Usefulness Quotes

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness. Thomas Merton
Time Result Men Imagination Valued No Time Obsessed Doing Left Being Usefulness
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions. Peace Pilgrim
Great You Age Our Possessed Possesses Possessions Relinquish Outlived Materialistic Anything Cannot Us Usefulness Many
A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness. William Graham Sumner
Fitness Nature Ought Dissolution Gutter Tendency He Drunkard She Him According Survived Just Where Process Which Decline Usefulness Things Set
What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us. Dorothea Dix
Good Back Spent Those Days Look Greater Around Bliss Doing Doing Good Than Us Usefulness
The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness. Ovid
Values Crowd Vulgar According Friends Usefulness
Besides, my usefulness here is destroyed because all of my friends think me a man of unsound mind. Alex Campbell
Me Man Mind Think Destroyed Besides Unsound Because Friends Usefulness Here
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness. E. T. Bell
Fitness Art Mathematics Creative Simplicity Feeling Past Sense Guided Indefinable Rather Only Inspired Generality Prospect Ultimate Mathematicians Than Any In The Past Usefulness Now Things Symmetry
Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter. Guy Finley
Life Winter Stream Spring Fall Energy Tree Summer Once One Area Sunlight Something Outlived Purpose Area Through Longer Leaf Another Existence Same Being Different Transfer Then Usefulness Captures Serve
The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship. Alex Campbell
Life Business World Wife My Life Satisfied Take Because Without Boy Go End Any Want Usefulness Reason Companionship Why
America, a country that is no longer contained by physical borders, aspires only for more power and control. I want to maximize my usefulness and advocate for the preservation of biodiversity and the pursuit of human decency within my sphere of influence. Anohni
Power Country Control Decency Sphere Borders Physical More Only More Power Pursuit Contained Longer Within Advocate America Maximize Human Influence Want Usefulness Biodiversity Preservation
It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth. Cleveland Abbe
Life Youth Long Inevitable Those Outlive Long Life Friends Should Usefulness Whom
The usefulness of cow-peas and soy-beans as human food has been recognized only recently in this country. David F. Houston
Food Country Recognized Has-Been Only Been Human Usefulness Recently
Twitter's popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me. David Harsanyi
Me Mysteries Twitter Usefulness Popularity
As you have learnt something of time, value and make a proper use of it. Once past, it knows no return; how necessary, then, that you spend it in improving your mind and fitting it for future happiness and usefulness. Dorothea Dix
Happiness Future Time You Mind Value Past Spend Once Proper Something Make Return Knows Learnt How Fitting Improving Then Use Your Usefulness Necessary
Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit can dream o' nights, yet on the stage it is the first thing to aim at. Ellen Terry
Quality Word First Stage Nights Aim Dream Spirit First Thing The First Thing Which Aspiring Usefulness Fascinating Thing
Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance. F. Sionil Jose
Own Furniture Poetry Like Pieces Judged Authors Short Fiction Stories Short Stories Autonomous Created Should Stand Usefulness Elegance Novels
I was a woman writing at the early moment when small drops of worried resentment and noble rage were secretly, slowly building into the second wave of the women's movement. I didn't know my small-drop presence or usefulness in this accumulation. Grace Paley
Woman Women Writing Building Rage Wave Worried Secretly Slowly Small Noble Drops Know Were Accumulate Movement Usefulness Moment Resentment Presence Second Early
New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere. John Updike
You Live Elsewhere Glad New Like Makes York Soviet Soviet Union New York Usefulness Union Universal
I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work. Jose Saramago
Work Travel Degree Destinations Able More Select Write Am According Order Less Usefulness Traveling
The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system. Kevin Kelly
Nature Innovation Will Become Enough System Arise Without Inertia Overwhelmed Fringe Afford Establish Being Where Usefulness Orthodox
A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society. Kjell Magne Bondevik
Worth Society Independent Person Quite Usefulness
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness. Liberty Hyde Bailey
Happiness Dream Oneself Excellence Without Labor Cannot Either Usefulness
My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness. Lord Mountbatten
Value Military Exceeded Trophy Usefulness
The press briefing today I believe has lost much of its usefulness. Marlin Fitzwater
Today Lost Believe Press Much Usefulness Briefing
It was my father's hope, and it is ours, that the National Gallery would become not a static but a living institution, growing in usefulness and importance to artists, scholars and the general public. Paul Mellon
Hope Father Become National Living Static Ours Would General General Public Scholars Institution Importance Artists Public Gallery Usefulness Growing
It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science. Peter Agre
Science Honor Only Remarkable Nobel Advancement Nobel Prize Also Because Discoveries Prize Usefulness Fundamental Receive
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