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“Right now we have obtained a human rebirth and have the opportunity to attain enlightenment through Dharma practice, so if we waste this precious opportunity in meaningless activities there is no greater loss and no greater foolishness.”

Ifs Humans Opportunity Loss Practice Greater Right Now Activity Waste Enlightenment Meaningless Foolishness Rebirth Dharma

Book:Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra

Source: Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra

“What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb suggests, is determinable, not so much by what we have lost, as by what we have left.”

May Soul Lost Left Loss Taken Greatness Waste Fortune

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“There's a tremendous loss of talent to businesses who cannot make room for their employees to attend to family responsibilities. It really amounts to corporate waste: They hire really talented women and then lose them because they can't find ways to keep them productive and content the minute they can't "lean in."”

Way Loses Loss Rooms Responsibility Minutes Talent Amount Waste Corporate Employee Productive Family Responsibility

Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter

“All these tears shed in the world, where do they go? If one could capture all of them, they could water the parched. Then perhaps these tears would have value and all this grief would have some meaning. Otherwise, it was all a waste, just an endless cycle of birth and death; of love and loss.”

Ifs World Values Water Loss Grief Tears Birth Waste Endless Cycles Capture Shed Birth And Death Love And Loss

Author:Thrity Umrigar

“An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate Those that I guard I do not love, My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor, No likely end could bring them loss Or leave them happier than before. Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public man, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds; I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, this death.”

“Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking, or scheming -- in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the ruler within you -- means a loss of opportunity for some other task.”

“We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know. The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for thy can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.”

Knows Feels Trying Years Humans I Can Joy Energy Loss Waste Hundred Gains Human Life Fifty Conception Bitterness Human Thought Greatest Wisdom

Book:Travels with Charley in Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America

“The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.”

Feels Trying Joy Energy Loss Waste Gains Bitterness

Book:Travels with Charley in Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America

“We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.”

Life Energy Loss Food Balance Waste Percent Sinner

Book:The Quotable Osler

Source: The Quotable Osler

“(Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it is the avoidance of loss”

Firsts Loss Business Principles Waste Economics Management Profit Avoidance Guiding Principles

Author:Peter Drucker

“Complete and accurate surveillance as a means of control is probably a practical impossibility. What is much more likely is a loss of privacy and constant inconvenience as the wrong people gain access to information, as one wastes time convincing the inquisitors that one is in fact innocent, or as one struggles to untangle the errors of the errant machine.”

Source: Technological Man: The Myth and the Reality