Waste Quotes - Page 33

• Life is short ... so why waste it doing something dumb?

  Aaron Swartz

  Life Is Short, Dumb, Relatable

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• It's a huge Carthusian monastery, stuck down between rocks and sea, where you may imagine me, without white gloves or hair curling, as pale as ever, in a cell with such doors as Paris never had for gates. The cell is the shape of a tall coffin, with an enormous dusty vaulting, a small window... Bach, my scrawls and waste paper - silence - you could scream - there would still be silence. Indeed, I write to you from a strange place.

  Frederic Chopin

  Writing, Paris, White

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• Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Tree, Humanity

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• All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes.

  Taiichi Ohno

  Order, Giving, Cash

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• Life is only a dream: soon, we shall awaken. And what joy! The greater our sufferings, the more limitless our glory. Oh! do not let us waste the trial Jesus sends.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Dream, Jesus, Joy

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• One ought to avoid all unnecessary worry and exciting thoughts, and to cultivate a firm tranquility of mind. Melancholy reflections will in no way influence fate, whereas one may weaken the constitution by the waste of energy while indulging in them.

  George Hackenschmidt

  Fate, Reflection, Worry

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• I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands and of the labor of millions of our fellow creatures?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Men, Blood

  Thomas Jefferson, Barbara B. Oberg, Lyman Henry Butterfield, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti (2003). “The papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 January 1798 to 31 January 1799”, Princeton Univ Pr

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• LINEN, n. "A kind of cloth the making of which, when made of hemp, entails a great waste of hemp."

  Ambrose Bierce

  Kindness, Hemp, Made

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Hope, Grief, Poet

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• ‎To focus on matters beyond our control is to misdirect energy, waste time, and doom us to frustration and failure.

  Harvey Dorfman

  Frustration, Focus, Energy

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• Every act of irreverence for life, every act which neglects life, which is indifferent to and wastes life, is a step towards the love of death. This choice man must make at every minute. Never were the consequences of the wrong choice as total and as irreversible as they are today. Never was the warning of the Bible so urgent: 'I have put before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life, that you and your children may live.'

  Erich Fromm

  Children, Blessing, Men

  Erich Fromm (1963). “War Within Man: A Psychological Enquiry Into the Roots of Destructiveness”

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• We have ignored this cancer for so long that the romance of environmental concern is already fading in the shadow of the grim realities of lakes, rivers and bays where all forms of life have been smothered by untreated wastes, and oceans which no longer provide us with food.

  Edmund Muskie

  Cancer, Ocean, Reality

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• If one keeps loving faithfully what is really worth loving, and does not waste one's love on insignificant and unworthy and meaningless things, one will get more light by and by and grow stronger.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Light, Meaningless Things, Stronger

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• If you've got time to waste, you might as well waste it listening to people.

  Martin McDonagh

  People, Listening, Crafts

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• I usually write very few stage directions. I think a lot of that is a waste of time. The art of screenwriting is in its terseness, saying a lot with a little. I have no patience when I read a script where the writer describes this guy and what he's wearing and his glasses and his hair.

  Scott Frank

  Art, Writing, Thinking

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• You said how strange it was that people were prepared to buy expensive material objects, but when it came to making an investment in their souls they refused to do so, considering it a monstrous indulgence and a waste of money! (58)

  Sarah Ferguson

  People, Soul, Strange

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• We waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nightsour silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti

  Charles Bukowski

  Mad, Sick, Bird

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.235, Canongate Books

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• A person can't brood over one mistake, or waste time feeling sorry for himself, or take on any sort of persecution complex. Today I realize that once you have made a mistake, you must accept it, profit by it, and then totally dismiss it from your mind.

  Bart Starr

  Sports, Sorry, Mistake

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• If you continually ask yourself, "What's important now?", you won't waste time on the trivial.

  Lou Holtz

  Priorities, Important, Wasting Time

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• If, when making a stock investment, you're not considering holding it at least ten years, don't waste more than ten minutes considering it.

  Warren Buffett

  Years, Investment, Minutes

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• Nothing done with the focus on God is ever a waste of time.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Focus, Done, Wasting Time

  Twitter post from Dec 24, 2015

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• Facebook is like jail, you sit around and waste time, you write on walls and you get poked by people you don't know

  Will Ferrell

  Wall, Writing, Jail

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• The longer I am in this work, the more I realize that intellectual struggles are merely the hazardous waste of life, blocking the heart from truth. The task of apologetics is to carefully remove that hazardous material and keep it from igniting into a destructive fire. Once that is done, the way to the heart is always through the way of the Cross, God’s love for each and every one of us.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Block, Struggle, Heart

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• I don't trust valets, waiters - nobody. I don't waste my time anymore trying to figure out who leaks things to the press.

  Nicole Richie

  Trying, Wasting My Time, Figures

  UK Marie Claire Interview, www.alloy.com. August 2007.

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• Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted. I speak for the poor in America who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home and death and corruption in Vietnam. I speak as a citizen of the world, for the world as it stands aghast at the path we have taken. I speak as an American to the leaders of my own nation. The great initiative in this war is ours. The initiative to stop it must be ours.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brother, Children, War

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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