Waste Quotes - Page 15

• There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Criticism, Literature, Wasting Time

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• It is hard to know when we have done enough for the Atonement to change our natures and so qualify us for eternal life. And we don't know how many days we will have to give the service necessary for that mighty change to come. But we know that we will have days enough if only we don't waste them.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Giving, Done, Atonement

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• Our education must never stop. If it ends at the door of the classroom on graduation day, we will fail. And we will need the help of heaven to know which of the myriad things we could study we would most wisely learn. We cannot waste time entertaining ourselves when we have the chance to read or to listen to whatever will help us learn what is true and useful. Insatiable curiosity will be our hallmark.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Doors, Heaven, Curiosity

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• I greatly admire GE, their utterly ruthlessly focused management, to get the cost out and get this integration done.’ Okay, we may make a few mistakes along the way but we are not going to waste any time.' They make decisions; they are incredibly disciplined and focused.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Mistake, Decision

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• The most important thing is to not waste your money.

  Gareth Bale

  Important, Busters, Cole St Clair

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• One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up.

  Cleo Moore

  Naked, Painting, Newspapers

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• I think golf is a waste of time and a waste of a sunny afternoon. I also stink at it. I have never found anything, including divorce and a sexual harassment suit, more frustrating.

  Jay Mohr

  Divorce, Golf, Thinking

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• I've never dated anybody. It's good to get experience under your belt but you should never get wild or go crazy. If I can't see myself with this person for life -- I can't be bothered. I can't waste my time. I have some really good men friends but I believe in no sex before marriage. No fornicating. Stuff like that. I really believe in that. I mean, I'm not perfect. It's hard to live by the Bible standards but I'm really comfortable with me.

  Serena Williams

  Sex, Crazy, Believe

  "Selling the sisters" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2005.

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• The poet’s life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window. We’re hunched and weaving over the keys of our green our grey or pink blue manual typewriter maybe a darker stone cold thoritative selectric with its orgasmic expectant hum and us popping pills and laughing over what you or I just wrote, wondering if that line means insult or sex. Or both. Usually both.

  Eileen Myles

  Sex, Mean, Past

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• Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fire, Warning, Shots

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• By finding waste and abuse in entitlement programs, and eliminating it, we can ensure that the funds that are put into these programs go to the people that need them the most.

  Jim Ryun

  Finding The One, People, Abuse

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• If all of your electricity in your lifetime came from nuclear [energy], the waste from that lifetime of electricity would go in a Coke can.

  Stewart Brand

  Motivation, Inspiration, Energy

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• Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Creativity, Technology, Opportunity

  Lawrence Lessig (2004). “Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity”, p.151, Penguin

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• The sixteen hundred dairies in California’s Central Valley alone produce more waste than a city of twenty-one million people-that’s more than the populations of London, New York, and Chicago combined.

  Gene Baur

  New York, Cities, California

  Gene Baur (2008). “Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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  Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others—that is too high a price to pay.

  Robert Greene

  Mind, Pay, Affair

  Twitter post from Mar 16, 2016

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• We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and purify their own waste, water and release it slowly in a purer form.

  William McDonough

  Water, Tree, Energy

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• If they think they are doing something new, they ought to do what I do every day - spend at least two hours every day listening to Johann Sebastian Bach and, man, it's all there. If they want to improvise around a theme,which is the essence of jazz, they should learn from the master. He never wastes a note, and he knows where every note is going and when to bring it back. Some of these cats go way out and forget where they began or what they started to do. Bach will clear it up for them.

  Coleman Hawkins

  Music, Learning, Cat

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• You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Want, Serious, Crisis

  YouTube Channel "Wall Street Journal"/"Rahm Emanuel on the Opportunities of Crisis", www.youtube.com. November 19, 2008.

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• Each individual has their own opinions about whether war is an answer to any problems. Personally I think it's a waste of time, but I think more importantly, that it's is an issue that we haven't had any say in. That's why I feel so strongly about it. I don't feel like we've really been given any choice in this matter. I think if you had a referendum tomorrow, Tony Blair would have no choice but to call off the war.

  Damon Albarn

  War, Thinking, Issues

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• If you want to be negative about the whole thing you can say all guitar bands after the Beatles were just a waste of time because the Beatles were the best. I think it's far better to give new records a try.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Thinking, Guitar, Giving

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• All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think art should be escapist. That's a waste of time.

  Edward Albee

  Art, Thinking, People

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• Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.

  Rick Warren

  Pain, Helping Others, Use

  "Purpose Driven Life". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

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• Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing - too much undisciplined leisure time in which a person continually takes the course of least resistance gradually wastes a life. It ensures that a person's capacities stay dormant, that talents remain undeveloped, that the mind and spirit become lethargic and that the heart remains unfulfilled.

  Stephen Covey

  Happiness, Heart, Vacation

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• Long, long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.

  Oswald Spengler

  Country, Men, Long Ago

  Oswald Spengler, Charles Francis Atkinson (1961). “The Decline of the West...: Perspectives of world-history”

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• The time and thought which most persons waste in aimless effort would accomplish wonders if properly directed with some special object in view. In order to do this, it is necessary to center your mental force upon a specific thought and hold it there, to the exclusion of all other thoughts.

  Charles F. Haanel

  Inspirational, Views, Order

  Charles F. Haanel (2015). “Mind Yoga - Amazing Secrets of the Yogi”, p.26, Lulu Press, Inc

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