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"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted"

"You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted"

"Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage. The easiest of all wastes and the hardest to correct is the waste of time, because wasted time does not litter the floor like wasted material."

"Stop at the end of each day to analyze how well you used it. If you wasted time on things you didn't need to do, eliminate them tomorrow. Just imagine how much more efficient and effective you will be"

"Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time"

"Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first"

"Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be."

"The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less"

"Because we were a kid act, we traveled at half-fare, despite the fact that we were all around 20. Minnie insisted we were 13. "That kid of yours is in the dining car smoking a cigar," the conductor told her, "and another one is in the washroom shaving." Minnie shook her head sadly. "They grow so fast . . . ""

"Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not"

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely"

"Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today"

"No amount of money is sufficient to waste your precious time on earth"

"In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time."

"Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver"

"Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience"

"Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take"

"It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship"

"Trust is like money; you spend it, you save it, you lend it, and sometimes you get robbed"

"Picking the right text editor will not make you a better writer. Writing will make you a better writer"

"Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall"

"To create more positive results in your life, replace “if only” with “next time”"

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny"

"Life is a gift. Never forget to enjoy and bask in every moment you are in"

"Don’t put off living to next week, next month, next year or next decade. The only time you’re ever living is in this moment"

"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life"

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle"

"And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years"

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do"

"“Remove the word “problem” from your vocabulary and replace it with “challenge”. Life will suddenly become a lot more interesting and enjoyable"

"To access the energy of the human spirit, people need to clarify priorities and establish accompanying rituals in three categories: doing what they do best and enjoy most at work; consciously allocating time and energy to the areas of their lives - work, family, health, service to others - they deem most important; and living their core values in their daily behaviors"

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up."

"Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned."

"Cultivate Curiosity. If you really want to grow in your lifetime, learn to be as inquisitive as a child. Curious people are never bored, and for them life becomes an unending study of joy."

"All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes."

"The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize."

"Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand."

"Opportunities and success are not something you go after necessarily but something you attract by becoming an attractive person."

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."

"Continuous improvement is not about the things you do well — that’s work. Continuous improvement is about removing the things that get in the way of your work. The headaches, the things that slow you down, that’s what continuous improvement is all about."

"If you can make time to fix problems you can make time to plan so problems don’t occur."

"Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless."

"Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion."

"Memories are like stars; you may not be able to touch them but you can always look at them and they will brighten your day!"

"It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell"

"People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong"

"Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each"

"It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them."

"If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there's layer after layer of management - a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities."

"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life."