Useful Quotes

Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information.

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

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

It's easy to measure success by the number of dollars spent or by the number of programs initiated, without having too much regard for what was bought and how useful it was to the people who need it - the war fighter and the analyst.

I have the satisfaction of knowing I did something useful for society.

It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.

It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.

For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.

My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

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 me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.

They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to meet me. Some one said they came to arrest me, and - well, let it go at that.

I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.

Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that.

The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.

Still, there may be technologies that are very useful in identifying people over the age of 18 because they have all kinds of identifying characteristics, while those same tech may be useless for 12- and 13-year-olds.

My problem is how to find the best way of being useful.

I had to learn, really, how to rein in my energies and discipline myself. And I found it very very useful. I rebelled against it at first, but it's a good thing to have.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.