Attention Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention…

— Nathanael Emmons

Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless. But the useless always judge themselves as being important and hide all…

— Paulo Coelho

A man's usefulness depends on his living up to his ideals insofar as he can. It is hard to fail but it is worse…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the…

— Jonathan Swift

The useless men are those who never change with the years.

— James M. Barrie

Useless people are not improved by giving them the impression that they are useful.

— John Barnes

Useless people are not improved by giving them the impression they are useful.

— John Barnes

Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men should soon make up their minds to be forgotten, and look about them, or within them, for some higher motive in what they…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

— Karl Marx

Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because... they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention…

— Calvin Coolidge

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work... men who desire nothing but material riches and…

— Leonardo da Vinci