“When you are just thinking a lot of silly thoughts and having a lot of worries, you waste a tremendous energy and power and you put yourself into very limited states of mind. You slow down your evolutionary process.” ThinkingMindStatesEnergyProcessWorryBuddhismWasteMindfulnessSillyState Of MindSlow Down Author:Frederick Lenz
“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
“Food security is an authentically human requirement. Guaranteeing it for present and future generations also means safeguarding ourselves against the uncontrolled exploitation of natural resources. Indeed, the process of consumption and waste seems to overlook any concern for ... biodiversity, which is so important for agriculture.” HumansMeanImportantSeemsProcessNaturalGenerationsLandSecurityWasteResourcesConcernConsumptionAgricultureExploitationRequirementsFuture GenerationNatural ResourcesBiodiversityFood SecuritySafeguarding Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“The Nazi murder squads just wouldn't waste a bullet on a child. I just couldn't process that. I couldn't handle it.” ChildrenProcessWasteMurderHandleBulletsNaziSquad Author:Natasha Kaplinsky
“The most common characteristic of women's history is to be lost and discovered, lost again and rediscovered, lost once more and re-rediscovered - a process of tragic waste and terrible silences that will continue until women's stories are a full and equal part of the human story.” HumansStoriesLostProcessCommonSilenceHistoryTerribleEqualWasteCharacteristicsTragic Author:Gloria Steinem
“You have to have an objective, a goal, some thought process, some strategy in your mind for whatever you do. Otherwise it's a waste of time.” MindProcessGoalWasteStrategyObjectivesWasting TimeThought Process Author:Stuart McMillan
“The idea that we are "stewards of the earth" is another symptom of human arrogance. Imagine yourself with the task of overseeing your body's physical processes. Do you understand the way it works well enough to keep all its systems in operation? Can you make your kidneys function? Can you control the removal of waste? Are you conscious of the blood flow through your arteries, or the fact that you are losing a hundred thousand skin cells a minute?” WayHumansWellsIdeasEnoughFactsBodyEarthProcessImagineBloodMinutesThousandWasteLosingConsciousHundredFlowTasksSkinsFunctionEnvironmentalYour BodyCellsOperationsArroganceSymptomsStewardshipRemovalKidneysStewardsArteriesBlood FlowOverseeing Author:Lynn Margulis
“Criticism of growth arose with the discovery that growth beyond a certain point is destructive of the earth. We are already using resources much faster than they can be replenished. We are producing wastes much faster than nature's sinks can process them. The growth economy will end. The only questions are when its end will come, and whether humanity will be able to survive its demise.” EndsAbleEarthCertainHumanityProcessGrowthEconomyWasteDiscoveryResourcesCriticismEnvironmentalFasterDestructiveSustainabilityDemiseUsing Resources Book:Sustaining the Common Good: A Christian Perspective on the Global Economy Source: Sustaining the Common Good: A Christian Perspective on the Global Economy
“We need to review the process for the election of Speaker. We've got to reform Question Time, which is really a waste of time. There are so many things that we need to do to reform our Parliament and I think it's bigger than that. It's all about the sort of leadership that people are getting at the moment. They're fed up with this sorta day-to-day bickering, not putting the national interest ahead of these narrow partisan interests.” PeopleThinkingNeedsMomentsProcessInterestWasteBiggerElectionReformFedsReviewsWasting TimeSpeakersDay To DayParliamentPartisansFed UpNational InterestsBickering Author:Richard Di Natale
“If you do improvising, it can sometimes end up being a waste of time. And if you do that, it's more or less based on a writing process.” IfsWritingEndsSometimesProcessWasteWasting TimeWriting ProcessImprovising Author:Giovanni Ribisi
“I understand that each one of us works at a different speed, and has a slightly different process. I understand that these writers are painstaking, wanting each sentence-each word-to carry weight... I know it’s not laziness, but respect for the work, and I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that life is short, and that in the end, none of us is prolific. The creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.” KnowsYearsLongDifferentEndsPlayLife IsProcessMy OwnCreativeWasteMy FriendsWeightSentencesSpeedInstanceDrySpellsSparksLazinessLife Is ShortHasteCreative SparkHaste Makes Waste Author:Stephen King
“You're going to see new processes that utilize waste as the source of energy, so there's no petroleum consumed in the process - that makes the energy balance uniformly positive.” EnergyProcessSourceBalanceWasteConsumedPetroleumNew Processes Author:Al Gore
“We can begin to let go of the complications that cause us to suffer by cultivating a simple state of awareness. In this process, tiny steps yield big results, in part because simplicity is nature's default position. Suffering and the complications that fuel it are unnatural; it wastes energy to maintain complexity.” StatesBigsSufferingEnergyCausesProcessSimpleResultsStepsAwarenessPositionLetting GoWasteSimplicityTinyComplexityFuelYieldUnnaturalDefaultComplicationCultivating Author:Deepak Chopra
“We subsidize the disposal of waste in all its myriad forms — from landfills, to Superfund cleanups, to deep-well injection, to storage of nuclear waste. In the process, we encourage an economy where 80 percent of what we consume gets thrown away after one use.” WellsUseFormProcessEconomyEnvironmentWastePercentNuclearThrownStorageInjectionLandfillsNuclear Waste Author:Paul Hawken
“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.” TryingChildrenSaidIdeasDreamGrowsProcessImaginationWasteBehaviorMereWesternConformityWasting TimeImaginativeDiscouragedInfancyAmerican SocietyNon ConformityUnconventionalWestern Society Author:Philip Wylie