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“Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.”

Imagination Common Waste Folks Touching Remnants

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Worry is a waste of imagination.”

Imagination Worry Waste

Author:Walt Disney

“I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination.”

Humans I Can Imagination Rooms Products Waste Weakness Cosmos Deities

Book:South Wind

Source: South Wind

“For me, books are music for my mind and my imagination. When I am stuck in something I'm writing, I simply read my way out of being stuck. You can never waste time reading.”

Way Writing Mind Book Reading Imagination Waste Stuck My Way Wasting Time My Imagination

Author:Cynthia Kadohata

“No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good.”

Writing Done Feelings Imagination Creative Waste Sentences Wasting Time Creative Work

Book:If You Want to Write

Source: If You Want to Write

“To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.”

Nature Imagination Travel Waste Valuable Useless Wilderness Maps Blank Conservation Wildlife Conservation Land Conservation

Book:Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

Source: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

“I am not out to liberate anybody. You have to liberate yourself, and you are unable to do that. What I have to say will not do it. I am only interested in describing this state, in clearing away the occultation and mystification in which those people in the 'holy business' have shrouded the whole thing. Maybe I can convince you not to waste a lot of time and energy, looking for a state which does not exist except in your imagination.”

People Doe I Can States Whole Energy Imagination Holy Waste Convince Describing Time And Energy Clearing

Author:U.G. Krishnamurti

“If we do not learn to eliminate waste and to be more productive and more efficient in the ways we use energy, then we will fall short of this goal [for the Nation to derive 20 percent of all the energy we use from the Sun, by 2000]. But if we use our technological imagination, if we can work together to harness the light of the Sun, the power of the wind, and the strength of rushing streams, then we will succeed.”

“In Western society, and particularly in American society, imagination is stulified from infancy. The imaginative child is discouraged and upbraided. He is told that the process is mere dreaming, that it wastes time and leads nowhere. It is said to be "impractical." As the child grows and its imagination inevitably leads it to express unconventional ideas and to try new behavior, it is chided and even viciously punished for such signs of unorthodoxy.”