#useful

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#character #daring #energy #had #him

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise. ↗

— Nate Silver

#how #information #learning #means #more

A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China. ↗

— Anna Louise Strong

#certain #china #could #especially #feel

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. ↗

— Mark Strong

#bit #children #feel #had #having

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#desire #others #recompense #thought #true

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#concluded #couched #i #i am #profound

The Anti-Slavery public have generously responded to our appeal, and sent the means to enable us to fit them out well, to pay their passages, supply them with many useful articles and give the Missionaries money to sustain themselves for a while. ↗

— Lewis Tappan

#articles #enable #fit #generously #give

Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully. ↗

— Charles Templeton

#does #fit #live #makes #problems

It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for. ↗

— James Hillman

#ask #here #how #i #important

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

— Toba Beta

#humbleness #life #usefulness #business