Writing books can be very individual – one might strike you as helpful that someone else found useless, or that you might not have appreciated at some other time in your life.
It’s useless to send models out on the runway to cry.
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.
To be sure, if you watch CNBC all day long you’ll pick up some interesting news about particular companies and the economy as a whole. Unfortunately, to get to the useful information, you have to wade through reams of useless stuff, with little guidance on how to distinguish between the two.
I’ve always been someone who needs someone with them to poke and annoy. I’m useless at being by myself.
If you’re down to 6% body fat, which I’ve done before, you burn out really quickly. Like, in a couple hours, you’re pretty much done, and then you’re useless.
Ability without honor is useless.
Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they’re designed to tell you if someone is ‘human’ or not, but not whether something is spam or not.
Everyone loves feeling comfortable. But it’s actually completely useless.
Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me.
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Generally, successful fads have some kind of play value, like the Frisbee, Slinky, Silly Putty, my Wallwalker. They’re generally inexpensive items, impulse items. They tend to be rather useless items, too. They provide a few minutes of amusement.
Fashion has always captivated me because, like I said, it has the potential to create narratives about what’s beautiful, aspirational, chic, masculine, feminine, glamorous, etc. Generally, this power is dispatched in useless ways.
In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy… its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?
We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.
I’ve spent so much time with iambic pentameter that I can now recognize it when I hear it in conversation or a movie – it’s like a weird, useless superpower.
Instead of getting swept up in a whirlwind of banal ‘holiday’ parties, useless gift exchanges and harried shopping, my family tries hard to use the weeks of Advent to prepare our hearts and home in meaningful ways for the Prince of Peace.
Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.
I’m just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.
It’s useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
I’m useless with a sword in real life.
A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.
I’m useless scrabbling around at home. I get on everyone’s nerves, including my own. I’m not very good at amusing myself.
Websites are kind of useless. There’s so much great web content and design out there, but the ways in which they are being experienced are not being maximized.
Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
Polonium is, frankly, pretty useless, and no country in the world except Russia bothered to refine it by the late 2000s.
The forced influence of advertising has given us completely useless TV. You don’t want that on the Net. But most on-line information providers need to attract advertising – which slows download times and clutters the screen with windows.
Antioxidants are completely useless.
I suffer panic attacks, anxiety attacks, seemingly random triggers that immobilise me, render me useless but simultaneously unable to explain myself.
I actually think the whole concept of retirement is a bit stupid, so yes, I do want to do something else. There is this strange thing that just because chronologically on a Friday night you have reached a certain age… with all that experience, how can it be that on a Monday morning, you are useless?
But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
Thanks to social media, we’ve also been able to show ourselves as we are. In the end, masks are useless. You have to be real.
Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.
How can a doctor judge a woman’s sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination.
When I graduated, I promptly took a job in finance, making both my pre-med and poli-sci years essentially useless – or so I thought.
I don’t think anybody out there in the media, U.N., human rights organisations, has any moral right whatsoever to level any accusations against me or against Rwanda. Because, when it came to the problems facing Rwanda, and the Congo, they were all useless.
Parenting advice is mostly useless because every family is uniquely its own; artistic advice is mostly useless because every artist works in their own way. Thus, figuring out how to balance the two has an intense specificity.
For me, meditation is a practice to get rid of useless junk cluttering my mind and useless ticks inhabiting my body.
If kids can have some sort of social responsibility, that’s cool. But if they’re not actually having social responsibility, and they’re kind of hiding behind it, that’s kind of useless, or even worse.
It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting.
I come from the south, so you’re useless, and you’re a bit pathetic. That’s the first thing that the northerners think of you. You’re also from the city, so you are used to having your cappuccinos and your luxuries and getting your chicken from a plastic packet.
I wasn’t always a minimalist. I used to buy a lot of things, believing that all those possessions would increase my self-worth and lead to a happier life. I loved collecting a lot of useless stuff, and I couldn’t throw anything away.
I have always thought that pandas, in evolutionary terms, are the most sophisticated animals in the world. They cannot look after themselves; they are useless at reproducing. But to compensate, they have managed to persuade the most advanced creatures on the planet – human beings – to care for their every need.
I know a lot about a few things – mostly useless things.
I can’t imagine ever writing anything of any kind on a machine. I never tried to write either poetry or prose on a typewriter. I like to do it on useless paper, scrap paper, because it’s of no importance.
