Waste Quotes

Cutting food waste is a delicious way of saving money, helping to feed the world and protect the planet.

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

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.

Time spent with a cat is never wasted.

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.

What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.

There are two things you should never waste your time on: things that don't matter and people that think you don't matter.

If you ain't using all the talents God provided you with For the betterment of Man, understand, You ain't nothing but a waste.

I don't like going where I've already been. Life is a myriad of territories to discover. I don't want to waste time with what I already know.

Nothing ever truly dies. The universe wastes nothing, everything is simply transformed.

People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.

Only thru a mucus-free diet can we expect to eliminate the accumulation of waste and obstructions deposited in the body tissues during a lifetime of wrong eating.

Generally we waste our lives, distracted from our true selves, in endless activity. Meditation is the way to bring us back to ourselves, where we can really experience and taste our full being.

To be a successful businessman, you must have remarkable talents; and if you have such talents, why waste them on business?

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

I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions.

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

Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.

My advice: Don't waste so much time worrying about your skin or your weight. Develop what you do, what you put your hands on in the world.

All the gifts and talents we have are from God, but they are also for God...for His glory and for His pleasure. Don't waste them, make great use of them and make Him proud.

We do not have time to waste our lives coasting out casual, comfortable Christianity.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.

Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.

You might as well learn that a man who catches fish or shoots game has got to make it fit to eat before he sleeps. Otherwise it’s all a waste and a sin to take it if you can’t use it.

Move in space with minimum waste and maximum joy.

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

If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.

The current system punishes communities which make the investment in creating landfills, only to have them filled by states which refuse to adequately address their waste issues.

All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.

Lean thinking defines value as providing benefit to the customer; anything else is waste.

If it doesn't add value, it's waste.

All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think art should be escapist. That's a waste of time.

It's a shame to waste [the uniqueness that is you], by doing what someone else has done.

Always throw your clubs ahead of you. That way you don't have to waste energy going back to pick them up.

Everyday, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.

You waste life when you waste good food.

Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.

Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.

From now on you must strive to cut out unnecessary movement. Waste in movement is wrong and will get you killed.

The old men ask for more time; the young waste it. And the philosopher simply smiles, knowing there is none there.

The way past despair and false hope is just letting go. It doesn't improve your odds of survival, but it doesn't waste mental energy.

Don't waste time on excuses. Just get it done.

The greatest waste in all the world is living below our potential.

Real love moves freely in both directions. Don't waste your time on anything else.

Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.