“A man who is morally clean, other things being equal, has in every instance, greater agility, greater capacity, and greater endurance by far than the man who is not. While the latter is wasting his creative energies in useless pleasures, as well as in disease producing habits, the former is turning all of his creative energy into ability and genius, and the result is evident.” MenWellsEnergyAbilityPleasureResultsCreativeGreaterHe ManGeniusHabitEqualDiseaseCapacityCleanInstanceFormerUselessLatterEnduranceEvidentAgilityBeing EqualCreative Energy Author:Christian D. Larson
“To find Buddha, you have to see your nature. Whoever sees his nature is a Buddha. If you don't see your nature, invoking buddhas, reciting sutras, making offerings, and keeping precepts are all useless. Invoking buddhas results in good karma, reciting sutras results in a good memory, keeping precepts results in good rebirth, and making offerings results in future blessings-but no Buddha.” IfsWisdomMemoriesResultsPracticeBlessingKarmaUselessOfferingRebirthGood MemoriesRecitingGood Karma Author:Bodhidharma
“Certainly it's nice to have historic moments like this but eventually somebody will break this record. We're aiming for the end result, otherwise the rest is useless.” EndsMomentsResultsBreakRecordsNiceSoccerUselessHistoricEnd Results Author:Fabio Capello
“Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.” MenGivingLawCertainResultsEmotionPureDrawsWeakAccountsVanityUselessCharmResolutionNow And ThenInterfereRespectabilityLuxuriousCheques Book:The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories
“I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless. What is necessary are people like Karajan, [fellow recording producer John] Culshaw and me; we know not only how to achieve the best artistic results but how to attract the public and carry out the whole operation with carefully chosen collaborators. Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.” PeopleKnowsArtWholeResultsCommonQualityDemocracyAchieveAchievementFellowsChaosConvincedChosenProducersArtisticUselessOperationsCommitteesCollaboratorsCommon DenominatorBest Artist Author:Walter Legge
“Whatever alleged 'truth' is proven by results to be but an empty fiction, let it be unceremoniously flung into the outer darkness, among the dead gods, dead empires, dead philosophies, and other useless lumber and wreckage!” PhilosophyResultsFictionDarknessTruth IsEmptyUselessEmpiresProvenWreckageLumberMight Is Right Author:Anton Szandor LaVey