Anything Useful Quotes
21 quotes by 19 authors
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It is easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess the same qualities…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the…
— G. H. Hardy
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I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.
— Nicolas Malebranche
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Whereas students minds used to be the chief concern of colleges and universities, it is now more their bank accounts (more accurately, that of their…
— George Leef
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Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack…
— Lewis Thomas
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Have you heard anything useful come out of an actor's mouth lately?
— Bruce Willis
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Anyone who does anything useful will not go unpaid.
— Henry Ford
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Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful; therefore to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you don't have anything useful to say then you attack people. If you feel that your house of cards has been discovered and is…
— Benjamin Carson
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Why should anyone be afraid of change? What can take place without it? What can be more pleasing or more suitable to universal nature? Can…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.
— Mark Zandi
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People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises,…
— Carl Jung
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At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical reason, which he…
— Gore Vidal
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I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.
— Bill Nighy
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If you're trying to be miserable, it's important you don't have any goals. No school goals, personal goals, family goals. Your only objective each day…
— John Bytheway
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I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than…
— Marilynne Robinson
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Such nonsense!" declared Dr Greysteel. "Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!" "Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner," said Strange. "That has…
— Susanna Clarke
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You may have succeeded in shutting down the attack simulation, girl, but it was by luck alone, not skill. I would die of shock if…
— Veronica Roth
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All I want is to become someone new. In this case, Tobias Johnson, son of Evelyn Johnson. Tobias Johnson may have lived a dull and…
— Veronica Roth
Who Wrote These Anything Useful Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 21 Anything Useful Quotes as follows: