#useful

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #useful




To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.


Man Ray


#least #me #member #most #our

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

Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S.


Jon Ronson


#childhood #disorder #labeled #labeling #leads

It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.


Ferdinand de Saussure


#among #carries #changes #commonest #different

I have a website because it's an interesting tool, very - and quite unexpectedly - useful for my work. It's become an archive and a fairly complete on-line portfolio, as well as offering an opportunity to write a little.


John Howe


#become #complete #fairly #i #interesting

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 have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.


Oscar Wilde


#beauty

[God] is able to take your life, with all of the heartache, all of the pain, all of the regret, all of the missed opportunities, and use you for His glory.


Charles R. Swindoll


#glory-of-god #god #pain #usefulness #life

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

It's more useful to have someone fear you than respect you.


J. Cornell Michel


#apocalyptic #fear #fearful #important #respect