Useless Quotes
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In the biggest companies, seek out the most useless positions: those in consultancy, appraisal, research, and study. The more useless your position, the less possible it will be to assess your 'contribution to the firm's assets.
Corinne Maier -
It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
Lord Byron
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The kind of acting that's wholly literary or cerebral is wrong. It's useless for me to have actors so much in their heads that they can't be organic.
Mike Leigh -
I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.
Seth Godin -
It is useless to teach those who do not expect to be transformed
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy -
I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.
William Golding -
I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis.
Mira Nair -
If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.
Eugene Ionesco
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'You can't put': Hiccup in charge, sir, he's USELESS.
Cressida Cowell -
All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.
Scott Westerfeld -
Wal-mart started selling “Vampire Home Defense Kits”, including holy water, crosses, stakes, mallets, and a book of quick blessings to bar vampires from your door. The fact that these kits were generally useless didn't bother me nearly as much as the idea of holy water being sold at wal-mart.
Molly Harper -
I don't watch television because I have a tiny baby daughter. I'm useless.
Mireille Enos -
Why was outrage only available when useless
Charlie Jane Anders
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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
Remember that life's length is not measured by its hours and days, but by that which we have done therein. A useless life is short if it lasts a century. There are greater and better things in us all, if we would find them out. There will always be in this world – wrongs. No wrong is really successful. The day will come when light and truth and the just and the good shall be victorious and wrong as evil will be no more forever.
Walter Breuning -
A God who fits within the confines of our conception is useless. God cannot be comprehended by man's conception or logic. God is an eternal being who transcends the framework of man's limited logic.
Sun Myung Moon -
It's a completely useless emotion - jealousy. I don't go there.
Joy Behar -
I can only grow to what I will be from what I am, and where I am, so discontent is quite useless. Much more sensible to accept the one and love the other.
Elizabeth Goudge -
The brain may die, but my compulsion for useless trivia lives on.
Molly Harper
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Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.
Westbrook Pegler -
You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.
Storm Jameson -
You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.
Mother Teresa -
I have enough trouble with useful information, never mind being burdened with what is useless.
Erlend Loe