Waste Quotes - Page 6

• I will not waste time on second thoughts. My life will not be an apology. It will be a statement.

  Andy Andrews

  Life, Apology, Wasting Time

  Andy Andrews (2004). “The Young Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions That Determine Personal Success”, p.18, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Energy, Dare, Altered

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Triangles: A Novel”, p.372, Simon and Schuster

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• The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and the vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. Loving makes love. Loving makes itself. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love. Wouldn't that be the way to make love stay?

  Tom Robbins

  Creating, People, Perfect

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.122, Bantam

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• The world is full of ways and means to waste time.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mean, World, Way

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• Waiting for my real life to start is no excuse to waste the life I have right now.

  Susane Colasanti

  Real, Waiting, No Excuses

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• Evaluate. Long experience had taught me to evaluate and assess. When the unexpected gets dumped on you, don’t waste time. Don’t figure out how or why it happened. Don’t recriminate. Don’t figure out whose fault it is. Don’t work out how to avoid the same mistake next time. All of that you do later. If you survive.

  Lee Child

  Mistake, Work Out, Long

  FaceBook post by Lee Child from Aug 11, 2015

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• Save your world. Love it. Protect it, and respect it and don't let haters represent it. Don't leave the saving to anyone else, ever, because, exhibit A - why, hello there - it's way too much for one person. And if you want to skip out on the responsibility train, my whole life - and death - will have been in vain. It's yours. It's all yours for taking! You're not going to waste it now, are you?

  James Patterson

  Responsibility, World Love, Life And Death

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• You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.

  Steven Moffat

  Boss, Wasting Time, Should

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• Welcome, Anne. I thought you'd come today. You belong to the afternoon so it brought you. Things that belong together are sure to come together. What a lot of trouble that would save some people if they only knew it. But they don't...and so they waste beautiful energy moving heaven and earth to bring things together that don't belong.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Beautiful, Moving, People

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “Anne of Avonlea”, p.235, First Avenue Editions

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• But in that moment she realized how false most smiles were and what a tremendous waste of time.

  Anna Godbersen

  Wasting Time, Moments, That Moment

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• The human body was designed by a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area ?

  Robin Williams

  Running, Science, Toxic Waste

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• I don't dwell in the past; I don't wallow in old events and emotions. I don't waste time on regret. No use going over and over the details of what already happened.

  Yanni

  Single, Regret, Past

  Yanni, David Rensin (2003). “Yanni in Words”, Miramax Books

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• Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more on it. A strength which becomes clearer and stronger through experiences of such obstacles is the only strength that can conquer them. Resistance is only a waste of strength.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Strength, People, Stronger

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.62, Open Road Media

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• In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee

  Lord Byron

  Sympathy, Bird, Tree

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.496, Delphi Classics

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• You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.

  Edgar Degas

  Artist, Wasting Time, Aim High

  Edgar Degas' remark to E. Rouart (1904), as quoted in Franois Fosca "Renoir: His Life and Work" (p. 274), 1961.

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• Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Change, Faces, Revolution

  Francesco Guicciardini (1965). “Maxims and Reflections (Ricordi)”, p.54, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Happiness, Worry, Body

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.277, Vintage

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• Fear exists until the moment when the unavoidable happens, after that we must waste none of our energy on it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Yoga, Energy, Moments

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• Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

  Mary Schmich

  Jealousy, Wasting Time, Sometimes

  "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young". Chicago Tribune, June 1, 1997.

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• The Superfund legislation set up a system of insurance premiums collected from the chemical industry to clean up toxic wastes. This new program may prove to be as far-reaching and important as any accomplishment of my administration. The reduction of the threat to America's health and safety from thousands of toxic-waste sites will continue to be an urgent but bitterly fought issue-another example for the conflict between the public welfare and the profits of a few private despoilers of our nation's environment.

  Jimmy Carter

  Health, Science, Toxic Waste

  Jimmy Carter (2013). “Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President”, p.591, University of Arkansas Press

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• Children, don't waste a single second.
  Serve others, above all the poor,
  expecting nothing in return.
  Just as the person who offers God flowers
  is the first to enjoy their fragrance,
  the person who offers compassion
  is the first to receive its blessing.
  Wherever a heart beats
  with compassion:
  God is there.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Flower, Heart

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• Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.

  Fatima Siad

  Fashion, People, Television

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• Enough. Man is capable of reform once presented with the facts, and the fact is that bottling water and shipping it is a big waste of fuel, so stop already.

  Garrison Keillor

  Men, Water, Reform

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• We must treat water as if it were the most precious thing in the world, the most valuable natural resource. Be economical with water! Don't waste it! We still have time to do something about this problem before it is too late.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Time, Water, Environmental

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• If we do not learn to eliminate waste and to be more productive and more efficient in the ways we use energy, then we will fall short of this goal [for the Nation to derive 20 percent of all the energy we use from the Sun, by 2000]. But if we use our technological imagination, if we can work together to harness the light of the Sun, the power of the wind, and the strength of rushing streams, then we will succeed.

  Jimmy Carter

  Fall, Hard Work, Science

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