Useful Quotes

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

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.

Industrial hemp is a very useful plant. I challenged the attorney general to get rid of the criminal stigma associated with hemp so we can look at it in terms of how it might be useful.

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful.

Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Sometimes when you're going fast, your instincts can be very useful.

Acting has been very useful to me.

You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.

If you take your fear and mash it into something that's actually useful, then it doesn't feel like it wins.

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.

When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.

Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.

If you aren't rich you should always look useful.

The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and the related Accra Agenda for Action, are useful policy instruments that set out the mutual responsibilities of donors and recipient countries.

I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.

I find humming is very useful.

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

My problem is how to find the best way of being useful.

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.

The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.

I aspire to be useful.

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.

Habits like blogging often and regularly, writing down the way you think, being clear about what you think are effective tactics, ignoring the burbling crowd and not eating bacon. All of these are useful habits.

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.

Part of my plan was not only to introduce all useful animals that I possibly could into this part of Australia, but also the most valuable plants of every description.

Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.

I get much more information about the rest of the world from people who are not Americans. You get a distance from America that is useful for a journalist; useful for my perspective on the world.

Twitter and Facebook are brilliant tools, the journalistic uses of which are still being plumbed. They are great for disseminating interesting material. They are useful for gathering information, including from places that are inaccessible.

It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.

Every hour of useful work is precious.

Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.

The Indian Corn, or Maiz, proves the most useful Grain in the World; and had it not been for the Fruitfulness of this Species, it would have proved very difficult to have settled some of the Plantations in America.

What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.

While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

Am I as experienced, or mature, or smart as others CEOs? No probably not, but there's something, I think, very useful about having a founder as the CEO.

The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.

I think the Internet is absolutely extraordinary. It's very, very useful and I think one of the things we've got to do is make sure that the African continent gets on to that information super highway.

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

Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before.

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

I have never personally seen a hand transplant that is more useful than a prosthesis.

Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful.

Perhaps the most versatile and useful plug-in in the collection is Mass Copy. It is certainly the one I use the most. Due to limitations in how plugins can interact with Finale, Mass Copy has a somewhat unusual user interface.

The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not.

There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.

But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making.

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.

Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

Any program is only as good as it is useful.

Fame is useful in certain ways, because it helps you get more roles.

I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.

Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.

I don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews.