Quotes About Useful

Many children today are growing up without discipline. As they become adults and the discipline of job or family demands are placed upon them, they do not know how to cope . . .children need discipline to be useful members of society. Likewise, God's children need discipline to be useful members of His family.

Comme le travail ne présente aucune nécessité, sauf pour ceux dont il renforce le pouvoir, des travailleurs toujours plus nombreux passent d'une activité relativement utile à une activité relativement inutile, dans le simple but d'assurer le maintien de l'ordre, la paix sociale - car le travail est en soi la plus redoutable des polices.

the best way to earn the goodwill of your neighbor is to ask either explicitly or implicitly, "What can I do to be useful to you?

praying to find the intimacy of a band that could be useful to our audience this evening

Always be Graceful and Useful Nara Bhuvaneshwari

At Hampton I not only learned that it was not a disgrace to labour, but learned to love labour, not alone for its financial value, but for labour's own sake and for the independence and self-reliance which the ability to do something which the world wants done brings. At that institution I got my first taste of what it meant to live a life of unselfishness, my first knowledge of the fact that the happiest individuals are those who do the most to make others useful and happy.

I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant, unexpected encouragements of this kind (surprises) if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day of his life -- that is, tries to make each day reach as nearly as possible the high-water mark of pure, unselfish, useful living. I pity the man, black or white, who has never experienced the joy and satisfaction that come to one by reason of an effort to assist in making someone else more useful and more happy.

too many trivial projects are like seeds sown on stony ground—they might sprout, but they do not take root and grow into anything useful.

On our journey, we are learning to imitate Jesus. We are learning to love as He loved. And as we keep loving, He will keep putting in front of us those who desperately need His love. Then we will find the following to be true of us: "The more you grow like this, the more productive and useful you will be in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ" (2 Peter 1:8 NLT).

I like being mistaken for someone useful.

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.

Life gives to all the choice. You can satisfy yourself with mediocrity if you wish. You can be common, ordinary, dull, colorless, or yyou can channel your life so that it will be clean, vibrant, useful, progressive, colorful, and rich.

Faith aside, witchcraft served an eminently useful purpose. The aggravating, the confounding, the humiliating all dissolved in its cauldron. It made sense of the unfortunate and the eerie, the sick child and the rancid butter along with the killer cat. What else, shrugged one husband, could have caused the black and blue marks on his wife's arm?

IF I TRY TO FIND some useful phrase to sum up the time of my childhood and youth before the First World War, I hope I can put it most succinctly by calling it the Golden Age of Security.

Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.

True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience

Truth and eggs are useful only while they are fresh.

... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.

For there is a VOID in things; a truth which it will be useful for you, in reference to many points, to know; and which will prevent you from wandering in doubt.

It was so useful to lie with the truth.

The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.

But not for him. "This is the crux of science," he'd say with enthusiasm. "All science is modeling. In all science you are abstracting from nature. The question is: is it a useful abstraction." Useful, to Bob Glass, meant: Does it help solve a problem?

No one ever asked Friedberg the question: If my knowledge is no longer useful, who needs me? But it was a good question. "There is stuff the farmer picks up on that we haven't got data on yet," he said. "For example, are there bugs in the field? But over time

There was a relentlessness in the way Danny's mind moved from insight to application. Psychologists, especially the ones who became university professors, weren't exactly known for being useful. The demands of being an Israeli had forced Danny to find a talent in himself he might otherwise never have spotted.