In looking at waste as an entirely modern, man-made idea, I stopped viewing garbage as garbage and instead slowly started to see it as a commodity.
– Tom Szaky
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- We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting. – Julie Otsuka
- The earth’s orbit didn’t slow down. The world didn’t stop falling. Slowly, very, very slowly, Michael started to sink to his knees. – BR Collins
- You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea. – Benazir Bhutto
- A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught. – Mark Twain
- If you hate others in the name of God, you should be looking within to see where it stopped being about God and where it started being about YOU. – Christina Engela
- It’s time I stopped looking for men and time I start looking for me. Then I’ll find the happiness I’ve always wanted. – Ella December
- I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of independent thinking. – GK Chesterton
- I don’t imagine book elitists as my audience when writing. I dream about teachers, morticians and garbage men instead. – Justin Alcala
- Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. – John Ciardi
- Things could change so entirely, in a heartbeat; the world could be made entirely anew, because someone was kind. – Jo Baker
- I never stopped loving you, Ronnie. And I never stopped thinking about you. Even if summers do come to an end. – Nicholas Sparks
- It wasn’t that I stopped caring about life, but that I’ve stopped being able to care. – Ruby Elliot
- You can choose when and when not to be stopped… Choose to be stopped after you die… when your work is done and done well. – Israelmore Ayivor
- When I stopped loving, I lost purpose; When I stopped loving myself, I lost myself. – Pavitraa Parthasarathy
- When I stopped loving, I lost purpose; When I stopped loving myself, I lost myself. – Pavitraa Parthasarathy
- How many would protest if restaurants began serving puppy and kitten flesh instead of calves? Robins instead of hens? Squirrels instead of pigs? – Mango Wodzak
- A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man’s greatest tragedy and God’s heaviest grief. – AW Tozer
- A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man’s greatest tragedy and God’s heaviest grief. – AW Tozer
- Our relationship was toxic. He was slowly poisoning me. I was slowly poisoning him. – Rachel Higginson
- The activity of loving kindness is the bridge that allows you to slowly, slowly realise the wisdom and perfection of this moment. – Tony Samara
- And slowly, infinitely slowly, he began to trust. Not the sea, from from it; no one should make that mistake! – Nina George
- True progress happens slowly, unnoticeable, like a flower blooms slowly and silently. – Debasish Mridha
- The best decisions are always made quickly and changed slowly, not made slowly and changed quickly. – John Patrick Hickey
- O snailClimb Mount FujiBut slowly, slowly! – Kobayashi Issa
- If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly… very slowly. – Gypsy Rose Lee
- The majority are satisfied living within the idea of the reality instead of the reality of the idea. – Richie Norton
- When you change, people may not believe in it initially as they are still viewing you from their old lens. – Harrish Sairaman
- This even doesn’t worth and one dollar just for reading and viewing it! – Deyth Banger
- By viewing images we cast onto outer reality as mirror reflections of inner reality, we come to know ourselves. – Sallie Nichols
- Innovators with global thinking find more viewing spots that the rest; therefore, they can solve problems in unconventional ways. – Pearl Zhu
- Innovators find more viewing spots than the rest. – Pearl Zhu
- Once you stop being locked into viewing reality from just one perspective, you will start to be free from habitual reactivity. – Stephen Richards
- The Glory of this life is in viewing it as eternal. – Beth Johnson
- my dearin an idea, by an idea, living through in idea, we are our own prisoners . – litymunshi
- An idea? An idea won’t get you nothing but another idea. You need money, cash, to make anything happen in this doggone world. – Nathan McCall
- Everyone has an idea. But it’s really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you work on the idea. – Jack Dorsey
- Somewhere along the line we stopped trying to fix the child that we had expected and started to enjoy the child that was. – Meg Blomfield
- I stopped paying the price for success and started enjoying the price for success. – Orrin Woodward