Quotes About Useful

The goal then is not to abandon categorical thinking—we can't really shift our thinking in this way any more than we can choose to process information like computers (it's not really possible). Instead, we need to learn to recognize when a classification is neither useful nor valid, that's the challenge.

For pragmatist philosophers such as these, a belief is valued as true because it is useful, because it works, because it brings tangible benefits to human beings and other creatures. Siddhattha Gotama's Four Noble Truths are "true" not because they correspond to something real somewhere, but because, when put into practice, they can enhance the quality of your life. In

a scientific theory is just a mathematical model we make to describe our observations: it exists only in our minds. So it is meaningless to ask: which is real, real or imaginary time? It is simply a matter of which is the more useful description.

By contrast, there are about 50,000 new books published in the English language each year, containing of the order of a hundred billion bits of information. Of course, the great majority of this information is garbage and no use to any form of life. But, even so, the rate at which useful information can be added is millions, if not billions, higher than with DNA.

One is only as good as one is useful.

Love comes into being through useful service to others.

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

I became a shadow, so much so that sometimes I felt almost evanescent—useful only in relation to someone else.

Heights—an orange-vested Caltrans crew, stupidest agency in the state, taking petty-fascist satisfaction in blocking off two lanes. I sat, idling along with the Seville, rolled a foot or two, sat some more, finally got past La Cienega. Unmindful of the noise and the dirt. New focus: yearning to feel useful.

Not bad in short, though the last one [understanding the language of animals], isn't half as useful as you might expect, since when all's said and done the language of the beasts tends to revolve around: a) the endless hunt for food, b) finding a warm bush to sleep in the evening, and c) the sporadic satisfication of certain glands. (Many would argue that the language of human kind boils down to this too)

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

Whatever the cause, software that lacks a concept at the foundation of its design is, at best, a mechanism that does useful things without explaining its actions.

There are useful herbs growing near the oak tree by the stream," Flamepaw pointed out "Littlecloud would come for these" his tail curled up in amusement "Then we could pelt Blackfoot with acorns and he'd think they came from StarClan

She wondered how many lives he had left. Perhaps that's what gave him confidence. Why did only leaders get to have nine lives? Wouldn't it be more useful if StarClan granted every cat nine lives?

That's useful to know.

Is that your professional opinion?" "Yes." "Which as usual," said Seawoll, "is as about as useful as a chocolate teapot.

The purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting.

I arrived in Washington as a quiet, reserved professor—with a research background that proved to be quite useful in the financial crisis.

Lloyd was obviously very bright, and I found his insights into market developments particularly useful.

Nella vita di tutti i giorni [i francesi] hanno portato al massimo grado di perfezione quell'arte che, fra tutte, è la più utile e la più gradevole, l' art de vivre , l'arte della società e della conversazione. - David Hume, The Philosophical Works

Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern: the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.

The objections and reluctances I met with in soliciting the subscriptions, made me soon feel the impropriety of presenting one's self as the proposer of any useful project, that might be suppos'd to raise one's reputation in the smallest degree above that of one's neighbours, when one has need of their assistance to accomplish that project.

If you would reap Praise you must sow the Seeds, Gentle Words and useful Deeds.

Aku lebih suka mengatakan, dia hidup berguna, daripada dia meninggal kaya raya.