#useful

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful. ↗

— Charles Simmons

#attention #delightful #duty #easy #energy

I told my father to stop smoking around the age of two or three years old and he stopped smoking. So the relationship between the kid and the parent is very powerful, and if you give the kid the right information, it can be very useful to the family. ↗

— Doug E. Fresh

#around #between #family #father #give

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#economics #economists #employment #extremely #form

Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration. ↗

— Susan George

#army #because #better #colonialism #control

I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention - an extravagance. They're far from natural, but it's the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural. ↗

— Christian Louboutin

#complete #example #extravagance #far #for example

Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#consist #derive #future #goods #hold

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#always #expediency #most #principle #sacrificed

I think the Internet is absolutely extraordinary. It's very, very useful and I think one of the things we've got to do is make sure that the African continent gets on to that information super highway. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#african #continent #extraordinary #gets #got

Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#economic future #fiscal #fiscal house #future #going

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#i #inside #me #service #something