Usefulness Quotes
180 Usefulness quotes by 152 unique authors
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Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of…
— F. Sionil Jose
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New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere.
— John Updike
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The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness…
— Kevin Kelly
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The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at…
— Alex Campbell
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Besides, my usefulness here is destroyed because all of my friends think me a man of unsound mind.
— Alex Campbell
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The usefulness of cow-peas and soy-beans as human food has been recognized only recently in this country.
— David F. Houston
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Men define intelligence, men define usefulness, men tell us what is beautiful, men even tell us what is womanly.
— Sally Kempton
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OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an _old man_. Discredited by lapse of time and offensive…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change,…
— William Osler
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We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is…
— James Hillman
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Of all the forms of injustice, that is the most egregious which makes the circumstances of sex a reason for excluding one half of mankind…
— Charles Brockden Brown
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If this is to be a Happy New Year, a year of usefulness, a year in which we shall live to make this life better…
— David Kreger
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The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness.
— Wandini
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The usefulness or otherwise of wealth, status and power to a possessor depends only on a single factor: the nature and strength of his reason.
— Thiruman Archunan
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The only usefulness of a map or a language depends on the similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map-languages.
— Alfred Korzybski
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Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence and usefulness
— Charles Simmons
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To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration.…
— William Ellery Channing
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Nothing is more useful than silence.
— Menander Of Athens
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Scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the…
— Marie Curie
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What is useful cannot be base
— Latin Proverb
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Deliciousness is only an index of usefulness.
— David Eagleman
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Useful daleits, a number of thanks to the author. It is puzzling to me now, but in general, the usefulness and importance is overwhelming. Quite…
— Unknown Author
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Competitions can be meaningful only, when its usefulness to them honestly Participate
— Mak_786
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A large part of mathematics which becomes useful developed with absolutely no desire to be useful, and in a situation where nobody could possibly know…
— John Von Neumann
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By and large it is uniformly true that in mathematics there is a time lapse between a mathematical discovery and the moment it becomes useful;…
— John Von Neumann
Who Wrote These Usefulness Quotes
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