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• All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.

  Wilfred Owen

  Want, Barren, Asks

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• Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.

  William Empson

  Blood, Effort, Poison

  'Missing Dates' (1935)

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• All things happen in their proper time. Everything in life happens in the time allocated for it. Don't waste energy worrying about end results. Worrying only distracts you from living day to day and enjoying life!

  James Van Praagh

  Worry, Enjoy Life, Energy

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• I have never understood the importance of having children memorize battle dates. It seems like such a waste of mental energy. Instead, we could teach them important subjects such as How the Mind Works, How to Handle Finances, How to Invest Money for Financial Security, How to be a Parent, How to Create Good Relationships, and How to Create and Maintain Self-Esteem and Self-Worth. Can you imagine what a whole generation of adults would be like if they had been taught these subjects in school along with their regular curriculum?

  Louise Hay

  Children, Self Esteem, School

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• You can either waste time worrying about a death that might not come or concentrate on what’s left to you.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Worry, Might, Wasting Time

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• We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which we have to waste somehow or other. In the end it does not seem to matter much whether we have done so in making money, or practicing law, or reading or playing, or in any other way, as long as we felt we were deriving a maximum of happiness out of our doings.

  Clarence Darrow

  Reading, Law, Two

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• Life is short, so don't waste any of it carrying around a load of bitterness. It only sours your life, and the world won't pay any attention anyway.

  Pat Dye

  Life Is Short, Attention, World

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• The current system punishes communities which make the investment in creating landfills, only to have them filled by states which refuse to adequately address their waste issues.

  Paul Gillmor

  Creating, Issues, Community

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• A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it is merely a line that connects one point with another. A route has no meaning in itself; its meaning derives entirely from the two points that it connects. A road is a tribute to space. Every stretch of road has meaning in itself and invites us to stop. A route is the triumphant devaluation of space, which thanks to it has been reduced to a mere obstacle to human movement and a waste of time.

  Milan Kundera

  Travel, Two, Space

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• I will live this day as if it is my last. …I will waste not a moment mourning yesterday’s misfortunes, Yesterday’s defeats, yesterday’s aches of the heart, for why should I throw good after bad?

  Og Mandino

  Heart, Yesterday, Mourning

  Og Mandino (2009). “The Greatest Secret in the World”, p.66, Bantam

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• When we waste our time, our time wastes us

  Robin Sharma

  Wasting Time, Our Time

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Mar 30, 2014

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• I don't waste time being depressed.

  Marc Andreessen

  Wasting Time, Being Depressed, Don't Waste Time

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• With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper. In an industrial community this propensity for emulation expresses itself in pecuniary emulation; and this, so far as regards the Western civilized communities of the present, is virtually equivalent to saying that it expresses itself in some form of conspicuous waste.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Self, Community, Emulation

  The Theory of the Leisure Class ch. 5 (1899)

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• The lesson of the MVP is that any additional work beyond what was required to start learning is waste, no matter how important it might have seemed at the time.

  Eric Ries

  Mvp, Important, Lessons

  "How DropBox Started As A Minimal Viable Product". techcrunch.com. October 19, 2011.

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• Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?

  Abbie Hoffman

  Rocks, Random Violence, Molotov Cocktail

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• You can waste a whole lifetime
  Trying to be
  What you think is expected of you
  But youll never be free

  Chris Rea

  Thinking, Trying, Lifetime

  Song: Gone Fishing, Album: Auberge, 1991

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• Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the more exacting crops are planted.

  David F. Houston

  Land, Broken, Doe

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• The challenge is simple: Quitting when you hit the Dip is a bad idea. If the journey you started was worth doing, then quitting when you hit the Dip just wastes the time you’ve already invested. Quit in the Dip often enough and you’ll find yourself becoming a serial quitter, starting many things but accomplishing little. Simple: If you can’t make it through the Dip, don’t start. If you can embrace that simple rule, you’ll be a lot choosier about which journeys you start.

  Seth Godin

  Journey, Simple, Ideas

  Seth Godin (2007). “The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)”, p.32, Penguin

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• Don't waste time looking for a better pencil:  learn to write better.

  Seth Godin

  Writing, Wasting Time, Pencils

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• Many complain of a chronic weariness that sleep will not banish. Their trouble is that too little blood is pumped through the body per minute; this sluggishness, permitting poisonous waste matter to accumulate in every cell, clogs the channels of energy.

  Gene Tunney

  Sleep, Cells, Blood

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• Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better? Why hide deficiencies instead of overcoming them? Why look for friends or partners who will just shore up your self-esteem instead of ones who will also challenge you to grow? And why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you? The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. This is the mindset that allows people to thrive during some of the most challenging times in their lives.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Self Esteem, Passion, People

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• They say you waste time asleep, but I'm just trying to dream.

  Mac Miller

  Dream, Trying, Wasting Time

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• There is no waste in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions...

  Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.

  World, Ineffectiveness, Kick Ass

  "Motion Study as an Increase of National Wealth". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 59, (p. 96), www.jstor.org. May, 1915.

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• The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.

  E. M. Forster

  Strength, Success, Taken

  E. M. Forster (2012). “Howards End”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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• You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment.

  James Gleick

  Time, Moments, Given

  "James Gleick's Survival Lessons". Interview with David Diamond, www.wired.com. August 01, 1999.

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