“It's weird to make a decision where everyone in your life disapproves, pretty vocally and directly. They said, "You've got one year left. Just do it." I had a full scholarship so I didn't have to pay for it. They asked, "Why don't you just get the degree so you can have it?" And I said, "You don't understand. I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do and now I know. I have the answer and it's dumb to waste any more time."” KnowsTryingYearsSaidWantedLeftDecisionAnswersPayFiguresDegreesWasteDumbMore TimeThey SaidScholarshipJust Do It Author:Demetri Martin
“A central notion in the Affordable Care Act was we had an inefficient system with a lot of waste that didn't also deliver the kind of quality that was needed that often put health care providers in a box where they wanted to do better for their patients, but financial incentives were skewed the other way... We don't need to reinvent the wheel; you're already figuring out what works to reduce infections in hospitals or help patients with complicated needs.” WayNeedsKindHelpingCareWantedQualityHealthNeededWasteNotionPatientFinancialBoxesComplicatedHealth CareWheelsHospitalsIncentivesAffordableInfectionProvidersAffordable Care Act Author:Barack Obama
“I wanted to paint pictures of people. I thought, "Why bother doing anything else. Everything else is a waste of time. I want to tell stories about people and their feelings and emotions."” PeopleWantStoriesFeelingsWantedEmotionWastePaintBotherWasting TimeFeelings And EmotionsWhy Bother Author:Lisa Yuskavage
“I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn't want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject.” PeopleWantShouldProblemBigsWantedPoorSubjectsSeriousWasteEatingThinkerConsumptionDocumentariesPoor PeopleSerious Subjects Author:Agnes Varda
“I realized that most people waste their lives earning a living, and I wanted to live. I love painting, so I keep painting. That's how I became an artist.” PeopleWantedArtistPaintingWasteI RealizedEarningEarning A Living Author:Pierre Soulages
“After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working.” YearsWantedSchoolFeltHalfCollegeWasteHigh SchoolUniversityWasting TimeNebraskaAfter High School Author:Evan Williams
“Why do we have to spend our lives striving to be something that we would never want to be, if we only knew what we wanted? Why do we waste our time doing things which... are just the opposite of what we were made for?” IfsWantMadeWantedOur LivesWasteOppositesStriveOur Time Book:No Man Is an Island Source: No Man Is an Island
“From 1940 to about 1960, I had been writing just regular comics, the way my publishers wanted me too. He didn't want me to use words of more than two syllables if I could help it. He didn't want me to waste time on worrying about good dialogue or characterization. Just give me a lot of action, lot of fight scenes.” IfsWayWantGivingWritingTwoHelpingUseActionWantedFightingWorrySceneWasteGive MeDialogueIf I CouldWasting TimeWant MePublishers1960sSyllablesCharacterization Author:Stan Lee
“If the EU doesn't want Turkey, they should say it now and clearly. If we are not wanted, then both sides dont need to waste their time with negotiations.” IfsWantNeedsShouldWantedSidesWasteBoth SidesNegotiationTurkeys Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan
“The only time I waste is time I spend doing something that, in my gut, I know I shouldn't. If I choose to spend time playing video games or sleeping in, then it's time well spent, because I chose to do it. I did it for a reason - to relax, to decompress or to feel good, and that was what I wanted to do.” IfsKnowsFeelsWellsReasonWantedGamesSleepWasteVideoFeel GoodGutsRelaxOnly TimeSpend TimeSleeping InTime Well SpentPlaying Video Games Author:Simon Sinek
“That’s what it was like to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those...of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know- that’s the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness. -Simon Stimson, OUR TOWN” KnowsYearsSelfFeelingsWantedMovingTimePassionExistenceMillionsAliveIgnoranceWasteMercyTownsCloudsWasting TimeBlindnessUp And DownSelf CenteredOur Town Book:Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker Source: Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker
“Darkness coiled between what he wanted them to believe and the self he despised. It only made him more alone. How could you save someone when he didn't let you kno him? What a waste. The beauty he murdered in this place. He could never see what he had, only what he failed to achieve.” BelieveMadeSelfWantedDarknessAchieveWasteDespised Author:Janet Fitch