#useful

While you are so busy trying to make yourself humble, many are persistently and quietly promoting themselves. ↗

— Toba Beta

#humbleness #life #usefulness #business

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. Confucius This is a major problem in America, where greed, power, and money are the highest value. This creates a paranoia atmosphere.I mention this all the time, but first time I have ever seen it. ↗

— Confucius

#money

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#each #frank #friends #loses #other

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. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#curious #good #good book #instructive #language

I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it. ↗

— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

#aware #benefits #derives #i #i am

It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses. ↗

— Sarah Orne Jewett

#find #forever #happiness #nothing #only

Perhaps the most versatile and useful plug-in in the collection is Mass Copy. It is certainly the one I use the most. Due to limitations in how plugins can interact with Finale, Mass Copy has a somewhat unusual user interface. ↗

— Robert Patterson

#collection #copy #due #finale #how

But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#about #believe #elvis #elvis presley #his

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. ↗

— Allan Sloan

#being #columnist #commit #family #interest

I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#contentment #diligence #generosity #service #usefulness