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.

The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.

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!

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

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.

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.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

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

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

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.

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

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

Good news is only really good to those directly involved. Most people lead such futile and useless lives that only bad news makes them feel better. If not better, certainly gooder. If one cannot gain recognition for anything else, he can rest well with the assurance that he is "good", which in most case equates with "right".

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.

Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.

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

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.