Useless Quotes - Page 19

• Assad's mother was a terror. He was terrified of her and she kept saying to him, you're not like your father. That's interesting, but it's useless information. It doesn't tell me anything about how the first and second armored brigades are going to operate.

  George Friedman

  Mother, Father, Interesting

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The single biggest barrier to effective leadership is, in my view, the leadership industry itself. Instead of telling people the skills and behaviors they need to be effective in getting things done, we tell them almost the opposite - blandishments about how we wish people would be, and how we wish workplaces were. That information is worse than useless as, to the extent people believe it, they often wind up losing their jobs.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Jobs, Believe, Views

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The role of Iran has been very destructive. As an Iranian, I apologize to the civilian people of Syria who have been killed as a result of the useless intervention of Iran in Syria.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Iran, People, Roles

  "Iran’s Nobel Peace Laureate Speaks From Exile". Interview with Bryan Schatz, www.motherjones.com. February 29, 2016.

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• Civilization is the art of creating useless needs.

  Leo Errera

  Art, Civilization, Creating

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• There is no absolute truth that the guy sitting in the cave in the Himalayas is useless, because he is at that point in his journey where he has experienced everything in the world and does not have an attraction to it anymore.

  Karan Bajaj

  Journey, Guy, Doe

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I, myself, sank into that abysmal pit of feeling utterly worthless, useless and burdensome. Caring for an animal, especially one that's been rescued, can help return people to a sense of being needed and useful.

  Ken Wahl

  Caring, Animal, People

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• Complaining doesn't make a difference; it's useless and it's wasted energy.

  Simon Le Bon

  Differences, Making A Difference, Energy

  Interview with Kristi York Wooten, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2015.

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• This is a nice metaphor, too, about mothers and daughters - that when it came time for me to make my own, I was making a completely different garden than the one that my mom has. They don't look like they came from relatives. Hers is a very productive and pragmatic vegetable garden, and mine is a ridiculous overabundance of useless plants. It doesn't feed anybody, it doesn't serve any purpose.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

  "Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.

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• I feel that opiates - I include opium and all its derivatives, such as morphine, heroin, pantopon, etc. - are quite useless for any sort of creative work, useful though they may be for routine work. Much of the hard physical work in the Far East is done by opium addicts.

  William S. Burroughs

  Routine Work, Creative, May

  Source: www.stopsmilingonline.com

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• It is vain and useless to survey everything that goes on in the world if our study does not help us mend our ways.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Doe, Goes On, World

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• America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards. On the road to tyranny, we've gone so far that polite political action is about as useless as a miniskirt in a convent. ... Something's eventually going to happen. Government will bloat until it chokes us to death, or one more tyrannical power grab will turn out to be one too many. ... Maybe it'll be one more round of "reasonable gun control" or one more episode of burning children to death to save them from "child abuse." Whatever, something will snap.

  Claire Wolfe

  Children, Gun, America

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• Memmius would only be useless to him for a short time, but that he would remain useless to himself and the Republic forever.

  Scipio Africanus

  History, Forever, Historical

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• When I am told (by those who confuse predestination with God's providence) that God already knows who will be saved and who will be damned, and therefore anything we do is useless, I usually answer with four truths that the bible spells out for us:God wants that everyone be saved; No one is predestined to go to hell; Jesus died for everyone; and everyone is given sufficient graces for salvation.

  Gabriele Amorth

  Jesus, Grace, Want

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• The aim of all those who live in God is to please our Lord Jesus Christ and become reconciled with God the Father through receiving the Holy Spirit, thus securing their salvation, for in this consists the salvation of every soul. If this aim and this activity is lacking, all other labour is useless and all other striving is in vain. Every path of life which does not lead to this is without profit.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Jesus, Father, Soul

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• The lordship of man over man is the root cause of all corrupt rule. In the light of this principle, no laws are legitimate except God's law, and no government is legitimate except those who rule as God's deputies, implementing God's laws alone, which no-one has the power to change. So I say to you: if you really want to root out corruption now so widespread on God's earth, stand up and fight against corrupt rule; take power and use it on God's behalf. It is useless to think you change things by preaching alone.

  Abul A'la Maududi

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

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• All the time worrying about pushing the children and getting them to be mathematically literate and all that stuff. It's terribly hard on the kids. It's also hard on the teachers. And I think it's totally useless.

  Freeman Dyson

  Teacher, Children, Kids

  "Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson talks about math, nuclear rockets, and astounding things about the universe". Interview with Elena Holodny, uk.businessinsider.com. September 9, 2016.

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• It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and then turn these into what look like moral theories. Philosophers tend to be ravished by the formal beauty of such theories, and they don't pay much attention to the fact that our human limitations make them pretty useless in practice, while the simple point about instrumental reasoning is too shallow to be of much real moral interest.

  Allen W. Wood

  Real, Mean, Simple

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I learned to honor human beings, and I would find myself far more useless than the common laborer if I did not believe that this consideration could impart to all others a value establishing the rights of humanity.

  Immanuel Kant

  Believe, Rights, Humanity

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• People who are reading my books, or who are thinking about it, have some general idea about the concept of strategy. They're better off than somebody that has none. So I would never say it's useless.

  Robert Greene

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• I come from the south, so you're useless and you're a bit pathetic. That's the first thing that the northerners think of you.

  Ruth Wilson

  Thinking, Firsts, Think Of You

  Interview with John Cameron Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 31, 2016.

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• I think [Karl] Marx, Pope John XXIII or Rosa Luxemburg [had achieved the mode of existence].But it would be useless to look at a list of illustrious names.

  Erich Fromm

  Thinking, Names, Would Be

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• If you take a salesman, who sells a useless commodity, he feels like a fraud.

  Erich Fromm

  Commodity, Fraud, Feels

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• If the handbag could think, it would have a terrific inferiority feeling, because, not having been bought, it would feel useless.

  Erich Fromm

  Thinking, Feelings, Handbags

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Things are useless without practice.

  Erykah Badu

  Practice

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• This work is either useless or harmful, because there is nothing good about populism. If you wanted to hear my opinion on this issue, that is what I think.

  Vladimir Putin

  Thinking, Issues, Opinion

  Source: www.rt.com

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