D Quotes
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“Don't waste your energy on those who don't get on your bus.”
“Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.”
“Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions... Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
“Don't waste your life believing you can't.”
Source: The Success Principles for Teens: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
“Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.”
“Don't waste your one beautiful life.”
Source: The Obituary Writer: A Novel
“Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.”
“Don't waste your singleness. I think we spend a lot of time griping about how we're single, and we spend a lot of time and energy being angry about that when we could be spending that time to really serve other people and use the free time we do have to do so much more for the Kingdom of God. So don't waste that time. Use it. You only get so much time and then you'll most likely get married and have kids and a husband and not have as much free time. So enjoy it and use it to serve other people.”
“Don't waste your sorrows”
“Don't waste your sufferings.”
“Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues.”
“Don't waste your time being upset about something you can't change. Begin again and do it better this time.”
“Don't waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come.”
“Don't waste your time explaining who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.”
“Don't waste your time in the race looking back to see what the other guy is doing. It's not about the other guy. It's about what can you do. You just need to run that race as hard as you can. You need to give it everything you've got, all the time, for yourself.”
“Don't waste your time lookin' over your shoulder; those loves from the past ain't getting' no closer. When I look in my future, you're all I can see, so honey, don't go lovin' on nobody but me.”
“Don't waste your time on beaming people up or down. Instead, consider gravity waves as advanced physics of the universe that could be used to travel interstellar distances.”
“Don't waste your time on jealousy.”
Source: The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
“Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself”
“Don't waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself. Remember compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you succeed in doing this, tell me how.”
Source: The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary
“Don't waste your time on life.”
Source: The Virgin Suicides: A Novel
“Don't waste your time searching and wishing. Grow and be ready...and you'll see God will give you a love story far better than you could ever dreamed of.”
“Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.”
“Don't waste your time thinkin' about bad things.”
“Don't waste your time trying to turn ducks into eagles. Hire people who already have the motivation and drive to be eagles and then just let them soar.”
“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”
“Don't waste your time with fear.. Fear won't keep you safe from being hurt.”
Source: God Shaped Hole: A Novel
“Don't waste your time with people who will ultimately destroy you, but concentrate instead on those who will appreciate your responsibility to them, and, likewise, feel responsible to you.”
“Don't waste your time, do something worthwhile with it." But what can that mean: worthwhile? Finally to start realizing long-cherished wishes. To attack the error that there will always be time for it later....Take the long-dreamed-of trip, learn this language, read those books, buy yourself this jewelry, spend a night in that famous hotel. Don't miss out on yourself. Bigger things are also part of that: to give up the loathed profession, break out of a hated milieu. Do what contributes to making you more genuine, moves you closer to yourself.”
“Don't waste your time, it is too short, Valuable and irreplaceable.”
“Don't waste your youth growing up.”
“Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.”
Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Don't watch Kroll Show if you don't have a Nielsen box. I honestly don't care. Feel free to DVR it and not watch it because that will somehow help my ratings maybe, but honestly I'm talking to the four of you with a Nielsen box. If you have a Nielsen box, like, who are you? Where do you live? How do I find you? You're a unicorn and I don't believe that you exist.”
“Don't watch people's individual performances. Watch the energy that's being passed between them, and then you'll see if the scene is really working or if the actors are really doing their job. If they're playing with the energy that's between them, they're not just acting in their own little bubble.”
“Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”
Source: You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson
“Don't watch" the redheaded mind reader whispered. I closed my eyes.”
“Don't wavier. Make a decision. Do it now.”
“Don't we all deserve forgiveness? I hope we do; I believe we do. Forgiveness says as much about the character of the person bestowing it as the person receiving it. Learning to forgive may be the most difficult of human acts,and the closest thing to divinity, whatever you decide that is.”
“Don't we all die someday and someday comes all too soon? What will you do with your own wild, glorious chance at this thing we call life.”
“Don't we all have an itch for kitsch?”
Source: Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism
“Don't we all have moments we'd rather forget, and thoughts we wished never came to us? We say things too awful to remember.”
Source: The Comfort of Lies: A Novel
“Don't we all just really try to fake it well?”
“Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.”
“Don't we all look back in longing, those of us who had happy childhoods? Because the greatest loss we ever know is not the loss of family or place or money, it is the loss of innocence. There is forever a hollow place in our hearts once we realize that darkness rings the campfire.”
“Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it...There are some European words you can never translate properly into another language.”
“Don't we get it? To put our arm around someone who is gay, someone who has an addiction, somebody who lives a different lifestyle, someone who is not what we think they should be... doing that has nothing to do with enabling them or accepting what they do as okay by us. It has nothing to do with encouraging them in their practice of what you or I might feel or believe is wrong vs right.It has everything to do with being a good human being. A good person. A good friend.”
“Don't we have to respond to people who don't seem normal to us? Will my child grow up able to accept that not everyone looks the same?”
“Don't we introduce time as a means of becoming more evolved? The brain has evolved but is there evolution inwardly? Can the brain dominated by time not be subservient to it?”
“Don't we look suspicious, the three of us just sitting here in the car?" Borden asked. We'd look a lot more suspicious if we were all three making out in the car," Jazz said. "What?" she added, when Borden turned and gave her a wide-eyed look. You have no idea what kind of happy place you just took me to." Shut up.”
Source: Devil's Due
“Don't we realize we're a business, we single girls are? Every building that goes up in Manhattan has more than fifty percent efficiency apartments . . . for the one million girls who have very little use for them.”
Source: Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York