“That's what being shy feels like. Like my skin is too thin, the light too bright. Like the best place I could possibly be is in a tunnel far under the cool, dark earth. Someone asks me a question and I stare at them, empty-faced, my brain jammed up with how hard I'm trying to find something interesting to say. And in the end, all I can do is nod or shrug, because the light of their eyes looking at me, waiting for me, is just too much to take. And then it's over and there's one more person in the world who thinks I'm a complete and total waste of space.” ThinkingWorldFeelsTryingPersonsI CanEndsHardLightEyeEarthAsksWaitingCan DoDarkSpaceInterestingBrainToo MuchWasteEmptySkinsAsk MeStaringShyTunnelsBest PlaceSomething InterestingEyes LookingBeing ShyWaste Of Space Author:Carol Rifka Brunt
“I don't hold onto anything, because it's a waste of energy to do so, really. There's nothing that I can do about the way people want to write about me. I just try and concentrate on my work and do that as well as I can.” PeopleWayWantWritingTryingWellsI CanEnergyCan DoWaste Author:PJ Harvey
“As a writer of criticism, the consumer thing is the least interesting thing, but as a critic, the single worst thing you can do is send a reader to waste time and money on something - even if it's something you personally love. You have to indicate the reasons why you love it and they'll hate it.” IfsReasonHateCan DoInterestingWorstLove YouReaderWasteCriticismCriticsConsumersReason WhyWasting TimeWorst ThingsInteresting ThingsTime And Money Author:Jonathan Gold
“... anything is better than indecision. We must decide. If I am wrong, we shall soon find out and can do the other thing. But not to decide wastes both time and money and may ruin everything.” IfsMayCan DoWasteRuinsIndecisionTime And Money Author:Ulysses S. Grant
“Why should I waste my good time making a straight dramatic film? The people who can't make you laugh can do that.” PeopleShouldFilmCan DoLaughingWasteDramaticGood TimesShould IMake You Laugh Author:Mel Brooks
“I see no magic in tax dollars which are sent to Washington and then returned. I abhor the waste and incompetence of large-scale federal bureaucracies in this administration as well as in others. I do not favor state compulsion when voluntary individual effort can do the job and do it well.” WellsStatesJobsIndividualCan DoEffortMagicTaxesWasteDollarsFavorsScalesAdministrationBureaucracyCompulsionIncompetenceLarge ScaleTax DollarsIndividual Effort Author:John F. Kennedy
“The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying that yearning which can do aught else than rob A to give to B; consequently all such plans nourish some of the meanest vices of human nature, waste capital, and overthrow civilization.” GivingHumansCan DoPlansEconomicHuman NatureCivilizationWasteVicesEnvyOutcomesSatisfyingYearningOffspringCovetousness Author:William Graham Sumner
“There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolut” MenHumansWellsStillsBodyEnergyCan DoBrainWiseLimitsWastePursuitWiserHuman BodyHuman BrainNo Energy Author:William E. Gladstone
“It can’t eat him. I forbid it. (Artemis) She can do as she pleases. I taught her to waste not, want not. (Acheron)” WantCan DoTaughtPleaseWasteArtemis Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon
“Humble people can do great things with uncommon perfection because they are no longer concerned about their own interests and their own reputation, and therefore they no longer need to waste their efforts in defending them.” PeopleNeedsInterestCan DoEffortHumilityWasteConcernedPerfectionHumbleGreat ThingsReputationUncommon Author:Thomas Merton
“Our whole life is a fooling around. You can do it because you are not aware of how you waste time, how you waste energy - how life is wasted you are not aware. It is going down the drain. Everything is going down the drain. Only when death comes to you, you may become aware, alert: What have I been doing? What have I done with life? A great opportunity has been lost. What was I doing fooling around? I was not sober. I never reflected upon what I was doing.” LifeMayHas BeensDoneWholeLife IsOpportunityEnergyLostCan DoWasteWhole LifeWasting TimeSoberYou Can Do ItDrainsGreat OpportunityFooling Around Author:Rajneesh