Quotes About Useful

A little attention however to the nature of the human mind evinces that the entertainments of fiction are useful as well as pleasant. That they are pleasant when well written, every person feels who reads. But wherein is its utility, asks the reverend sage, big with the notion that nothing can be useful but the learned lumber of Greek and Roman reading with which his head is stored? I answer, every thing is useful which contributes to fix us in the principles and practice of virtue.

Tis useful nonetheless, now and then, to regard Politics here, as the greater American Question in Miniature,— in the way that Chess represents war,— with Governor Penn a game-piece in the form of the King.

All talk of cause and effect is secular history, and secular history is a diversionary tactic. Useful to you, gentlemen, but no longer so to us here.

One reason Humans remain young so long, compar'd to other Creatures, is that the young are useful in many ways, among them in providing daily, by way of the evil Creatures and Slaughter they love, a Denial of Mortality clamorous enough to allow their Elders release, if only for moments at a time, from Its Claims upon the Attention.

I'm afraid any plans you have to kill him will have to wait—I believe he is the only person on the ship who can handle the maneuvering properly." Klag grinned. "Pity, that." "It's all part of my cunning plan," Leskit drawled from the pilot's station. "I'm trying to make myself indispensable." "Some of us would settle for useful," Klag said

No wizard has ever made himself useful by magic, or, if they've tried, they've only made matters worse. No wizard ever stopped a war or mended a fence. It's better that they stay in their marshes, out of the way of worldly folk like farmers and soldiers and merchants and kings.

Yours truly" benefits from a lack of any specific silly meaning. It is as rooted in convention as "Dear George," and useful for that reason.

True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men. To employ these rare minds on such work is like running a steam engine by burning diamonds.

The fault of the courage culture, therefore, is not its underlying message that courage is good, but its severe underestimation of the complexity involved in deploying this boldness in a useful way.

She'd always known that a strong capacity for self-deception and ignoring unpleasant realities had to be useful somewhere.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.

A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.

have no illusions about your personal courage, but remember that you are no use to me dead.

For when we allow the arguments of reason to oppose one another with perfect freedom, something useful and serviceable for the correction of our judgements will always result, though it may not always be what we were looking for.

Shall I come too? said Francis. I might be useful. After all, I am still a doctor in the eyes of God.

It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.

Consumers have zero time for products that are not simple, intuitive, and attractive to use. This is especially true with Internet products, where clean and useful design is a prerequisite to keeping anyone on your site for more than 30 seconds.

If you aren't rich, you should always look useful.

I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.

There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.

A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.

Many business intuitions and expertise are going to be valuable; they are telling you something useful, and you want to take advantage of them.

I think video is very useful, but it's very useful when you want a certain reality.

Information wants to be useful.