Useless Quotes

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It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting. — Tris Speaker
Sepp Blatter and all of them lot Mr Platini I know he was a good player but he aint very good at what he does,… — Ian Holloway
Poetry has its uses for despair. It can carve a shape in which a pain can seem to be; it can give oneâ€™s loss a… — Christian Wiman
The endless, useless urge to look on life comprehensively, to take a bird's-eye view of ourselves and judge the dimensions of what we have or… — Christian Wiman
Business schools make a fortune forcing their students to take in a HUGE amount of information. The majority of it is theoretical.Â The majority ofÂ… — Josh Kaufman
When I am happy I am like a cat, sleek and purring, quite useless. It is when I am unhappy, with an ache perhaps in… — Barbara La Marr
What chiefly governs the [U.S.] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is… — Walter Karp
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless. — Ben Horowitz
It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog. — George Eliot
For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year. — William Styron
Hereâ€™s what I learned: First thing in the morning, before I have drowned myself in coffee, while I still have that sleepy brain I used… — Merrill Markoe
Christianity is either relevant all the time or useless anytime. It is not just a phase of life; it is life itself. — Richard Halverson
In painting, detail for the sake of itself is useless. It must have relevance to the whole. — Ken Danby
Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people. Asking in broken… — KatÃ³ Lomb
Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly… — Albert J. Nock
Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is… — Owen Feltham
I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller. — Isak Dinesen
It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our… — Sydney J. Harris
Read yourself, not books. Truth isn't outside, that's only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle - if you don't… — Ajahn Chah
Nothing useless can be truly beautiful. — Tony Wilson

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