Something Useful Quotes

51 quotes by 42 authors

If you think you can just go out and ask all the doctors in the world about what the did to all the patients and… — James Heywood
The process of making pieces in Chess do something useful (whatever it may be) has received a special name: it is called the attack. The… — Emanuel Lasker
Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs. — Arnold Bennett
I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful… — Markus Wolf
Do something useful and you will have everything you want. Doors are shut for those who are dull and lazy; life is secure for those… — Jose Marti
In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind. — Henri Poincare
I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I… — Natalie Merchant
I want the people looking at my work to feel a sense of all the possibilities of painting, and, through that, in life as a… — Wolf Kahn
A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful. — Criss Jami
The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet: "For God's sake… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be… — Abraham Flexner
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. — Benjamin Franklin
When I buy Windows 98, I'm not only buying something useful, I'm giving money to Bill Gates, which is a really good thing. — Penn Jillette
The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good. — Dalai Lama
To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to… — Jose Marti
We are visitors on this planet. We are here for one hundred years at the very most. During that period we must try to do… — Dalai Lama
Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time. — Thomas Jefferson
If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Find something useful to do with your morning,' she thought to him as she neared her chambers. 'Do something heroic in front of an audience.… — Kristin Cashore
I don't need you to agree with me," she said quietly." I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt is good. It's… — Jasper Fforde

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