This loving person is a person who abhors waste - waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Buscaglia defines a loving person as one who respects time and human potential by avoiding waste.
- In plain terms
- A loving person hates wasting time or human potential.
- What can you take from it?
- Honor time and potential to avoid waste.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What are you wasting time on?
- How can you use time better?
Another view
Sometimes rest or inaction is necessary and not waste.
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