“The individual's habits of thought make an organic complex, the trend of which is necessarily in the direction of serviceability to the life process. When it is attempted to assimilate systematic waste or futility, as an end in life, into this organic complex, there presently supervenes a revulsion.” EndsIndividualProcessHabitWasteComplexesTrendsSystematicFutilityRevulsion Book:The Theory of the Leisure Class Source: The Theory of the Leisure Class
“You are far more than your personality, more than your habits, more than your achievements. You are an infinitely complex human being with stories and myths and dreams- and ambitions of cosmic proportions. Don't waste time underestimating yourself. Dream big... Use the energy of your archetype to express the true reason you were born. Life was never meant to be safe. It was meant to be lived right to the end.” HumansEndsReasonStoriesUseDreamBigsEnergyBornHuman BeingsPersonalityHabitSafeWasteAchievementAmbitionComplexesMythProportionMeant To BeWasting TimeCosmicUnderestimateWere Meant To BeArchetypeDon't Waste Time Author:Caroline Myss
“The man of leadership caliber will work while others waste time, study while others sleep, pray while others play. There will be no place for loose or lazy habits in word or thought, deed or dress. He will observe a soldierly discipline, diet and deportment, so that he may wage a good warfare.” MenMayPlaySleepStudyHe ManPrayingHabitDisciplineWasteDressesDeedsDietsLazyWasting TimeWarfareCaliber Author:J. Oswald Sanders
“Resistance is a result of our mind being attached to having things a certain way rather than the way they actually are. It is a mental habit of the ego that we need to become aware of in order to see the consequences. Only then can we see into our thought system and realize that nothing could be more of a waste of time than to resist and complain about what already is.” WayNeedsMindCertainOrderRealizingResultsHabitEgoWasteConsequenceComplainingResistanceWasting TimeOur Thoughts Author:Lee L Jampolsky
“It's so important to embrace what you have because if you don't, that can be the root of very self-destructive habits, which I think people waste a lot of energy on.” PeopleIfsThinkingImportantSelfEnergyHabitWasteRootsEmbraceDestructiveSelf Destructive Author:Jillian Hervey
“Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?” LiteratureHabitBedWasteWeekendPrecious Time Author:Marilyn vos Savant
“Before a Cat will condescend To treat you as a trusted friend, Some little token of esteem Is needed, like a dish of cream; And you might now and then supply Some caviare, or Strassburg Pie, Some potted grouse, or salmon paste — He's sure to have his personal taste. (I know a Cat, who makes a habit Of eating nothing else but rabbit, And when he's finished, licks his paws So's not to waste the onion sauce.) A Cat's entitled to expect These evidences of respect. And so in time you reach your aim, And finally call him by his name.” KnowsLittlesMightNamesNeededHabitTasteWasteEatingEvidenceCatTreatsAimFinishedEsteemNow And ThenTrustedDishesCreamPieEntitledRabbitsSauceOnionsTokensPawsSalmonPersonal TasteTrusted Friends Book:The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot Source: The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot
“I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. We find so many people impatient to talk. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.” PeopleWorldHas BeensSaidRealitySpiritualGrowsSilenceTalkingTaughtHabitDisciplineWasteBenefitsTonguePensWasting TimeSilence IsMy ThoughtsDiscernmentShieldsImpatientShynessSpiritual DisciplinesRestraining Author:Mahatma Gandhi
“Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.” FeelingsSuccessEnergyFearWorstConditionsHabitWasteSorryPositivityI'm SorryNot Giving UpLife And LoveBeing AloneFeeling SorryBeing SorrySaying I'm SorryFeeling Sorry For YourselfHappy MondayStop Feeling Sorry For Yourself Author:Dale Carnegie
“The prodigious waste of human life occasioned by this perpetual struggle for room and food, was more than supplied by the mighty power of population, acting, in some degree, unshackled, from the constant habit of emigration.” LifeHumansScienceRoomsActingStruggleHabitDegreesWasteConstantPopulationHuman LifePerpetualProdigiousEmigration Book:Population: The First Essay Source: Population: The First Essay