Wasting Time On The Wrong People Quotes & Sayings

We are so accustomed to the miracle of private enterprise that we habitually take it for granted. But how does private industry solve the incredibly complex problem of turning out tens of thousands of different goods and services in the proportions in which they are wanted by the public? ... It solves these problems through the institutions of private property, competition, the free market, and the existence of money - through the interrelations of supply and demand, costs and prices, profits and losses. — Henry Hazlitt

I only meant, you know, you shouldn't be wasting your time on imbeciles. I know how hard it is to find the right person, but that's no reason to exhaustively work your way through all the wrong people. You seem to be living your romantic life by some kind of process of elimination. It's like matching a Louis Quatorze armchair with one of those plastic patio tables. It simply doesn't work." "Oh, I see," Bel said. "I'm an armchair, is that it?" "A Louis Quatorze armchair," I qualified. "And my boyfriends are patio tables." "Actually," I remembered, "this one's more like one of those self-assembly Swedish wardrobes. — Paul Murray

I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education. — William Wiley

Confronted by seven tall, cloaked figures, dark and foreboding, all armed. — Alan Dean Foster

Jazz music celebrates life! Human life; the range of it, the absurdity of it, the ignorance of it, the greatness of it, the intelligence of it, the sexuality of it, the profundity of it. And it deals with it. In all of its ... It deals with it! — Wynton Marsalis

The more people one has to love, the more one's capacity to love stretches. — Quentin Crisp

I think that those few words were my greatest mistake. — Anita Brookner

I realised that conforming didn't accomplish anything. Do your own thing. As long as you learn that, you're cool. — Sandra Bullock

Smart people ask for help, because it's a much more efficient way of doing things than wasting time doing it the wrong way. — Grace Helbig

All of me, none of God. Less of me, more of God. None of me, all of God. — Michael H. Yeager

You have to be a warrior and say, "Maybe it's everyone else's system, but it's not mine." (from her recent interview here, on Goodreads) — Anne Lamott

I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books. — Simon Armitage

A budget is more than just a series of numbers on a page; it is an embodiment of our values. — Barack Obama

People seem to think that they can't come up with ideas, and they're wrong. They can and they do, but they just think of it as daydreaming, or wasting time. Kids get told not to make things up, and in my case, nobody told me long enough, or it just didn't stick. — Neil Gaiman