{"quotes":[{"text":"Not even a book on prosperity can prosper you, when what is expected of you is given, your time won't be wasted.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["blessing","blessings","book","desire","expected","favour","fruits","gift","give","heart-desire","heart-desires","lack","precious","prosperity","prosperous","time","tithe","tithing","trust","waste","waste-of-time"],"id":30398,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Spreading rumours is our national past time.","author":"Monica Ali","tags":["gossip","past-time","waste-of-time"],"id":37473,"author_id":"Monica+Ali"},{"text":"When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their clients, it is to save the court time.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","advocate","advocates","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","client","clients","court","court-of-law","courts","deep","defendant","defendants","dictum","dictums","disprove","disproved","disproving","epigram","epigrams","gnome","gnomes","guilt","guilty","guilty-until-proven-innocent","humor","humour","innocence","innocent","innocent-until-proven-guilty","insightful","judge","judges","jury","law","lawyer","lawyers","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","plaintiff","plaintiffs","presumption-of-guilt","profound","prosecute","prosecutor","prosecutors","prove","proved","proven","proverb","proverbs","proving","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","role","roles","satire","satirical","save","save-time","saying","sayings","the-law","thought-provoking","thoughtful","time","waste-of-time","waste-time"],"id":77808,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"You can’t live your life for someone else, and you can’t let someone else tell you how to live your life. People spend so much time judging the shit out of each other—it’s a waste of energy.","author":"Dannika Dark","tags":["energy","judge","judgement","judging","life","live","live-your-life","seven-series","waste-of-time"],"id":93328,"author_id":"Dannika+Dark"},{"text":"Only worry about what you absolutely know about,' Mr. Worthington said to me, putting my mind back where it belonged. 'That's the key. Worrying about anything else is just a waste of time and emotion. I know that seems obvious but honestly, the more information you have, the less your imagination can run away with you so the secret is to find out as much as you can about what your particular problem is....And you'll be amazed at how this simplifies things. You no longer have to worry about the what ifs.","author":"Sarah-Kate Lynch","tags":["emotion","imagination","information","waste-of-time","worry"],"id":124810,"author_id":"Sarah-Kate+Lynch"},{"text":"My father did not bring it up, but of course I knew that he had another reason to worry about my decision to write. Though he was a reader, he was not a lover of fiction, because fiction is not true, and for that flaw it was forever inferior to fact. If reading fiction was a waste of time, so was the writing of it. Why is it, I wonder, that humor didn't count? Wodehouse, for one, whom both of us loved, was a flawless fiction writer.","author":"Eudora Welty","tags":["fact","fiction","humor","inferior","waste-of-time","wodehouse","writing"],"id":138141,"author_id":"Eudora+Welty"},{"text":"Regrets are a waste of time and waste of time brings about regrets. It's the best ironic cycle after life and death!","author":"Adhish Mazumder","tags":["irony-of-life","irony","regret","regret","waste-of-time","wasting-time"],"id":150511,"author_id":"Adhish+Mazumder"},{"text":"Work on Purpose - Play on Purpose -Rest on Purpose -Do not let yourself or anyone else waste your time.","author":"Izey Victoria Odiase","tags":["intention","intentional","intentional-living","on-purpose","time","time-is-priceless","time-management","waste-of-time","wasting-time"],"id":199719,"author_id":"Izey+Victoria+Odiase"},{"text":"There will never be a point in my life where it is acceptable to waste time.","author":"Carlos Wallace","tags":["carlos-wallace","time","time-management","time","waste-of-time","wasted-time","wasting-time"],"id":202020,"author_id":"Carlos+Wallace"},{"text":"If you try to do a task at your odd hours, you will waste so much time only to find out that you did a poor job after all.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["calling","conversion","convert","gift","great","greatness","humanity","job","life","odd-time","poverty","produce","product","productivity","purpose","task","time","value","waste","waste-of-time","wealth","work","world"],"id":234638,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}