Wasted Quotes

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half.

In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.

Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'

It's wonderful that so many people want to contribute to fighting aids or malaria. But, if somebody isn't paying attention to the overall health system in the country, a whole lot of money can be wasted.

This is where I have wasted the best years of my life.

The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.

Getting wasted is only OK when you're young enough to not know better.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. And, as soon as I could, I wasted a lot of money on cars - BMW's mostly - for myself and my family.

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

In general President Obama's policies have been very, very skewed and very, very extreme. Like on healthcare for example, I don't think that trying to ram healthcare through was a smart idea politically, because he wasted a lot of capital and now he doesn't have any of that same capital with even his own party that he used to have.

When I was young, I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me, never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

These were the moments when I was disappointed and frustrated, when I got so low because it seemed all my hard work had been wasted. But the moments passed, and the motivation to go back to rehab was there again.

I stagnated in prison a long time, and I have wasted most of my life.

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.