#useless

I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#few #few things #i #know #lot

Already, in the last few decades, you have realized the utter futility of of encumbering yourselves with superfluous possessions that have no useful virtue, but which, for various sentimental reasons, you continue to hoard, thus lessening your life's efficiency by using for it time and attention that should have been applied to the practical work of life's accomplishments. (The Miracle of the Lily - 1928) ↗

— Clare Winger Harris

#material-possessions #materialism #possessions #uselessness #wasted-time

It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#necessary #only #self-confidence #strength #useless

I'm useless at staring at a piece of white paper. But if you put a piece of white paper with a black line on it in front of me, I'll say no that black line should be red and it should go this way or that way. ↗

— Marc Jacobs

#front #go #his way #i #line

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#between #cannot #difference #falsehood #gold

Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#alone #anything #been #good #happening

I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#believe #cooperate #family #however #i

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#course #know #nothing #than #things

While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise. ↗

— Maria Bartiromo

#available #become #data #full-time #full-time job

It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep. ↗

— John Cage

#play #sleep #those #useless #who