Top 1200 Useful Information Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Darwin was one of our finest specimens. He did superbly what human beings are designed to do: manipulate social information to personal advantage. The information in question was the prevailing account of how human beings, and all organisms, came to exist; Darwin reshaped it in a way that radically raised his social status. When he died in 1882, his greatness was acclaimed in newspapers around the world, and he was buried in Westminster Abbey, not far from the body of Isaac Newton. Alpha-male territory.

Everything is useful which contributes to fix the principles and practices of virtue.

The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.

Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work.

I was able to hide a lot behind 'Walton,' and found that to be quite useful.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".

Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful.

It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them.

Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.

I think I'm a reporter's editor. Being a good reporter is a specific skill, one I admire and don't possess myself - I appreciate people who know how to ask the right questions, who are excellent researchers, who know how to assemble information, and I enjoy working with them to shape their information into an article. Good reporters tend to be receptive to editing, and to a more collaborative form of writing in general, and you always end up learning more from how they work than you expect you will.

The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.

What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful.

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

Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.

Music has got to be useful for survival, or we would have gotten rid of it years ago.

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.

…to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.

Have you heard anything useful come out of an actor's mouth lately?

Dropbox is useful to anyone with a phone. That's, like, two billion people.

Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

It's nice there is a cleanup system, but if it doesn't collect any plastic, it's not very useful.

Only that which serves no end is beautiful; everything useful is ugly.

Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

The purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting.

It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.

Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.

Fairy dust is very useful. I use it to turn oatmeal into cake.

The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.

Circulation of the ball is important, but it's only useful if you can give it to someone who can make the difference.

I'm still useful in my capacity as an arts educator and caretaker for the stray dogs.

Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful.

I really think it would be useful if society stopped vilifying older women.

Fifty years from now I don't think optical realism is going to be an issue in visual communication any more. Experience is so much richer than light falling on your retina. You embody a microcosm of reality when you walk down the street - your memories, your varying degrees of awareness of what's going on around you, everything we could call the contextualizing information. Representing that information is going to be the main issue in the years ahead - how the world meets the mind, not the eye.

The truth is that even in the information age, information is not enough. if all we needed were ideas and positive thinking, then we all would have had ponies when we were kids and we would all be living our "dream life" now. Action is what unites every great success. Action is what produces results. Knowledge is only potential power until it comes into the hands of someone who knows how to get himself to take effective action. In fact, the literal definition of the word "power" is "the ability to act."

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

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

Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them.

It has been a useful experience to play for several different teams and move around.

Change itself is neither good nor bad, but knowledge is always useful.

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

From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.

Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame.

Laboratories are useful, but reflection for us must always start from experience.

I have never personally seen a hand transplant that is more useful than a prosthesis.

You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are.

Tact is kind; diplomacy is useful; euphemism is harmless and sometimes entertaining

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

In art, I think it's not useful to be a professional of the profession. It will not give you something new.

To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared.

A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.

You earn influence by giving value and attention to other people. BE USEFUL!

A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

Esperanto was a very useful language, because wherever you went, you found someone to speak with.