Waste Quotes - Page 40

• I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.

  Zoe Saldana

  Responsibility, Lazy, Stories

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• The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.

  Laini Taylor

  Appreciate, Brain, Wish

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• We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

  Eamon de Valera

  Inefficiency, Idleness

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• If you're going to do something, make it right and make it as good as you can. Don't waste anybody's time, especially your own.

  Debra Wilson

  Ifs

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• Why waste your time being around people who drag you down? You don't live forever, at least in this life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, People

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• Nothing wastes more energy than worrying. The longer one carries a problem, the heavier it becomes. Don't take life too seriously. Live a life full of serenity, not of regrets.

  Douglas Pagels

  Regret, Worry, Serenity

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• When the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wisdom, Sun, Speak

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• Follow your heart, Ithilnin," Albirich repeated. "Time is precious. Don't waste it living someone else's life.

  Jess C Scott

  Heart, Follow Your Heart, Time Is Precious

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• A good two years after Hurricane Katrina I remember feeling so devastated and so ignorant that there was so much damage still left. I felt like here I was an American and this is an American city and the government hasn't done enough and people haven't given back enough. Everyone forgot and the city was lying in waste.

  AnnaLynne McCord

  Lying, Government, Years

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

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• If you have the athletic ability, why waste it in one sport?

  Isaiah Mustafa

  Sports, Athletic, Ability

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

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• In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.

  Peter Zumthor

  Resistance, Architecture, Language

  Peter Zumthor (1999). “Architektur denken”

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• If you truly love someone, don't waste your time finding reasons to hate them. Spend it remembering why you love them in the first place.

  Jinxx

  Hate, Firsts, Remember

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• Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. Evening is like old age: we are languid, talkative, silly. Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Morning, Silly, Sleep

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.34, 谷月社

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• I’ve always had a soft spot for dreamers – not those who waste their time thinking ‘what if’ but the ones who look to the sky and say ‘why can’t I shoot for the moon?’

  Richard Branson

  Moon, Thinking, Sky

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• The
  blending of architecture, solar, wind, biological and electronic
  technologies with housing, food production, and waste utilization within
  an ecological and cultural context will be the basis of creating a new
  ...design science for the post-petroleum era.

  John Todd

  Technology, Wind, Creating

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• I think when Fox News goes to the Megyn Kellys, the Bret Baiers, and people who don’t have much experience, who haven’t covered campaigns, the result is, sometimes you have these inane questions that come out and, frankly, waste everybody’s time.

  David Shuster

  Thinking, People, News

  "David Shuster Slams Fox News Moderators At GOP Debate" by Katherine Fung, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2011.

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• People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.

  Wally Lamb

  People, Scared, Undone

  Wally Lamb (2011). “She's Come Undone”, p.464, Simon and Schuster

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• If you lose emotion, and you gain it back, you realise that hate and love are very important to distribute properly. So I'm not going to waste any kind of emotion on things that aren't related to me.

  Marilyn Manson

  Hate, Important, And Love

  "The life and loves of a he-devil" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2007.

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• Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%.

  Donald Knuth

  Strong, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Computer Programming as an Art". Communications of the ACM, Volume 17, Issue 12, December 1974.

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• I learnt just how little it takes to survive, which is why I don’t waste things – food, money, friendships or opportunities.

  Alek Wek

  Opportunity, Littles

  Alek Wek (2007). “Alek: Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel”, Virago Press (UK)

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• God never wastes pain.  He always uses it to accomplish his purpose.  And his purpose is for his glory and our good.  Therefore we can trust him when our hearts are aching or our bodies are racked with pain

  Jerry Bridges

  Pain, Heart, Purpose

  Jerry Bridges (2014). “Is God Really In Control?: Trusting God in a World of Hurt”, p.39, Tyndale House

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• The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden-that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.

  C. S. Lewis

  Couple, Husband, Book

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the pale new growth on an evergreen, the sheen of the limestone on Fifth Avenue, the colour of our kids’ eyes, the way the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again. It is so easy to exist instead of live. Unless you know there is a clock ticking.

  Anna Quindlen

  Fall, Kids, Eye

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

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• Even if you could use all the organic material that you have--the animal manures, the human waste, the plant residues--and get them back on the soil, you couldn't feed more than 4 billion people. In addition, if all agriculture were organic, you would have to increase cropland area dramatically, spreading out into marginal areas and cutting down millions of acres of forests.

  Norman Borlaug

  Cutting, Animal, Agriculture

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• I trained for less than three-quarters of an hour, maybe five days a week - I didn't have time to do more. But it was all about quality, not quantity - so I didn't waste time jogging, ever.

  Roger Bannister

  Quality Not Quantity, Jogging, Three

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