Top 1200 Useful Thoughts Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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.

It is one thing to be delivered from bad thoughts, and another to be freed from the passions. Often people are delivered from thoughts, when they do not have before their eyes those things which produce passion. But the passions for them remain hidden in the soul, and when the things appear again the passions are revealed. Therefore it is necessary to guard the mind when these things appear, and to know toward which things you have a passion.

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

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

Undecidability is a useful category even in dealing with restaurant menus.

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

Seth can get irritated/frustrated with Jane and me. This exerpt is from the private session of November 11, 1979: "... the same kind of reaction, however, are involved in all activities, and it is sometimes frustrating for me that you cannot perceive the fascinating facets of any event. You still - and I do not simply mean you two alone - do not feel the unsurpassable force that thoughts have. You do not understand that they do form events, that to change events you must first change thoughts. You get what you concentrate on."

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

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

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

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. Thich Nhat Hanh If you gathered up all the fearful thoughts that exist in the mind of the average person, looked at them objectively, and tried to decide just how much good they provided that person, you would see that not some but all fearful thoughts are useless. They do no good. Zero. They interfere with dreams, hopes, desire and progress.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When you catch yourself thinking negative thoughts-thoughts that negate your highest idea about a thing-think again! I want you to do this, literally. If you think you are in a doldrum, in a pickle, and no good can come of this, think again. If you think the world is a bad place, filled with negative events, think again. If you think your life is falling apart, and it looks as if you'll never get it back together again, think again.

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

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

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.

You don't want to block your thoughts, emotions, and so on; nor do you want to chase after them. If you chase after them, if you let them lead you, they begin to define you, and you lose your ability to respond openly and spontaneously in the present moment. On the other hand, if you attempt to block your thoughts, your mind can become quite tight and small.

Wake up and realize this is all made up of thoughts, just thoughts. Your appreciation of beauty is a thought; your aversion to an object that is ugly is a thought. Your craving or aversion is nothing but a passing thought in the mind. Realize this is just a thought and you will be free.

We actually have a real community of people doing useful things.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

God Himself - His thoughts, His will, His love, His judgments are men's home. To think His thoughts, to choose His will, to judge His judgments, and thus to know that He is in us, with us, is to be at home.

Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions.

The worldly wisdom of the foolish man Is like a sieve, that does alone retain The grosser substance of the worthless bran: But thou, my soul, let thy brave thoughts disdain So coarse a purchase: O be thou a fan To purge the chaff, and keep the winnow'd grain: Make clean thy thoughts, and dress thy mixt desires: Thou art Heav'n's tasker, and thy God requires The purest of thy flow'r, as well as of thy fires.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.

Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results … We understand this law in the natural world, and work with it; but few understand it in the mental and moral world—although its operation there is just as simple and undeviating— and they, therefore, do not cooperate with it.

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

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

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