#waste

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. ↗

— Thomas Love Peacock

#resource #scarcity #waste

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings. ↗

— Robert Peel

#burst #courage #his #indignation #man

I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover. ↗

— John Pople

#cover #discarded #found #i #read

Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#book #erred #helped #interpretations #me

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#enslaved #everything #i #idle #life

A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary. ↗

— Jef Raskin

#more #necessary #our time #require #shall

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice. ↗

— Jose Rizal

#becoming #consecrated #edifice #field #great

There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with. Love shouldn't be one of them. Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time. ↗

— Jill Robinson

#deal #extraordinary #less #life #love

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day. ↗

— Mickey Rooney

#always #day #get #get married #haven

Never waste a crisis. ↗

— Mark Rutte

#never #waste