#useful

It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth. ↗

— Cleveland Abbe

#inevitable #life #long #long life #outlive

Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#excellent #honorable #intrinsically #men #pleasant

It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science. ↗

— Peter Agre

#also #because #discoveries #fundamental #honor

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. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#cannot #evil #get #money #more

Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information. ↗

— Ted Allen

#combination #eye #form #funny #good

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

— Antisthenes

#life #most #piece #unlearn #untrue

For behaviorist films, that's been much more useful - the change of technology - but for my kind of films, doing them on film is much better, because it's more beautiful. ↗

— Michael Apted

#because #been #better #change #doing

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. ↗

— Aristotle

#most #other #persons #those #useful

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

— Francis Bacon

#choose #habit #life #make #most

We actually have a real community of people doing useful things. ↗

— Mitchell Baker

#community #doing #people #real #things