Useful Quotes

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

We have the 2004 M1 here for reference, which is useful. It worked well here last year; we won the race and always did fast lap times so it will be interesting to compare it to the new bike and it will help us to understand which parts have improved.

Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.

Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.

I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea.

To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.

If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process.

Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Society as a whole is better off when information is available to the public. Whether you are talking about how to prevent disease, or about who does the best job of treating disease, it is useful to provide as much information to the public as possible.

Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.

Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.

I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.

Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.

Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I always find that to be useful to do specifics about somebody and then you're actually doing a character and not doing some random old lady or something.

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.

In art, theories are as useful as a doctor's prescription; one must be sick to believe them.

You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of.

If kids can learn how to make a simple Bolognese sauce, they will never go hungry. It's pretty easy to cook pasta, but a good sauce is way more useful.

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

And I think in your 40s, you land a little bit, physically and mentally, you arrive at a place where you feel you've learned some stuff. Having children at that point meant I had something very useful to do for the next 20 years.