Useless Quotes - Page 34

• I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.

  William Golding

  Art, Thinking, Communicate

  Jack I. Biles, William Golding (1970). “Talk: conversations with William Golding”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• The day that you stop looking - because you're content God did it - I don't need you in the lab. You're useless on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Understanding, I Don't Need You, Labs

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• Without the Spirit of God we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind or chariots without steeds. Like branches without sap, we are withered. Like coals without fire, we are useless. As an offering without the sacrificial flame, we are unaccepted.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Fire, Offering, Flames

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Economics taught in most of the elite universities are practically useless in my context. My country [Afghanistan] is dominated by drug economy and a mafia; textbook economics does not work in my context.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Country, Motivation, Inspiration

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• Big? Sure. But, he can't catch mice! So for your big tree. No use? Then plant it in the wasteland - in emptiness. Walk idly around it and rest under it's shadow. No axe or saw prepares its end. No one will ever cut it down. Useless? You should worry!.

  Zhuangzi

  Cutting, Worry, Tree

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• Fundamentals that you read about are typically useless as the market has already discounted the price, and I call them “funny-mentals”. However, if you catch on early, before others believe, you might have valuable “surprise-a-mentals”.

  Ed Seykota

  Believe, Fundamentals, Might

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• To minds tormented by the divine thirst, it is useless to offer the most certain knowledge of the laws of numbers and the arrangement of the universe

  Etienne Gilson

  Law, Numbers, Mind

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• 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

  Kim Do-Jin

  People, Needs, Abandon

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• We do not deceive ourselves that we are engaging in an activity that is anything but debilitating, dangerous, euphoric, kinesthetic, expensive, frivolously essential, economically useless and totally without redeeming social significance. One should not probe for
  deeper meanings.

  Allen Steck

  Climbing, Essentials, Deceiving

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• Excuses are useless. Results are priceless.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Business, Entrepreneur, Priceless

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• Knowing the Truth is Fairly Useless. Feeling it is Profound. Living it Makes All the Difference.

  David Deida

  Knowing, Differences, Profound

  David Deida (2009). “Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life & Death and Love & Sex: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.333, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence is in you. You are never out of its operation.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Self, Grace, Operations

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• He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fall, Past, Years

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay”, p.506

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• Not often, but every once in a while, God brings us to a major turning point — a great crossroads in our life.

  Oswald Chambers

  Life, God, Christian

  "My Utmost for His Highest".

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• A creative photographer is one who either captures mystery or reveals things, everything else is useless

  Raghu Rai

  Creative, Photographer, Mystery

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• A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing to be gained by nostalgia for the old objectivism, which was in any case used only to justify arrogance, tyranny, and cruelty. People [forget] ... how utterly hateful the old pre-humanitarianism world was.

  Don Cupitt

  People, Arrogance, Would Be

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• The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Brother, Mean

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.24, SCM Press

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• When I was young, the concept of being a dreamer was a very negative one. If you were a dreamer, you were useless. You didn't contribute anything to society. But Star Trek made dreaming legitimate, and I think that was a huge, huge contribution.

  Martin Cooper

  Dream, Stars, Thinking

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• Actually, I have no regard for money. Aside from its purchasing power, it's completely useless as far as I'm concerned.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Purchasing Power, Concerned, Regard

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

  Molly Harper

  Brain, May, Trivia

  Molly Harper (2009). “Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• The reason I don't tweet as much as I used to, is because I'm sick of all the useless opinions and hate that I get daily. Goodbye Twitter.

  Zayn Malik

  Goodbye, Hate, Sick

  "Zayn Malik's mother jumps to his defence after he receives cruel taunts on Twitter" by Owen Tonks, www.mirror.co.uk. May 28, 2013.

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• To speak freely of mathematics, I find it the highest exercise of the spirit; but at the same time I know that it is so useless that I make little distinction between a man who is only a mathematician and a common artisan. Also, I call it the most beautiful profession in the world; but it is only a profession.

  Blaise Pascal

  Beautiful, Exercise, Men

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• It's a completely useless emotion - jealousy. I don't go there.

  Joy Behar

  Emotion

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

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• I will not stop. I will not slow down. I will not pull over to ask for directions. I will build the road that takes me where I want to be and I will drive, drive, drive. I will drive until the vehicle around me breaks down, falls apart and tumbles into useless debris... and then I will walk.

  Shane Koyczan

  Fall, Want, Breaking Down

  FaceBook post by Shane Koyczan from Aug 30, 2012

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• Anyone who enjoys inner peace is no more broken by failure as he is inflated by success. He is able to fully live his experiences in the context of a vast and profound serenity, since he understands that experiences are ephemeral and that it is useless to cling to them.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Broken, Profound, Serenity

  Matthieu Ricard (2011). “The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill”, p.26, Atlantic Books Ltd

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