Useless Quotes - Page 18

Statistically speaking, there's a better chance that some part of me will go on to greatness somewhere in the world. I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

Every day you spend becoming an expert in a field, you become more useless in that field.

The brain may die, but my compulsion for useless trivia lives on.

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.

Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.

I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.

If somebody tells you 'History will never forgive you,' just laugh at him! Because when the history comes, you won't be here! The threat of history never forgives you is a useless threat!

The younger one looked to be completely useless.

The Gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it.

Talent without work is useless, thank God

We are searching for the same thing,” Stripey said. “How do you know?” Janco asked. “I read his mind.” The Sitian pointed to Ari. “Yours was too…chaotic. Too many useless thoughts to wade through.” A compliment or an insult? Janco guessed compliment and preened.

It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.

A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women.

Words are useless, especially sentences.

The well-being of a neuron depends on its ability to communicate with other neurons. Studies have shown that electrical and chemical stimulation from both a neuron's inputs and its targets support vital cellular processes. Neurons unable to connect effectively with other neurons atrophy. Useless, an abandoned neuron will die.

The only thing not worth destroying is science. That would be useless. Science is unchangeable, and if you destroyed it today, it would rise up again the same as before.

The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true

I'm useless scrabbling around at home. I get on everyone's nerves, including my own. I'm not very good at amusing myself.

Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.

Nothing made you feel so useless as another person's grief.

In painting, detail for the sake of itself is useless. It must have relevance to the whole.

One second he was in my face, making me feel stupid and useless. The next he was like this: hovering, concerned, worried.

I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new

Technology. It's like science, only useless.

Taking a long time to do something not worth doing, that is, doing it inefficiently, seems even more useless.