Useful Quotes

1790 Useful quotes by 1250 unique authors

Business is a useful tool in politics, but it's not enough. You need much more than to be a good businessman, to be a good… — Sebastian Pinera
Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and… — Woodrow Wilson
I try to make what I have written tighter, stronger and more precise, eliminating every element that's not doing useful work. Then I go over… — William Zinsser
Some things that are true are not very useful. — Boyd K. Packer
Our education must never stop. If it ends at the door of the classroom on graduation day, we will fail. And we will need the… — Henry B. Eyring
Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn. — Satya Nadella
Like anyone else, a lot of what I do and how I think has been shaped by my family and my overall life experience. Many… — Satya Nadella
Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among… — June Jordan
To travel is very useful, it makes the imagination work, the rest is just delusion and pain. Our journey is entirely imaginary, which is its… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Even though effective competition is the best tool to strengthen innovation and competitiveness in Europe, state aid can also play a very useful supporting role, — Neelie Kroes
The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away. — Umberto Eco
The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute… — Alfred P. Sloan
For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without… — Florence Nightingale
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Graffiti has more chance of meaning something or changing stuff… — Banksy
I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life - which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority. — Tony Blankley
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details… — William James
The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess. — Bill McKibben
Beauty is highly desirable but simplicity and usefulness are the overwhelming fashion of our age. Just because it's beautiful does not mean it's useful. — Gerry McGovern
England is, after all, the land where children were beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their… — Colin MacInnes
What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful . . . Great designers also pursue a mission. Great… — Michelle Obama
A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself. — George Berkeley
Our ideal society finds it essential to put a rent on land as a way of maximizing the total consumption available to the society. ...Pure… — Paul Samuelson
Writing should be useful. If it can't instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness there's no point in doing it. — Edward Albee

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