Useful Quotes

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.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

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.

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

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

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.

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

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.