Source: The Fountainhead
“I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.”
“A life spent defensively, worried, is a life wasted.”
Source: Every Second Counts (2003), p. 21
Context: A life spent defensively, worried, is a life wasted.
You know when I need to die? When I'm done living. When I can't walk, can't eat, can't see, when I'm a crotchety old bastard, mad at the world. Then I can die.
“I hate no one, sir. It seems a waste of emotional energy.”
Source: Short fiction, The Emperor and the Maula (2007), p. 463
Source: Group Theory in the Bedroom (2008), Chapter 2, Random Resources, p. 23
32; quote from Lacan's Le séminaire, livre VII : L'éthique de la psychanalyse, 295
The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989)
“I just don't want you to worry about me, or think you've met me, or waste your time anymore.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Source: Kodokan Judo (1882), p. 23
Context: Judo teaches us to look for the best possible course of action, whatever the individual circumstances, and helps us to understand that worry is a waste of energy. Paradoxically, the man who has failed and one who is at the peak of success are in exactly the same position. Each must decide what he will do next, choose the course that will lead him to the future. The teachings of judo give each the same potential for success, in the former instance guiding a man out of lethargy and disappointment to a state of vigorous activity.
Father and Daughter
Song lyrics, Surprise (2006)
Context: Trust your intuition.
It's just like goin' fishin'.
You cast your line and hope you get a bite.
But you don't need to waste your time worrying about the marketplace,
Try to help the human race.
Struggling to survive its harshest hour.
