Quotes About Ineffectiveness

I don't like producing. It's a lot of meetings you sit through that amount to nothing.

Wrong place," Reacher said. "Wrong time, wrong reasons, wrong methods, wrong approach, wrong leadership. No real backing, no real will to win, no coherent strategy.

Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

The government increasingly resembles somebody who is trying to give the kiss of life to a corpse.

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.

An inherent tension between the seeming ineffectiveness of immediate and individual action and the long view the government is trying to take here may be common to every society trying to reduce emissions and to encourage participation.

You're worse than evil. You're inefficient.

Violence is a confession of terrible incompetence.

I wish I were a white crayon, that way no one could use me.

The only thing worse than beating a dead horse is betting on one.

No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.

So things go on as before with those who think a great deal and effect nothing, and those who think nothing evidently doing it all...

In fact the bare adjective "bad" hardly scratches the surface of the man's awesome incapacity.

Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!

To make a long story short, he went round and round—it helped like cupping helps a corpse.

Si la Historia tuviera una finalidad, que lamentable sería el destino de quienes no hemos hecho nada en la vida. Pero en medio del absurdo general, nos alzamos triunfadores, piltrafas ineficaces, canallas orgullosos de haber tenido razón.

folly when it is a perverse persistence in a policy demonstrably unworkable or counter-productive. It

Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless."Anger" was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.

Yes, think what a lot of nonsense one can figure out with plenty of time. Brooding is the mother of ineffectiveness.

which didn't do much of anything

No matter what she'd done, you have to say... You have to say, 'It wouldn't have made a bit if difference.

Magic would not work on Henry. He was too stupid.

This time the problems ran deeper and the statement did not have its hoped-for effect.