#wasted

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#constant #fool #labor #life #man

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent and the choices you make will shape your life forever. ↗

— Chazz Palminteri

#forever #life #make #saddest #saddest thing

I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#dying #figure #haven #i #life

Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money. ↗

— Michael Porter

#behind #billions #business #decades #ineffective

Since I've got on the Internet, it's opened a whole world of wasted time for me. My wife says she's an Internet widow. ↗

— Mick Ralphs

#i #internet #me #opened #says

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

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

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts. ↗

— Ted W. Engstrom

#becomes #best #effort #efforts #inseparably

I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was. ↗

— Keith Richards

#never #probably #thought #wasted