Top 323 Waste Quotes

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.
Ariana Grande
Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I think rehearsal can be important if it’s done in a way that works. Often, rehearsal can be a waste of time.
Ewan McGregor
In Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, the government in a matter of years has put a lot of energy behind recycling food waste as livestock feed. It’s environmentally friendly, it provides cheap livestock feed for the farmers in those parts of the world, and it avoids sending the food waste to landfill.
Tristram Stuart
You can’t be different for different’s sake, and this doesn’t always work, but you have to separate yourself from the normal read. Of course, it has to be truthful. If it’s not truthful, don’t waste your time.
Brad Pitt
I don’t want to write a hagiography on myself. To me, that is just a waste.
Ron DeSantis
I’m the type of person, I cannot waste time.
Tiny Tim
I started getting more and more active around immigration reform because this was such a waste of lives, such a waste of potential, such a waste for our country not to have the human capital that we developed – geared toward improving our entire society.
Laurene Powell Jobs
Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth’s treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.
Vivienne Westwood
Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
Barbra Streisand
One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings -

One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings – the one of me naked from the waste up.
Cleo Moore
It’s an individual waste and it’s an economic waste for Australia not to recognise dyslexia.
Maryanne Wolf
I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it’s a relief. If I’m walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.
Viggo Mortensen
The ‘Net is a waste of time, and that’s exactly what’s right about it.
William Gibson
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Steve Jobs
We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
Eamon de Valera
I’m for fighting a war on terrorism, not a war in Southwest Asia that Alexander the Great couldn’t win, the British Empire couldn’t win, the Soviet Union couldn’t win. That’s stupid. It’s a waste of resources; a waste of America’s best and brightest.
Kurt Schrader
Stop doing things that waste time. Don’t replace time with your family or things that you need to do. I needed to put together two fantasy teams this weekend because that’s something I enjoy, but I did stop playing Nintendo Wii for hours on end.
Gary Vaynerchuk
Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.
Tony Buzan
It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
Taylor Caldwell
Don’t waste time trying to break a man’s heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.
Helen Rowland
I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.
Jerzy Kosinski
I realise myself that hate wastes a lot of time and energy, and I would rather re-direct any energy that I have to good and positive use.
Julian Lennon
I don’t waste energy thinking about who I prefer and who I don’t.
Julen Lopetegui
I won’t talk or deal with a young writer unless I sense he has utterly given his life over to it. It’s a waste of my time. If they don’t feel ‘called’ – why in God’s name would you do this?
Jim Harrison
Growth hackers don’t tolerate waste.
Ryan Holiday
If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.
Yotam Ottolenghi
How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!
James Payn
The three touchstones that woke Buddha up – sickness, old age, and death – are a pretty good place to start when crafting a tragic tale. And if we need to get more specific: heartbreak, destruction, miscomprehension, natural disasters, betrayal, and the waste of human potential.
Paul Di Filippo
I was always brought up that if you can make a difference, you should, and if you don’t it’s a waste. So we’ll see if I can make a difference.
David Miliband
It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.
Virat Kohli
What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness.
George Martin
I don’t get involved in politics. I think that it is a waste of time and money because very often a politician cannot do much, and if you give him money, you embarrass him, so he can’t do anything.
Harry Triguboff
I want to be able to still surprise myself, even shock myself, whether it be sexual content, whether it be about the theological content, whatever. I want to be able to knock myself sideways. Otherwise, what a waste of a life that would be.
Clive Barker
No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you’re looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don’t waste time looking back.
Junior Seau
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
Stendhal
My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
W. Edwards Deming
Yes I never go to the gym otherwise because I think it’s a waste of time and the most boring thing on earth.
Izabella Scorupco
The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now.
David R. Brower
I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
I am technically not a midget. I’m a dwarf, or a little person, but I consider myself a midget. I just don’t care enough to, I’m not going to waste anger on the word midget.
Hornswoggle
What could make my life better? Oh, if I could only fin

What could make my life better? Oh, if I could only find that magic bottle that lets you never have to sleep. I have so much stuff I wanna do, but… That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste!
Robert Rodriguez
The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.
Garrett Hardin
Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.
Joe Biden
This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift defense is an invitation to disaster for America.
Louis A. Johnson
Being nervous is a waste of time.
Lindsey Wixson
Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It’s awful, and it hurts so many people around you. It’s a terribly selfish thing to do.
Celia Imrie
It’s better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money.
Hal Sparks
There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.
John Bolton
Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Benjamin Franklin
The most important thing in the kitchen is the waste paper basket and it needs to be centrally located.
Donald Knuth
I’m 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can’t stay home waiting for something different. I think it’s a total waste of energy worrying about typecasting.
Bea Arthur
For me, the work begins with a rough cut of the film. I can’t do much with the script. I’ve tried to write music to a script prior to seeing the film, but I’ve found it turns out to be a waste of time.
Cliff Martinez
The single biggest misconception about games is that they’re an escapist waste of time.
Jane McGonigal
We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless waste, and communism, or the system of neighbourly common sense.
William Morris
The more the marbles wastes, the more the statue grows.
Michelangelo
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
Kurt Cobain
It is time to cut out the mountains of waste and inefficiency and duplication in the federal government.
Mitt Romney
He told me I didn’t understand, that we were from the bleak industrial wastes of North England, or something, and that we didn’t understand the Internet. I told him Fall fans invented the Internet. They were on there in 1982.
Mark E. Smith
Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.
Felix Dennis
I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.
William Whipple