Quotes About Useful

Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.

A conceptual model is an explanation, usually highly simplified, of how something works. It doesn't have to be complete or even accurate as long as it is useful. The

A conceptual model is an explanation, usually highly simplified, of how something works. It doesn't have to be complete or even accurate as long as it is useful.

There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.

You were useful... But just because you're useful to the wealthy doesn't mean they'll reward you. It just means they'll use you.

Many artists of all kinds wanted to make their artistic work useful to people in everyday life — and so the new, geometrical visual style was turned into plates, clothing, furniture, and, most famous of all, posters that revolutionized the world of art and brought the new art to the people. Russia suddenly was on the forefront of the future.

the glue that seems to hold mankind in some kind of lasting stasis is everyone's desire to be useful.

Well then, Homer. I expect you to be of use.

Well, it's a useful room." "Yes, I guess it's useful, all right.

To be useful, a result must be not only reproducible but . . . perhaps one should call it expandable. One must be able to enlarge it, explore it, learn more from it, use it as a foundation to build structures upon.

The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.

Being useful to others is not the same thing as being equal.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about.

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

Taoists view any attempt to describe the totality of nature, the Tao, as futile. They found it far more useful to find ways of experiencing deeper harmony with it.

And we may see that the severest comminations are not only useful in the preaching of the gospel, but exceeding necessary, towards persons that are observed to be slothful in their profession.

A book is written, not to multiply the voice merely, not to carry it merely, but to preserve it. The author has something to say which he perceives to be true and useful, or beautifully helpful

But we get to live as long as we're useful. And that is a rare privilege.

It's not exactly surprising that staying sane is useful when trying to hit performance markers.

If you have firm trust in God, the success that comes to you will always be that which is most useful for you whether it appears good or bad in your private judgment.

There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.