Useful Quotes

1790 Useful quotes by 1250 unique authors

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
I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think… — Minoru Yamasaki
I think it is probably more important to attend specialized conventions for a journeyman writer than any other, but it's useful at all stages of… — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
And of course there's so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it's obviously useful through the season.… — Ashley Judd
I'd like to do a television show that is encouraging, useful, and clean, and I'd like to go up against Entertainment Tonight and beat it. — John Tesh
The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use… — William Graham Sumner
I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave… — Walter Jon Williams
The best hemp and the best tobacco grow on the same kind of soil. The former article is of the first necessity to the wealth… — Thomas Jefferson
I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what you feel that… — Benjamin Franklin
LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper . . . the lickspittle is only the blackmailer under another aspect, although the… — Ambrose Bierce
Now, there are two different attitudes towards learning from others. One is the dogmatic attitude of transplanting everything, whether or not it is suited to… — Mao Zedong
We academic scientists move within a certain sphere, we can go on being useless up to a point, in the confidence that sooner or later… — John Desmond Bernal
Women have endeavored to guide men to love because patriarchal thinking has sanctioned this work even as it has undermined it by teaching men to… — Bell Hooks
All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis. — Helen Suzman
Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to preserve the species:… — Friedrich Nietzsche
(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes… — Jacques Ellul
If he looked into her face, he would see those haunted, loving eyes. The hauntedness would irritate him - the love would move him to… — Toni Morrison
God has seen fit that, since our services are useful to many persons, everyone approves them, but only when they are carried out in the… — Vincent de Paul
In the name of God, Monsieur, let us have greater confidence in Him than we do; let us allow Him to steer our little bark;… — Vincent de Paul
Freedom of Will-that is the expression for the complex state of delight of the person exercising volition, who commands and at the same time identifies… — Friedrich Nietzsche
A typical mathematician does not actively try to be useful. Individual mathematicians are motivated primarily by a subtle mixture of ambition and intellectual curiosity, and… — Timothy Gowers
Everything useful in mathematics has been devised for a purpose. Even if you don't know it, the guy who did it first, he knew what… — Michael Atiyah
The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real. — Richard P. Feynman
Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring… — Anthony Daniels
I think about myself as like an ocean liner that's been going full speed for a long distance, and the captain pulls the throttle back… — Leonard Nimoy

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