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.

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.

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.

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,...

I wanta buy stuff. Stuff I don’t need… Stuff settin’ out there, you jus’ feel like buyin’ it whether you need it or not.-Uncle John

These programs and reading series are the fruit of an intellectually exhausted literacy industry that lost its way long ago, even as we mutely accepted its misguided agenda – to complicate reading and literacy so...

It starts so young, and I’m angry about that. The garbage we’re taught. About love, about what’s “romantic.” Look at so many of the so-called romantic figures in books and movies. Do we ever stop...

Never waste a minute thinking about people you don’t like.

Today and tomorrow is an illusion, days are all joined together, and if you are waiting for your time, you are wasting your time.

When the war (WWI) finally ended it was necessary for both sides to maintain, indeed even to inflate, the myth of sacrifice so that the whole affair would not be seen for what it was:...

My mom would spy by satellite, turning down the air conditioning, colder and colder, with a tapping keystroke via her wireless connection, chilling that house, that one room, meat locker cold, ski-slope cold, spending a...

Some are saving their right now for later, when tomorrow could be never.

The youthful body untouched decays the fastest, for no living hands record its splendor; and here youth and time are wasted.

There is more than one way to lose your life; quickly through violence, or fettered-away and wasted around dreadful, toxic people.

Don’t neglect adverse situations. Sometimes, they carry the yolk of great differences. When you break them away, you waste the yolk!

Your love is not really love until you waste it, a kiss is never a kiss until you taste it..

Now I stand before houses seton our secret trail, the haunt of arrowheadsand lost Indians the color of small plums,rooms in which the new boys play, tamedby computers and a summer waste of games,where once,...

Individuals are told to reduce our “carbon footprint,” and we should. But how many years of riding a bike to work would it take me to offset one F-15 flying for an hour?

There are far too many people that waste their time telling themselves that they don’t have enough time.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

Know that dreaming is a waste of sleeping time and energy if you don’t wake up to achieve them.

There are those who are legitimately corrupt, who cannot admit that legitimacy allows them to corrupt legitimacy, and to legitimately corrupt others.