatives.

- Evgeny Morozov

Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Life is wasted on the living.

- Douglas Adams

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

- Charles Dickens

No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.

- Brendan Behan

I feel like fame is wasted on me.

- Ben Affleck

Ninety-five per cent of my time is virtually wasted.

- Antony Garrett Lisi

I wasted years worrying about what other people thought.

- Amy Waldman