Useless Things Quotes

• There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

  John Ruskin

  Love, Beauty, Beautiful

  Stones of Venice vol. 1, ch. 2, sec. 17 (1851)

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• Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Positive, Mean Girls, Funny Inspirational

  "Artifacts : An Archaeologist's Year in Silicon Valley". Book by Christine Finn, 2001.

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• Only useless things are indispensable.

  Francis Picabia

  Useless, Indispensable, Uselessness

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• It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

  Tom Stoppard

  Philosophical, Knowledge, Useless Stuff

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• The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

  Karl Marx

  Work, Philosophical, Technology

  Erich Fromm, Karl Marx (2013). “Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'”, p.122, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.

  Henry Ford

  People, Progress, Trying

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• No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Inspirational, Family

  "Our Mutual Friend". Book by harles Dickens, 1865.

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• I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.

  Louis C. K.

  Travel, Bores You, Boredom

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• Sanity? Sorry, but I don't remember having such a useless thing in the first place.

  Tite Kubo

  Sorry, Bleach, Firsts

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• The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Funny, Hilarious, Laughter

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• It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Sadness, Littles

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1670, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserve.

  Plato

  Wise, Men, Trouble

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Beautiful, World, Fireworks

  Scott Westerfeld (2009). “Bogus to Bubbly: An Insider's Guide to the World of Uglies”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.

  Frances Farmer

  Atheism, Littles, Waste

  "God Dies". Essay by Frances Farmer, 1931.

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• The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Excuse, Admire

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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• Never act like you want it, darlin'. Act like you wouldn't own it if they paid you. Tell them it's dirty, broken...a useless thing. Then make an offer.

  Billie Letts

  Dirty, Broken, Want

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• I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!

  Romola Garai

  Busy, Useful Things, Persons

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• We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.

  George Eliot

  Useless, Consumerism, Deals

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.243, George Eliot

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

  Eric Gamalinda

  Love Is, Heat, Fragile

  Eric Gamalinda (2000). “My sad republic”

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• 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

  Dream, Nostalgia, Feels

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

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• I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.

  Mo Rocca

  Useless, Knows

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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, Gold, World

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• Probably the biggest mistake that I made personally is I knew early on that I wanted to go into start-ups and creating kind of software that could help change the lives of millions of people. And basically what I did is I kind of went, okay, well, I need a set of titles and I need a checklist of skills, and I ran through all that, and that wasn't a useless thing, but what I didn't realize, and, you know, and no one gave me the right advice for doing this, is that actually your network, in essentially, is your career.

  Reid Hoffman

  Mistake, Skills, Careers

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.

  H. G. Wells

  Pain, Evolution, Existence

  H. G. Wells (2012). “The Island of Dr. Moreau”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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