That first year at Universal was a big blur and, naturally, I thought they were wasting me. I didn't realize at the time that I was learning my craft and acting more easily in front of the camera.
In part, slacktivism is what happens when the energy of otherwise dedicated activists is wasted on approaches that are less effective than the alternatives.
Isn't it sad that some people waste their lives emulating those who don't even know who they are or what they are here on earth to do?
For how long are you going to keep wasting your money, time, and energy trying to impress people who will never matter in your life?
My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.
I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.
If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.
Some people I see are so talented that they are just wasting their time on writing at Facebook. Talent must be productive..
If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.
I don't like paying too much for anything or wasting it. I think that I'm more of a balanced individual rather than a dichotomy.
During the first few minutes of your presentation, your job is to assure the audience members that you are not going to waste their time and attention.
...I long to be known as an extravagant worshiper...that God would discover the song in my heart to be elaborate, overgenerous, and wasteful in my pursuit of Him.
Simply by living in this particular time and space, you're doing something nearly 100% of all other humans ever never could. Don't waste it.
People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
What they prefer to that is to find someone to have power over; someone to own and to bully, to smash and to waste. She wondered if she would ever be in love.
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
By finding waste and abuse in entitlement programs, and eliminating it, we can ensure that the funds that are put into these programs go to the people that need them the most.
Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.
It's a waste of energy to think about what somebody else is doing and how they doing it. I'ma just do what I do.
It's not a sign of creativity to have sixty-five ideas for one problem. It's just a waste of energy.
Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.
