#wasting

All the greatest blessings are a source of anxiety, and at no time should fortune be less trusted than when it is best; to maintain prosperity there is need of other prosperity, and in behalf of the prayers that have turned out well we must make still other prayers. For everything that comes to us from chance is unstable, and the higher it rises, the more liable it is to fall. Moreover, what is doomed to perish brings pleasure to no one; very wretched, therefore, and not merely short, must the life of those be who work hard to gain what they must work harder to keep. By great toil they attain what they wish, and with anxiety hold what they have attained; meanwhile they take no account of time that will never more return. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#blessings #chance #good-fortune #life #luck

I hate wasting time or money and that happens all the time for no good reason, and then people save money by skimping on the important things. ↗

— Rick Baker

#good reason #happens #hate #i #important

I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing. ↗

— John Fahey

#commercial #companies #demos #doing #forget

Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#fix #fragile #gets #money #one thing

I do not want to waste any time. And if you are not working on important things, you are wasting time. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#i #i do #important #important things #things

Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life. ↗

— Ed Koch

#life #lived #nothing #sterile #suburbs

I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles. ↗

— Brock Yates

#admit #around #cars #fast #fast cars

his is exactly what I mean about rabbit holes. I love them. I don’t find them a waste of time at all. The Internet works like the subconscious - I’m sure somebody’s said that already, it’s so obvious, I just can’t think who it would have been. The point is, this is how dreamwork works: you wake up and think, “Why the hell did I dream that my 2nd grade teacher was masturbating my dental hygienist?” If you were in analysis, you’d probably be able to figure it out if you really wanted to, just like you could probably eventually figure out why YouTube thinks some SpongeBob SquarePants video is related to Natalya Makarova dancing the dying swan. I do like to understand some of the connections, and for others to remain mysterious. This is how I feel about my subconscious as well. And I never really find it a waste of time. If you think about it, you always find something out. Gray seems to be wasting a lot of time, but in his quiet way, he’s figuring out how to deal with the fact that the people we love die. I really don’t think that’s a waste of time. Also, for the record, I really don’t think looking at art (MJ, Pina, Merce) over and over and over, trying to understand what it’s trying to tell you, is a waste of time. I think it may be the most meaningful thing we do. I tell my graduate students this all the time. Don’t let anybody make you feel bad about this. ↗

— Barbara Browning

#wasting-time #art

If you have an impossible dream, a dream that cannot be fulfilled, the friendly thing for me to do is to put a stop to you wasting your life at it. ↗

— Danny Bonaduce

#dream #friendly #fulfilled #impossible #life

I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period. ↗

— Steve Martin

#letters #period #punctuation #tired #wasting