Serves Us Quotes
15 quotes by 14 authors
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Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us…
— Louisa May Alcott
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In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and…
— Richard Dawkins
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Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Business is the most powerful institution on earth today. It is more powerful than politics. Business serves us very well in some ways, but it…
— Michael Rennie
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Stress is like fire: When controlled and used for a purpose, it serves us well. Left unbridled, it can consume us.
— Brendan Brazier
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We need to learn how to honor and use a practice for as long as it serves us—which in most cases is a very long…
— Jack Kornfield
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The conventional wisdom in our business is that you have to grow and keep moving to survive. We never grew, always stayed tiny, and it…
— Stefan Sagmeister
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In the matter of piety, poverty serves us better than wealth, and work better than idleness, especially since wealth becomes an obstacle even for those…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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The only thing that changes as we evolve is the idea of what serves us.
— Neale Donald Walsch
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Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness.
— Walker Percy
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TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education,…
— Neil Postman
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Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary…
— Joseph Addison
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It was foolish indeed - thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had been seeking a fit…
— George MacDonald
Who Wrote These Serves Us Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 15 Serves Us Quotes as follows: