“I trained for less than three-quarters of an hour, maybe five days a week - I didn't have time to do more. But it was all about quality, not quantity - so I didn't waste time jogging, ever.” ThreeHoursQualityFiveWeekWasteQuartersWasting TimeQuantityJoggingQuality Not Quantity Author:Roger Bannister
“If anything or anyone distresses you, think how you'll feel a week - a month - a year later. If you can imagine yourself being happy and peaceful then, why waste all that time? Be happy and peaceful now.” IfsThinkingFeelsYearsImagineWeekMonthsWastePeacefulDistress Author:Goswami Kriyananda
“Life is too short to waste time changing the sheets every week. Especially when you have small children who tend to wait until you change the sheets to then wet the sheets.” ChildrenLife IsWaitingWeekWasteWasting TimeWetSheetsToo ShortLife Is Too ShortSmall Child Author:Mary Engelbreit
“Why waste your life working for a few shillings a week in a scullery, eighteen hours a day, when a woman could earn a decent wage by selling her body instead?” BodyHoursWeekWasteSellingDecentEighteen Author:Emma Goldman
“Speculators are obsessed with predicting: guessing the direction of stock prices. Every morning on cable television, every afternoon on the stock market report, every weekend in Barron's, every week in dozens of market newsletters, and whenever business people get together. In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a purely speculative undertaking.” PeopleKnowsTryingRealityTogetherMorningWeekTelevisionWasteInvestingObsessedReportsAfternoonWasting TimeWeekendDozenEvery MorningPredictionsCablesUndertakingsGet TogetherGuessingPredictingSpeculatorsStock PriceNewsletters Author:Seth Klarman
“In recent weeks, in true messianic style, it has come clear to her that her real identity is literally, the force of gravity. I am Gravity, I am That against which the Rocket must struggle, to which prehistoric wastes submit and are transmuted to the very substance of History.” RealForceStruggleClearWeekStyleIdentityWasteSubstanceGravitySubmitRocketsPrehistoric Author:Thomas Pynchon
“whenever they get a chance, never fear, people make you waste hours and months ... they use you as a wall to bounce their bullshit off of ... blah! and blah! and blahblahblah! ... you put up with it for an hour, you'll need two weeks to recover ... blah! blah!” PeopleNeedsTwoUseHoursChanceWeekWallMonthsWasteBullshitTwo WeeksBounceNever FearBlah Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine
“Each of us has... all the time there is. Those years, weeks, hours, are the sands in the glass running swiftly away. To let them drift through our fingers is tragic waste. To use them to the hilt, making them count for something, is the beginning of wisdom.” YearsUseRunningHoursWeekWasteFingersGlassesSandTragic Book:You learn by living Source: You learn by living
“In recent weeks it has come to my attention that many caravans have met with disaster; they have not gotten through." I grunted wisely. "Probably ran out of water. That's the thing about deserts. Dry." "Indeed. A fascinating analysis. But survivors reaching Hebron report differently: monsters fell upon them in the wastes." "What, fell upon them in a squashed-them kind of way?" "More the leaped-out-and-slew-them kind. (...)” WayKindWaterAttentionWeekMetsWasteMonstersDisasterDesertRanAnalysisDryReportsReachingFascinatingSurvivorCaravans Author:Jonathan Stroud
“I set a personal record on Christmas. I got my shopping done three weeks ahead of time. I had all the presents back at my apartment, I was halfway through wrapping them, and I realized, 'Damn, I used the wrong wrapping paper.' The paper I used said, 'Happy Birthday.' I didn't want to waste it, so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.” WantSaidDoneFunnyUsedThreeJesusRecordsWeekWastePaperI RealizedChristmasDamnShoppingApartmentHalfwayFunny ChristmasWrappingAhead Of TimeWrapping Paper Author:Demetri Martin
“Mitt Romney, who is on record saying that he would not waste money going after bin Laden, and on record saying he would not violate Pakistan's border to get bin Laden, this week said, 'Of course I would have gotten bin Laden.' Even his Etch-A-Sketch went, seriously?” SaidCoursesRecordsWeekWasteBordersPakistanRomneyBin LadenEtch A Sketch Author:Bill Maher