“Economists use the word consume to mean "utilize economic goods," but the Shorter Oxford Dictionary's definition is more appropriate to ecologists: "To make away with or destroy; to waste or to squander; to use up." The economies that cater to the global consumer society are responsible for the lion's share of the damage that humans have inflicted on common global resources.” HumansMeanUseCommonEconomyShareEconomicWasteResourcesResponsibleDefinitionsConsumersDamageAppropriateGoodsLionsConsumerismEconomistDictionaryOverconsumptionOxford Author:Alan Thein Durning
“Two common conceptions with regard to advertising which are held by a considerable number of people are that enormously large sums of money are expended for it, and that much of this expenditure is an economic waste.” PeopleTwoCommonNumbersEconomicWasteRegardAdvertisingConceptionExpenditures Author:Daniel Starch
“Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.” ImaginationCommonWasteFolksTouchingRemnants Author:Marcus Aurelius
“It is a common fate -- a woman's lot -- To waste on one the riches of her soul, Who takes the wealth she gives him, but cannot Repay the interest, and much less the whole.” GivingSoulWholeWomenInterestWealthCommonFateWasteRiches Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics) Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)
“Angry people, unhappy people, people that seek to injure others, these people all have something in common. They waste energy. They don't conserve it and they don't know how to increase it.” PeopleKnowsEnergyCommonKnow HowBuddhismWasteIncreaseAngryUnhappyHappy PeopleUnhappy People Author:Frederick Lenz
“The most common characteristic of women's history is to be lost and discovered, lost again and rediscovered, lost once more and re-rediscovered - a process of tragic waste and terrible silences that will continue until women's stories are a full and equal part of the human story.” HumansStoriesLostProcessCommonSilenceHistoryTerribleEqualWasteCharacteristicsTragic Author:Gloria Steinem
“We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead we should be writing for our ideal reader.” ShouldWritingTryingCommonTalentReaderWasteIdeals Author:Julia Cameron
“A multitude of uniform, unidentifiable houses, lined up inflexibly, at uniform distances, on uniform roads, in a treeless communal waste, inhabited by people of the same class, the same income, the same age group, witnessing the same television performances, eating the same tasteless prefabricated foods, from the same freezers, conforming in every outward and inward respect to the common mold.” PeopleAgeHouseCommonClassGroupsTelevisionWasteEatingPerformancesDistanceIncomeInwardUniformsMultitudesConformMoldFreezer Author:Lewis Mumford
“Time is the most extraordinary gift for friendship. You'll get to eat your meals together and study together; in some cases you'll even sleep in the same room. You'll have time to waste on each other. You'll find out every single thing you have in common and still have time to catalogue all of your differences. Don't underestimate the vital necessity of friendship in your life because it is the thing that will sustain you later, when there will be considerably less time.” StillsTogetherDifferencesSleepRoomsCommonCasesStudyWasteExtraordinaryMealsUnderestimateCatalogues Book:This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage Source: This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
“I think food is the great equalizer. Other than the ocean and the air, food is the thing that we all share in common. I think along with that comes the question of why are some people starving, and why do some people produce more food than they need, and why is food going to waste.” PeopleThinkingNeedsCommonAirShareProduceWasteOceanStarvingEqualizer Author:Brett Dennen
“We followed the Honorable Elijah Mohammed, who is the boss. And we don't waste a lot of time arguin' about a dead black man, Malcolm X, when the whites are our common enemies.” MenBlackCommonEnemyWasteBossHonorableElijahCommon Enemy Author:Muhammad Ali
“Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.” ActionNationsAnimalCommonClearWasteCleanCongressFarmersSiteLiabilityHazardous Waste Author:Ike Skelton
“The only thing all successful people have in common is that they're successful, so don't waste your time copying "the successful strategies" of others.” PeopleCommonCreativitySuccessfulWasteInnovationStrategySuccessful PeopleCopyingCreativity And InnovationDon't Waste Your Time Author:Seth Godin