Quotes About Usefulness

I was very insecure. I figured the only thing I can do is just work harder than everybody else and be useful. So I would anticipate when a client would need a cup of tea. I would anticipate when they wanted to rewind the tape. I would anticipate when they were going to do a vocal.

Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.

I have never bothered or asked", Goethe said to Friedrich Soret in 1830, "in what way I was useful to society as a whole; I contented myself with expressing what I recognized as good and true. That has certainly been useful in a wide circle; but that was not the aim; it was the necessary result."35

The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.

Para qué recordar lo que no me sirve?

You are as young as you think you are. You are as strong as you think you are. You are as useful as you think you are. You are as young as your thoughts.

Wealth is your idea, desire, talent, urge for service, capacity to give to mankind, your ability for usefulness to society, and your love for humanity in general.

Idolatry consists in harnessing God for our purposes, regarding Yahweh as a reliable ally in our interests, so that God finally becomes useful to us.11 That usefulness is a temptation of all zealous religion, conservative or liberal.

The value of a human being, Nietzsche said, does not lie in his usefulness: for it would continue to exist even if there were nobody to whom he could be useful.

We had progressed from "completely useless" to "moderately useful.

A veces un terrorista vivo es más útil que un terrorista muerto.

The Enlightenment may have indeed outlived its usefulness, but it is only through Reason's protocols that one can make a coherent case for Reason's limitations. O ye of little skepticism, kindly acknowledge your debt to that idiom on which you so glibly heap scorn.

I don't buy cars I can't drive.

I had never thought that your class would be so useful. Going to such a useless thing, faithfully, year in year out, was, I thought, good proof of woman's unpredictability.

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others.

I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.

Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.

Men are just like unlit lamps: in themselves they are no good for anything, but, when lit, they can be handy to have around the house.

Racism will disappear when it's no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it'll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.

You have to be objective about money to use it fairly. It doesn't make you any better or any more useful than any other person. Even if you use your money to help people that doesn't.

Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.

To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one's true nature. Realization of one's true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.

Nature does nothing uselessly.