Waste Quotes - Page 18

• Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.

  William Empson

  Blood, Effort, Poison

  'Missing Dates' (1935)

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• I love myself enough-not in a schmaltzy garbage sense, Hallmark stuff, I'm talking respect myself-I respect my life-force enough to no longer waste it.

  Caroline Myss

  Talking, I Love Myself, Stuff

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• Don't waste a good mistake, learn from it.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Mistake, Good Mistake

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Apr 18, 2012

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• The lesson of the MVP is that any additional work beyond what was required to start learning is waste, no matter how important it might have seemed at the time.

  Eric Ries

  Mvp, Important, Lessons

  "How DropBox Started As A Minimal Viable Product". techcrunch.com. October 19, 2011.

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• When we waste our time, our time wastes us

  Robin Sharma

  Wasting Time, Our Time

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Mar 30, 2014

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• Buckwheat may be planted later than any similar crop, and often does well on old meadows or waste land that can be broken after the more exacting crops are planted.

  David F. Houston

  Land, Broken, Doe

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• Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better? Why hide deficiencies instead of overcoming them? Why look for friends or partners who will just shore up your self-esteem instead of ones who will also challenge you to grow? And why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you? The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. This is the mindset that allows people to thrive during some of the most challenging times in their lives.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Self Esteem, Passion, People

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• Many complain of a chronic weariness that sleep will not banish. Their trouble is that too little blood is pumped through the body per minute; this sluggishness, permitting poisonous waste matter to accumulate in every cell, clogs the channels of energy.

  Gene Tunney

  Sleep, Cells, Blood

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• You can waste a whole lifetime
  Trying to be
  What you think is expected of you
  But youll never be free

  Chris Rea

  Thinking, Trying, Lifetime

  Song: Gone Fishing, Album: Auberge, 1991

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• I will live this day as if it is my last. …I will waste not a moment mourning yesterday’s misfortunes, Yesterday’s defeats, yesterday’s aches of the heart, for why should I throw good after bad?

  Og Mandino

  Heart, Yesterday, Mourning

  Og Mandino (2009). “The Greatest Secret in the World”, p.66, Bantam

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• Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any fool can muddle; but it takes something more of a man to save and the more he saves the more of a man he makes of himself. Waste and extravagance unsettle a man's mind for every crisis; thrift, which means some form of self-restraint, steadies it.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Mean, Men, Self

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• Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.

  Tryon Edwards

  Character, Mind, Dry

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.651, Ravenio Books

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• There is no waste in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions...

  Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.

  World, Ineffectiveness, Kick Ass

  "Motion Study as an Increase of National Wealth". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 59, (p. 96), www.jstor.org. May, 1915.

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• If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact is what matters.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  What Matters, People, Serendipity

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• The most important thing to do is to set goals. Training is a waste of time if you don't have goals.

  Samantha Riley

  Motivational, Sports, Goal

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• They say you waste time asleep, but I'm just trying to dream.

  Mac Miller

  Dream, Trying, Wasting Time

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• A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it is merely a line that connects one point with another. A route has no meaning in itself; its meaning derives entirely from the two points that it connects. A road is a tribute to space. Every stretch of road has meaning in itself and invites us to stop. A route is the triumphant devaluation of space, which thanks to it has been reduced to a mere obstacle to human movement and a waste of time.

  Milan Kundera

  Travel, Two, Space

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• Prayer is never an acceptable substitute for obedience. The sovereign Lord accepts no offering from His creatures that is not accompanied by obedience. To pray for revival while ignoring or actually flouting the plain precept laid down in the Scriptures is to waste a lot of words and get nothing for our trouble.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Prayer, Offering, Scripture

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• See, you're out your mind tryin' to face tha God.
  Your rhyme is like an empty prison...a waste of bars.

  Lord Finesse

  Rap, Hip Hop, Mind

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• Designing and implementing a strategy for change is a waste of time until you have discovered and embraced the current reality. If you don't know where you really are, it is impossible to get where you need to be.

  Andy Stanley

  Reality, Design, Needs

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Next Generation Leader”, p.74, Multnomah

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• The greatest waste … is failure to use the abilities of people…to learn about their frustrations and about the contributions that they are eager to make.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Frustration, People, Use

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• Comics are expensive. Don’t make me resent the money I spend buying yours. Every single moment in your script must either move the story along or demonstrate something important about the characters — preferably both — and every panel that does neither is a sloppy waste of space.

  Mark Waid

  Single Mom, Moving, Character

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• I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.

  John Chamberlain

  Art, Thinking, Junk

  "John Chamberlain, sculptor who used crushed-up cars, dies" by Alex Needham, www.theguardian.com. December 22, 2011.

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• Most young dealers of the Silicon Chip Era regard a reference library as merely a waste of space. Old Timers on the West Coast seem to retain a fondness for reference books that goes beyond the practical. Everything there is to know about a given volume may be only a click away, but there are still a few of us who'd rather have the book than the click. A bookman's love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.

  Larry McMurtry

  Book, Space, Library

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• To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things-products, packaging, and systems-from the very beginning on the understanding that waste does not exist.

  William McDonough

  Mean, Design, Understanding

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