Quotes About Utility

If you were to Google 'SWAT' right now, or Google 'Military,' you would see guys covered in pouches. That's a sign of gear! We've got stuff in here. We carry stuff. And it's an aesthetic.

I think deerskin work gloves are the answer to everything. You can give them to someone who gardens or someone who works outside. And you can give them to someone who grills; they're great for grilling. I wear them all the time, 24/7.

I'd like to have a beer-holder on my guitar like they have on boats.

Knowledge is always useful, even if...if it is not immediately apparent how it will be useful.

The true and full object and utility of Yoga can only be accomplished when the conscious Yoga in man becomes, like the subconscious Yoga in Nature, outwardly conterminous with life itself and we can once more, looking out both on the path and the achievement, say in a more perfect and luminous sense: "All life is Yoga." (Aurobindo 1976, 4)

customs must be introduced that require, if one is to be aware of their necessity and utility, either trusting belief or habituation from childhood on. Thus it is evident that a Volksreligion, if as the concept of religion implies its teaching is to be efficacious in active life, cannot possibly be constructed out of sheer reason. Positive religion necessarily rests on faith in the tradition by which it is handed down to us.

?i optimistul ?i pesimistul sunt utili societ??ii. Optimistul a inventat avionul, iar pesimistul para?uta.

Imagining themes that are specific to coating lines, shapes, shades, thoughts, the decoration of our homes and the objects of utility or pure pleasure, adapting its purpose in a material-specific way to metal or wood, marble or fabric - it is, without any doubt, an absorbing occupation.

Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn't hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time - I would say eight to 10 cookouts.

A fancy watch, it's completely unnecessary. I just need a watch to tell the right time.

If your objective is to tell time, you will not buy a mechanical watch. You have the time on your phone.

By the time they're ready to be thrown away, most shoes are thoroughly comfortable

Anyone I may have used should feel happy that they even had a use. It's better than being useless.

What's the use of crowbars? It's not crowbars that we need, it's intelligence and common sense

Nature does nothing uselessly.

To seek for utility everywhere is entirely unsuited to men that are great-souled and free.

It was a nuisance having to learn Morse—in this age, it seemed such an anachronism, and many were the bitter protests among pilots and space-engineers at the waste of effort. In your whole lifetime, you might need it only once. But that was the point. You would really need it then.

That head of yours should be for use as well as ornament.

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

My philosophy is best summed up by the phrase 'plain, simple, and useful.' Such things may not win many design prizes, but neither do they go out of fashion.

Just because something is useful, it does not mean we should give away freedoms to get it.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.