#waste

Preparing to fight wild fires is only part of the solution, we must be more pro-active and prevent the fires before they start, or reduce their intensity by removing forest waste and fuel build up. ↗

— Rick Renzi

#build #fight #fires #forest #fuel

In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed. ↗

— David Ricardo

#before #circulating #could #lost #manner

If you are killing a chicken and cooking a chicken, it has to taste like chicken. Veal has to taste like veal. You have to be able to identify what you're eating. One of my worst experiences is when I can't tell what I'm eating. It is a waste. ↗

— Joel Robuchon

#chicken #cooking #eating #experiences #i

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. ↗

— Auguste Rodin

#nothing #time #use #waste #waste of time

What could make my life better? Oh, if I could only find that magic bottle that lets you never have to sleep. I have so much stuff I wanna do, but... That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste! ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#better #bottle #closed #could #eyes

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. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#about #computer #ever #everything #garbage

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#person #someone #wanting #waste #you

Already, in the last few decades, you have realized the utter futility of of encumbering yourselves with superfluous possessions that have no useful virtue, but which, for various sentimental reasons, you continue to hoard, thus lessening your life's efficiency by using for it time and attention that should have been applied to the practical work of life's accomplishments. (The Miracle of the Lily - 1928) ↗

— Clare Winger Harris

#material-possessions #materialism #possessions #uselessness #wasted-time

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. ↗

— Bernard Berenson

#busy #corner #could #hand #hat

Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction? ↗

— Margaret Carlson

#good #incompetence #iraq #love #managers