Waste Quotes - Page 40

• Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?

  Michael Torke

  Funny, Music, Listening

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• As you get older, you shouldn't waste time drinking bad wine.

  Julia Child

  Drinking, Food, Wine

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• I'm all about exuberance. We only have one short life to live, and we shouldn't waste it being tasteful.

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Short Life, Exuberance, Decor

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• We're not going to waste our valuable space or your precious energy by giving equal time to stories of tragedy, failure, and tumult. They get far more that their fair share of attention everywhere else. Future historians might even conclude that our age suffered from a collective obsessive-compulsive disorder: the pathological need to repetitively seek out reasons for how bad life is.

  Rob Brezsny

  Media, Space, Giving

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.66, Frog Books

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• Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies . . . despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions, swamped in the repeated personal crises of the aging preadolescent; all are familiar images of American society. They are signs of private nightmares of incoherence and disorder in broken climaxes where technologies in pursuit of mastery create ever-worsening problems - private nightmares expanded to a social level.

  Paul Shepard

  Technology, Broken, Historical

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• Life is so short. Grudges are a waste of time. Laugh when you can, apologise when you should, and trust God with what you cannot change.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Laughing, Trust In God, Wasting Time

  Twitter post from Jun 14, 2016

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• Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  People, Interesting, Ballet

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• The quality of your life is dependent upon the quality of the life of your cells. If the bloodstream is filled with waste products, the resulting environment does not promote a strong, vibrant, healthy cell life-nor a biochemistry capable of creating a balanced emotional life for an individual.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Motivational, Strong

  Tony Robbins (2010). “Unlimited Power a Black Choice”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• In Western society, and particularly in American society, imagination is stulified from infancy. The imaginative child is discouraged and upbraided. He is told that the process is mere dreaming, that it wastes time and leads nowhere. It is said to be "impractical." As the child grows and its imagination inevitably leads it to express unconventional ideas and to try new behavior, it is chided and even viciously punished for such signs of unorthodoxy.

  Philip Wylie

  Dream, Children, Ideas

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• A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part with it, in death, or even imaginatively, in art.

  Diane Ackerman

  Art, Self, People

  Diane Ackerman (2004). “An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time

  Sara Paretsky

  Girl, Home, Kansas

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• Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?

  David Baldacci

  Trying, Wasting Time

  David Baldacci (2011). “The Whole Truth”, p.62, Pan Macmillan

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• That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.

  Hippocrates

  Life, Use It Or Lose It, Physicians

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• Here's an example of how it wastes some time. To be judged on or to be talked about on appearance—say chest size—it makes me wear layers, it makes me have to waste time figuring out what am I going to wear so that nobody will look in an area that I don't need them to look at.

  Sarah Palin

  Example, Needs, Looks

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• I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.

  Aaron Copland

  Extravagance, Adore

  "Aaron Copland: the Life and Work of an Uncommon Man". Book by Howard Pollack, 1999.

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• I love all waste
  And solitary places; where we taste
  The pleasure of believing what we see
  Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Believe, Soul, Wish

  'Julian and Maddalo' (1818) l. 14

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• Every child who, rather than being born, is condemned unjustly to being aborted, bears the face of Jesus Christ, bears the face of the Lord, who even before he was born, and then just after birth, experienced the world’s rejection. And every elderly person…even if he is ill or at the end of his days, bears the face of Christ. They cannot be discarded, as the ‘culture of waste’ suggests!

  Pope Francis

  Inspiring, Christian, Wise

  Pope Francis (2017). “Embracing the Way of Jesus: Reflections from Pope Francis on Living Our Faith”, p.77, Loyola Press

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• The popes have spoken of human ecology, closely linked to environmental ecology. We are living in a time of crisis: we see this in the environment, but above all we see this in mankind Man is not in charge today, money is in charge, money rules. God our Father did not give the task of caring for the earth to money, but to us, to men and women: we have this task! Instead, men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the 'culture of waste.'

  Pope Francis

  Father, Caring, Men

  "Pope Francis On World Environment Day Speaks Of Food Waste, Lack Of Attention To Needs Of Poor", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2013.

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• Never let a crisis go to waste

  Saul Alinsky

  Crisis

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• Certain countries are dumping nuclear waste directly into
  the ocean, making fish flesh even more poisonous.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Country, Ocean, Nuclear

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• Does this planet have enough resources so seven or eight billion can have the same level of consumption and waste that today is seen in rich societies? It is this level of hyper-consumption that is harming our planet.

  Jose Mujica

  Eight, Today, Doe

  "Poverty and the Presidency: Uruguay’s Jose Mujica" by Conrad Black, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2012.

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• I'm not trying to convert the Jewish people to the Christian faith... In fact, trying to convert Jews is a waste of time. Jews already have a covenant with God and that has never been replaced by Christianity.

  John Hagee

  Christian, Covenant With God, People

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• The experience of every-day life fully proves that the armed individual is invariably anxious to try his strength. The same is historically true of governments. Really peaceful countries do not waste life and energy in war preparations, with the result that peace is maintained.

  Emma Goldman

  Country, War, Government

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.75, 谷月社

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• There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Criticism, Literature, Wasting Time

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• It is hard to know when we have done enough for the Atonement to change our natures and so qualify us for eternal life. And we don't know how many days we will have to give the service necessary for that mighty change to come. But we know that we will have days enough if only we don't waste them.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Giving, Done, Atonement

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