Have I done anything for society? I have then done more for myself. Let that truth be always present to thy mind, and work without cessation
All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use, and of all we may heap we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can... . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the ore our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work
Success can corrupt, usefulness can only exalt
When no new thoughts fill the mind-when no horizons beckon-when life is in the past, not in the future--you are on your way to uselessness
Everyone knows the usefulness of the useful, but no one knows the usefulness of the useless
It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications
The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts
Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved
He had a sensation of anxiety and shame, a sensitivity acute beyond usefulness, as if the nervous system, flayed of its old hide of social usage, must record every touch of pain
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
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
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
In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction
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
The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed in the production of the milk supply render its abundant production important
The press briefing today I believe has lost much of its usefulness
The usefulness of cow-peas and soy-beans as human food has been recognized only recently in this country
If you are seeking health, wealth, usefulness, skill in any direction, there is nothing and no one who can hinder your attainment of the coveted boon, if you are willing to work and wait
Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training or more than reasons of usefulness and marketability
Attention and activity lead to mistakes as well as to successes; but a life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing
Whatever you have, you must either use or lose
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