Quotes About Useful

Puck was a genuine pain in the butt, but he had powers and those powers made him useful.

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

It was the Frisians who reinvented useful money, and taught their ideas to the Franks under Charlemagne.

And in zombie warfare, air superiority is about as useful as nuts on a nun.

Una mentira es útil cuando permite transformar la realidad, pensó; pero cuando la transformación fracasa sólo queda la mentira, la amargura y la conciencia de la mentira

Art is no longer snobbish or cowardly. It teaches peasants to use tractors, gives lyrics to young soldiers, designs textiles for factory women's dresses, writes burlesque for factory theaters, does a hundred other useful tasks. Art is useful as bread.

The very term 'public utility' … is an absurd one. Every good is useful 'to the public,' and almost every good … may be considered 'necessary.' Any designation of a few industries as 'public utilities' is completely arbitrary and unjustified.

Biological infantilism atrophies in a person many useful qualities of survival due to selfishness, the population of mankind will be significantly reduced.

A genius separates himself from things which are not useful nor beneficial. While you are eager to try new technologies—A genius is thinking about how to invent something totally different that will be used by all.

All knowledge is useful at the given time and place. Maybe nothing will be wasted; as long as you're still breathing and alive.

Our lamps and torches produce artificial lights, but we don't dare to call them so because they have been proved to be useful in our daily basis.

Pure mathematics is useless to ordinary people, but useful to those who wish to understand Absolute Truth, God or Infinity. Applied maths is useful in our daily life.

Silence is useful if you are an initiate and know what you are doing. But useless if there is no goal behind. It's a natural thing.

The moon is useful at night. But you can't expect it to be there every month. Therefore, we end up inventing our own artificial lights to reduce the darkness in the world.

You can yell at me all you want. It makes me feel like I'm useful for something.

He really was a T-Rex, stomping through the company, chewing up people and spitting them out left, right, and center. But the T-Rex wasn't looking Charlotte's way, and that was fine with her. She'd just be a quiet, industrious little mouse in the corner, not worth bothering with but too useful to fire.

I see the quintessential task of the clinician as one of coming to know him-or herself sufficiently to be able to register the experience of the other in progressively more profound and also more useful ways. This process begins with our own discomfort at finding ourselves sitting in the chair that has somehow become designated as "the authority": the person ostensibly in charge of something we haven't even begun to comprehend. —MARILYN CHARLES (in press)

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

Information has become a form of garbage, not only incapable of answering the most fundamental human questions but barely useful in providing coherent direction to the solution of even mundane problems.

If you can't solve a problem for your customer, then there's no basis for a sale. But if you uncover problems you can solve, then you're potentially providing the buyer with something useful.

They are useful. But they also make clear that, for Google, the real value of a book is not as a self-contained literary work but as another pile of data to be mined.

Useful men stay alive.

To be useful to society" is the ambition, or excuse, of a prostitute.

At home what is 'wonderful' tends to be an exception that's arranged; it is useful, or at least edifying. In Persia it might just as well spring from an oversight, or a sin, or a catastrophe which, by breaking the normal run of events, offers life unexpected scope for unfolding its splendours before eyes that are always ready to rejoice in them.