Quotes About Wasted Efforts

#1. Anger rose in me. Didn't they know how hard I'd been working to overcome my family background? Now all my efforts were wasted.

Ji-li Jiang

#2. Each way of organizing has strengths and weaknesses. Taxonomy affords a view from the top, facets help us muddle through the middle, and tags build bridges at the bottom.

Peter Morville

#3. And in the bloodlit dark behind his eyes, silver phosphenes boiled in from the edge of space, hypnagogic images jerking past like a film compiled of random frames. Symbols, figures, faces, a blurred, fragmented mandala of visual information.

William Gibson

#4. Looking and seeing do not originate in your self. You are able to look in your self because looking and seeing are before your self.

John De Ruiter

#5. You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared.

Robbie Robertson

#6. It is the natural instinct of a child to work from within outwards; "First I think, and then I draw my think." What wasted efforts we make to teach the child to stop thinking, and only to observe!

Ananda Coomaraswamy

#7. There's all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.

John Dewey

#8. Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Ted Engstrom

#9. Getting its history wrong is part of being a nation.

Ernest Renan

#10. I began to develop a firm conviction that most efforts to teach people things were wasted. All they needed was to go off some place quiet and read. Around

Richard Russo

#11. She heard a low murmur of the far-away voices: a chant repeated over and over.

A.O. Peart