Useful Quotes
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The useful and the beautiful are never separated.
Periander
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Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.
Warren Bennis
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Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.
Alan Alda
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True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The passenger train is like the male teat - neither useful nor ornamental.
James J. Hill
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Mold clay into a bowl. The empty space makes it useful.
Lao Tzu
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Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful... but also when it comes to happiness.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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For the devil is better pleased with coarse blockheads and with folks who are useful to nobody; because where such characters abound, then things do not go on prosperously here on earth.
Martin Luther
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You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.
Sharon Creech
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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
Nikolai Gogol
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For information to be useful, it should be dynamic, searchable, and accessible.
Heather Brooke
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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.
Oscar Wilde
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Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful.
John Stuart Mill
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To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book
Anne Conway
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Through your life, most people peel away the junk that's not useful, that's superfluous. You are determined to peel that away. I do one thing at a time. One man at a time. One car. One house. One child. One job.
Grace Slick Starship
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Rhetoric is useful because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible. Further, in dealing with certain persons, even if we possessed the most accurate scientific knowledge, we should not find it easy to persuade them by the employment of such knowledge. For scientific discourse is concerned with instruction, but in the case of such persons instruction is impossible.
Aristotle
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Shape clay into a vessel; It is the space within that makes it useful. Cut doors and windows for a room; It is the holes which make it useful. Therefore benefit comes from what is there; Usefulness from what is not there.
Lao Tzu
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With our free agents, we think we have the best place for them.
Joe Gibbs
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Only the rational and useful is beautiful.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.
Samuel R. Delany
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Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.
George Bernard Shaw
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I can't draw. But I can draw with sound. That's the most useful thing I learned in terms of what my craft is... The arrangements were mine. They were little lines and stuff that I had written myself... And I was locked into this idea that vocals didn't count, melodies didn't count, songwriting craftsmanship didn't count. The only thing that counted was high arching guitar solos...
Linda Ronstadt
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Cavalry is useful before, during, and after the battle.
Napoleon Bonaparte