Useless Quotes - Page 36

• You have to do a show as honestly as you can. But you also can't afford skepticism, because it's preparing for failure, which is useless.

  Louis C. K.

  Skepticism, Honestly, Shows

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Only the few times I've been to so-called treatment centers, which were a complete waste of money and useless. I didn't know what I was doing at the time, because I was always drunk when I checked in.

  William Eggleston

  Drunk, Waste, Treatment

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To a large extent, the aged in our society are ghettoized. Old people are seen as useless, bypassed by history, old-fashioned, in the way. So, not surprisingly, when we reach the official mark of old age, we're supposed to go gently into that good night, to get off center stage and hand over the spotlight. Old age is also surrounded by shame - the myth of impotence and inability.

  Sam Keen

  Good Night, Hands, People

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• If I spend all my time being upset about having lost a job, then the next however many auditions I have are going to be useless.

  Henry Cavill

  Jobs, Upset, Next

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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• Learning without piety produces a proud device; piety without learning produces a useless one.

  Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

  Teacher, Teaching, Proud

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• It is very scary to think mechanically about someone you know. That means that the second time you meet a person is useless. Which I tend to believe anyway.

  Francesco Clemente

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  "New Again: Francesco Clemente". Interview with Edit deAk, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 6, 2014.

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• Curiosity in children ... is but an appetite after knowledge and therefore ought to be encouraged in them, not only as a good sign, but as the great instrument nature has provided to remove that ignorance they were born with and which, without this busy inquisitiveness, will make them dull and useless creatures.

  John Locke

  Children, Ignorance, Curiosity

  John Locke (2007). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education: (Including Of the Conduct of the Understanding)”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• What about your school? It's defective, it's a pack of useless lies.

  Meat Loaf

  Education, Lying, School

  Song: Life Is A Lemon And I Want My Money Back

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• Yet this perhaps is what love does, or the memory of it; it sucks the life from the living, glorying body and leaves it, when love has gone, a shred, a simulacrum - dross, to be swept up from the factory floor, pitiful and dusty, useless... Do all men and women feel love before they die? This force, this source of light, that lies before the sun; glances off mountains and lakes, blinding and dazzling, on a Sunday afternoon; so brilliant you have to guard your soul, fold your arms to shield your heart from the very memory of it.

  Fay Weldon

  Memories, Lying, Heart

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• You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Character, Evil, Doe

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• What is the major problem? It is fundamentally the confusion between effectiveness and efficiency that stands between doing the right things and doing things right. There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

  Peter Drucker

  Effectiveness, Confusion, Done

  Peter Drucker, Harvard Business Review (2016). “The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking”, p.33, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Battle, Essentials, Plans

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• Whatever alleged 'truth' is proven by results to be but an empty fiction, let it be unceremoniously flung into the outer darkness, among the dead gods, dead empires, dead philosophies, and other useless lumber and wreckage!

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Philosophy, Darkness, Fiction

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• The trick, though, is to not lose compassion, to not allow the sense of absurdity to outweigh the awareness of real beings, with real feelings. Mean-spirited humor turns the world into cardboard, the way Midas's simple-minded greed turned food into inedible and useless stuff.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Real, Mean, Simple

  Source: www.americanmicroreviews.com

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• Virtually every beginning poet hurts himself by an addiction to adjectives. Verbs are by far the most important things for poems-especially wonderful tough monosyllables like "gasp" and "cry." Nouns are the next most important. Adjectives tend to be useless.

  Donald Hall

  Hurt, Addiction, Important

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• Nine tenths of modern science is in this respect the same: it is the produce of men whom their contemporaries thought dreamers - who were laughed at for caring for what did not concern them - who, as the proverb went, 'walked into a well from looking at the stars' - who were believed to be useless, if anyone could be such.

  Walter Bagehot

  Life, Stars, Caring

  Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.187

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• The English also had a reputation, shared with the Dutch, for blowing up their ships to avoid capture. In 1611, for instance, the Spanish Admiral Don Pedro de toledo captured a Turkish pirate ship, but its English consort, 'being wont to seek a voluntary death rather than yield, blew up their ship when they saw resistance useless'. Blowing up their ships, or at least threatening to do so, would become standard pirate practice.

  Peter Earle

  Practice, Yield, Pirate

  Peter Earle (2013). “The Pirate Wars”, p.30, Macmillan

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• Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.

  Henry Ford

  Wisdom, Useless Things, Gold

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• All the sutras in the world are useless. All the lectures of all the teachers don't really mean anything. They are only words. They point in a direction, that is their only use.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Mean, Use

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• Legislatures have no right to set up an inquisition and examine into the private opinions of men. Test-laws are useless and ineffectual, unjust and tyrannical.

  Oliver Ellsworth

  Men, Law, Atheism

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• The best idea ever thought of in the history of humanity is useless unless someone communicates it. It will die in the test tube. And in our case, what we're communicating here to people is not necessarily something they want to hear. And so, our demeanor - how we deliver this message - takes on crucial, crucial importance.

  Phil Plait

  Ideas, People, Humanity

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• Why is old considered useless? Because in old age, the emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: Being? What do you do with it?

  Eckhart Tolle

  Civilization, Age, Lost

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.173, Penguin

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• I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to us to live but once, let us so live we will not regret years of useless virtue, and inertia, and timidity, and ignorance, and in our last moments we can say: 'All my life, all my conscious energies, have been dedicated to the most noble cause in the world, the liberation of the human mind and spirit - beginning with my own'.

  Maya Angelou

  Regret, Ignorance, Years

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• Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.

  Maya Angelou

  Regret, Years, Live Your Life

  Twitter post from Jun 12, 2016

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• I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Thinking, Apaches

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