Waste Quotes - Page 29

• By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes.

  Richard Lugar

  Opportunity, Agriculture, Use

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• In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams.

  Laura Miller

  Dream, Air, Years

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• I never knew I could suffer so much. And then, at the same time, you think, now I'm ready to open myself up to life in another way, to make it worth something and make it about the right things and not waste time.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Grief, Thinking, Suffering

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• Eat plenty, wisely, without waste.

  Herbert Hoover

  Health, Plenty

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• Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.

  Ian Fleming

  Jobs, Might, Wasting Time

  Ian Fleming (1961). “gilt-edged bonds”

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• Sometimes we need to let go of things in our lives to make room for better things. Stress less and live more. Don't waste your energy, when you have the choice to be happy.

  Brian Tracy

  Letting Go, Stress, Choices

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jan 12, 2014

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• Don't waste time on excuses. Just get it done.

  Ralph Marston

  Done, Wasting Time, Excuse

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• Our churches are filled with Christians who are idling in intellectual neutral. As Christians, their minds are going to waste. One result of this is an immature, superficial faith. People who simply ride the roller coaster of emotional experience are cheating themselves out of a deeper and richer Christian faith by neglecting the intellectual side of that faith.

  William Lane Craig

  Christian, Cheating, Emotional

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• We now know that something between 85 and 90 percent of most software product features are unwanted and unneeded by customers. That is an enourmous ammount of waste of time and money that ends up on the floor.

  Steve Blank

  Wasting Time, Ends, Software

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• Don't wish today away. Don't waste it. Redeem one hour to be grateful. Let your thanksgiving rise above the din of disappointment - opportunities lost, mistakes made, the clamor of all that has not yet come.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Disappointment, Mistake, Grateful

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• Don’t waste your life waiting until everything is perfect before you start enjoying it.

  Joyce Meyer

  Perfect, Waiting, Enjoy

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• Thirst will parch your tongue and your body will waste through lack of sleep ere you can describe in words that which painting instantly sets before the eye.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Sleep, Eye, Body

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• Never waste a prayer on something that isn't important.

  Oscar Goodman

  Prayer, Important

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• The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic, not delightful, not intelligent.

  Christina Stead

  Art, Intelligent, Men

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.126, Open Road Media

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• Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.

  George Perkins Marsh

  Science, Men, Long

  George Perkins Marsh (1864). “Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action”, p.35, New York : C. Scribner

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• For a man not to achieve the things he has an opportunity to do is such a waste of life.

  Jake Simmons, Jr.

  Opportunity, Men, Achieve

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• Worry is a waste of energy. It cant change the past. It cant control the future. It only makes today miserable

  Rick Warren

  Past, Worry, Energy

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Nov 11, 2011

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• I get so ticked off at you intellectually lazy people who think that the government is God, that every dollar they get or spend is somehow sacred. There is more fraud and waste and misuse. If the federal government were held accountable to the law as corporations are held accountable, half the federal government would be in prison.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Government, Law

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• Vexation of spirit is a waste of time Negative thinking, don't you waste your thoughts Verbal conflict is a waste of word Physical conflict is a waste of flesh People will always be who they want And that's what really makes the world go round Unconditional love is scarce.

  Damian Marley

  Unconditional Love, Love Is, Thinking

  Song: There For You, Album: Welcome to Jamrock, 2005

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• God gave me the same power He gave Jesus. I ask myself daily, Why do I waste such a priceless gift?

  Francis Chan

  Jesus, Priceless, Asks

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• My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion. Why make life miserable for someone when you can use your energy for good? We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful. When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

  Taylor Swift

  Hate, Eye, Color

  "Taylor Swift's Mission: Take a Stand Against Hate!" by Dan Koday, www.seventeen.com. March 1, 2009.

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• Our great whirling planet, our human individuality, were not given to us merely that we might exist for a time and then vanish into nothingness, but that we might question what it is all about.
  To live without understanding the purpose of life is foolish, a waste of time. The mystery of life surrounds us; we were given intelligence in order to solve it.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Order, Understanding, Individuality

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• Leadership in the church is not entrusted to successful fund raisers, brilliant biblical scholars, administrative geniuses, or spellbinding preachers...but to those who have been laid waste by a consuming passion for Christ - passionate men and women for whom privilege and power are trivial compared to knowing and loving Jesus.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Passion, Biblical

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• For your information, a good novel can change the world. Keep that in mind before you attempt to sit down at a typewriter. Never waste time on something you don't believe in yourself.

  John Fante

  Believe, Typewriters, Mind

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• Waste is unjustified, and especially the waste of time limited as that commodity is in our days of probation. One must live, not only exist; he must do, not merely be; he must grow, not just vegetate.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Wasting Time, Commodity, Probation

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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