#wasted

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#career #ever #feel #fundamentally #game

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#bar #bunch #dice #drunks #history

I think it killed the performance on a lot of the systems in the Labs for years because everyone had their own copy of it, but it wasn't being shared, and so they wasted huge amounts of memory back when memory was expensive. ↗

— Bill Joy

#because #being #copy #everyone #expensive

In general President Obama's policies have been very, very skewed and very, very extreme. Like on healthcare for example, I don't think that trying to ram healthcare through was a smart idea politically, because he wasted a lot of capital and now he doesn't have any of that same capital with even his own party that he used to have. ↗

— Jonathan Krohn

#because #been #capital #even #example

Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.' ↗

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#god #how #i #life #live

I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#being happy #chosen #dark #dark side #enough

I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written. ↗

— James Rollins

#bit #delving #entire #fact #figure

Youth is wasted on the young. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#wasted #young #youth