42 Wasteful Quotes for You to Enjoy

To truly cherish the things that are important to you, you must first discard those that have outlived their purpose. And if you no longer need them, then that is neither wasteful nor shameful. Can you truthfully say that you treasure something buried so deeply in a cupboard or drawer that you have forgotten its existence? Marie Kondo

You First Important Say Those Drawer Neither Must Something Outlived Purpose Shameful Longer Discard Cherish Nor Truly Existence Cupboard Truthfully Forgotten Buried Them Then Deeply Wasteful Things Treasure Need

What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is. Dan Quayle

Mind Lose True How Very Being Waste Wasteful

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer. Norman Mailer

You Single Back Never Obsession Most Because Answer Coming Question Get Same Human Human Activity Keep Activity Wasteful

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. Gary Ryan Blair

Success Failure Creative Risks Opportunity Destructive Thoughtless High Risk More Risk-Taking Seize Taking Perhaps Course Caution Goal Any Essential Where Which Inaction Stakes Even Wasteful Chance

It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them or can't be bothered. Julian Baggini

Those Bothered Know Leftovers Either Them Who Wasteful

Cities offer us powerful leverage on our most stubborn, wasteful practices. Long commutes in our cars, big power bills from our energy-hogging buildings, shopping trips to buy stuff that'll spend a few short months in our homes and long centuries in our landfills. Alex Steffen

Buy Shopping Car Long Power Big Few Our Spend Months Cities Trips Stubborn Powerful Stuff Most Practices Buildings Offer Short Centuries Us Bills Homes Wasteful Leverage

Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority. Chaka Fattah

You Blame Spending Someone Majority Want Republicans Now Wasteful Wasteful Spending

There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me to add to that huge number of people writing here when there are so few people writing about somewhere else. Chinua Achebe

Me People Writing Somewhere Few Add Else Would Would-Be About Seems Somewhere Else Writers Huge Huge Number America Few People Lack Therefore Novels Wasteful Here Number

I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing. Daniel Day-Lewis

Time Relationship Strange Think Feel Passing Really Aware Wasteful

Say a child raises this beautiful beet. It's going to give her a sense of ownership, and that changes everything. You stop taking things for granted; you become less wasteful. David Chang

Before they got vengeful, conservatives had some useful points to make about welfare. Government 'help' is too often guilt-assuaging gesture. It creates layers of wasteful bureaucracy. Too much help of the wrong sort creates a culture of dependency that swamps our ability to provide. Donella Meadows

Government Culture Welfare Too Much Before Gesture Too Conservatives Our Ability Some About Layers Points Had Wrong Vengeful Make Sort Got Provide Bureaucracy Often Dependency Much Creates Useful Help Wasteful

We should empower teachers to do their job by cutting wasteful spending and crippling bureaucracy, not classroom resources our educators and students need. Doug Ducey

Job Our Resources Spending Crippling Classroom Students Empower Educators Bureaucracy Cutting Should Teachers Wasteful Wasteful Spending Need

There's a lot of complacency in philanthropy. People figure organizations are trying to do good, and that's enough, even if the results aren't there. But that's wasteful and inefficient. It crowds out better programs. Dustin Moskovitz

Good People Better Complacency Philanthropy Enough Programs Out Crowds Results Inefficient Lot Trying Organizations Figure Even Wasteful

Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails. Felix Dennis

Time People Few Once Hundreds Emails Paper Computers Until Make Documents Sheet Errors Duplicated Get Managers Endlessly Swamped Flawless Each Now Wasteful Copies

Too often, young people who are just bursting with idealism either find themselves playing a game for which they have little heart or are hurling themselves into wasteful protests against the so-called Establishment. George W. Romney

Because war is a competition involving life and death, and in which national security and vital interests are at stake, establishing an objective other than winning is not only counterproductive, but also irresponsible and wasteful. In some circumstances, it is also unethical. H. R. McMaster

Life Death War Competition National Other Circumstances Security Life And Death Vital Some Objective Only Winning Counterproductive Also Involving Because Than National Security Unethical Irresponsible Establishing Which Stake Interests Wasteful

It's important to ensure that the person who replaces Tim Scott be a reliable conservative, a proven fighter and a leader who will join our mission to cut wasteful Washington spending. I'm convinced the best person for the job is Larry Grooms. Jeff Duncan

Best Conservative Will Job Leader Important Fighter Our Spending Ensure Reliable Join Mission Tim Proven Scott Person Cut Convinced Who Washington Wasteful Larry

The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing. Julie Bishop

Government Addiction Spending Must Borrowing Give Up Taxing Wasteful Wasteful Spending

We pledge to you that we will create jobs. End economic uncertainty and make America more competitive. We will cut Washington wasteful spending and reduce the size of government. And we will reform Congress and restore your trust in government. Kevin McCarthy

Government You Trust Will Congress Spending Pledge Jobs Restore More Uncertainty Economic Make Reduce End Reform America Size Cut Create Your Washington Wasteful Wasteful Spending Competitive

If everyone in America can easily see who and what their lawmakers are requesting taxpayer money for, we can keep elected officials honest, end the days of political, special interest favors, and reduce wasteful spending. Kirsten Gillibrand

Money Political Taxpayer Everyone Spending Easily Favors See Lawmakers Days Reduce End America Officials Interest Elected Elected Officials Taxpayer Money Special Who Special Interest Keep Wasteful Wasteful Spending Honest

It's wasteful spending like this that not only forces tax increases and cuts in vital services... but also really make you wonder: who is City Hall looking out for? Laura Miller

You Looking Increases Spending Out City City Hall Vital Only Like Also Make Forces Hall Wonder Tax Tax Increases Cuts Really Who Wasteful Wasteful Spending Services

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