Pessimism Quote by Norman Cousins

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

— Norman Cousins

School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I…

— Amber Heard

But in that moment she realized how false most smiles were and what a tremendous waste of time.

— Anna Godbersen

I'm trying to be present, not thinking and worrying about the past or the future. That's such a waste of time, you know?

— Gwen Stefani

My daughters had helped me to stop worrying about my appearance over the years. I wasted so many years thinking I wasn't pretty enough…

— Meryl Streep

Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.

— Philip Yancey

I never analyze it. Analyzing it would just be a waste of time. I just go out and do it.

— Johnny Carson

Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding.

— Moses Finley

Blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, it will not change you.

— Anonymous

It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.

— Robertson Davies

the fact is, that life is too short to be occupied by aught but the present - hope and remembrance are equally a waste…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.

— Margaret Halsey