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“When you have your chance to make a film, don't focus on pleasing everyone. I think the goal is to live in that sweet spot where you focus on making a good film and you have fun with your collaborators, but you don't waste your energy chasing approval every which way. When you have a vision and a good story and you've managed to raise funding, it is your approval as a director that everyone should be seeking. It's very simple.”

“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty.”

“You don't need to waste money on a fancy program or app to do a basic budget. I've been using a simple Excel spreadsheet since 2005 to track my monthly budget.”

Needs Simple Waste Program Track Budgets Fancy Apps

Author:Michelle Singletary

“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.”

States Bigs Suffering Energy Causes Process Simple Results Steps Awareness Position Letting Go Waste Simplicity Tiny Complexity Fuel Yield Unnatural Default Complication Cultivating

Author:Deepak Chopra

“I would not waste five years of my life in order to send to the Israeli readers a simple message such as, "Let us change a policy or stop the settlements," Or, "Let us strive for peace." This is not what it is about.”

Years Order Simple Five Policy Reader Waste Messages Strive Five Years Israeli Settlement

Author:Amos Oz

“The primary source of waste in government is that legislators are often under heavy pressure to vote for projects that will benefit their campaign contributors, even when those projects fail a simple cost-benefit test. But with the Supreme Court showing little interest in permitting tighter rules on campaign contributions in recent years, there is little reason to be optimistic that we'll start curbing this kind of waste any time soon.”

“No one could argue with a straight face that the couples getting married today are much happier just because their wedding celebrations cost three times as much as those in 1980. Bigger mansions and costlier parties are wasteful in the same sense that larger antlers on all bull elk are wasteful. The good news is that simple changes in the tax system can eliminate much of this waste without having to deny people the right to decide for themselves how best to spend their money.”

“The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.”

Life Trying Simple Waste Simplicity Simple Things Waste Of Life

Book:An Iron Will

Source: An Iron Will

“Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.”

Energy Simple Attention Waste Complexes Complexity Wasting Time Justification Unnecessary

Author:Edward de Bono

“Never was flattery lost on a poet's ear; a simple race, they waste their toil for the vain tribute of a smile.”

Lost Simple Race Poet Waste Ears Vain Toil Flattery Tribute

Author:Walter Scott

“Kindness, as we will see, has many facets. But its essence is as simple as can be. We will find that kindness is a way of making _less_ effort. It is the most economic attitude there is, because it saves us much energy that we might otherwise waste in suspicion, worry, resentment, manipulation, or unnecessary defense. It is an attitude that, by eliminating the inessential, brings us back to the simplicity of being.”

Source: The Power of Kindness: The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate Life

“The challenge is simple: Quitting when you hit the Dip is a bad idea. If the journey you started was worth doing, then quitting when you hit the Dip just wastes the time you’ve already invested. Quit in the Dip often enough and you’ll find yourself becoming a serial quitter, starting many things but accomplishing little. Simple: If you can’t make it through the Dip, don’t start. If you can embrace that simple rule, you’ll be a lot choosier about which journeys you start.”

Ifs Littles Ideas Enough Challenges Simple Journey Becoming Waste Embrace Starting Quitting Finding Yourself Bad Ideas Serials Dip Quitter

Book:The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)

Source: The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)