Waste Quotes
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I was already in a band, and the teachers called my mum in and said: 'Abbey's so clever, it's a total waste if she follows her dream'. But I never wanted to do a job I didn't love, and I'd always wanted to be a model or an actress or a singer.
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Working at something you don't care about is the very best way to waste your life.
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The most important thing is to not waste your money.
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Having to respond to things that are made up or untrue tends to be a waste of time.
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The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.
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My Mamá Grande, a tiny Mayan woman, took me aside when I was an adolescent and told me several things that didn't make a bit of sense to my young and inattentive ears, and as young people tend to waste all attempts of our elders to relay to us wisdom accumulated over the decades, I thought my Mamá Grande had a few mice in the attic.
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Let us waste no further time looking for the secret of success or the key to happiness. Already the door is open and whosoever will, may enter.
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Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.
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Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any fool can muddle; but it takes something more of a man to save and the more he saves the more of a man he makes of himself. Waste and extravagance unsettle a man's mind for every crisis; thrift, which means some form of self-restraint, steadies it.
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Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.
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If we're going to save the planet, people are going to have to live in ways that don't require so much energy and don't create as much waste. The only way to do that is to live more densely than Americans are living right now.
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Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday.
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It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!
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Don't ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It's too short, and you're too special.
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Waste no words on a man who dislikes you. Actions will impress him more.
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Committee - a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
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Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
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If you've never been in a dumpster coated with industrial waste while someone stabs you with a piece of sharpened rebar, then you probably wouldn't understand.
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The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away.
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Life is a waste of woes, And Death a river deep, That ever onward flows, Troubled, yet asleep.
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In China, I helped introduce UNEP's campaign to reduce food waste on World Environment Day. The government took notice of food waste issues and now, when you over-order in a restaurant, you are encouraged to downsize. This is where people can really impact policy and vice versa!
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The main characteristic of Nature's farming can therefore be summed up in a few words. Mother earth never attempts to farm without live stock; she always raises mixed crops; great pains are taken to preserve the soil and to prevent erosion; the mixed vegetable and animal wastes are converted into humus; there is no waste; the processes of growth and the processes of decay balance one another; ample provision is made to maintain large reserves of fertility; the greatest care is taken to store the rainfall; both plants and animals are left to protect themselves against disease.
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Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you musn't waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it.
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Don’t waste your time on sweet formalities. Just show me your originality.
