To Waste Quotes

Don't waste time asking God to keep you from doing things. Don't do them.

A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste.

Life too is precious to waste - to spend on anything but the best.

Excellence is a signal to God that we are going to dig our ditches but if You don't make it rain, all of this is a waste of time.

My definition of utter waste is a coachload of lawyers going over a cliff, with three empty seats.

In the life of a real writer, nothing is ever lost, no word you write is a waste of your time or energy.

For me, books are music for my mind and my imagination. When I am stuck in something I'm writing, I simply read my way out of being stuck. You can never waste time reading.

Much of our waste problem is to be accounted for by the intentional flimsiness and unrepairability of the labor-savers and gadgets that we have become addicted to.

Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in wasted time.

Why should I waste my good time making a straight dramatic film? The people who can't make you laugh can do that.

Our job with our digestion is to absorb nutrients and eliminate waste, and to not dwell on the waste - which is my issue with some of the pop American psychology masquerading as Yoga, by the way.

For me, the more I don't foolishly waste my life wishing for a better past the more free I am today to create, grow, and love.

I want to go working with good people on something that's good, because otherwise it's a big waste of time. I don't have that much time.

Television is obviously an enormous intruder. Quite often people say they have no time, but in fact they waste a lot of time on things that are not healthy.

People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.

We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.

Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.

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

We can't afford to waste time going slow on changing our party so now is not the time to put our foot on the brake. Now is the time to press on the accelerator.

Being nervous is a waste of time.

It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.

Energy literacy means you can see the waste in disposing of a plastic bottle after you've drunk water from some place on the other side of the world.

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.

Anyone who's ever filed a tax return or visited the Department of Motor Vehicles understands that government does two things well: spend our money and waste our time.

Since the average person's small supply of politeness must last him all his life, he can't afford to waste it on bridge partners.

Some things You have to let be lost Some battles, some battles You have to leave unfought. Then the truth just wastes away In all we dare not say. And in all we can't explain But I faithfully remain.

Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.

I've realized I can't waste any moment being unhappy.

I don't waste time being depressed.

The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.

If you waste your time and energy on things that don't matter in the outcome of the game, then when you get to the game you're not going to give your teammates the best that you have to offer.

All abuse and waste of God's creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.

Personally, my twenties were a complete waste of time. Professionally, I hope some good came of them.

I spend most of my money on beer, the rest I just waste.

I'm not gonna waste your time, so I wouldn't expect you to waste my time.

I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.

Most of the time, I regard the judgment of people as a waste of time. I regard the judgment of behavior as imperative.

Don't waste your one beautiful life.

Life has only gotten better personally for me as I've gotten older. I mean, being young was such a gross waste of time. I was just such a miserable, miserable person.

I just don't want you to worry about me, or think you've met me, or waste your time anymore.

If you do improvising, it can sometimes end up being a waste of time. And if you do that, it's more or less based on a writing process.

We live in a flash of light; evening comes and it is night forever. It's only a flash and we waste it. We waste it with our anxiety, our worries, our concerns, our burdens.

The solid waste is returned to Earth with the shuttle. If we [astronauts] ever dump solid waste overboard, it's going to give new meaning to wishing upon a falling star.

Never waste a good crisis...Don't waste it when it can have a very positive impact on climate change and energy security.

If radioactive waste were dissolved as water soluble compounds and then widely dispersed in the oceans, no health or other environmental risks would ever occur.

You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.

To waste! You are unknown and unwanted, save by me. This, because you are fairly adept at the various embalming arts and you occasionally compose a clever epitaph.

Do not waste your time with people who have shown you they really mean no good for you.

We over-eat, over-buy, and over-built, spewing out our toxic wastes upon the earth and into the air.