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Quotes About Useful

Fear is really powerful; it's really useful to me.
~ James McAvoy
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel
I like a man to do something with his ten fingers. I do not like the useless creatures who are always self-important or agitators. A fatuous breed!
~ Marcel Proust
the only touchstone of merit seeming to me to be the way someone could be useful in connection with the one thing that seemed important—my love. Then, perhaps out of duplicity, or in a genuine surge of affection inspired by gratitude, by self-interest, and by all the physical features of Mme de Guermantes that nature had replicated in her nephew, I went on to add:
~ Marcel Proust
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked not endured with patient resignation.
~ Bertrand Russell
I choose to live by choice,not by chance; to make changes, not excuses; to be useful, not used; to choose self esteem, not self pity.
~ Unknown
The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.
~ Marissa Mayer
Increasing the Reliability of Observational Methods To be useful, observational
~ Unknown
Education is a danger... At best an education which produces useful coolies for us is admissible. Every educated person is a future enemy.
~ Martin Bormann
In the future, search engines should be as useful as HAL in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey-but hopefully they won't kill people.
~ Sergey Brin
Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).
~ Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.
~ Fareed Zakaria
Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
~ Louisa May Alcott
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I cannot live my life striving only for my own security, I can only feel secure when I see myself useful in other people's life.
~ Nurudeen Ushawu
As I suggested before, temporary variables can be a problem. They are only useful within their own routine, and therefore they encourage long, complex routines.
~ Martin Fowler
The story tells us that living the life of an artist is not as useful as living our lives as a work of art.
~ Martin Prechtel
a parade of reluctance has often provided a useful cover for ruthless ambition.
~ Mary Beard
So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
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.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
these days, we are constantly dealing with strangers who know nothing of our identity, qualities and defects, so it is tempting, and sometimes useful, to broadcast as ostentatiously as possible the image of ourselves that we would like to see recognized by those around us.
~ Matthieu Ricard
Power is not to resist the criticisms; power is to seek for something useful to use amongst the criticisms!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Sadness is one of the best universities in life! Though bad things take good things from us, they do give us useful things as well!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
For behaviorist films, that's been much more useful - the change of technology - but for my kind of films, doing them on film is much better, because it's more beautiful.
~ Michael Apted