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I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.
My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.
While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.
A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.
If a player is 20 or 21 and sits on the bench for two or three years, I don't know if that's useful.
Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
Don't take criticism personally; take from it what's useful. Apply it and move on to something better.
You don't really want nonagenarians as heads of organisations which are trying to do something useful.
The most useful form of time travel would be to go back a year or two and rectify the mistakes we made.
Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done.
Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer.
Nerves can be useful, as they sharpen you up, make you determined to try your hardest and do your best.
It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.
Forensic techniques are enormously useful in a wide range of fields outside the criminal justice system.
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
It was very useful to learn the history, the theory, and the art of building from a practical background.
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.
A diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome can be useful to help a person understand why they have had difficulties.
A fad is something that gives just a couple of minutes of extreme fun. It can be useful. It can be useless.
The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.
Insurance is important for protecting the health of people and Ujjwala is quite useful to low-income women.
I stress the relevance of my work for cancer research because I believe that science must be useful to man.
All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.
Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.
Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.
Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.
Recognize that dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong, and go out of your way to reward them.
The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.
Freedom has invented every useful machine, from the lowest to the highest, from the simplest to the most complex.
Being an outsider at all times is both unhealthy and useful, because you become much more objective about things.
The usefulness of science is sometimes exaggerated. You'd never talk about music being useful or art being useful.
The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community.