“Gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation. This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.” ThinkingLinesEffortWasteIntellectualRejectionCharacteristicsRejectsHopelessOrientation Author:John Forbes Nash
“If you don't discover God's dreams, you'll either waste your life running in wrong races and crossing wrong finish lines or, like many people, have no finish line at all.” PeopleIfsDreamRunningLinesRaceWasteCrossingsFinish Line Book:Dream: Discovering God's Purpose for Your Life Source: Dream: Discovering God's Purpose for Your Life
“Even a brilliant research scientist can waste his or her efforts, in [Stephan Hawking's] case on theoretically impossible lines of research, if he or she rejects clear evidence pointing to God.” IfsLinesEffortCasesClearImpossibleWasteResearchEvidenceScientistScaryBrilliantRejectsPointing Author:Hugh Ross
“I basically try not to waste any lines in any of my songs, and I think the witty phrases and funny lyrics I have bring a smarter sound to college hip-hop.” ThinkingTryingSongSoundLinesCollegeWasteHip HopWittyHipsPhrasesHopsSmarter Author:Mike Stud
“I want to feel like the things I did made a difference. That's one of the reasons I spend time greeting people on rope lines, because I'm always thinking, 'Maybe this interaction, particularly if I'm meeting kids, will change someone's life.' That's how I think about the work I do as First Lady. It's a rare spotlight. I want to make sure I don't waste it.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantFeelsFirstsMadeReasonKidsDifferencesLinesWasteMeetingsInteractionEnd TimesRopeSpend TimeSpotlightFirst LadyGreetingsAlways Thinking Author:Michelle Obama
“I'm not against ambition and reach, but if you can say it in four lines, why waste your time saying it in more? Challenge the world by all means, but it's bad for your poetry to take steroids.” IfsWorldMeanChallengesLinesFourWasteAmbitionSteroid Author:Michael Longley
“And what amazes me as I hit the motorway is not the fact that everyone loses someone, but that everyone loves someone. It seems like such a massive waste of energy -- and we all do it, all the people beetling along between the white lines, merging, converging, overtaking. We each love someone, even though they will die. And we keep loving them, even when they are not there to love any more. And there is no logic or use to any of this, that I can see.” PeopleI CanFactsUseSeemsDiesEnergyLosesLinesWhiteWasteLogicMassiveLove SomeoneMergingOvertaking Book:The Gathering Source: The Gathering
“The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and the vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. Loving makes love. Loving makes itself. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love. Wouldn't that be the way to make love stay?” PeopleWayLinesPerfectLoversWasteCreatingBottomWasting TimeTransformedMaking LoveMediocreBottom LinePerfect LoveStill Life With WoodpeckerWay Of LovePerfect Lover Book:Still Life with Woodpecker Source: Still Life with Woodpecker
“At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them” PeopleMadeLife IsLinesDecisionWasteDrawingBoundariesLive Your LifeGreyFenceBadassMessyCrossingsAnatomyGrey's AnatomyCrossing The LineDrawing The Line Author:Shonda Rhimes
“The poet’s life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window. We’re hunched and weaving over the keys of our green our grey or pink blue manual typewriter maybe a darker stone cold thoritative selectric with its orgasmic expectant hum and us popping pills and laughing over what you or I just wrote, wondering if that line means insult or sex. Or both. Usually both.” IfsMeanPastLife IsNightSexLinesWonderLaughingPoetKeysColdWasteStonesWindowBlueGreenInsultGreyPillsTypewritersManualsCinematicWeavingPoppingWhippingStone Cold Author:Eileen Myles
“A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it is merely a line that connects one point with another. A route has no meaning in itself; its meaning derives entirely from the two points that it connects. A road is a tribute to space. Every stretch of road has meaning in itself and invites us to stop. A route is the triumphant devaluation of space, which thanks to it has been reduced to a mere obstacle to human movement and a waste of time.” HumansHas BeensTwoLinesSpaceMovementTravelWasteMereObstaclesThanksInvitesWasting TimeVehicleRoutesTributeTourismTriumphant Author:Milan Kundera