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I aspire to be useful.
Anthony Foxx
Useful
Aspire
You can't call me a Twitter phenomenon or a YouTube one. These things are useful, but so's hard gigging. One year I did 311 shows. I did six in one night alone.
Ed Sheeran
Alone
Me
You
Year
YouTube
Twitter
One-Night
Call
Did
Six
Useful
Hard
Shows
Things
Night
Phenomenon
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Tools
Architect
Most
Eraser
Site
Bar
Board
Useful
Drafting
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
Graham Greene
Great
You
People
Listening
Word
Every
Everything
Boring
See
Writer
Part
Advantage
Observing
Longest
Most
Parties
Spy
Scrap
Being
Useful
Even
Great Advantage
Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
Henry S. Haskins
Time
People
Some People
Nothing
Other
Says
Easily
Some
Only
Pushed
Head
Like
Talking
His
Very
Person
Stop
Upset
Useful
I am true to my own race. I wish to see all done that can be done for their encouragement, to assist them in acquiring property, in becoming intelligent, enlightened, useful, valuable citizens.
Hiram Rhodes Revels
Property
Valuable
Wish
Encouragement
Own
Citizens
See
My Own
True
Becoming
Am
Intelligent
Done
Race
Them
Acquiring
Useful
Assist
Enlightened
Life in the mid-21st century is going to be about living locally. Be prepared to be good neighbors. Be prepared to find vocations that make you useful to your neighbors and to your fellow citizens.
James Howard Kunstler
Life
Good
You
Living
Locally
Neighbors
Citizens
Find
Be Prepared
About
Fellow
Fellow Citizens
Make
Going
Century
Your
Useful
Prepared
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.
Jean de la Bruyere
Man
People
Master
Masters
His
Ambitious
May
Useful
Who
Many
Slave
Position
There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Diplomacy
Few
Nothing
Rules
No Exception
Exception
Safely
Talks
Concluded
Were
Accomplished
Official
Reports
Useful
To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.
Jose Marti
Dignity
Simple
Busy
Difficult
Strip
Futile
Oneself
Something
Attempt
Attend
Talent
Useful
Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are always pursued in ways that continue to link and fortify securitarian power with the opening of new markets.
Judith Butler
Failure
Rights
Power
International Relations
Relations
Markets
Ways
Obama
Constitutional
Constitutional Rights
Pursued
Instance
New
Opening
Democratic
Another
Always
Proved
Continue
His
Link
Close
Where
Rhetoric
Which
Fortify
Useful
International
Guantanamo
So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.
June Jordan
People
Other
Guards
Unknown
Our
Mute
Only
Poetry
Leaders
Between
Becomes
Dialogue
So-Called
Against
Manipulation
Us
Produces
Means
Useful
Who
Each
Among
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Respect
Yourself
Judgment
Own
Those
All Things
Impair
Consult
Counsel
Self-Love
His
Friend
May
Where
Which
Might
Then
Your
Useful
Things
The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.
Maelle Gavet
Something
Could
Learn
Goal
Where
Create
Useful
Company
Things
If you start thinking of stress as not a bad thing but inevitable, resulting in change that itself leads to transformation that leads to sharp and radical changes... it can be a very useful way of thinking.
Marilyn Ferguson
You
Change
Stress
Inevitable
Transformation
Radical
Thinking
Changes
Way
Bad
Resulting
Bad Thing
Sharp
Leads
Itself
Very
Useful
Thing
Start
The most useful form of time travel would be to go back a year or two and rectify the mistakes we made.
Matt Lucas
Time
Travel
Made
Mistakes
Year
Back
Would
Would-Be
Rectify
Most
Go
Time Travel
Form
Useful
Two
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
Nikolai Gogol
Beautiful
Will
Beauty
Own
Think
Come
Always
Accord
Useful
I stress the relevance of my work for cancer research because I believe that science must be useful to man.
Renato Dulbecco
Work
Man
Science
Cancer
Stress
Research
Believe
Relevance
Must
Because
Useful
Verbal contracts are about as useful as a fart on a treadmill.
Robert Rinder
About
Verbal
Contracts
Useful
Fart
Treadmill
If you drill down on any success story, you always discover that luck was a huge part of it. You can't control luck, but you can move from a game with bad odds to one with better odds. You can make it easier for luck to find you. The most useful thing you can do is stay in the game.
Scott Adams
Success
You
Game
Better
Odds
Control
Down
Luck
Easier
Bad
Find
Stay
Drill
Part
Most
Make
Always
Discover
Huge
Huge Part
Any
Move
Story
Success Story
Useful
Useful Thing
Thing
The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not.
Thomas Perry
Good
You
Signs
Good Person
Active
Virtues
Characters
Thriller
Unsavory
Most
Make
Refer
Person
Common
Predatory
Useful
Who
Novel
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Pride
Wish
Other
Others
Various
Know
Sort
Makes
Curiosity
May
Which
Interest
Us
Ignorant
Useful
Desire
Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.
A. S. Byatt
You
Lose
Would
Some
Look
Without
Quite
Where
Them
Useful
Inhibitions
Things
Humans
I wanted to reveal how genetic code is translated into protein. I knew a great application could be for antibiotics, since half of the useful ones target the ribosomes, but I didn't believe I could contribute to it. It was like the next Mount Everest to conquer. It was my dream to contribute something to humanity.
Ada Yonath
Great
Humanity
Half
Believe
Dream
Something
Could
Knew
Since
Genetic
Like
Protein
Reveal
How
Antibiotics
Target
Mount
Mount Everest
Contribute
Wanted
Translated
Next
Useful
Conquer
Code
Everest
Application
The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.
Adam Clarke
God
Wise
Bible
Happy
Promises
Men
Precepts
Direct
Having
Tendency
Most
Make
Another
Revelation
Proved
Commands
Holiness
Themselves
Holy
Useful
I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
Adam Gopnik
Argument
Stars
Add
Settling
Find
Rush
Web
Rock
Rock Stars
Up
Legends
Infinitely
Information
Useful
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