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• The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Life, Simple, Simplicity

  Orison Swett Marden (2005). “An Iron Will”, p.5, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

  John Lubbock

  Inspirational, Success, Summer

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• Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, People, Trying

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• When we say we have "hit the limits," we are saying that nature is the problem, when in fact the limits we have hit are the limits of destruction and waste, not nature.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Limits, Facts, Problem

  Interview with Karen Brown, blog.etsy.com. July 23, 2013.

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• Instead of of being so metaphorical with the rhyme, I was encouraged to go straight at it and hit it dead on and not waste time trying to cover things.

  Tupac Shakur

  Trying, Wasting Time, Metaphorical

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• The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.

  Barbara Bush

  Blue, Mind, Faces

  TIME magazine, August 24, 1992.

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• Each year-in the fields, commercial kitchens, markets, stores, and restaurants-millions of pounds of food go to waste... We need to find ways to get this food into the mouths of the hungry and not into the mouth of the dumpster.

  Dan Glickman

  Years, Kitchen, Environmental

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• Only the few times I've been to so-called treatment centers, which were a complete waste of money and useless. I didn't know what I was doing at the time, because I was always drunk when I checked in.

  William Eggleston

  Drunk, Useless, Treatment

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Disney became hated. It became one of the evil corporations. It used to be loved. They couldn't hold onto talent; they couldn't attract talent. Some of their products did badly. The Californialand project was a $5 billion waste of money. They couldn't make it work. The magic had gone, no pun intended.

  Simon Sinek

  Evil, Magic, Gone

  Source: advisor.tv

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• Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions... Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

  Tina Fey

  Motivational, Confidence, Self Esteem

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 5, 2011.

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• How often do we talk just to fill up the quiet space? How often do we waste our breath talking about nonsense?

  Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

  Talking, Space, Quiet

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• At the moment, he is in shock," said Magnus. "He has believed one thing for five years, and now he has realized that all this time he has been looking at the world through a faulty mechanism - that all the things he sacrificed in the name of what he thought was good and noble have been a waste, and that he has only hurt what he he loved." "Good God," said Woolsey. "Are you quite sure you've helped him?

  Cassandra Clare

  Hurt, Years, Names

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe the girl would get strong enough to withstand an ink exchange with one of the chosen faeries. If not, he could always give her to one of the weaker fey. It seemed a shame to waste a lovely broken toy.

  Melissa Marr

  Girl, Strong, Broken

  Melissa Marr (2009). “Ink Exchange”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness.

  L. Frank Baum

  Wasting Time, Reason, Given

  L. Frank Baum (2007). “The Adventures of Trot & Cap'n Bill Before They Went to Oz - The Sea Fairies, Sky Island”, p.66, Lulu.com

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• The night is darkening round me,
  The wild winds coldly blow;
  But a tyrant spell has bound me
  And I cannot, cannot go.
  The giant trees are bending
  Their bare boughs weighed with snow;
  The storm is fast descending,
  And yet I cannot go.
  Clouds beyond clouds above me,
  Wastes beyond wastes below;
  But nothing drear can move me;
  I will not, cannot go.

  Emily Bronte

  Moving, Night, Blow

  "The Night is Darkening Round Me". Poem by Emily Bronte, www.poetryfoundation.org. November 1837.

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• Fundamentally not to waste energy. If we were all to reduce our demands for energy, it would make an enormous amount of difference.

  David Attenborough

  Differences, Energy, Demand

  Source: www.lagoonsociety.com

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• The Jersey mentality is: I work, I drink, I stay up all night, I try to meet a girl, it's a waste of time.

  Gerard Way

  Girl, Night, Trying

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• A life is not a waste of time

  Nalini Singh

  Patience, Wasting Time, Life Is

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4”, p.187, Penguin

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• Worry is a waste of emotional reserve".

  Ayn Rand

  Emotional, Worry, Reserves

  AYN RAND (1971). “THE FOUNTAINHEAD”

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• I am a gluttonous, gorging failure. A waste. My body isn’t used to high-sugar carbs laced with witchcraft. It can barely cope with soup and crackers.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Body, Soup, Sugar

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.155, Penguin

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• I waste much time gaping and wondering. During a walk or in a book or in the middle of an embrace, suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything. The bare fact of existence paralyses me- holds my mind in mortmain. To be alive is so incredible that all I do is to lie still and merely breathe- like an infant on its back in a cot. It is impossible to be interested in anything in particular while overhead the sun shines or underneath my feet grows a single blade of grass.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Lying, Book, Feet

  W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”

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• Oh,” she said. “You can rest assured that I will kill him. Mostly this is to emphasize what I said before: no more time to lounge around and decide with no consequences. For every moment you waste deliberating today, the Oak King will be in the hands of my torturers, experiencing the most excruciating pain. Your delay extends that agony.” “Oh, irony,” murmured Dorian.

  Richelle Mead

  Kings, Pain, Hands

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Richelle Mead Dark Swan Bundle: Storm Born, Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned & Shadow Heir”, p.1403, Zebra Books

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• What will happen will happen and I won't waste my time worrying.

  Christopher Paolini

  Worry, Wasting My Time, Brisingr

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• Waste today, want tomorrow.

  Lauren Oliver

  Want, Today, Tomorrow

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.362, Hachette UK

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