Quotes About Ineffectiveness

Updike "describes to no purpose.

Those who support the death penalty are accepting a practice that is both ineffective and fundamentally flawed.

I was involved in legislating dozens of laws, perhaps hundreds. But my glory didn't lie in legislative work, if there is any glory in it. The Israeli law books are full of laws that aren't enforced anyway.

The government never does anything successfully.

it occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.

Each morning they came around, three brisk and serious men with efficient mouths and inefficient eyes...

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.

Federal and provincial politicians were about as functional and helpful as Peter, Chris, Stewie and Brian Griffin drinking ipecac together on Family Guy.

Rob Petrie is who I really am - in personality and general ineffectiveness.

Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau.Mock on, mock on—'tis all in vain!You throw the sand against the wind,And the wind blows it back again.

It is not impossible to rule Italians, but it would be useless.

Let's form a committee tasked with exploring why committees are so ineffective. Then we'll stand-back and watch it argue and self-destruct.

I think a lot of games in Oakland were just time being wasted, for a lack of a better phrase. I felt like I would play in some games that were four quarters, just like every other game, but it didn't feel like I was doing anything. It just felt like I was out there.

I hated pitch meetings. Pitch meetings were my least favorite part of the week. I just gave up. I was so terrible at them.

y cuando pasó volando por la quinta planta, agitando los brazos en vano

Incompetence can be dreadfully stable.

Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.

You know you're a fool when what you're doing makes even the post office seem efficient.

You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows.

This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of two years. The only way I can describe it is that, well, the president is like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible connection.

Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.

All talk, talk, talk - no action or results. Sad.

How weak and fruitless must be any word of mine.

Do not labor uselessly at what helps not at all.