Quotes About Waste

I am not too keen to do movies, as I don't have time to waste on struggling for a role in a film.

I learned about coal ash, which is the byproduct of burning coal for electricity. It is one of the largest solid industrial waste streams in the country, and it contains harmful substances like arsenic, lead, mercury and more, and because of how it is stored, pollutes groundwater and drinking water all over the country.

He who buys what he does not need steals from himself.

Time wastes our bodies and our wits, but we waste time, so we are quits.

The greatest wastes are unused talents and untried ideas.

Damn and dump this Exit poll result in the garbage.

There is nothing worse in this world then wasted talent.

They use everything about the hog except the squeal.

Later studies estimated that at least 6.4 Mt of plastic litter enters the oceans every year; that some 8 million pieces are discarded every day; that the floating plastic debris averages more than 13 000 pieces per km2 of ocean surface; and that some 60% of all marine litter stems from shoreline activities

For me, as for all the world, the War was a tragedy and a vast stupidity, a waste of youth and of time; it betrayed my faith, mocked my love, and irremediably spoilt my career.

Recycling must go down in history as one of the greatest and most successful confidence tricks.

Waste lies not in the number of possessions but in the failure to enjoy them.

People in industrialized nations used to be called "citizens." Now we are "consumers"—which means (according to the dictionary definition of "consume") people who "use up," "waste," "destroy," and "squander.

The key is remembering that anything you buy and don't use, anything you throw away, anything you consume and don't enjoy is money down the drain, wasting your life energy and wasting the finite resources of the planet. Any waste of your life energy means more hours lost to the rat race, making a dying. Frugality is the user-friendly and earth-friendly lifestyle.

Efforts are meant to optimize, not to waste. The right time to optimize it is when others are open to giving their buy-ins to participate.

We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste.

Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced.

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

The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.

(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

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

Here is a new car, a new iPhone. We buy. We discard. We buy again. In recent years, we've been doing it faster.

So synthetic vanillin is manufactured and comes from a surprising source: the waste pulp liquor from the sulfite treatment of wood pulp in the making of paper. Waste liquor consists mainly of lignin, a substance found in and between the cell walls of land plants.