Waste Quotes - Page 28

• From my travels around the world I have seen how much damage and pollution is done by the careless disposal of waste. It is also evident that we in the West produce far more and throw away far more than the developing world, almost without thinking

  Michael Palin

  Thinking, Done, World

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• If we are concerned about our great appetite for materials, it is plausible to decrease waste, to make better use of stocks available, and to develop substitutes. But what about the appetite itself? The major cause of the continued deterioration of the global environment is the unsustainable pattern of consumption and production, particularly in industrialised countries

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Country, Deterioration, Use

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• The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again.

  Mark Twain

  Grieving, Knowing, Childhood

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.393, Createspace Independent Pub

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• The ever-mounting glut of waste materials is characteristic by-product of modern consumer society. It might even be argued that capitalism's continual need to find of generate markets means that disposibility and waste have become the spine of the system. To consume means, literally, to destroy or expend, and in the garbage crisis we confront the underlying truth of a society in which enormous productive capacities and market forces have harnessed human needs and desires, without regard to the long or even short-term future of life on the planet.

  Stuart Ewen

  Mean, Long, Desire

  Stuart Ewen (1999). “All Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• The prevailing attitude towards nature is that form of heresy which denies substance and, in doing so, denies the rightfulness of creation. We have said - to the point of repletion, perhaps - that man is not to take his patterns from nature; but neither is he to waste himself in seeking to change her face.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Attitude, Men, Substance

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences”, p.171, University of Chicago Press

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• In Kentucky, we're destroying mountains, including their soils and forests, in order to get at the coal. In other words, we're destroying a permanent value in order to get at an almost inconceivably transient value. That coal has a value only if and when it is burnt. And after it is burnt, it is a pollutant and a waste-a burden.

  Wendell Berry

  Kentucky, Order, Ifs And

  "Taking Care of What We’ve Been Given". Interview with Thomas P. Healy, www.counterpunch.org. April 15, 2006.

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• I fish because I love to . . . because I love the environs where trout are found . . . because I suspect that men are going along this way for the last time, and I for one don’t want to waste the trip . . . and, finally, not because I regard fishing as being so terribly important but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant––and not nearly so much fun.

  John D. Voelker

  Fun, Men, Fishing

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• I don't want to waste time being angry at someone I love.

  Brad Pitt

  Anger, Angry At Someone, Want

  "Brad Pitt reveals he DID fall in love with Angelina Jolie on set of Mr And Mrs Smith while still married to Jennifer Aniston" by Jody Thompson, www.mirror.co.uk. December 11, 2008.

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• Some people have a team of ten people - Waste of money, waste of time. I do it on my own when I'm in the ring.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Team, People

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• Getting lost is not a waste of time.

  Jack Johnson

  Getting Lost, Wasting Time, Lost

  Song: What You Thought You Needed, Album: Sleep Through The Static, 2008

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• It's a shame to waste [the uniqueness that is you], by doing what someone else has done.

  Joseph Campbell

  Done, Shame, Uniqueness

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• Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle - maybe there is none.

  Franz Kafka

  Obstacles

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• If we spend the time we waste in sighing for the perfect golden fruit in fulfilling the conditions of its growth, happiness will come, must come. It is guaranteed in the very laws of the universe. If it involves some chastening and renunciation, well, the fruit will be all the sweeter for this touch of holiness.

  Helen Keller

  Law, Perfect, Growth

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.153, Matthew Gordon

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• The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.

  Oscar Wilde

  Weed, Men, Air

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.213, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish.The few who might want to learn will be prevented; who are they to overtop their fellows? And anyway the teachers-or should I say, nurses?-will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturable conceit and incurable ignorance among men. The little vermin themselves will do it for us.

  C. S. Lewis

  Teacher, Real, Teaching

  C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

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• If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start with.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Debugging, Want, Bugs

  "The Humble Programmer". Edsger Dijkstra's ACM Turing Award lecture, "Communications of the ACM", Volume 15, No. 10, www.cs.utexas.edu. October 1972.

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• I don't need to waste my time with a computer just because I am a computer scientist.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Needs, Computer, Wasting My Time

  "Answers to questions from students of Software Engineering". www.cs.utexas.edu. November 28, 2000.

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• Don't waste your energy on the ugly. Save it for the beautiful.

  Harold Arlen

  Beautiful, Energy, Ugly

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• Why have I so little control? It is the case of much waste and pain in my life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Inspirational, Pain, Women

  "A Moment's Liberty". Book by Virginia Woolf, Wednesday 15 September, 1926, 1990.

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• If you're looking to become an entrepreneur then don't waste your time going to university or business school - just get on and do it.

  Richard Branson

  School, Entrepreneur, University

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• Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material.

  Henry Ford

  Doe, Wasting Time, Lean Manufacturing

  Henry Ford (2006). “The Great To-Day and Greater Future”, p.142, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Go for greatness. Anything else is a waste of time.

  Marianne Williamson

  Greatness, Wasting Time

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from May 26, 2013

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• Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.

  Henry Ford

  Wasting Time, Lean Manufacturing, Materials

  Henry Ford (2006). “The Great To-Day and Greater Future”, p.142, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is important to remember that life is not a dress rehearsal and that none of us should waste our time on doing things that don’t spark fires within us. My golden rule for business and life is: We should all enjoy what we do and do what we enjoy.

  Richard Branson

  Fire, Important, Dresses

  "Richard Branson: My golden rule of business" by Jack Preston, www.virgin.com. August 26, 2014.

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• It is best if we do not listen to or look at the person whom we consider to be the cause of our anger. Like a fireman, we have to pour water on the blaze first and not waste time looking for the one who set the house on fire. "Breathing in, I know that I am angry. Breathing out, I know that I must put all my energy into caring for my anger." So we avoid thinking about the other person, and we refrain from doing or saying anything as long as our anger persists. If we put all our mind into observing our anger, we will avoid doing any damage that we may regret later.

  Nhat Hanh

  Regret, Caring, Thinking

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