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  • All should be taught that the highest ambition is to be happy, and to add to the well-being of others; that place and power are not necessary to success; that the desire to acquire great wealth is a kind of insanity. They should be taught that it is a waste of energy, a waste of thought, a waste of life, to acquire what you do not need and what you do not really use for the benefit of yourself or others.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.978, Library of Alexandria
  • Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

    Life   Leadership   Waste  
  • The longer I am in this work, the more I realize that intellectual struggles are merely the hazardous waste of life, blocking the heart from truth. The task of apologetics is to carefully remove that hazardous material and keep it from igniting into a destructive fire. Once that is done, the way to the heart is always through the way of the Cross, God’s love for each and every one of us.

    Block   Struggle   Heart  
  • Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

  • This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

    1837 'The American Scholar', lecture at Harvard University.
  • Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

    Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA
  • There is nothing new under the sun, not even Manet.

    Jules Breton (1891). “The Life of an Artist: Art and Nature”
  • Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.

    Life   Time   Attitude  
  • No Ideas original - there is nothing new under the sun.

    Nas
    Ideas   Old Things   Sun  
    Song: No Idea's Original
  • I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

    Time   Carpe Diem   Hands  
  • Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

    Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA
  • I don't have holiday nightmares, but the worst part about holidays is airports for me. It's the travelling to it that's the pain really. But if there's a problem, I just sort it out and get on with it. What's the point of letting it ruin your holiday? It's a waste of time and a waste of life otherwise. Just open that champagne and have a ball. I've always got a drink in my hand, have you noticed that?

    Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
  • No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime, let out all the length of all the reins.

    Mary Cholmondeley (2016). “Red Pottage”, p.142, Mary Cholmondeley
  • You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.

    Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.220
  • The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves.

    Greatness   Self   Joy  
  • The existence of very pious feelings, in conjunction with intolerance, cruelty, and selfish policy, has never ceased to surprise and perplex those who have viewed it calmly from a distance. ... It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world. What destruction of the beautiful monuments of past ages, what waste of life, what disturbance of domestic and social happiness, what perverted feelings, what blighted hearts, have always marked its baneful progress!

  • Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings

  • It looks like a waste of life, that mowing down of our best years by a relentless passion which itself falls dead on the top of them. But it is not so. Every year I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence which will risk nothing, and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well. No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime 'let out all the length of the reins.'

    Running   Pain   Selfish  
    Mary Cholmondeley (2016). “Red Pottage”, p.142, Mary Cholmondeley
  • Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

    Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA
  • Don't coast through life without a passion.

    John Piper (2003). “Don't Waste Your Life”, Crossway
  • Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

    "Heads and Tales". Book by Malvina Hoffman, p. 47, 1936.
  • Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

  • We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.

  • I started getting more and more active around immigration reform because this was such a waste of lives, such a waste of potential, such a waste for our country not to have the human capital that we developed - geared toward improving our entire society.

    "Laurene Powell Jobs, Steve Jobs’ Wife, Gives First Interview Since Husband’s Death" by Dan Nakaso, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2013.
  • There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist, and quite good reasons for believing that they do not exist and never have. It has all been a gigantic waste of time and a waste of life. It would be a joke of cosmic proportions if it weren't so tragic.

  • There is nothing new under the sun.

    Jon Meacham (2012). “Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power”, p.355, Random House
  • To do something well is so worthwhile that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy. It would be a waste of life to do nothing with one's ability, for I feel that life is measured in achievement, not in years alone.

  • The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

    Orison Swett Marden (2005). “An Iron Will”, p.5, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

    Life   Change   Time  
    Teacher, Volume 43, 1971.
  • I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

    'Richard II' (1595) act 5, sc. 5, l. 49
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