Top 1200 Useful Information Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors.

The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the course of events. By the use of this instrument it gives us information transcending our experience, it enables us to infer things that we have not seen from things that we have seen; and the evidence for the truth of that information depends on our supposing that the uniformity holds good beyond our experience.

The lifestyle that I have is probably neither desirable nor useful to most people.

In tight economic times, with libraries sliding farther and farther down the list of priorities, we risk the loss of their ideals, intelligence, and knowledge, not to mention their commitment to access for all—librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy, and they’re right. Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and the Ph.D…In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.

The Baathist state did two things extremely well. One was create information-gathering intelligence networks and a filing system. There's actually a lot of information on a lot of people and that is a major achievement of a police state. The second one is the promotion of literature and poetry, and the arts generally. So this is a state that's producing mass police archives - surveillance - and poetry. And in fact a lot of the archives are about what poets are writing or what they should be writing.

Make your marketing so useful people would pay you for it.

It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.

There is no such thing as garbage, just useful stuff in the wrong place.

Take what's useful, leave out what's useless, and add a bit of yourself!

If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.

Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.

I have planted my flag in my comedy being useful for social change.

Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.

Nice' in a bodyguard is about as useful as the ability to regurgitate whole lobsters.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

I have information about things that our government has lied to us about. I know. For example, to say that since the fall of the Soviet Union we ceased all of our intimate relationship with Bin Laden and the Taliban - those things can be proven as lies, very easily, based on the information they classified in my case, because we did carry very intimate relationship with these people, and it involves Central Asia, all the way up to September 11.

You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.

Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful.

I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.

Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.

I do believe that non-violent civil disobedience is a very important and useful tactic.

Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.

As useful as websites and journals are, there's real value in books, too.

To be creative, an idea must also be appropriate—useful and actionable.

The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion.

Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively.

Yoga is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.

It is true that ADs do not get a chance to get a chance to create or produce, almost never, because it's whole separate thing. Most creative producers you have to come up on the development side, you work with agents, you work with writers, you're in the office and then the AD's are on the set. But it's a real shame because part of - no decision in producing can be made correctly unless you have all the creative information you need but you also have all the budget and scheduling information you need.

Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful.

You want to do things you’re passionate about but also are useful to other people.

There's a bigger question again about how to do prevention. It's not simply about putting out the early warning. The early warning was put out on Abyei; everybody knew that this was coming. This was intentional, and still it happened. So this idea that we fail to stop these things because there's not awareness about them, or that we need better early warning information, I'm increasingly skeptical of. I think it's about how you move that information into the policy process.

When I was a kid, I'd go to the African-American section in the bookstore, and I'd try and find African-American people I hadn't read before. So in that sense the category was useful to me. But it's not useful to me as I write. I don't sit down to write an African-American zombie story or an African-American story about elevators. I'm writing a story about elevators which happens to talk about race in different ways. Or I'm writing a zombie novel which doesn't have that much to do with being black in America. That novel is really about survival.

In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.

She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you can't find the information you seek in the library, then such information probably doesn't exist in this or any parallel universe now or ever to be known. She was thoughtful and kind and she always believed the best of everybody. She was, above all else, a master librarian and she knew where to find any book on any subject in the shortest possible time. And she was wonderfully unhinged.

We're not seeing, you know, dozens of reporters being beaten up. And there may be more attention to it than there has been in the past. But it is important to recognize that the democracy depends on reporters asking people in power questions, so that the general public has information. We can't really self-govern unless information is widespread. And, sometimes, reporters have to be a little aggressive. I mean, you know, the reporter didn't beat up the politician. The politician beat up the reporter.

Learning to focus attention and concentration is very useful; meditation can help you do that.

The only thing useful banks have invented in 20 years is the ATM.

Cut out doors and windows for the house. The holes make it useful.

User-comments culture is not useful for creating original work, I think.

All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

I'm good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.

If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.

The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.

In instances in history, civil disobedience has been appropriate and useful.

Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.

The information revolution has changed people's perception of wealth. We originally said that land was wealth. Then we thought it was industrial production. Now we realize it's intellectual capital. The market is showing us that intellectual capital is far more important that money. This is a major change in the way the world works. the same thing that happened to the farmers during the Industrial Revolution is now happening to people in industry as we move into the information age.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

Connecting with people who are able to maintain a sense of humility is really useful.

Its useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.

It is great to be introspective, self analysis can be useful, but only if it results in action.

True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious.

Everything which might cause doubt about the wisdom of the government or create discontent will be kept from the people. The basis of unfavorable comparisons with elsewhere, the knowledge of possible alternatives to the course actually taken, information which might suggest failure on the part of the government to live up to its promises or to take advantage of opportunities to improve conditions--all will be suppressed. There is consequently no field where the systematic control of information will not be practiced and uniformity of views not enforced.

Lies are like children. If you don't nurture them, they'll never be useful later.

knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy.

Tape reading is a lost art that today is not very useful.

If you are becoming more easeful, peaceful & useful then you know you are growing.

I tend to share whatever I know in general. I've never been a person to horde information for the sake of my own skin, you know what I mean? Not share so somebody doesn't take your job, I've never had that kind of insecurity. I also had a management company, too, so we were always one of those companies that shared information with our artists. Whatever they wanted to know, as much as they wanted to know, they could know.

General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.