Meaningless Quotes - Page 16

• The network by itself is meaningless. Only the people were ever meaningful.

  Jaron Lanier

  Meaningful, People

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.17, Vintage

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• To some extent the shorter the writing assignment is, the harder it is to accomplish, and a blurb is 200 words max. Blurbs are meaningless, and actual people who are buying the books don't care about them at all.

  Emily Gould

  Book, Writing, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have no regard for that kind of ceremony. I just don't think they know what they're doing. When you see who wins those things-or who doesn't win them-you can see how meaningless this Oscar thing is.

  Woody Allen

  Winning, Thinking, Oscars

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

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• Keys to Finding Hope: 1. Hope depends upon taking care that we have at least two alternatives, in every situation we find ourselves, and with every task confronting us. 2. In any situation, no matter how much we may feel we are at the mercy of vast forces out there, that are totally beyond our control, we can always find something that is within our control, however small, and work on that. 3. Nothing that happens to us is just senseless and meaningless. In the context of our total life, it will eventually turn out to have meaning.

  Richard Nelson Bolles

  Keys, Two, Tasks

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• The final heartbeat for the Christian is not the mysterious conclusion to a meaningless existence. It is, rather, the grand beginning to a life that will never end.

  James Dobson

  Christian, Finals, Mysterious

  James Dobson (2000). “Stories of Heart and Home”, p.79, Harper Collins

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• I think there will be a reaction - a reaction will set in against this communal dissociation. You know, man doesn't stand forever, his nullification. Once, there will be a reaction, and I see it setting in, you know, when I think of my patients, they all seek their own existence and to assure their existence against that complete atomization into nothingness or into meaninglessness. Man cannot stand a meaningless life.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Thinking, Forever

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• The crowds themselves are meaningless. The thing that counts is what happens to the hearts of the people.

  Billy Graham

  Heart, People, Crowds

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.129, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Ideas in a void have never appealed to me; action must follow thought or political life is meaningless.

  Oswald Mosley

  Ideas, Political, Void

  Sir Oswald Mosley (1968). “My Life”

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• [Having] appropriated to itself all conscious intelligence in the universe ...Man faces the existential crisis of being a solitary and mortal conscious ego thrown into an ultimately meaningless and unknowable universe ...and the psychological and biological crisis of living in a world that has come to be shaped in such a way that it precisely matches his world view-i.e., in a man-made environment that is increasingly mechanistic, atomized, soulless, and self-destructive.

  Richard Tarnas

  Men, Self, Views

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• Balance Sheets are meaningless. Our accounting systems are still based on the assumption that 80% of costs are manual labor.

  Peter Drucker

  Balance, Cost, Assumption

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• And you can't get away from a mirror if you stand in front of it all the time, right. But if you step away from it, you don't notice it any more. And that's what the stage is like for me. See, an image becomes meaningless in as much as it's always temporary.

  Neil Young

  Mirrors, Steps, Stage

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• Just because there are things I don't remember, doesn't mean my actions are meaningless. The whole world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it?

  Guy Pearce

  Mean, Eye, Doe

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• My real desire is to see people live in the modus of our time, to participate in the contemporary world, to release themselves from nostalgia, antiquated traditions, old rituals, meaningless kitsch and meaningless paradigms.

  Karim Rashid

  Real, People, Desire

  "Q&A: Designer Karim Rashid". Express Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. May 3, 2007.

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• Awards are meaningless for actors, unless they all play the same part.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Awards, Play, Actors

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• Caution! Be very careful of false, meaningless, self-contradictory, and not even very funny warnings, like this one.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Self, Warning, Caution

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• If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.

  Brent Weeks

  Ifs

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• Unless you have found God in your own soul, the whole world will seem meaningless to you.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Soul, World, Found

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• The pleasure a man gets from a landscape would [not] last long if he were convinced a priori that the forms and colors he sees are just forms and colors, that all structures in which they play a role are purely subjective and have no relation whatsoever to any meaningful order or totality, that they simply and necessarily express nothing....No walk through the landscape is necessary any longer; and thus the very concept of landscape as experienced by a pedestrian becomes meaningless and arbitrary. Landscape deteriorates altogether into landscaping.

  Max Horkheimer

  Meaningful, Men, Order

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• To speak of 'limits to growth' under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society.

  Murray Bookchin

  Warrior, Growth, Warfare

  "Remaking Society: Pathways to a Green Future". Book by Murray Bookchin, 1990.

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• Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power. Thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers, founded in injustice and wrong, are sure to tremble, if men are allowed to reason... Equally clear is the right to hear. To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Rights, Tyrants

  Frederick Douglass (2017). “Frederick Douglass: 100 Quotes on Bondage, Perseverance, and Redemption”

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• The Earth faces environmental problems right now that threaten the imminent destruction of civilization and the end of the planet as a livable world. Humanity cannot afford to waste its financial and emotional resources on endless, meaningless quarrels between each group and all others. there must be a sense of globalism in which the world unites to solve the real problems that face all groups alike.

  Isaac Asimov

  Real, Emotional, Civilization

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.591, Bantam

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• The two most important things about people on a revolutionary team are their ability and passion. Their educational level or work experience is meaningless--most of the engineers who did ground-breaking work of the Macintosh design didn't even graduate from college.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Educational, Team, Passion

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• A man walking through a wall is a miracle. A man both walking and not walking through a wall at the same time and in the same respect is a contradiction. God can perform miracles but not contradictions - not because his power is limited, but because contradictions are meaningless.

  Peter Kreeft

  Wall, Men, Miracle

  Peter Kreeft, Fr. Ronald Tacelli (2016). “Handbook of Catholic Apologetics: Reasoned Answers to Questions of Faith”, p.93, Ignatius Press

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• The first right of every human being is the right of self-defense. Without that right, all other rights are meaningless. The right of self-defense is not something the government bestows upon its citizens. It is an inalienable right, older than the Constitution itself. It existed prior to government and prior to the social contract of our Constitution.

  Larry Craig

  Rights, Government, Self

  Congressional Record, Volume 146, Pt. 7, June 06, 2000.

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• The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Men, Light, Darkness

  "Halliwell's Filmgoer's and Video Viewer's Companion". Ninth edition, p. 403, 1988.

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