Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.

Mahatma Gandhi

Time is wealth, and the Gita says the Great Annihilator annihilates those who waste time.

Elmore Leonard

I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.

Swami Vivekananda

No matter what that makes elastic - sharply, intellectually and sincerely, keep at bay it as noxious waste.

Tite Kubo

If it's me, it would be a waste not to dance no matter what.

Rick Bass

To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life.

Rahm Emanuel

You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.

Terri Blackstock

time wasted is not always a waste of time.

Lady Gregory

I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.

Marco Rubio

I would love nothing more than compromise. But I would say to you that compromise that's not a solution is a waste of time.

Peter Kropotkin

Waste of time is the leading feature of our present education. Not only are we taught a mass of rubbish, but what is not rubbish is taught so as to make us waste over it as much time as possible.

James Beard

It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.

Henry Ford

Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another.

John Ray

Spend and be free, but make no waste.

James Richardson

If I do not waste time, I am wasting my time.

Marc Andreessen

I don't waste time being depressed.

Sharon Horgan

Personally, my twenties were a complete waste of time. Professionally, I hope some good came of them.

Sharon Salzberg

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

Syd Barrett

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

Peter Zumthor

In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.

Jimi Hendrix

Don't waste your time thinkin' about bad things.

John Henrik Clarke

...education has but one honorable purpose, one alone, everything else is a waste of time......that is to train the student to be a proper handler of power.

John Donne

Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness.

Joseph Campbell

It's a shame to waste [the uniqueness that is you], by doing what someone else has done.

Karen Finerman

Don't waste even a minute magnifying your perceived inadequacies. You can't do it all. Why berate yourself for not achieving the impossible?

Laurell K. Hamilton

Human lives are too short to waste in trivialities.

Lindsey Wixson

Being nervous is a waste of time.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.

Malcolm Forbes

I don't waste too much time philosophizing about wealth, I just recommend it to everyone.

Gene Wilder

Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.

Greg Behrendt

Don't waste the pretty

John Lennon

If you enjoyed the time you wasted, then it wasn't wasted time.