Quotes About Waste

We] saw products as garbage even when they sat gleaming on store shelves, yet unbought. We didn't say, What kind of casserole will that make? We said, What kind of garbage will that make?

Consume or die. That's the mandate of the culture. And it all ends up in the dump. We make stupendous amounts of garbage, then we react to it, not only technologically but in our hearts and minds. We let it shape us. We let it control our thinking. Garbage comes first, then we build a system to deal with it.

She is beginning to think it is possible that all creation is a spurt of blank matter that chances to make an emerald planet here, a dead star there, with random waste between.

Whiz Co was a firm with an inside track to the future. The Future of Waste.

dreams (the waste material of premonitions).

Hubert complains that the electric wastebasket has been overheating. I haven't noticed it but that's what Hubert says and Hubert is rarely wrong about things that don't matter. The electric wastebasket is a security item. Papers dropped into it are destroyed instantly. How the electric wastebasket accomplishes this is not known. An intimidation followed by a demoralization eventuating in a disintegration, one assumes. It is not emptied. There are not even ashes.

In product development, our greatest waste is not unproductive engineers, but work products sitting idle in process queues.

offering increased productivity, increased revenue, or decreased waste are powerful associations with the need for a business (or an individual) to survive and thrive.

I'm just glad the jury is still not out where we're concerned. It feels like it took an awfully long time to find each other. And I don't want to waste any more of it." He leaned down and kissed her, lingering, and then continuing on a little longer. Then they were laughing and saying meaningless things and kissing, then laughing again

I know you're tired of hearing me say this, Guido, but I think plastic bottles are wrong, even though they're certainly not criminal. Though," she quickly added, "I think they will be within a few years. If we have any sense, that is.

Brunetti remembered when they found themselves with an excessive catch, they chose to give it away, rather than watch it rot.

My hopes for a relationship with her were wholly unreal, whereas my ongoing misery, and frustration, were an all-too-horrible reality. Was groundless, hopeless romantic obsession any way to waste the rest of my life?

Vicky cost the taxpayers sixty-five million dollars, and she couldn't predict the time an hour from now. I

In effect, the richest countries have an efficiency problem: they are squandering consumption without transforming much of it into joy.

Life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered.

You are going to end up as one of those sad old men who poke around in rubbish bins." "I'm going to end up in a hole in the ground... And so are you. So are we all.

all of the garbage associated with that

Coming back again to the investment bank world, they have meetings and all sorts of stuff going on that suck up time. Traders would all complain about the waste of time, but what it actually meant was that it limited the amount of time they were in front of their screens staring at their positions. You don't want to be sitting in front of your screen and staring at market prices for 12 hours a day. Staring at the price is not going to tell you very much.

My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.

Nisso reside nossa possível tragédia: o desperdício de uma vida com seus talentos truncados se não conseguirmos ver ou não tivermos audácia para mudar para melhor — em qualquer momento, e em qualquer idade.

IDÉE POUR UN COURT DOCUMENTAIRE Des représentants de l'industrie alimentaire essayent d'ouvrir leurs emballages.

In 1931 Mabel bought a carton of Roberts Brothers archives, which had been thrown out as waste paper for the mills but salvaged by a book hunter. The carton contained the whole of the Dickinson publishing papers, including the draft and final contracts in 1894.

John Sharpe summarizes it well in his review of G. K. Chesterton's Outline of Sanity: The world today operates by ". . . consuming the world's limited resources to produce an ever-expanding stream of products which are designed to wear out or become quickly outmoded, and for which the need is more often than not created by advertising, and not by necessity.

We Americans are interested only in the consumption of our products. We have no interest in how they are produced, or what happens to them once we discard them, once we throw them away.