Quotes About Use

With his bushy mustache and caterpillar eyebrows, Buckner was a dead-ringer for Harry Reems, the porn actor who'd just been convicted in Tennessee in April for conspiracy to distribute obscenity across state lines, thanks to his appearance in 1972's massively popular Deep Throat; and just like Reems, Buckner felt he was being prevented from making full professional use of his stick.

Each of us is trapped in a place, a time and a circumstance and our attempt to use our mind to transcend those boundaries are more often than not ineffective.

Of what use are good words to an evil heart?

A belief of convenience isn't much use, is it?

The exchange-value of money is the anticipated use-value of the things that can be obtained with it.

If the objective exchange-value of money must always be linked with a pre-existing market exchange-ratio between money and other economic goods (since otherwise individuals would not be in a position to estimate the value of the money), it follows that an object cannot be used as money unless, at the moment when its use as money begins, it already possesses an objective exchange-value based on some other use.

Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it…. It leaves everything as it is.

He suddenly became convinced that if he didn't do something sensible, something to put his mind to some use, then before he knew it he would be wondering round the streets having fights with himself and inviting domestic animals to social occasions too.

Never confuse being loved and needed with being used and wanted.

My heart is like a welcome mat. People use it, walk all over it, kick it, and leave.

Design exists to serve some purpose.

An affordance is a relationship between the properties of an object and the capabilities of the agent that determine just how the object could possibly be used.

Never forget, we are not telling our story or even talking about our products. We are always inviting our customers on a journey in which their lives are made better through the use of our products.

which I thought was a gift, until it proved to be a curse. Life is all a matter of choosing which voices to tune in and which to tune out, a lesson I learned long before most people, but one that took me longer than most to put to good use.

ALLIANCE FLEET ISSUE, TAPE, DUCT, MULTIPURPOSE, TWENTY COUNT (NOT FOR USE ON DUCTS).

The great tendency of all persons who study techniques is to make distinctions. They distinguish between the different elements of technique, maintaining some and discarding others. They distinguish between technique and the use to which it is put. These distinctions are completely invalid and show only that he who makes them has understood nothing of the technical phenomenon. Its parts are ontologically tied together; in it, use is inseparable from being.

Mysticism is like pure science; it has no use. Mysticism is just the human longing to know… Occult is not science. Occult is just technology.

The past is a room full of baggage and rubbish and sometimes things that are of use, but if they are of real use, I have kept them.

The only way our faith can strengthen is if we use it.

a successful communication] we now define concisely as 'cooperative modeling'—cooperation in the construction, maintenance, and use of a model.

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

Why should people have money if they don't know how to use it?

inquiry of Jack Cardigan: 'What's the use of keepin' fit?' or, more simply, to the fact that he was a foreigner, or alien as it was now called.

THAT'S WHAT POWERFUL MEN DO TO THIS COUNTRY - IT'S A BEAUTIFUL, SEXY, BREATHLESS COUNTRY, AND POWERFUL MEN USE IT TO TREAT THEMSELVES TO A THRILL! THEY SAY THEY LOVE IT BUT THEY DON'T MEAN IT. THEY SAY THINGS TO MAKE THEMSELVES APPEAR GOOD - THEY MAKE THEMSELVES APPEAR MORAL...THE COUNTRY WANTS A SAVIOUR. THE COUNTRY IS A SUCKER FOR POWERFUL MEN WHO LOOK GOOD. WE THINK THEY'RE MORALISTS AND THEN THEY JUST USE US.