Quotes About Waste

I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

We think about time as something not to waste, not as something to invest.

To be a good trader, you need to trade with your eyes open, recognize real trends and turns, and not waste time or energy on regrets and wishful thinking.

I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.

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.

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

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Overconsumption is the mother of all environmental problems. For the first time in the history of capitalism, consumption itself has become controversial.

You do not hate the time you waste; it evokes a much more passive emotion than that. You only wish you had it back, like a quarter in an unlucky slot machine.

We can create as magnificent an environment as we like, but unless we change the heart it's all a waste of time.

Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.

Planning is not just guessing, it is harmful guessing, because it is a waste of time. All the time you spend doing your five year plan you can use to worry about tomorrow.

Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.

Careers very rarely are a waste of time; jobs usually are.

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.

Time is the most valuable commodity we have, worth more than gold, yet wasted more than all else. Efficient use of time begins with prayer.

While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time.

I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.