#usefulness

The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#arise #become #being #being overwhelmed #enough

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#according #am #degree #destinations #i

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

Love comes into being through useful service to others. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#love #service #swedenborg #usefulness #inspirational

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

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others. ↗

— Charles William Eliot

#cannot #choking #commandment #develop #development

The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present. ↗

— Lane Kirkland

#number #people #present #rises #square

[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