Waste Quotes - Page 34

• The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.

  Laura Miller

  Dream, Sacrifice, Cities

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• Live what you love, and love what you live.
  Anything less is a painful and frustrating waste of your precious time.

  Ralph Marston

  And Love, Painful, Frustrating

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• We need to create a new revolution, and to do that, don’t waste your life: stop pleasing people, and become who you always wanted to be.

  Paulo Coelho

  People, Needs, Revolution

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 25, 2009

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• Sure, there are plenty of ways to waste this day. But you now have the chance to choose to make good and valuable use of it.
  
  Now is an opportunity to create value. And that opportunity cannot be delayed until later.
  
  Now is yours to use for whatever rich and fulfilling purpose you can imagine. Stand up, step forward, and get busy making the very best of now.

  Ralph Marston

  Opportunity, Purpose, Use

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• DJs should not be just pressing play with a USB stick, or getting wasted and throwing cake. I don't think [stunts like throwing cake] have anything to do with connecting with your audience. To me, it has no substantial creative value - it's just a waste of food.

  Paul van Dyk

  Thinking, Cake, Play

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• You spend your time like you spend money. You can waste it or invest it.

  Joel Osteen

  Like You

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• You have to laugh at yourself. Otherwise you'll waste all that great material.

  Mark Driscoll

  Laughing, Laugh At Yourself, Materials

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• God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes.

  Richard Rohr

  Religion, Too Much, Boxes

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• Life is too precious to waste it with the wrong person. You're better off alone until the right one comes along.

  Tony Gaskins

  Wrong Person, Life Is, Persons

  FaceBook post by Tony A. Gaskins Jr from Jul 26, 2012

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  It's a terrible waste to be happy and not notice it.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Terrible

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• There is no time to waste. We must either unite now or perish.

  Julius Nyerere

  No Time To Waste

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• Time is money'... Waste it now. Pay for it later!

  Benjamin Franklin

  Pay, Time Is Money

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• In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.

  Marilyn Johnson

  Tough Times, Librarian, Terrible

  Marilyn Johnson (2010). “This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh..apologiz e..let go of what you can't change.

  George Carlin

  Letting Go, Life Is Too Short, Perfect

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• I never waste my energy feeling bad for myself

  Sam Berns

  Feelings, Energy, Feeling Bad

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• A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

  Mark Twain

  Wise, Lying, Men

  Mark Twain, Susan K. Harris (1994). “Historical Romances: The Prince and the Pauper, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc”, p.115, Library of America

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• I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Country, Mean, Men

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

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• Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free.

  Bill McKibben

  Business, Fuel, Fossils

  "Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math" by Bill McKibben, www.rollingstone.com. July 19, 2012.

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• The linear 'Take - Make - Dispose' system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively replaced by a restorative model in which waste does not exist as such but is only food for the next cycle

  Ellen MacArthur

  Business, Doe, Restoration

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• Turning every business into an environmental industry will involve applying new principles...first, we need to make more with less...second, we need to design out waste...third, we must begin to decarbonise our energy supply

  David Miliband

  Business, Design, Environmental

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• Forward thinking companies that adapt positively to the sustainable business agenda will be at the forefront of resource productivity, reducing waste and of environmental reporting. They and their management teams make things happen ahead of their competitors

  Michael Meacher

  Business, Team, Thinking

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• (Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it is the avoidance of loss

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Loss, Guiding Principles

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• The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me

  Richard Branson

  Business, Dwelling, People

  Sir Richard Branson (2012). “Like A Virgin: Secrets They Won’t Teach You at Business School”, p.26, Random House

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• My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.

  Margot Asquith

  Attitude, Father, Lying

  Margot Asquith (1963). “The Autobiography of Margot Asquith: Vol. two”

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• I'm not going to go around with a long face - that's a waste of time

  Doris Day

  Love, Life, Family

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