Useless Quotes - Page 12

The whole idea of ideas in art is useless. Only have ideas about form.

I feel like most of the objects coming through the ports are pretty useless. It sort of speaks to this larger point of how much we're actually taking in versus how much we really need.

Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless.

Finance that only talks to itself & deals with each other becomes socially useless

People are just the same. They like me if they need me, but once I'm useless, they abandon me. To survive, I need to be useful

I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns.

You can't say life is useless because it ends in the grave.

But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.

Useless people are not improved by giving them the impression that they are useful.

Worry is wasteful and useless in times like these.

L'homme est une passion inutile. Man is a useless passion.

Actors tend to get better with age. You start cutting away the useless stuff and achieving a point of effortlessness and simplicity, which is all you want to do, with any art at all.

I have a little bit of a temper, but it's ... a useless temper, ... It doesn't accomplish anything, generally. It's just a lot of ranting and raving and nothing, so David (Chase) probably saw that and put it into the character.

According to the International Institute for Environment and Development, the annual amount spent globally on advertising aimed at increasing consumption topped $430 billion in 1998.Consumer capitalism is dedicated to the proposition that production is good in itself, no matter what is produced. The net effect is the massive production of absurd, empty and useless items which are nevertheless utterly serious since we earn our living from them, and dedicate our leisure time to them.

I wished that I...had no savvy at all. No savvy to cause me heartache. No savvy to make me hope, and then leave me useless.

I'm not great around the house, I'm pretty useless. I do little bits, but I never quite finish tidying up - I'll start, but I'll leave things unwashed in the sink. It has been known to irritate people somewhat.

Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.

It is useless to send armies against ideas.

If the chi is being wasted by useless activities, emotions and associations that drain us, then we don't have enough power when it comes time to perform.

Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma.

Love is a fragile, useless thing. It decomposes easily in the tropic heat.

Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.

Websites are kind of useless. There's so much great web content and design out there, but the ways in which they are being experienced are not being maximized.

For those who do not wish to step away from consensus, the creative is useless at best; at worst, it is dangerous.