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Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.


Samuel Smiles


#experience #far #go #instruction #learned

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.


Todd Solondz


#existence #get #hidden #hypocrisy #i

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.


William Graham Sumner


#decline #dissolution #drunkard #fitness #gutter

In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.


Koichi Tanaka


#could #entered #environment #eventually #experience

The thought grew strong in me that since I had gone to the trouble of being born, I might as well be useful in helping people live long and healthy lives. And this thought has always resided in the back of my mind.


Koichi Tanaka


#back #being #born #gone #grew

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#i #i am #life #longer #my life

Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit can dream o' nights, yet on the stage it is the first thing to aim at.


Ellen Terry


#aspiring #dream #fascinating #first #first thing

I come from the performance world, but the idea of a worship song is different. It's useful music.


John Tesh


#different #i #idea #music #performance

I'd like to do a television show that is encouraging, useful, and clean, and I'd like to go up against Entertainment Tonight and beat it.


John Tesh


#beat #clean #encouraging #entertainment #go

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.


George Bernard Shaw


#doing #honorable #making #making mistakes #mistakes






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