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“Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.”

Work Amount Available Useless Proportion Input

Author:Tim Ferriss

“It just seems to useless to have to work so hard, and nothing ever really seem to come from it.”

Hard Seems Work Useless

Author:Tom Petty

“It is useless work that darkens the heart.”

Heart Work Useless

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“In the biggest companies, seek out the most useless positions: those in consultancy, appraisal, research, and study. The more useless your position, the less possible it will be to assess your 'contribution to the firm's assets.”

Work Business Company Study Position Research Useless Firm Contribution Assets Appraisal

Book:Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay

Source: Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay

“The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.”

People Work Results Technology Computer Economics Philosophical Productions Invention Useless Unemployment Uselessness Useful Things Computer Technology Useless Things

Book:Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'

Source: Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'

“If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.”

“If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.”

Ifs Men Would Be Wanted Work Terrible Meaningful Punishment Useless Crush Destroying Meaningless Usefulness Uselessness Meaningful Work

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only is meritorious; and to it all the products of labour rightfully belong; but the two latter, while they exist, are heavy pensioners upon the first, robbing it of a large portion of it's just rights. The only remedy for this is to, as far as possible, drive useless labour and idleness out of existence.”

Firsts Two Whole Fall Three Work Existence Class Rights Subjects Products Hard Work Habit Labor Species Heavy Useless Latter Labour Portions Remedy Idleness Robbing

Book:The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln

“The inlet of a man's mind is what he learns; the outlet is what he accomplishes. If his mind is not fed by a continued supply of new ideas which he puts to work with purpose, and if there is no outlet in action, his mind becomes stagnant. Such a mind is a danger to the individual who owns it and is useless to the community.”

Ifs Men Mind Ideas Action Purpose Individual Community Work Danger Individuality Accomplish Useless Feds New Ideas Outlets Stagnant

Author:Jeremiah Jenks