Top 1200 Waste Quotes & Sayings

It is not true that people who accomplish things don't waste time and that people who waste time don't accomplish things. The very concept is ill-informed. You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment.

We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

At least in my life, I cannot hold onto grudges. It's a waste of energy, a waste of time.

We're taught that food in a dumpster is waste. But when you find bags of bread that are perfectly good, all of a sudden that waste turns into bounty. That's an important shift in perception.

Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.

This loving person is a person who abhors waste - waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.

E-waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the United States and can pose serious environmental and health problems here and around the world when not handled properly.

We have not been scuffling in this waste - howling wilderness for the right to be stupid. All this waste.

I want to be necessary and do good works. I ain't here to waste nobody's time, because I don't want you to waste mine.

Some people have a team of ten people - Waste of money, waste of time. I do it on my own when I'm in the ring.

Don't do anything stupd. And don't waste money. Let everybody else waste money and do stupid things; then we'll buy them.

If you've got time to waste, you might as well waste it listening to people.

You always hear about waste and abuse in Washington. And usually it doesn't mean much, because nobody ever finds where that waste and abuse is.

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

Waste is only waste if we waste it.

Inequality is a terrible waste of time, a waste of people's resources.

In zen, it is a cardinal sin to waste time. To waste time is to squander the here and now, which, if you think about it, is all that we have.

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

I completely understand social media as a method of promotion and digesting information, but it just seems like a colossal waste of time to me, and there's a million other ways I'd rather waste my time.

The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste - the waste of human intelligence and creativity.

Tonight I think again of many days that are sacrificed for one night of love. Of the waste and the fruit of the waste, of plenty and of fire. And how painlessly-time.

This culture of waste has made us insensitive even to the waste and disposal of food, which is even more despicable when all over the world, unfortunately, many individuals and families are suffering from hunger and malnutrition.

There is no waste in the world that equals the waste from needless, ill-directed, and ineffective motions...

I started getting more and more active around immigration reform because this was such a waste of lives, such a waste of potential, such a waste for our country not to have the human capital that we developed - geared toward improving our entire society.

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material.

Vexation of spirit is a waste of time Negative thinking, don't you waste your thoughts Verbal conflict is a waste of word Physical conflict is a waste of flesh People will always be who they want And that's what really makes the world go round Unconditional love is scarce.

You waste life when you waste good food.

The greatest crime of welfare isn't that it's a waste of money, but that it's a waste of people.

It's an individual waste and it's an economic waste for Australia not to recognise dyslexia.

We subsidize the disposal of waste in all its myriad forms — from landfills, to Superfund cleanups, to deep-well injection, to storage of nuclear waste. In the process, we encourage an economy where 80 percent of what we consume gets thrown away after one use.

Never waste a good crisis...Don't waste it when it can have a very positive impact on climate change and energy security.

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

Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.

Both parties in Washington waste too much of your money. When I worked there, I helped expose waste and abuse by government contractors.

The way this country deals with drugs is just not funny. What a waste of everyone's time and effort. What a waste of a lot of people's lives.

Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.

I think golf is a waste of time and a waste of a sunny afternoon. I also stink at it. I have never found anything, including divorce and a sexual harassment suit, more frustrating.

I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn't want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible.

Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness.

I don't waste my time doing my head in about stupid things that don't really matter and don't waste time worrying over nothing.

No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.

Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries. Lean thinking defines value as 'providing benefit to the customer'; anything else is waste.

The thing about the movie 'Navy SEALs' is that it was just such a waste. The script could've been shaped to be much better, and you just hate to see all that talent and passion go to waste.

love's just a waste of energy and life's just a waste of time so why don't we get together we could waste everything tonight

You should concentrate on the segregation of waste, especially kitchen waste. Only after segregation the waste becomes useful and it can be recycled.

Poverty is a national waste as well as individual waste. We are all diminished when any of us are denied proper education. The nation is the poorer - a poorer economy, a poorer civilization, because of this human and national waste.

To eliminate the concept of waste means to design things-products, packaging, and systems-from the very beginning on the understanding that waste does not exist.

I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.

It's better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money.

We, the people, do have the power to stop the tragic waste of resources if we regard it as socially unacceptable to waste food.

Our houses, shops, and factories waste gigantic amounts of energy, often in the form of excess heat. How do we slash this waste? The answer is fairly simple: with a smart thermal water grid.

There is a lot of waste in government-run programs generally, and a lot of waste and fraud and misuse of money in Medicare and Medicaid that can be saved.

If we keep making things based on violence and platform jumping, you don't need Ellen Page to do this, to be honest. It would be a waste of time and a waste of money.

All should be taught that the highest ambition is to be happy, and to add to the well-being of others; that place and power are not necessary to success; that the desire to acquire great wealth is a kind of insanity. They should be taught that it is a waste of energy, a waste of thought, a waste of life, to acquire what you do not need and what you do not really use for the benefit of yourself or others.

The solid waste is returned to Earth with the shuttle. If we [astronauts] ever dump solid waste overboard, it's going to give new meaning to wishing upon a falling star.

I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.

In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin.

Our job with our digestion is to absorb nutrients and eliminate waste, and to not dwell on the waste - which is my issue with some of the pop American psychology masquerading as Yoga, by the way.

The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize.

Give a man a beer, waste an hour. Teach a man to brew, and waste a lifetime!