Waste Quotes - Page 20

• I soon became convinced... that all the theorizing would be empty brain exercise and therefore a waste of time unless one first ascertained what the population of the universe really consists of.

  Fritz Zwicky

  Time, Exercise, Brain

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• Work kills no one, but worry has killed multitudes… Worry not only saps vitality and wastes energy, but it also seriously affects the quality of one's work. It cuts down ability. A man cannot get the highest quality of efficiency into his work when his mind is troubled. The mental faculties must have perfect freedom before they will give out their best. A troubled brain cannot think clearly, vigorously, and logically.

  Orison S. Marden

  Cutting, Men, Thinking

  Orison S. Marden (2017). “Pushing To The Front”, p.776, Noodle-Doo Studios

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• There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms seems quite accurate. There is no English equivalent for the term, just as there is no Anglo-Saxon counterpart of that essentially Gallic individual, the deliberately aimless pedestrian, unencumbered by any obligation or sense of urgency, who, being French and therefore frugal, wastes nothing, including his time which he spends with the leisurely discrimination of a gourmet, savoring the multiple flavors of his city.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Cities, Gourmet, Flavor

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• There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it.

  Andrew Schneider

  Purpose, World, Mud

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• I don't waste money on smart, expensive clothes.

  Kirsty Gallacher

  Smart, Clothes, Expensive

  "Kirsty Gallacher: The last five things I bought" by Dinah Turner, www.mirror.co.uk. April 17, 2012.

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• A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was the last bookseller who provided chairs where you could sit down and chat and waste a little time between sales. Nowadays books are bought standing. A request for a book and the naming of the price: that is the sort of transaction to which the all-devouring activity of modern trade has reduced bookselling, which used to be a matter for dawdling, idling, and chatty, friendly browsing.

  Jules de Goncourt

  Book, Friendly, Littles

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• There are people who are so cautious that they are careful not to waste their fear.

  C.J. Langenhoven

  Fear, People, Careful

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• Sometimes it may seem to us that there is no purpose in our lives, that going day after day for years to this office or that school or factory is nothing else but waste and weariness. But it may be that God has sent us there because but for us, Christ would not be there. If our being there means that Christ is there, that alone makes it worthwhile.

  Caryll Houselander

  Life, God, Religious

  Caryll Houselander, Marie Anne Mayeski (1991). “A Rocking-Horse Catholic: A Caryll Houselander Reader”, p.74, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.

  A.S.A. Harrison

  Past, Substance, May

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• A mime is a terrible thing to waste.

  Marcel Marceau

  Terrible, Mime, Terrible Things

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• I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and going on about their business.

  Barry Hughart

  People, Want, Able

  Barry Hughart (2011). “The Story of the Stone”, p.64, Spectra

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• How strange and foolish is man. He looses his health in gaining wealth. Then to regain health he wastes his wealth. He ruins is present while worrying about his future - but weeps in the future by recalling his past. He lives as though death shall never come to him - but dies in a way as if he were never born.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Past, Men, Worry

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• Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

  Regina Brett

  Envy, Needs, Self Discipline

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• When the storm has passed, put your energy into rebuilding your life, don't waste time looking back.

  Leon Brown

  Life, African American, Storm

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• Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments, and would waste away purposelessly without them.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Psychics, People, Minorities

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• Anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of time. There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with and love shouldn't be one of them.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Love, Dream, Things In Life

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• Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it, genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Success, Character, Effort

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• Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.

  Edward Bond

  Years, Play, Literature

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• A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.

  Jef Raskin

  Computer

  Jef Raskin (2000). “The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems”, p.6, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• I dont think we have any time to waste.

  Henry Cisneros

  Thinking

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• Lord knows, I never want to waste any more of my time in mirrors.

  Lauren Hutton

  Mirrors, Want, Lord

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• I can do whatever I want. They will tell me if what I am doing is stupid or a total waste of time. I may tell them that they are wrong, and we will come to an agreement.

  Bill Budge

  Stupid, Agreement, May

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• There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.

  Marcia Wallace

  Silly, Answers, Wasting Time

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• Judo helps us to understand that worry is a waste of energy.

  Kano Jigoro

  Art, Worry, Energy

  "Kodokan Judo: The Essential Guide to Judo by Its Fouder Jigoro Kano". Book by Kano Jigoro, p. 23, 1994.

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• The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Religion, Church

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