Useful Quotes

He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.

Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.

One is to ensure that the war fighters and the intelligence analysts get the information that they need when they need it, in a format that's useful to them.

Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before.

France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has tended to take useful positions in our view.

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources.

Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.

The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.

Well, there's no doubt about the fact that, that higher energy prices lead to greater conservation, greater energy efficiency, and they also, of course, play a useful role on the supply side.

What celebrities are useful for is bringing attention to the public and making them more aware. They can be unbelievably effective.

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.

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 free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.

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

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.

The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.

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.