#wasted

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

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

Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#never #talk #wasted

I have wasted my hours. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#i #wasted

Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#anyway #around #could #east #europe

I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent. ↗

— Ronnie Hawkins

#just #money #ninety #other #percent

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

— Arthur Rimbaud

#enslaved #everything #i #idle #life

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