Quotes About Value

You reach a point at which you have to view your life through the things you've spent so much time doing. The alternative is a perilous feeling of waste.

That's what people expect: They don't want to read a slight novel. People don't want to waste their time on anything less than 'great.'

Our life is our life. If we waste it, we're fools.

Don't waste the time you do have.

Don't waste your time with a good-for-nothing man.

Sideline reporting may look insidious, superfluous, or just a total waste of airtime from where you sit - probably on a couch or a recliner, perhaps on a bar stool in your local brewery - but let me assure you, if you're one of the handful who take it as seriously as some of my colleagues do, it is anything but.

I do not understand players going to China at the age of 27 or 28. Those guys are at the peak of their career. That is a waste, really. You only get one career. I sort of understand players who are already in their 30s.

Life is shockingly short; I don't want to waste that many days.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

The Gen X thinks history is a waste of time. This is instant world where only readymade things are valued.

It's good to be a martyr for your art, but it's just such a waste of time.

We had a few non-fiction books at home, but my dad was of the opinion that fiction was a complete and utter waste of time because it wasn't real - so what was the point of reading it?

In my own case, my folks didn't actually object to comics, as many parents did, but they pretty much felt the things were a waste of time.

I'd rather they call me a national treasure than a national waste of time. And yes, it does feel good, but I've had to earn it.

Life is not a waste of time.

I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is fleeting doesn't mean it isn't valuable. If the only criterion of value is whether something lasts, then the whole of human life is a waste of time.

For less powerful actors to reject work is just a waste of time and money - pointless.

I tend to 'splurge' for convenience. I'll pay a lot to not waste time.

I would not waste time, as Senator Gillibrand does, on things such as dictating a national minimum driving age and sponsoring a 'National Day of Play.' I'd help New Yorkers understand that we get less in value from Washington than what we send there in taxes.

We've got one shot at this life, and to not be productive with what we've been given, to me, is a travesty. I think the biggest waste is when a human life is wasted. It's unforgivable.

Life is busy. There are daily concerns and obligations that have to be met, and to take time to think about how precious and special a human life is that you only get one, and that every wasted minute is lost. You can't get it back.

If you waste five minutes of time a day, over the course of a year that adds up to one full work day. Think of five wasted minutes as a slow-release holiday drug. Savour it.

Everybody is struggling for the good things of the world, and all the arguments to prove that they are not desirable are worse than wasted.

If I sit idle for one day, I feel 24 hours of my life are wasted.