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  • Unused rooms are such bad feng shui, really bad energy. -- Alexandra Stoddard
  • Unused creativity is not benign. -- Brené Brown
  • Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all. -- Mark Twain
  • Unused power was like a marionette with visible strings, nobody holding them. A compelling attraction: I could make it dance. -- Frank Herbert
  • Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom discover, till too late, how I ought to act. -- Fanny Burney
  • The ground will never complain how much weight you add on it, how much you dig it and how much you grow on it, How long you live on it. Unused ground is an abomination to nature. -- Yando Wanii Nimbo
  • An unused life is an early death. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Don't go to the grave with life unused. -- Bobby Bowden
  • Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote. -- G. I. Gurdjieff
  • No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power. -- James Cash Penney
  • Earned a bachelor's at 27, then an M.F.A. that is still completely unused and in mint condition, never taken out of the box. -- Daniel Woodrell
  • A trail through the mountains, if used, becomes a path in a short time, but, if unused, becomes blocked by grass in an equally short time. -- Mencius
  • A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man. -- Thomas Mann
  • There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it. -- Ice Cube
  • I'm sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first snow, the last scene in 'It's a Wonderful Life.' But Valentine's Day leaves me cold. -- Nancy Gibbs
  • Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class; I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder. -- Tom Hiddleston
  • I think size is the most unused quotient in the sculptor's repertoire because it requires lots of commitment and time. To me it's the best tool. With size you get space and atmosphere: atmosphere becomes volume. You stand in the shape, in the zone. -- Michael Heizer
  • Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused funds from your bank account, for example, and transferred them to some potentially useful purpose like helping a family buy a home or send a kid to college. -- Noam Chomsky
  • Being charitable provides a boost to your psyche that is tough to replicate in any other way. But note that although any charity will happily take your money, you can give in other ways and still reap the same happiness reward. Volunteering and donating your old or unused belongings have the same result. -- Jean Chatzky
  • I'm kind of floating out there as an artist. I'm in a safe place where I can play a girlfriend or a best friend or a mommy or a lawyer, but a huge part of me is unused. I'm classically trained, historically inclined and somewhat revolutionary by nature, so I'm frustrated as an artist. -- Nicole Ari Parker
  • Power unused is power useless. -- Gloria Feldt
  • Pollution is an unused resource. -- Bill Mollison
  • The world is full of unused corners. -- Brenna Yovanoff
  • Wealth unused might as well not exist. -- Aesop
  • The only bad studio is the unused one. -- Robert Genn
  • Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. -- Stephen Covey
  • Briefcases, like CEOs, should never look new and unused. -- Lois Wyse
  • Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. -- Stephen Covey
  • Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility. -- Dorothea Brande
  • Remember: courage, unused, diminishes. Commitment, unexercised, wanes. Love, unshared, dissipates. -- Tony Robbins
  • Guilt results from unused life, from the unlived in us. -- Ernest Becker
  • Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused. -- Charles de Lint
  • The only waste of human resources is letting them go unused. -- Mark Victor Hansen
  • We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill. -- H. G. Wells
  • Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities. -- Saul Bellow
  • A people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove. -- George Washington
  • Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
  • One does not suffer nearly so much from one's inadequacies as from one's unused abilities. -- CrimethInc.
  • With knowledge there is no hope,... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor. -- John Steinbeck
  • Money is only unused power. The real purpose of wealth, after food, clothing and shelter, is philanthropy. -- Leon Levy
  • It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream. -- Eric Hoffer
  • Portable designs have the power to transform unused public spaces into dynamic environments that build and invite communal experiences. -- David Rockwell
  • I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love. -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it. -- Bernard Berenson
  • I intended to give you some advice but now I remember how much is left over from last year unused. -- George Harris
  • The most unknown, unused and unrecognised tool of the human mind, is the recognition that attitude is always a choice -- Mark Horton
  • Yes, he is not unused to playing in midfield, but at the same time he's not used to playing there either. -- Emlyn Hughes
  • Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote. -- G. I. Gurdjieff
  • If we are not using our brains' capacity for challenge it feels to me as though it atrophies like an unused muscle. -- Philippa Perry
  • Although it may be unused, the front door continues to appeal to our sense arrival. Call it the ceremony of coming home. -- Akiko Busch
  • It is by extending oneself, by exercising some capacity previously unused that you come to a better knowledge of your own potential. -- Harold Bloom
  • The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation. -- Emily Post
  • Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing. -- Charles Kettering
  • The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting (remark on printmaking). -- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • I kind of like it when a lot of people die, and on the other hand I always wonder how many unused frequent-flier miles they had. -- George Carlin
  • All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused. -- Martha Graham
  • UNUSED LYRIC I've never been to Eden But it's nice I hear tell When I die I'll go to heaven 'Cause I've done my time in hell -- Nikki Sixx
  • We need better things, not more. We should not pollute the world with meaningless, unused things when we can make and support things of rare and precious beauty. -- Daphne Guinness
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  • Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition. -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • There is something inexpressibly beautiful in the unused day, something beautiful in the fact that it is still untouched, unsoiled; and town and country share alike in this loveliness. -- Margaret E. Barber
  • When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are lit only from one side unused and empty. -- Christopher Alexander
  • My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there are unused resources ... people having skills which are not being used. -- Milton Friedman
  • A powerful new idea can kick around unused in a company for years, not because its merits are not recognized, but because nobody has assumed the responsibility for converting it from words into action. -- Theodore Levitt
  • I want to make that a reality, ... The idea is to create office space in the unused portions of the station to be leased, hopefully by ING. That would provide a cash flow to Amtrak. -- Thomas Carper
  • Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused. -- Dean Koontz
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