A day without laughter is a day wasted.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all.

Simplify your life. Don’t waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don’t burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don’t destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!

There is no waste of time like making excuses.

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

Waste no words on a man who dislikes you. Actions will impress him more.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

If you don’t find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.

I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one’s art and exaggerates one’s value.

A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this To waste his whole heart in one kiss Upon her perfect lips.

Worry is a complete waste of energy. It solves nothing.

If there is no solution to the problem then don’t waste time worrying about it. If there is a solution to the problem then don’t waste time worrying about it.

As for family values, they are whatever they are – some families are tight, others are blown away like dandelion puffs. A main value in Minnesota is still: don’t waste my time, don’t B.S. me, I wasn’t born yesterday.

Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.

What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness.

The government in business may waste time and money without rendering service. In the end the public pays in taxes. The corporation cannot waste or it will fall. It cannot make unfair rulings or give high-handed, expensive service, for there are not enough people willing to accept inferior service to make a volume of business that will pay dividends.

Men who believe that they are accomplishing something by speaking speak in a different way from men who believe that speaking is a waste of time.

And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value-added wastes.

We need to create a new revolution, and to do that, don’t waste your life: stop pleasing people, and become who you always wanted to be.

I really have to thank Facebook … I didn’t know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time. I would never say the people on it are losers, but that’s only because I’m polite. People say ‘But Betty, Facebook is a great way to connect with old friends.’ Well at my age, if I wanna connect with old friends, I need a Ouija Board. Needless to say, we didn’t have Facebook when I was growing up. We had phonebook, but you wouldn’t waste an afternoon with it.

Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.

I was in London. It’s a long way to go for a very long party, sitting there for six hours not having a cigarette or a drink. It’s a waste of time.

I certainly know first hand the waste one lady can create through her primping routine, because I am a victim of fashion: to me a day without makeup and a bouffant to match is a day wasted. I love it all – whether it’s fancy, cheap or, I’m ashamed to say, even if it’s bad for the environment.

A lot of the time you see a warning, in the subway, or in a movie theater, the main thrust of the warning will be to not panic if there is an emergency. To listen to directions. Now that’s a waste. They could have given you information, but you can see their expectation that you’re going to screw up.

Designing and implementing a strategy for change is a waste of time until you have discovered and embraced the current reality. If you don’t know where you really are, it is impossible to get where you need to be.

There are two classes of Christians: the proud who imagine they are humble and the humble who are afraid they are proud. There should be another class: the self-forgetful who leave the whole thing in the hands of Christ and refuse to waste any time trying to make themselves good. They will reach the goal far ahead of the rest.

Put simply, if we do not redirect our extraction and production systems and change the way we distribute, consume, and dispose of our stuff – what I sometimes call the take-make-waste model – the economy as it is will kill the planet.

You’re going to see new processes that utilize waste as the source of energy, so there’s no petroleum consumed in the process – that makes the energy balance uniformly positive.