No Point Quotes - Page 7

• Reality is painful -- it's so much easier to keep doing stuff you know you're good at or else to pick something so hard there's no point at which it's obvious you're failing -- but it's impossible to get better without confronting it.

  Aaron Swartz

  Reality, Get Better, Stuff

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• And that, I think, was the handle--that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting--on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark--the place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Beautiful, Military, Mean

  "Fictional character: Raoul Duke". "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", 1998.

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• Writing should be useful. If it can’t instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness, there’s no point in doing it.

  Edward Albee

  Writing, Responsibility, People

  "http://www.achievement.org/achiever/edward-albee/#interview". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 2005.

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• If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point. I'm trying to think if there's sunny nonsense. Sunny, funny nonsense for children — oh, how boring, boring, boring. As Schubert said, there is no happy music. And that's true, there really isn't. And there's probably no happy nonsense, either.

  Edward Gorey

  Children, Thinking, Trying

  Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin

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• You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.

  Edgar Degas

  One Day, May, Conception

  "Degas Danse Dessin (Mad About Drawing)". Book by Paul Valery (1935) translated by David Paul (p. 64), 1989.

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• Depression means that you have no point of view.

  Andrew Solomon

  Mean, Views, Point Of View

  "Anatomy of Melancholy" by Andrew Solomon, www.newyorker.com. January 12, 1998.

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• There's no point of having faith if you have evidence.

  Richard Dawkins

  Faith, Belief, Evidence

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• Our thought should not merely be an answer to what someone else has just said. Or what someone else might have said. Our interior world must be more than an echo of the words of someone else. There is no point in being a moon to somebody else's sun, still less is there any justification for our being moons of one another, and hence darkness to one another, not one of us being a true sun.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Moon, Echoes

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• At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Art, Men, Wish

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• Above all, in order to gain respect, you need to be true to yourself. There is no point in trying to be brutal if it's not in your nature; there is no point in trying to be suave and sophisticated if it doesn't come naturally.

  Alan Sugar

  Order, Trying, Needs

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• There's really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.

  H. L. Mencken

  Differences, Voting, Made

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• I strive to live with passion and not to be desensitised to life. Things matter to me. You’ve got to live like that. Otherwise what’s the point? It’s not possible to please everyone and there is no point in trying to be what other people think you should be. For me, it’s important to be who I am, not just to be different but to be as authentic as I can be.

  Pep Guardiola

  Passion, Thinking, Who I Am

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• I was never bitter because I believed in the man upstairs. I continue to do my best. I let someone else be bitter. If I was bitter, I was only hurting me. I prefer to remember Bill Veeck and and Jim Hegan and Joe Gordon, the good guys. There is no point in talking about the others.

  Larry Doby

  Hurt, Men, Talking

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• If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we can give the universe by the way we live, by loving each other, by discovering things about nature, by creating works of art. And that — in a way, although we are not the stars in a cosmic drama, if the only drama we're starring in is one that we are making up as we go along, it is not entirely ignoble that faced with this unloving, impersonal universe we make a little island of warmth and love and science and art for ourselves. That's not an entirely despicable role for us to play.

  Steven Weinberg

  Art, Stars, Drama

  "The Faith of Scientists: In Their Own Words". Book edited by Nancy K. Frankenberry, 2008.

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• That's not to say there's no such thing as an overvalued market, but there's no point worrying about it.

  Peter Lynch

  Worry, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• If you are not willing to take pain to live by your principles, there is no point in having principles.

  Marvin Bower

  Pain, Principles, Live By

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• There's no point in success if you don't let it go to your head. That's what it's for.

  John Otway

  Success, Let It Go, Ifs

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• Someone I talked to who covered auto racing for a lot of years said she believed there was a 60 percent chance that Junior qualified with a car not quite up to code and people looked the other way because there’s no points involved [with the pole].

  Tony Kornheiser

  Years, Car, People

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• Before I was a Discordian, I took life much too seriously. When you take life too seriously you start to wonder what the point of it all is. When you wonder what the point is in life, you fall into a trap of thinking there is one. When you think there is a point, you finally realize there is no point. And what point is there in living like that? Nowadays I skip the search for a point and find, instead, the punch lines.

  Kerry Thornley

  Fall, Thinking, Lines

  "Principia Discordia". Book by Greg Hill and Kerry Thornley, 1965.

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• There's no point putting your heart and soul into a part when you know in advance it isn't worth the trouble. I'm not speaking as a dedicated actress. Enthusiasm and hard work are requisites for any job a person undertakes. I tried working just for money once and it made me almost physically ill.

  Lizabeth Scott

  Jobs, Hard Work, Heart

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's no point in bragging in the good times. Your friends don't need to hear it and your enemies won't believe it anyway.

  Paul Orfalea

  Believe, Enemy, Needs

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• I don't do regrets. Regrets are pointless. It's too late for regrets. You've already done it, haven't you? You've lived your life. No point wishing you could change it.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Regret, Wish, Too Late

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• I have always considered it despicable to grovel for your life as if life were a favor. If you cannot live the way you want, there is no point in living

  Reinaldo Arenas

  Favors, Want, Way

  Reinaldo Arenas (2010). “Before Night Falls”, p.9, Profile Books

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• There's no point apologizing about where you come from.

  Colin Greenwood

  Apology, Where You Come, Apologizing

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• The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has meaning as if there are reasons for doing things the absurd will linger in the back of our minds as a nagging doubt that perhaps there is no point.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Doubt, Mind

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