logo

Quotes About Useful

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
~ Lloyd Alexander
Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.
~ Unknown
This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other. It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn't mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.
~ Angelina Jolie
Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work.
~ Grenville Kleiser
I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff.
~ Tom Felton
Education is like pruning ; it wrecks the natural growth of the tree in favour of a form that is useful to commercial society
~ Tom Hodgkinson
I think it's important that folks feel useful and know the value of working. We do no good to any man by giving him everything." "I agree. I saw the damage done
~ Tracie Peterson
The so-called cultural element of Western Europe and America," averred Lenin, speaking of the elite, "are incapable of comprehending the present state of affairs and the actual balance of forces; these elements must be regarded as deaf-mutes [idiots] and treated accordingly." These so-called useful idiots—the title of a bestselling book on the Cold War by Mona Charen9—were to be major components of the Communists' campaigns.
~ Paul Kengor
I must confess to generally hating sections entitled "how to read this book" and so on. I feel that, if I bought it, I should be able to read it any way I damn well please! Nevertheless, I feel some guidelines may be useful.
~ Paul Taylor
The best thing in the world for each of us is that which we can best do, because it gives us the feeling of being useful. That's happiness.
~ Pearl S. Buck
The anger is useful too because when things about the world upset you, that is really a fertile feeling to channel into fiction and to put out into books.
~ Mohsin Hamid
I'm still useful in my capacity as an arts educator and caretaker for the stray dogs.
~ Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
Most arts require long study and application, but the most useful art of all, that of pleasing, requires only the desire.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)
~ Victor Hugo
I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or Impressionism or whatever.
~ John Baldessari
It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms.
~ Voltaire
since the development of inclusive economic and political institutions is key, using the existing flows of foreign aid at least in part to facilitate such development would be useful.
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.
~ Dave Eggers
Don't listen to me. Advice so rarely finds its inteded audience. It's like the sword in the stone — you leave it there, maybe someday someone finds it useful. Sorry, people — we're driving through lativia and I can't reach for my state of mind. 1. Thoughts are made of water and water always finds a way. 2. If you can't dodge the water, run.
~ Dave Eggers
Es información que puede ser útil para algo más adelante (referencia).
~ David Allen
El pensamiento es útil cuando provoca una acción, y un obstáculo cuando sustituye a la acción. —BILL RAEDER
~ David Allen
It's when people begin to fancy that they actually know something about literature that they cease to be literarily interesting, or even of any use to those that are.
~ David Foster Wallace
Whatever neutrality is, it is not very useful to anybody, and time is running out. If we do not do useful things whenever it is possible or necessary to do them, we shall soon be totally departed from the human scene, and forgotten, or remembered only for having disappeared. Armenians are too vital to be permitted to throw themselves away in neutrality, comfort, well-being, satisfaction, and so on and so forth.
~ William Saroyan
Niemcy przyjechali z Opatowa — rzeczywiÅ›cie wida? byÅ'o ludzi przed stajniÄ… — i, ju? apoplektyczny, popÄ™dziÅ', za nim ?ona, za nimi Fryderyk, który myÅ›laÅ' mo?e, ?e bÄ™dzie mógÅ' siÄ™ przyda?, znajÄ…c dobrze niemiecki.
~ Witold Gombrowicz