Quotes About Wasted

As you know, Joyce was a writer who asked his reader to give him a lifetime," he said. "I am that reader, and I can tell you it was a wasted life.

Un hombre que se deslizaba desesperadamente cuesta abajo, incapaz de pagarse la ropa, la luz ó los alimentos; viviendo igual que una rata en el fondo de una embarcación abandonada, escurriéndose furtivamente por calles laterales, sufriendo a causa del talento frustrado y las oportunidades desperdiciadas.

They never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity

Who among the angels will hear me if I cry? I stand in the dank and he dark, amid my wasted life, not knowing what to do, unable to make any decision, and weep. My hopes were extinguished a long while ago, and now any tinder of dignity follows suit.

almost nothing was more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth wasting it on

Cuánto tiempo hemos perdido buscando ser competentes en cosas inútiles y sin sentido, solo por sobrepasar el promedio! Los apegos siempre están al servicio de lo inútil, lo absurdo o lo peligroso, así que no pierdas el tiempo.

It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.

The sequence in which we observe characteristics of a person is often determined by chance. Sequence matters, however, because the halo effect increases the weight of first impressions, sometimes to the point that subsequent information is mostly wasted.

We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.

He's a drunk. One of those guys who dies at twenty and is buried at eighty.

and whatever happens to love that hasn't been used enough, has happened.

It is surprising," Roosevelt explained, "how much reading a man can do in time usually wasted.

IT WAS AN ASTONISHINGLY forgettable day—a Tuesday?—one of those days that come and go, and then at the end of your life you wonder, Man, did I really piss away my life with an endless series of wasted Tuesdays?

Berapa banyak waktu dalam hidup yang kita sia-siakan karena mengkhawatirkan sesuatu yang, pada saat itu, tak memiliki solusi, dan karena itu, bukanlah sebuah masalah?

For, as Andre-Louis so truly says, there is no worse hell than that provided by the regrets for wasted opportunities.

Let it not be said by a future, forlorn generation that we wasted and lost our great potential because our despair was so deep we didn't even try, or because each of us thought someone else was worrying about our problems.

Despite its growing scarcity and preciousness to life, ironically, water is also man's most misgoverned, inefficiently allocated and profligately wasted natural resource.

...the future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man, has wasted himself through buggery, cell phone usage, and drug abuse

Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

I think that my parents' only regret is that they wasted so much money on my stupid prestigious university degree.

If one did not have at least a little luck, one would never survive childhood. But luck can be spent, like money; and lost, like a memory; and wasted, like a life.

Lose an hour in the morning and you will be all day hunting for it.