Usefulness Quotes - Page 11

• Love is an obsolete emotion, ranking in usefulness somewhere between earwigs and toe mold.

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Love Is, Toes, Ranking

  Patricia A. McKillip (2005). “Harrowing the Dragon”, p.90, Penguin

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• Nature is not primarily functional. It is primarily beautiful. Stop for a moment and let that sink in. We’re so used to evaluating everything (and everyone) by their usefulness that this thought will take a minute or two to begin to dawn on us. Nature is not primarily functional. It is primarily beautiful. Which is to say, beauty is in and of itself a great and glorious good, something we need in large and daily doses.

  Stasi Eldredge

  Beautiful, Two, Dawn

  John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge (2011). “Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul”, p.26, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.

  Abigail Adams

  Character, May, Steps

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• It seems to me that the most universal revolutionary wish now or ever is a wish for heaven, a wish by a human being to be honored by angels for something other than beauty or usefulness.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Angel, Heaven, Wish

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.

  Lord Mountbatten

  Military, Trophies, Values

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.

  Johannes Rau

  Musical, Training, Needs

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• Any student of the New Testament eager to understand its Greco-Roman setting will profit greatly from this excellent book. I commend it highly for its up-to-date perspectives and usefulness. Jeffers writes with a breadth of expertise on the Greco-Roman world that few New Testament specialists can match.

  Craig S. Keener

  Book, Writing, Perspective

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• The Holy Scriptures...can alone secure to society order and peace, and to our courts of justice and constitutions of government, purity, stability, and usefulness.....Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.

  James McHenry

  Strong, Men, Order

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• The school children of New York State planted more than 200,000 trees within ten years from the time Arbor Day was recognized. Few similar efforts in years have been more thoroughly commendable than the effort to get our people practically to show their appreciation of the beauty and usefulness of trees.

  Andrew S. Draper

  Appreciation, New York, Children

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• Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service to the human family.

  Brigham Young

  Mind, Fit, Should

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• If cancer specialists were to admit publicly that chemotherapy is of limited usefulness and is often dangerous, the public might demand a radical change in direction-possibly toward unorthodox and nontoxic methods, and toward cancer prevention. ...The use of chemotherapy is even advocated by those members of the establishment who realize how ineffective and dangerous it can be.

  Ralph W. Moss

  Cancer, Might, Radical Change

  Ralph W. Moss (1996). “The Cancer Industry: The Classic Exposé on the Cancer Establishment”

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• The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Lasts, Logic, Madness

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• As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy to us. The poet should speak to all men, for a moment, of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

  Edith Sitwell

  Reality, Men, Use

  "Young Poets". Edith Sitwell's lecture (1957); later published in "Mightier Than the Sword: The P.E.N. Hermon Ould Memorial Lectures, 1953-1961" (p. 56), 1964.

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• The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Care, Safe, Divine

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.1623, Barbour Publishing

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• The suspicion is in the air nowadays that the superiority of one of our formulas to another may not consist so much in its literal 'objectivity,' as in subjective qualities like its usefulness, its 'elegance,' or its congruity with our residual beliefs

  William James

  Truth, Air, Objectivity

  William James (2000). “Pragmatism and Other Writings”, p.199, Penguin

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• Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.

  Horace Mann

  Excellence, Records, Biographies

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.105

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• A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasizes the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.

  Dieter Rams

  Design, Psychological, Criteria

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• Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Hinder

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.693, Discovery House

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• In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.

  Koichi Tanaka

  Experience, World, Able

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• Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Intelligent, Men, Doubt

  Joseph Lancaster (1803). “Improvements in education, as it respects the industrious classes of the community”, p.14

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• Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two, your life preaches all the week. If Satan can only make a covetous minister a lover of praise, of pleasure, of good eating, he has ruined your ministry. Give yourselves to prayer, and get your texts, your thoughts, your words from God.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Prayer, Two, Giving

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• 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

  Dream, Night, Quality

  Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”

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• These ceremonies and the National Statuary Hall will teach the youth of the land in succeeding generations as they come and go that the chief end of human effort in a sublunary view should be usefulness to mankind, and that all true fame which should be perpetuated by public pictures, statues, and monuments, is to be acquired only by noble deeds and high achievements and the establishment of a character founded upon the principles of truth, uprightness, and inflexible integrity.

  Alexander H. Stephens

  Education, Integrity, Character

  Remarks in the House, as quoted in "Congressional Record", vol. 11, p. 1611, February 15, 1881.

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