Quotes About Useful

Things that appear to be obstacles turn out to be desirable in the long haul," Bjork said. "One real encounter, even for a few seconds, is far more useful than several hundred observations.

fear, worry, and anxiety have useful roles to play in our lives.

To be useful, your beliefs should be constrained by the logic of probability.

the characters are useful because of some quirks of our minds, yours and mine. A sentence is understood more easily if it describes what an agent (system 2) does than if it describes what something is, what properties it has.

You build massive databases, you learn everything you can about the people in those databases, you figure out exactly how they can be useful to your campaign, and you ask them to donate money, door-knock, the virtual equivalent of being a sort of army of stamp lickers.

I've always been a sucker for any technology engineered primarily for the entertainment of the human race - even such technology as has been disguised as 'useful' or 'improving' when we all know the real virtue lies in its ability to distract and divert.

The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not.

A duty is to be chosen from what is virtuous, and from what is useful, and also from the comparison of the two, one with the other; but nothing is recognized by Christians as virtuous or useful which is not helpful to the future life.

From the practical point of view, the susceptibility to infection of the guinea pig proved to be the most useful step forward. Today, all laboratories use this animal for preserving the virus.

Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

I want it to be a useful hour that someone comes away from feeling like it's been worthwhile. If I let them use up all the time with something that isn't moving them towards where they want to be, then I'm not doing my job. Repeating back what someone has said not only helps me to check I've understood it correctly, but also can help to get my voice in, and then move from hearing what someone has said to building on it and offering new ideas.

Knowledge in the head and virtue in the heart, time devoted to study or business, instead of show and pleasure, are the way to be useful and consequently happy.

En mis muchos años, he llegado a la conclusión que un hombre inútil es una lástima, dos son una firma legal, y tres o más son un congreso

Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Playwright George Bernard Shaw asserted, "A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Playwright George Bernard Shaw asserted, A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. To overcome fear and break the cycle, you have to be willing to recognize that you will spend much of your life making mistakes.

My basic belief and effort, firstly to try and promote some of the useful emotions such as compassion or forgiveness and through the that way the spirit of reconciliation?s and the spirit of dialogue. These will increase.

Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting.

When we better understand the realities of these women's lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.

Innovation is about practical creativity - it's about making new ideas useful...

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.