Here’s how man thinks: “If no one’s done it, why should I try? It’s a waste of my time; but if he’s done it, I can do it better.

My two favourite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library.

We waste our time with short term thinking and busywork. Warren Buffett spends a year deciding and a day acting. That act lasts decades.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Most people buy the highest quality television sets, only to watch the lowest quality television shows.

Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?

The “old school” of wastewater treatment, still embraced by most government regulators and many academics, considers water to be a vehicle for the routine transfer of waste from on place to another. It also considers...

A life is not a waste of time

If I waste all my charity, all I’ll wind up with in the end is the wind. Still, I think I want to be the Dandelion of Love.

I don’t waste time being depressed.

Spend the years of learning squanderingCourage for the years of wanderingThrough a world politely turningFrom the loutishness of learning.

I’ve never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn’t seem very appealing to me.

If you don’t wake up at three in the morning and want to do something, you’re wasting your time.

Don’t waste your time to make new dreams. but waste it to make one of your lifetime dream, come true.

Let us have no guiltLeft to wasteFor dreaming still.

21Most food goes to waste in affluent societies. When we throw leftovers into the garbage, it goes to waste. When we eat more food than we need, it goes to waist.

If you do not want to stop the wheels of progress; if you do not want to go back to the Dark Ages; if you do not want to live again under tyranny, then you...

His whole being, his whole life was awakened in one instant, as if youth returned to him, as if the extinguished sparks of talent blazed up again. The blindfold suddenly fell from his eyes. God!...

Learn not to consume your opportunities along with your privileges

I have indeed lived and worked to my taste either in art or science. What more could a man desire? Knowledge has always been my goal. There is much that I shall leave behind undone…but...

It is strange that people train themselves so carefully to go to waste so prematurely

A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man’s greatest tragedy and God’s heaviest grief.

For every dollar that is spent on the (boondoggle) bridge a dollar will be taken away from taxpayers. If the bridge costs $1,000,000 the taxpayers will lose $1,000, 000. They will have that much taken...

Waiting for time is never a waste of time.

Full many a gem of purest ray sereneThe dark unfathom’d caves of ocean bear:Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

Time spent with a cat is never wasted.

Man’s inhumanity to man will continue as long as man loves God more than he loves his fellow man. The love of God means wasted love. ‘For God and Country’ means a divided allegiance—a 50...

That same moment he ordered the hateful portrait taken out. But that did not calm his inner agitation: all his feelings and all his being were shaken to their depths, and he came to know...

If I had three magic wishes, I’d use the first wish for one more, to replace the one I just wasted wishing for something I already had.

There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It’s just a waste of perfectly good happiness.

It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. … The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use...

Don’t be silly and don’t waste your time.

The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time – but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

This is the mistake they make above. They think that only certain people habe a place. Only certain kinds of people belong. The rest is waste. But even waste must have a place. Otherwise it...

We should remember Christ’s words, ‘Let nothing be wasted,’ when we look in our refrigerators and garbage cans and garages.

Every day you waste is one you can never make up.

In every country, politics is considered to be a waste of time.

Spam is a waste of the receivers’ time, and, a waste of the sender’s optimism.

I love introverts. They don’t waste words. Excessive extroverts can be very wasteful. I don’t trust them in any kind of intricate or delicate matter.

Asteptarea ne da iluzia ca facem ceva asteptand, cand, de fapt, nu facem altceva decat sa murim suportabil, putin cate putin…

Be a good person but do not waste time to prove it.

Never waste any time you can spend sleeping.

It’s so egotistical to believe that we know more about someone else’s reality than they do, and such a waste of time.

The most important thing is to not waste your money.

I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mother, with my mother’s death, with losing my mother and not being able to get her...

..no meal is good enough to justify all the money and effort wasted in preparing it. It is an illusion and an expense. Live as I do, undeceived.

I’m a pretty disciplined investor and pretty disciplined buyer. I do my due diligence. I do my homework. I don’t waste money.

If you don’t have any good idea, you are likely to waste money if it’s given to you! If you don’t have an idea, you can’t even know how much money you need… This is...

I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.

When we unnecessarily elongate the process of “learning to read,” we postpone “reading to learn” – learning itself – by years.