Top 1200 Useful Thoughts Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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

Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.

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

I have enough trouble with useful information, never mind being burdened with what is useless.

After a while, being so honest and so vulnerable on the page ends up affecting my own kind of self possession in the world, because I am not afraid of myself and my own thoughts. I think so much of being a woman, of being a social being, of being polite, is quieting those thoughts. There's so much we try not to say as we go through the day. There's a lot of tempering and self-editing. It is a relief to make writing that space where I don't need to do that.

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

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

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

In highschool I was very excited that alog(b)=blog(a), and still find it useful today.

Ads get a bad reputation sometimes because they're not useful. They're not relevant, or slow.

Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.

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

Sometimes, even if there was no useful advice to give, I saw that listening still helped.

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

There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.

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

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

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

A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings.

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

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

Fame is useful in certain ways, because it helps you get more roles.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

People got to do something useful if they're going to take up space in the world.

Forgiveness does not mean that we suppress anger; forgiveness means that we have asked for a miracle: the ability to see through mistakes that someone has made to the truth that lies in all of our hearts. Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness. Attack thoughts towards others are attack thoughts towards ourselves. The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

Of these five vital principles, Love is the foremost. It is Love that flows as the under-current for the other four values. How does it flow this way? When Love is associated with our thoughts, it manifests itself as Truth. When Love is associated with feelings, it produces Peace. When Love animates actions, it results in Right Action. When Love is combined with understanding it becomes Non-violence. Therefore whenever you feel angry, think of love, develop thoughts of love in your heart. You will have peace.

It may be useful to remember that a peacetime political machine is built essentially on patronage.

Think of admitting the details of a single case of the criminal court into our thoughts, to stalk profanely through their very sanctum sanctorum for an hour, ay, for many hours! to make a very barroom of the mind's inmost apartment, as if for so long the dust of the street had occupied us,--the very street itself, with all its travel, its bustle, and filth, had passed through our thoughts' shrine! Would it not be an intellectual and moral suicide?

A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.

It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.

To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.

There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.

It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit.

The passenger train is like the male teat - neither useful nor ornamental.

The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject.

It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.

Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful.

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

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

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

Learning how to get a point across is pretty useful in any situation.

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

The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.

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

Thirty spokes are joined in the wheel's hub. The hole in the middle makes it useful.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

You need the life of a champion. It's always useful to have people around you who can help you doing that.

When you put loving thoughts and behavior into the world, you plant seeds of self-respect. When you put unloving thoughts and behavior into the world, you destroy seeds of self-respect.

I find it quite useful to be alone when I'm making music, but also in general, in life.

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

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

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

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.