“ What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. ”
- Herbert Simon- Copy
- 372
“ Gentle sleep! Scatter thy drowsiest poppies from above; And in new dreams not soon to vanish, bless My senses with the sight of her I love. ”
- Horatio Smith- Copy
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“ Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. ”
- John Quincy Adams- Copy
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“ Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain. ”
- Siddha Nagarjuna- Copy
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“ The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling. ”
- Orison S. Marden- Copy
- 1.8K
“ I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air. ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
- 1.4K
“ The biggest waste of water in the country is when you spend half a pint and flush two gallons. ”
- Duke of Edinburgh Prince Philip- Copy
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“ Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. ”
- John Adams- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ I don't waste as much time at work because I'd rather spend it with my kids. ”
- Cindy Crawford- Copy
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“ Every minute this broad spends outside of bed is a waste of time. ”
- Michael Todd- Copy
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“ The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it. ”
- Israel Zangwill- Copy
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“ When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate. ”
- Pamela Ribon- Copy
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“ Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. ”
- Jean de la Bruyere- Copy
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“ Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ Talk uses up ideas… Once I have spoken them aloud, they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them, like bulbs, in the rich soil of silence do they grow. ”
- Doris Grumbach- Copy
- 223
“ While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground. ”
- Ralph Marston- Copy
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“ To waste and destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
- 780
“ Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought — asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation. ”
- Jeremy Collier- Copy
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“ I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries; / Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols. ”
- Bible- Copy
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“ Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It's equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer you greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others. ”
- Anthony Robbins- Copy
- 2.9K
“ In the late 19th century Evanston, Illinois, nicknamed "Heavenston" by Frances Willard, was a Methodist-minded town, so pious that the town fathers, resenting the dissipating influence of the soda fountain, passed an ordinance forbidding the sale of ice cream sodas on Sunday… ”
- William Lyon Phelps- Copy
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“ How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm! I thank thee, night! for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate; and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 152
“ As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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