#waste

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. ↗

— Frances E. Willard

#friction #i #into #life #momentum

If you're going to do something, make it right and make it as good as you can. Don't waste anybody's time, especially your own. ↗

— Debra Wilson

#especially #going #good #make #own

It's wonderful that so many people want to contribute to fighting aids or malaria. But, if somebody isn't paying attention to the overall health system in the country, a whole lot of money can be wasted. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#attention #contribute #country #fighting #health

By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time, and many more have been pressed with poverty and grief. ↗

— John Woolman

#been #breaking #countries #enraged #flourishing

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#late #lay #little #much #nature

I don't like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day. ↗

— Martin Yan

#any #anything #before #day #eaten

The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#before #disciplined #forces #invented #me

What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#before #believe #better #better off #book

Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#guilt #supreme #time #waste #waste of time

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy. ↗

— August Strindberg

#because #demands #energy #every #evolution