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Last updated on April 22, 2025.
It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.
I want to be able to work a piece of wood into an object that contributes something beautiful and useful to everyday life.
At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.
Whenever I work on something, I try and throw everything I have at it. Then if the director finds it useful they use it, and if not, they ignore it!
Recognize that dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong, and go out of your way to reward them.
A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
As long as it is supported by Democratic politicians and by liberal Hollywood players, censorship is a useful tool to stifle dissent.
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Yes, Severus does seem the type, doesn't he? So useful to have him swooping around like an overgrown bat.
My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind.
The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern.
A lot of time, the characters I've played in the past kind of come out in me in situations when it's very useful.
A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.
A minister full of comforts & free from failings as an angel, though he would be happy, wouldn't be a good or useful preacher
No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value.
The criteria for success: you are free, you live in the present moment, you are useful to the people around you, and you feel love for all humanity.
I feel sorry for confetti. Its useful life lasts about two seconds. And it can never be used again.
When we better understand the realities of these women's lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.
Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.
If all men and women were kept at some useful employment there would be less sorrow and wickedness in the world.
Humour ended up being a really useful skill when it came time to be an international television celebrity.
Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.
New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else.
The ultimate goal is to be an interesting, useful, wholesome person. If you're successful on top of that, then you're way ahead of everybody.
Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man.
The objective of producing useful devices has strongly influenced the choice of the research projects with which I have been associated.
Try something. And never be afraid to fail. That failure is useful too. It's just another building block.
The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country.
Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters.
Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.
We should try to teach the young people values that are useful to them whether they become professional athletes or not.
It is useful to study different traditions in order to be free of attachment to any one way of expressing what is beyond expression. (x)
I wanted a simple one-bedroom apartment that would impress people when they walked in but that was otherwise extremely comfortable and useful.
Following Christ isn't something that can be done halfheartedly or on the side. It is not a label we can display when it is useful. It must be central to everything we do and are.
When you do 22 episodes of a network show, it's incredibly useful to have a format that gives you a jumping-off point for a story.
I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life - which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority.
Apple's proven to be really good at taking what we're capable of with technology and making it useful and solve human problems.
There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find it useful.
You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.
New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else
I used to comfort myself when I became an actor that it was a useful job, entertaining people. And it was important to do it as well as you possibly can.
Tension can be useful, exciting, flirtatious, strength-building, or destructive. Put yourself in charge of how you direct it.
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.
It's very useful to be able to look inside the mind of a seven-year-old when you're writing for youngsters that age.
Up to a certain extent the UN soldiers are useful. But they are consuming a lot of resources in relation to the little work they are doing.
Genre is a useful thing when organizing texts in a bookshop but immaterial to the particular exchange between writer and reader.
The long-continued and useful public service and eminent purity of character of the deceased ex-President will be remembered.
Failure can only exist from stagnant perceptions. Everything is a process of learning and if you learn something useful, you have success.
Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree.
What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.
A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.
Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.
People will urge you to go to school. They’ll tell you an American education is useful. That is not true. That is 80’s. You are here to hustle.
Don’t worry that you’ve wasted time. Each moment -- no matter how frozen or confused -- was a useful and necessary lesson.
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
I lived in Shetland for a short while in the seventies and have been visiting ever since, so I have lots of useful contacts!
I think test screenings with an audience are useful because they have no dog in the fight, they just say how they feel.
While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.
