#worthless

When my father bid $5,000 for the 1962 Championship Game, that was a huge amount. It was double the bid the year before. Pete Rozelle was flabbergasted. Who was this guy who was willing to spend so much money on what seemed like relatively worthless rights to the NFL Championship Game? ↗

— Steve Sabol

#before #bid #championship #double #father

It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood. ↗

— Hu Shih

#comparison #contact #critically #cultural #elements

Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless. ↗

— Kenneth Baker

#believe #cannot #case #confusing #fail

The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest. ↗

— Hesiod

#best #blessed #call #calls #heed

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness. ↗

— Norman O. Brown

#becomes #common #common sense #equation #essence

You can not be afraid when you get to this level to teach. I don't care what level you're at, if you don't teach, you're worthless. ↗

— Mike Butcher

#care #get #i #level #teach

If I was your mirror, you would look for me more, than you do me. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#empty #idle #importance #selfish #stuck-up

The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever. These ideas which mobilized the masses are only a worthless currency. Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money. ↗

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

#arabs #blood #both #currency #forever

As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential. ↗

— William Goldman

#as far as #concerned #essential #essentially #far

You can make plans but if the opposition plays well, then all your plans become worthless. ↗

— David Gower

#make #opposition #plans #plays #then