Waste Quotes - Page 34

• Don't waste your time trying to turn ducks into eagles. Hire people who already have the motivation and drive to be eagles and then just let them soar.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Eagles, Ducks

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• Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mail in the waste-basket, it should be saved for the dinner guests.

  John Cage

  Writing, Lunch, Should Have

  John Cage (2010). “M: Writings ’67–’72”, p.115, Wesleyan University Press

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• I don’t believe in courtship.It’s a waste of time. If I love the person, I’ll tell her right away. But for you, I’ll make an exception. Just love me now, and I’ll court you forever.

  Ferdinand Marcos

  Believe, Forever, Wasting Time

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• Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Wasting Time, Collecting

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public. Do not waste your time with music that is trite or ignoble. Life is too short to spend it wandering in the barren Saharas of musical trash.

  Sergei Rachmaninoff

  Life Is Too Short, Musical, World

  "Great Pianists on Piano Playing". Book by James Francis Cooke, p. 217, 1999.

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• The income tax is the biggest single intrusion suffered by the American people. It forces every worker to be a bookkeeper, to open his records to the government, to explain his expenses, to fear conviction for a harmless accounting error. Compliance wastes billions of dollars. It penalizes savings and creates an enormous drag on the U.S. economy. It is incompatible with a free society, and we aren’t libertarians if we tolerate it.

  Harry Browne

  Errors, Government, People

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• It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, technological futility and aimless violence, and yet I cannot help but feel it has about it something of the dawning of the universe. Perhaps because the entire world continues to dream of New York, even as New York dominates and exploits it.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Dream, New York, Hygiene

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.23, Verso

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• In his 16 years in the Senate, John Kerry has fought against government waste and worked hard to bring some accountability to Washington. Early in his Senate career in 1986, John signed on to the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Reduction Bill, and he fought for balanced budgets before it was considered politically correct for Democrats to do so. John has worked to strengthen our military, reform public education, boost the economy and protect the environment.

  Zell Miller

  Military, Government, Years

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• It looks like a waste of life, that mowing down of our best years by a relentless passion which itself falls dead on the top of them. But it is not so. Every year I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence which will risk nothing, and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well. No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime 'let out all the length of the reins.'

  Mary Cholmondeley

  Running, Pain, Selfish

  Mary Cholmondeley (2016). “Red Pottage”, p.142, Mary Cholmondeley

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• When you start to crack open, don't waste a moment gathering your old self up into something like you knew before. Let your new self splash like sunlight into every dark place and laugh and cry and make sounds you never made & thank all that is holy for the gift.

  Brian Andreas

  Dark, Self, Laughing

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• You start admiring someone who's famous for actually doing something---imagine that---and I swear to you I will buy you every item in her entire wardrobe. But over my own dead body will I spend my own time and money turning you into a clone of some brain-dead waste of skin who thinks the pinnacle of achievement is selling her wedding shots to a magazine.

  Tana French

  Thinking, Achievement, Brain

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• Waste not thy time in windy argument but let the matter drop.

  William Shakespeare

  Matter, Argument, Mathematics

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• The world is divided up into two kinds of people - those who look at their body waste in the toilet bowl, and those who don't.

  John Gregory Dunne

  Two, People, Looks

  John Gregory Dunne (2007). “Nothing Lost”, p.329, Vintage

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• Failure of management to plan for the future and to foresee problems has brought about waste of manpower, of materials, of the machine-time, of all which raise the manufacturer's cost and price that the purchaser must pay

  W. Edwards Deming

  Quality, Cost, Machines

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• Your time is too valuable, your destiny is too great, and your future is too bright to waste a single moment. Be a now person.

  Joel Osteen

  Single Mom, Future, Destiny

  Twitter post from Jun 23, 2014

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• How ridiculous it is to waste our lives experimenting with those things for which we already have the answers!

  Sterling W Sill

  Thinking, Answers, Ridiculous

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• In England and America people tend to graze all day long, but I think it's such a waste to be constantly picking at food because you then can't enjoy a proper full meal when the time comes.

  Nigella Lawson

  Thinking, England And America, Long

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• It [prejudice] is such a waste. It makes you logy and half-alive. It gives you nothing. It takes away.

  Dorothy Dandridge

  Giving, Prejudice, Half

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If the first ‘Hangover’ movie were this awful, there never would have been a Part Two. This is a joyless, unfunny mix of comedy and drama, a complete waste of time, with exactly one good joke in the entire movie. It comes in the first minute. After that, you can leave.

  Mick LaSalle

  Drama, Hangover, Two

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• Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws.

  Caitlin Moran

  Heaven, Jigsaw, Our Time

  Caitlin Moran (2011). “How To Be a Woman”, p.290, Random House

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• After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won't be a waste of time.

  Nick Cave

  Wasting Time, Great Freedom

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• The thing that bothers me the most is the recklessness and greed of the local ranchers, who run too many cattle back here, choking with waste the creek that runs through my property. There's certain times of day that the cowboys like to send them turds down the river. Them f**kers piss me off. if you gotta mess up the ecology of the world in order to raise a bunch of cows, well eat somethin else. I'm not a fan of the cowboys.

  Merle Haggard

  Running, Cowboy, Order

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• Savour your existence. Live every moment. Do not waste a breath.

  Nando Parrado

  Moments, Existence, Live Every Moment

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• The garden is doing so well, we have so many greens and radishes that everyone is enjoying. Also, we are using one square as a compost bin, the Green Team is collecting food waste at lunch. Things are looking great, a huge thank you again.

  Mike Moreno

  Team, Garden, Squares

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• I believe in a world where mothers are not expected to shed any physical evidence of their child-bearing experience. In that same world I believe there is space for exercise to be as much a gift to your brain as it is your body. I don't want to waste my time striving for some subjective definition of perfection. I'd rather rebuild my strength while dancing my ass off...literally .

  Olivia Wilde

  Mother, Children, Believe

  "Olivia Wilde Gets Real About Her Body: ‘The Truth Is, I’m A Mother, And I Look Like One’" By Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2015.

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