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.

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.

…a great future behind him, already

Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.

It’s such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

Don’t waste your love on somebody, who doesn’t value it.

The typical capitalists are lovers of power rather than sensual indulgence, but they have the same tendency to crush and to take tribute that the cruder types of sensualism possess. The discipline of the capitalist...

Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life.

The world defines ‘waste’ very differently than Jesus does.

So many birds sitting around, on a dead wire, a bare branch, a cold ground, a drifting seashore; never realizing the glory in their wings and where it can take them, nor the envy as...

To save your life from prodigal waste, you must have good ideas. God may give you an idea that he may send someone to pay for. Surely, if you hide that idea, you may not...

The meaning of our lives is to justify where our bosses spent their budget.

worksheets – the archenemy of abundant, purposeful reading (and discussion and writing).

[S]ome score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be — as here they are — mistily engaged in one of the ten thousand stages of an endless cause, tripping one...

Don’t waste your most important resource—your life.

Program your life the way you want it to be: don’t waste the unuse energy that lodges in the matrix of your soul. You are transcendent, be a superintendent.

Societies only have waste products while acquiring fresh raw material remains a cheaper option than recycling.

When nothing is at stake, everything’s a waste.

We waste this life dreaming of another.

The biggest waste of water in the country is when you spend half a pint and flush two gallons.

Show some mercy to your ‘time’, don’t always waste it.

If your name is “canoe” and you can’t float on water, you are useless! If they call you “cutlass” but you can’t chop anything into pieces, you are a waste! You have a unique role,...