57 Utility Quotes for You to Enjoy

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange. Mortimer Adler

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success. Thomas A. Edison

Success Invent Proof Sale Sell Want Anything Utility

To me, ideology is corrupt; it's a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you're an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you're religious, there's a mystery left there. Jordan Peterson

Me You Ideology Believe Think Everything Corrupt Religious Parasite Structures Mystery Terrible None Left Certainty Utility Things Associated

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web. Edwin Way Teale

Spider Beauty Telephone Plus Web Wires Between Difference Utility

Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought. Herman Kahn

Simple Result Perspective Thought Mistakes Paradox More Failures Due Caused Often Decision-Making Inadequate Social Aspects Utility

Whenever you play dance music, it serves a function. It becomes a utility; you have to worry about the tempos and what you're going to play for people. But when you're playing for listening, you're free. Stan Kenton

Music You People Listening Dance Free Dance Music Worry Tempos About Becomes Going Whenever Function Utility Play Serve Playing

I'm obsessed with the form of a toolbox. The idea of a portable kit that has everything you might need ignites something inside me. It's like Batman's utility belt. Adam Savage

Me You Everything Batman Inside Something Kit Idea Obsessed Like Form Might Utility Portable Need Belt

What was a profitable business in one era can become a public utility and a recognized public good in the next. Andrew Yang

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With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change. Arne Jacobsen

There were so many times that, as waitresses, you look at your bank account and you literally have 100 bucks, and you're thinking, 'How am I going to pay my utility bill, my rent?' but at the same time thinking, 'How am I going to accomplish my dreams?' Brie Bella

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It is impossible to anticipate all of the misdeeds engendered by the universal conflict of human passions. They multiply at a compound rate with the growth in population and the interlacing of particular interests that cannot be directed with geometrical precision towards the public utility. Cesare Beccaria

In economic terms, we've always thought of work as a disutility - as something you do to get something else. Now it's increasingly a utility - something that's valuable and worthy in its own right. Daniel H. Pink

Work You Valuable Thought Own Increasingly Else Worthy Something Something Else Economic Terms Always Get Utility Now Right

If you want to maximize your expected utility, you try to save the world and the future of intergalactic civilization instead of donating your money to the society for curing rare diseases and cute puppies. Eliezer Yudkowsky

Many tools are indispensable for my work, from a utility knife to parametric-modeling software, like Digital Project. But it's important not to confuse the tool for the content, as some designers under 30 do. Elizabeth Diller

Work Digital Important Confuse Software Tool Tools Project Some Indispensable Knife Like Content Many Utility Designers

Imagining themes that are specific to coating lines, shapes, shades, thoughts, the decoration of our homes and the objects of utility or pure pleasure, adapting its purpose in a material-specific way to metal or wood, marble or fabric - it is, without any doubt, an absorbing occupation. Emile Galle

Thoughts Pure Doubt Adapting Our Way Pleasure Fabric Shades Objects Purpose Shapes Absorb Occupation Without Metal Lines Any Wood Themes Decoration Utility Marble Homes Specific Imagining

When I was growing up, my parents put money into food, utility bills, and the mortgage. Esther McVey

Food Money Parents Put Mortgage Up Bills Growing Utility Growing Up

I really do think artists are the most important people on the planet, and if what I do is a utility and helps them, then that makes me happy. I want to be helpful. Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Me Happy People Important Think Most Important People Makes Artists The Most Important Want Them Then Planet Really Helpful Helps Utility

In my humble opinion, the PC as we have known it is in a continuous decline and being relegated to a utility device for businesses. Hector Ruiz

Humble Device Known Opinion Continuous Being Decline Businesses Utility Humble Opinion

He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility. J. F. Powers

Precipice He Himself Suddenly Utility Found

I guess I'm a utility player where I can do it all. JaVale McGee

Guess Where Utility Player

I never really got that chance at Manchester City and developed into a utility player. Playing in all the positions has made me a better player because it's not easy to do that. Understanding the game has made me a more rounded player as well. James Milner

I'm an Amazon Prime member. I subscribe to Netflix and Hulu, and they have great user interfaces and some excellent original programs. But what truly distinguishes all three of these services is the utility of their vast libraries of acquired content, which also is a part of what makes each a platform, even if it has a 'house brand,' too. John Landgraf

Great Three Subscribe Too Programs Distinguishes Libraries Member Some Netflix Vast Excellent Part Prime House Also Content Makes Truly Amazon Brand Hulu Which Acquired User Original Even Each Platform Utility Services

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