Useless Quotes

The minute I start being afraid of what people might say is the minute I become useless to God.

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

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.

Take what's useful, leave out what's useless, and add a bit of yourself!

Learning without thinking is useless, but thinking without learning is very dangerous!

Once a kata has been learned, it must be practised repeatedly until it can be applied in an emergency, for knowledge of just the sequence of a kata in karate is useless.

A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows

There's something to be said for useless days. You know, those days when you have nothing to do and all day to do it ... Trust me, a beach and a bottomless drink may not cure the world's problems but it can really get your head in the right place. Those are my favorite kind of days.

Men are of three different capacities: one understands intuitively; another understands so far as it is explained; and a third understands neither of himself nor by explanation. The first is excellent, the second, commendable, and the third, altogether useless.

I considered the attacks on London useless, and I told the Fuhrer again and again that inasmuch as I knew the English people as well as I did my own people, I could never force them to their knees by attacking London. We might be able to subdue the Dutch people by such measures but not the British.

Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Ideas are useless unless used. The proof of their value is in their implementation. Until then, they are in limbo.

At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.

It is useless to dabble in beauty. One must be utterly devoted to beauty, with every nerve of the body.

God grant that I may never live to be useless!

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

A man who lacks reliability is utterly useless.

Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch.

And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

My life was not useless; I gave important truths to the world, and it was only for want of understanding that they were disregarded. I have been ahead of my time.

It is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you cease to want, then life begins to ram her fish and chips down your gullet until you puke, and then the puke down your gullet until you puke the puke, and then the puked puke until you begin to like it.

It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.

If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.

We cannot alter the essential shape of a single letter without at the same time destroying the familiar printed face of our language, and thereby rendering it useless.

And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.

In this state [man's fallen condition], the Free Will of man toward the True God is not only wounded, maimed, infirm, bent, and weakened; but it is also imprisoned, destroyed and lost. And its powers are not only debilitated and useless unless they be assisted by grace, but it has no powers whatever except such as are excited by Divine grace.

Anyone can leave the body and do astral traveling, but they have to believe that ' they can do ' this. It is quite useless for a person to put out repelling thoughts of disbelief, or thoughts such as 'I cannot do' such a thing. Actually, it is remarkably easy to Astral Travel when one gets over the first hurdle of fear. Fear is the great brake.

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

You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.

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

Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions

When I am in the city I have the impression that I am in a living room with crystal chandeliers, rugs of velvet, and satin cushions. And when I'm in the favela I have the impression that I'm a useless object, destined to be forever in a garbage dump.

Knowledge without understanding is useless.

Preparing for battle, plans were essential. But once the battle was joined, plans were useless.

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.

We don’t want to become old, rich and useless

Computers are useless - all they can give you are answers.

What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.

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

It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.

Nothing useless can be truly beautiful.

It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.

Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.

There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.

When inequality gets to an extreme, it is completely useless for growth.

If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.