Top 1200 Useful Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

There's an economy in sports that I always think is a useful metaphor for acting. You have an objective. You're trying to win, and of course, you want to do well. You want to use good techniques so you enforce it, but also you don't do things you don't have to do. It's very economical, and I think that in acting the most economical way through a scene is always the best. It's active. There is the sense of the fight and you want to win.

My interest in creating anything is that it be useful.

All models are wrong, but some are useful.

Things in which we do not take joy are either a burden upon our minds to be got rid of at any cost; or they are useful, and therefore in temporary and partial relation to us, becoming burdensome when their utility is lost; or they are like wandering vagabonds, loitering for a moment on the outskirts of our recognition, and then passing on. A thing is only completely our own when it is a thing of joy to us.

It's useful that there should be Gods, so let's believe there are.

Knowledge is only useful if you do something with it.

Our civilization is not Christian. It does not come from the skies. It is not a result of inspiration. It is the child of invention, of discovery, of applied knowledge - that is to say, of science. When man becomes great and grand enough to admit that all have equal rights; when thought is untrammeled; when worship shall consist in doing useful things; when religion means the discharge of obligations to our fellow-men, then, and not until then, will the world be civilized.

What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.

A belief is not true simply because it is useful.

I don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews.

A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.

Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters.

Data is not useful until it becomes information.

Science can be useful, or it can just get in the way.

Always desire to learn something useful

The above proposition is occasionally useful.

I like being mistaken for someone useful.

If you aren't rich you should always look useful.

Nothing is more useful than silence.

Inquisitiveness is the most useful talent.

The healing power of music is vast. Music therapy is in its infancy in Western psychology. If we knew more, we'd be able to do amazing things, and maybe even make permanent changes in the brain's mysterious workings. With a simple song and four chords, you might be able to do something useful, even life-changing. With all the songs you know, you might be a virtual, veritable medicine chest for the right person.

A donkey is a very useful beast of burden.

It is because of its emptiness that the cup is useful.

Do Something Small But Useful Now.

I find humming is very useful.

Training is useful but there is no substitute for experience.

I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.

A video referee is useful for sure.

If I were useful, you wouldn't know it was me.

It is useful to constantly observe, note, and consider.

Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.

The useful and the beautiful are never separated.

A lighthouse is more useful than a church.

He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and the good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.

I lie a lot - it's really useful.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

When he first started - Jim Henson, who created Bid Bird and Oscar - he said Big Bird was just a big, goofy guy. And it was - a script came along and I said, 'I think Big Bird would be much more useful to the show if he were a child learning all the things we were teaching in the show.' And so he didn't know the alphabet, even, for instance.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful.

The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.

Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.

Cavalry is useful before, during, and after the battle.

Always desire to learn something useful.

It's a practical matter. If you're useful to others, you'll be hired.

He was about as useful in a crisis as a sheep.

Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.

Experience is useful in Test Cricket.

We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience. To enveigh against things that are past and irremediable, is unpleasing; but to steer clear of the shelves and rocks we have struck upon, is the part of wisdom, equally as incumbent on political as other men, who have their own little bark, or that of others, to navigate through the intricate paths of life, or the trackless ocean, to the haven of security and rest.

Paradoxes are useful to attract attention to ideas.

A golden tomb is useful only for the thieves!

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy.

Not until we have learned to be useful can we afford to do what we like.

Acting has been very useful to me.

But what manner of use would it be ploughing through that darkness?' asked Drinian. Use?' replied Reepicheep. 'Use, Captain?' If you mean by filling our bellies or our purses, I confess it will be no use at all. So far as I know we did not set sail to look for things useful but to seek honour and adventures. And here is as great an adventure as I have ever heard of, and here, if we turn back, no little impeachment of all our honours.

Artists have to be useful. They have to fill a role.

The world forgets about people who are not useful.

Information is only useful when it can be understood

a poet never feels useful.

Volunteer. Find ways to be useful. Be kind.

Only the rational and useful is beautiful.

Nothing is more useful than the useless.