There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It is useless to subdue the flesh by abstinence, unless one gives up his irregular life, and abandons vices which defile his… — Benedict of Nursia Copy Share Image
All the time worrying about pushing the children and getting them to be mathematically literate and all that stuff. It's terribly hard… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
You don't owe the internet your time. Your time is yours, whatever time you give the internet is a gift. The internet… — Quinn Norton Copy Share Image
Medication alone is not to be relied on. In one half the cases medicine is not needed, or is worse than useless.… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
The history of science should not be an instrument to defend any kind of social or philosophic theory; it should be used… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
For me, meditation is a practice to get rid of useless junk cluttering my mind and useless ticks inhabiting my body. — Tara Stiles Copy Share Image
All other men, being born of woman, have a navel, by reason of the umbilical vessels inserted into it, which from the… — Richard Cumberland Copy Share Image
Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows how to survive in hard places. I… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“My method is atheism. I find the atheistic outlook provides a favourable background for cosmopolitan practices. Acceptance of atheism at once pulls… — Gora Copy Share Image
We must be able to identify all the parts in a system and allow them to speak. All the parts in a… — Arnold Mindell Copy Share Image
Dad is a really surprising guy. Every time I think he's going to be useless, he ends up doing something amazing and… — Clare Balding Copy Share Image
There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work… — Carlo Ponti Copy Share Image
Well, the traveling teachers do come through every few months," said the Baron. "Yes, sir, I know, sir, and they're useless, sir.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If you cannot find peace in yourself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed. — Horace Copy Share Image
Business schools make a fortune forcing their students to take in a HUGE amount of information. The majority of it is theoretical.… — Josh Kaufman Copy Share Image
A learned man came to me once. He said, "I know the way, -- come." And I was overjoyed at this. Together… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
Many armies fail because they put all their emphasis into creating a plan that becomes useless ten minutes into the battle — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Attention makes the genius; all learning, fancy, science and skills depend upon it. Newton traced his discoveries to it. It builds bridges,… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
“they wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
