We’ve collected the best Pointless Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Jeff Vandermeer, Liane Moriarty, Cedric Bixler-Zavala, Melanie Martinez, Pete Hoekstra. Use them as an inspiration.
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Rallies, marches on Washington, protests, et al. are pointless if there is no action to make them mean something.
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I’m not interested in babies at all. Babies to me are like wasps: pointless, irritating and even one can ruin a picnic. They’re just not my bag at all.
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Philanthropy is all about sharing. If there’s an opportunity to collaborate, we will. Collaborating just for finance is pointless. It has to be like a business collaboration.
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In particularly acute cases of depression, it is recognized that no verbal or therapeutic intervention will reach the patient. The only effective remedy is to do things, even though the patient will, at that time, believe that any act is pointless and meaningless.
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I’d never make something pointless that I don’t believe in. I don’t think I could do it.
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I did have a very determined idea of making money. I was quite savvy about that. And that was my most basic lesson. You do have to understand the economics. It’s pointless putting in all that work and losing money. If you’re not making a profit you’re stuffed.
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If its not done ethically, advertising won’t be trusted. If consumers don’t trust it, advertising is pointless.
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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that’s hard for a puritan to understand.
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I was introduced to classical music by my grandparents – my parents were mostly into folk and jazz. Even as a young man, I was literally unaware of the distinctions between any of that, and I still think it’s pointless.
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As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we’re all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we’ve done all our lives pointless.
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Logic is pointless.
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You can’t go to medical school and come out and be like, ‘I’m going to be a dog catcher.’ That would be so pointless.
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Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.
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In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.
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The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it’s pointless.
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