Home / Topics / Waste Quotes

Waste Quotes

Browse 3388 quotes about Waste.

Waste Quotes

“The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden-that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.”

Source: Mere Christianity

“Avoid trivial pursuits. You are a child of God, destined for glory, and called to do great things in His Name. Do not waste your life on hobbies, sports, and other recreational pursuits. Do not throw away the precious moments of your life on entertainment, movies, and video games. Though some of these things can properly have a 'small place' in the Christian's life, we must be careful not to give undue attention to temporal and fruitless activities. Do not waste your life. Employ the time of your youth in developing the character and skills necessary to be a useful servant of God.”

“Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do.”

Men Games Waste Video Wasting Time

Author:Ray Bradbury

“It's can you, Steve Wozniak, design the same computer - maybe it's a Varian 620i - can you design it on paper with fewer chips than last month? Can you design it with 79 chips instead of 80 chips? I had played this game so long that I had all these little tricks in my head that I can't even explain... Nothing was wasted; absolutely zero waste. I told this story recently to the Resource Recovery Association, recycling, and they loved to hear I didn't believe in waste.”

Believe Littles Long I Can Stories Lasts Games Design Months Waste Paper Computer Resources Tricks Recovery Zero Association Fewer Chips Recycling

Author:Steve Wozniak

“Trying to find this industry's tendency to celebrate the physical is a waste of time. So I'm happy to play the game. But I am also thirsty for input. I'm not a dunce whose only skill is knowing how to take a photograph, you know? And at the end of the day, I think it makes me slightly less replaceable.”

Thinking Knows Trying Ends Play Games Knowing Industry Skills Waste Photograph Tendencies Celebrate The End Of The Day Wasting Time Input Thirsty And At The End Of The Day Dunces

Author:Olivia Wilde

“Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and delight, the canary that sings on the skull.”

Ifs World Long Pain Joy Suffering Games Mystery Waste Delight Cruelty Compass Brutes Skulls Bumps Canaries

Author:Annie Dillard

“If you waste your time and energy on things that don't matter in the outcome of the game, then when you get to the game you're not going to give your teammates the best that you have to offer.”

Ifs Giving Matter Games Energy Offers Waste Outcomes Teammate Time And Energy

Author:Tom Brady

“Computers and games don't waste time - people do.”

People Games Waste Computer Wasting Time Don't Waste Time

Author:Bill Gates

“Everybody's playing the game but nobody's rules are the same... Never make a promise or plan. Take a little love where you can... Never stay too long in your bed. Never lose your heart, use your head... Never take a stranger's advice. Never let a friend fool you twice... Never be the first to believe. Never be the last to deceive... Never leave a moment too soon. Never waste a hot afternoon... Never stay a minute too long. Don't forget the best will go wrong... Better learn to go it alone. Recognise you're out on your own. Nobody's on nobody's side.”

“We can't afford to waste people. We can't afford to have people think the game is over before it's begun. We've got to be saying to the Canadian people: you can't tax cut your way to a productive 21st-century economy. You can talk that talk, but it's not going to give you a productive 21st-century economy, because it will scythe apart the public goods that make prosperity possible. That's what we've got to say, and so we shall.”

People Thinking Way Giving Games Economy Cutting Century Taxes Waste Prosperity Productive Goods 21st Century Tax Cuts Scythes

Author:Michael Ignatieff

“I always felt really guilty if I spent too much time playing video games. It's a colossal waste of time. And I can't say it's a very satisfying feeling at the end of the day, if you've spent eight hours playing a video game; you just end up feeling kind of spent, and used.”

Ifs Kind I Can Ends Feelings Used Games Felt Hours Too Much Waste Eight Video Guilty The End Of The Day Satisfying Wasting Time Colossal Playing Video Games

Author:John C. Reilly

“The Australian Government's decision to take on the dominant funding role for the entire public hospital system is designed to: end the blame game; eliminate waste; and to shoulder the funding burden of the rapidly rising health costs of the future.”

Ends Government Games Decision Roles Cost Waste Blame Burden Shoulders Rising Hospitals Dominant Funding Australian Blame Game

Author:Kevin Rudd

“The only time I waste is time I spend doing something that, in my gut, I know I shouldn't. If I choose to spend time playing video games or sleeping in, then it's time well spent, because I chose to do it. I did it for a reason - to relax, to decompress or to feel good, and that was what I wanted to do.”

Ifs Knows Feels Wells Reason Wanted Games Sleep Waste Video Feel Good Guts Relax Only Time Spend Time Sleeping In Time Well Spent Playing Video Games

Author:Simon Sinek

“The single biggest misconception about games is that they're an escapist waste of time.”

Games Waste Wasting Time Misconception Playing Games Escapists

Author:Jane McGonigal

“I hate all those flirty-birty games that women make up. Life's too short. If you ever find a man you love, don't waste time hanging your head and simpering. Go right up to him and say, 'I love you. How about getting married?”

Ifs Men Hate Games Love You Waste Married I Hate Wasting Time Too Short Getting Married Say I Love You Flirty Life's Too Short Don't Waste Time

Book:A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW

Source: A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW

“Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.”

Men Trying Spirit Games Waste Golf Useless

Author:Westbrook Pegler

“Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing - too much undisciplined leisure time in which a person continually takes the course of least resistance gradually wastes a life. It ensures that a person's capacities stay dormant, that talents remain undeveloped, that the mind and spirit become lethargic and that the heart remains unfulfilled.”