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.

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.

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.

He did not waste time in a vain search for a place in history.

I believed and still believe that success is only part of the story. It makes you want to get better and better so as not to let yourself down and not to let the people...

Our greatest currency is our time and we cannot save it. Spend it wisely and never waste another’s or your own.

There’s not one good thought in that place. There’s nothing but waste and want. I can feel his selfish cravings and an abyss of secrets I hope to never know.

Depression, as far as I’m concerned, is just a waste of time.

The world makes, and hates, bachelors.

When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste.

Wealth without wisdom is equal to life without purpose

I bought it and threw it away. Why? Because I paid for it. The only thing better would be if taxpayers purchased it. I should be a politician.

Housing is a human right. There can be no fairness or justice in a society in which some live in homelessness, or in the shadow of that risk, while others cannot even imagine it.

Willful waste brings woeful want.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

Unfortunately, since there was only one of him, most of his riches were wasted.

When all that you’ve tried, leaves nothing but holes inside.

I think eulogies are wasted on the dead. It’s the living who need to hear kind words spoken about them.

Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never.

If you do not waste, you do not want.

We convince ourselves that even our shameless waste, our unchecked consumption and our appalling ignorance of anyplace in the world except our own little corner must continue–or they win! No, when you become smarter and...

When I want to feel productive, I box up my stuff—and then unpack everything. With my work ethic, and my unethical nature, I think I’d make a perfect politician.

I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.

You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there’s enough waste and inefficiency.

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.