Useless Quotes - Page 35

• Without the doing, the dreaming is useless.

  Robin Sharma

  Dream

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from May 13, 2015

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• The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor, and that our personal experience is politically useless and our political will a minor illusion.

  C. Wright Mills

  Knowledge, Frustration, Political Will

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings”, p.184, Univ of California Press

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• Don't, to gain general and useless attention, sacrifice the attention that you want

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Sacrifice, Attention, Want

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Claude C. Hopkins (2014). “Scientific Advertising - Masters of Marketing Secrets: From the First Great Copywriter”, p.37, Lulu.com

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• Knowledge without practice is useless. Practice without knowledge is dangerous.

  Confucius

  Practice, Essentials, Dangerous

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• Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

  Francis Bacon

  Logic, Rendering, Servant

  Francis Bacon (2016). “New Atlantis and The Great Instauration”, p.62, John Wiley & Sons

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• Without the Spirit of God, we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind. We are useless.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wind, Ships, Spirit

  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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• Most arguments are useless.

  Aesop

  Life, Argument

  Graeme Kent, Eric Kincaid, Aesop (1990). “Aesop's fables: a collection of Aesop's fables”, Checkerboard Pr

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• I know how it goes. Six or seven months ago I was the manager of the year and I was going to be this and that, tactically this and tactically that, and now, because we have lost two world-class players, I am useless. But I accept that.

  Brendan Rodgers

  Football, Player, Years

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• Life is too short for any vain regretting... Between the swift sun's rising and its setting, we have no time for useless tears or fretting, life is too short.... Time is the best avenger if we wait, the years speed by, and on their wings bear healing, life is too short for aught but high endeavor-too short for spite, but long enough for love. And love lives on forever and forever.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Regret, Life Is Too Short, Healing

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Life Is Too Short”

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• Guilt is a totally useless emotion. It never makes anyone feel better nor does it change a situation.

  Louise Hay

  Feel Better, Simple, Guilt

  Louise L. Hay (2009). “You Can Heal Your Life”, p.203, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

  Albert J. Nock

  Sound, Public Opinion, Force

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• After the horrific massacre Wednesday at the French weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, perhaps the West will finally put away its legion of useless tropes trying to deny the relationship between violence and radical Islam.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Charlie Hebdo, Islam, Trying

  "How to Answer the Paris Terror Attack". Article by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, www.metafilter.com. January 7, 2015.

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• The most important thing however is the money. What use would it be to us, to have a a mighty stadium but a useless team, because we couldn't afford anything better?

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Team, Important, Use

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• I love advertising because I love lying. I think spending your life trying to dupe innocent people out of hard-won earnings to buy useless, low-quality, misrepresented items and services is an excellent use of your energy.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Wisdom, Lying, Thinking

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• It is thus religion infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity and fanaticism: if he has a heated imagination it drives him on to fury; if he has activity, it makes him a madman, who is frequently as cruel to himself, as he is dangerous and incommodious to others: if, on the contrary, he be phlegmatic or of a slothful habit, he becomes melancholy and is useless to society.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Atheist, Men, Vanity

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• It becomes necessary to learn how to clear the mind of all clouds, to free it of all useless ballast and debris by dismissing the burden of too much concern with material things.

  Indra Devi

  Clouds, Mind, Too Much

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• Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Education, Ideas, Unschooling

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Self-confidence without self-reliance is as useless as a cooking recipe without food. Self-confidence sees the possibilities of the individual; self-reliance realizes them. Self-confidence sees the angel in the unhewn block of marble; self-reliance carves it out for oneself.

  William George Jordan

  Block, Angel, Self Confidence

  William George Jordan (2007). “The Majesty of Calmness”, p.21, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to the door and entertains him more than I would be entertained by contemplating the most original idea, by reading the greatest book, or by having the most gratifying of useless dreams. If life is basically monotony, he has escaped it more than I. And he escapes it more easily than I. The truth isn't with him or with me, because it isn't with anyone, but happiness does belong to him.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Reading, Book

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• Intention without action is useless.

  Caroline Myss

  Action, Intention

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• What profit is there in agreeing that universal friendship is good, and talking of the solidarity of the human race as a grand ideal? Unless these thoughts are translated into the world of action, they are useless. The wrong in the world continues to exist just because people only talk of their ideals, and do not strive to put them into practice. If actions took the place of words, the world's misery would very soon be changed into comfort.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Race, Talking, Practice

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• I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Gambling, Soul, Nuisance

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• I count Maxwell and Einstein, Eddington and Dirac, among "real" mathematicians. The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity and quantum mechanics, and these subjects are at present at any rate, almost as "useless" as the theory of numbers.

  G. H. Hardy

  Real, Science, Numbers

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• Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless.
  But the useless always judge themselves as being important and hide all their incompetence behind authority.

  Paulo Coelho

  Men, Judging, Mind

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• Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.

  John Calvin

  Vain

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