“You have to be courageous in life to allow a lightness to engage your being. It is easy to be a jerk. To be unhappy with all this weird stuff around us just seems to me to be such a waste. That's a jerk.” SeemsHappinessEasyStuffBuddhismWasteUnhappyCourageousJerkBe CourageousLightnessWeird Stuff Author:Frederick Lenz
“It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the pale new growth on an evergreen, the sheen of the limestone on Fifth Avenue, the colour of our kids’ eyes, the way the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again. It is so easy to exist instead of live. Unless you know there is a clock ticking.” KnowsWayEyeKidsFallEasyGrowthHoursOur LivesMinutesWasteDisappearGrantedClockColourMelodyPaleFifthSymphonyAvenuesRise And FallEvergreensFifth AvenueClock TickingNew GrowthLimestone Book:A Short Guide to a Happy Life Source: A Short Guide to a Happy Life
“Thinking is usually a waste of time and energy, since thinking is essentially a rehashing of what we already know. As a matter of fact, thinking is an easy way to confuse yourself. The more you think, the less you know.” ThinkingKnowsWayMatterFactsEnergyEasyBuddhismWasteMindfulnessWasting TimeMatter Of FactEasy WayTime And Energy Author:Frederick Lenz
“People search for the meaning of life, but this is the easy question: we are born into a world that presents us with many millenia of collected knowledge and information, and all our predecessors ask of us is that we not waste our brief life ignoring the past only to rediscover or reinvent its lessons badly.” PeopleWorldPastAsksEasyBornInformationLessonsWasteMeaning Of LifePredecessorsKnowledge And InformationBrief Life Author:Erik Naggum
“Astronomy is so easy to love. ... Fairly or not, physics is associated with nuclear bombs and nuclear waste, chemistry with pesticides, biology with Frankenfood and designer-gene superbabies. But astronomers are like responsible ecotourists, squinting at the scenery through high-quality optical devices, taking nothing but images that may be computer-enhanced for public distribution, leaving nothing but a few Land Rover footprints on faraway Martian soil, and OK, OK, maybe the Land Rover, too.” MayScienceEasyQualityLandWasteComputerResponsibleLeavingNuclearPhysicsAstronomyDesignerSoilBombsBiologyDevicesChemistryGenesDistributionFootprintSceneryHigh QualityAstronomersNuclear BombMartiansPesticidesNuclear WasteSquinting Author:Natalie Angier
“Excesses are essentially gestures. It is easy to be extremely cruel, magnanimous, humble or self-sacrificing when we see ourselves as actors in a performance.” SelfActorsEasySacrificeWastePerformancesHumbleExcessGesturesMagnanimous Book:The Passionate State of Mind Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“It's easy to get on to something like alcohol or drugs so my advice to musicians is don't lose your perspective because you will waste time in terms of years.” YearsEasyTermLosesAdvicePerspectiveDrugWasteMusicianAlcoholWasting TimeEasy To Get Author:Joe Walsh
“I have a love-hate relationship with Facebook. It enables me to talk to readers from all over the world, but it also makes it far too easy to waste huge amounts of time.” WorldHateEasyHugeReaderAmountWasteLove HateLove Hate Relationship Author:Pamela Clare
“Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the dark hiding. It's easy to hide and shout and waste people's time.” PeopleIfsWantSpeakEasyDarkFrontsWasteGet UpHidingCowardiceMicrophonesHeckling Author:Billy Connolly