Top 1200 Useful Thoughts Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I can't think of anything better to do with a life than to wear it out in efforts to be useful to the world.

It is a shame to confess but among all living creatures only man doesn't know what is useful for him.

A party is a political tool. If it's no longer useful, it should be crumpled up and thrown away.

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

The land which thou goest to possess is not like the land of Egypt from whence thou camest out... For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord...Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near...Why do you spend money for that which is not bread and your labor for that which doth not satisfy you?

Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn.

The most useful information on CNN is when Anthony Bourdain tells me where to eat noodles.

I can't help but note that God is being useful to a lot of people trying to do harm to one another.

The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.

Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful.

The best antidote against evils of all kinds, against the evil thoughts that haunt the soul, against the needless perplexities which distract the conscience, is to keep hold of the good we have. Impure thoughts will not stand against pure words and prayers and deeds. Little doubts will not avail against great certainties. Fix your affections on things above, and then you will less and less be troubled by the cares, the temptations, the troubles of things on earth.

I didn't think I would be an exceptional writer, and I thought I might be a useful publisher. I've never regretted it.

The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.

In principle, junk bonds are basically useful, but they are used excessively and irrationally, notably in takeovers.

It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.

Corporate strategy is usually only useful if you get people engaged with helping you to make it work.

It is a fatal fault to reason whilst observing, though so necessary beforehand and so useful afterwards.

To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.

Don't knock the power of a pest," Leif said. "Persistance and stubborness can be useful in many situations.

"It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever" he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?"

Well, you know, the mind is nothing. The mind is only a bunch of thoughts. Thoughts about the past and the future, that is all a mind is. But, the Heart is a center of stillness, of quietness, of Absolute Peace. When you rest your mind in your heart, you feel a joy and a bliss that overwhelms you, and you will Know. Surrender your mind to your Heart, and you will feel it.

Now I see why reading was illegal for black people during slavery. I discover that I think in words. The more words I know, the more things I can think about. My vocab and thoughts grow together like the stem and petals of a flower. Reading was illegal because if you limit someone's vocab, you limit their thoughts. They can't even think of freedom because they don't have the language to.

If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative. In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths. Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive.

Some would assert that Providence was at work shaking out its pockets in Humanity's lap. Other would argue for that mindless choreographer, Chance. Either way it was a simple thing: a lost diary fell into the hands of a soul-sick war hero on a train from Bombay to Jaipur just when he'd grown tired of the scenery and needed something to keep his thoughts from the minefield of his wretched thoughts. In such mild ways is the groundwork laid for first kisses and ruined lives.

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.

No matter how wonderful a sentence is, if it doesn't add new and useful information, it should be removed.

The destroyer Cork, like the useful hero for whom it is named, will be game to the last.

Stories can bring alive the moral universe in a very vivid, useful, engaging way.

The wise person finds enemies more useful than the fool does friends .

A fad is something that gives just a couple of minutes of extreme fun. It can be useful. It can be useless.

I'd like to be invisible. To be anonymous and see things for what they really are. The truth may be painful but it's probably useful!

Ralph [ Nader] is an old friend of mine, and he does a useful job in displaying a position.

On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted.

My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful.

Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

There is a lot of information out there. To the degree that your life changes, it is made useful or useless.

Pronouns are only useful when you combine them with other words. I have a few I can give you, if you're at a loss.

Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live.

Freedom has invented every useful machine, from the lowest to the highest, from the simplest to the most complex.

It would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch out and there's no end to them and they leave a funny taste in the mouth. Then there are words, inside the thoughts, unfinished words, a sketchy sentence which constantly returns...It goes, it goes ... and there's no end to it. It's worse than the rest because I feel responsible and have complicity in it. For example, this sort of painful rumination: I exist, I am the one who keeps it up. I.

Do something. Do something small. Do something small but useful. Do something small but useful now.

I've found is that by doing stand-up, I've actually learned how to combat depression. I don't have clinical, but I've definitely had my bouts with it. I just figured out that it's a choice. You're in control of your brain. When your brain is sending you bad information or bad thoughts, you can decide to go to the gym, or write a new joke - or if you're on the road, go to a ball game... something that's going to get the blood going. Or you can let those thoughts take you right down the rabbit hole.

Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.

The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be -- and that's so tempting.

I don't work with anyone out of a sense of charity. I use people as long as they are useful to me.

Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

A diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome can be useful to help a person understand why they have had difficulties.

[It's] useful to ask ourselves, 'Just how global are we?' before we think about where we go from here.

Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

Life knows us not and we do not know life—-we don’t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have no meaning whatever and of the other half each man understands each word after the fashion of his own folly and conceit. Faith is a myth and beliefs shift like mists on the shore; thoughts vanish; words, once pronounced, die; and the memory of yesterday is as shadowy as the hope of tomorrow

A great artist is never a closed subject, but this catalogue is a milestone production, as useful as it is beautiful.

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.

And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.