Before my marriage, I didn’t think about all the obligations that were awaiting me. My experience has proved useful and I think that I have a natural propensity to feel compassion for people and their problems.
The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions. It can also be very useful in combat situations.
It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.
After years of work in both areas of study, I concluded that the social sciences were different, in many important ways, from the natural sciences, but that the same scientific methods were applicable in both areas, and, indeed, that no very useful work could be done in either area except by scientific methods.
The things that you know more about than you want to know are very useful.
I would very honestly just tell you that what I tried to do was simply respond to inquiries from people as they came in. Where I've thought I could say something useful, I've tried to add a voice that was, frankly, a dissident voice earlier on, but one that I think has become a more mainstream voice-and not because I've shifted. I think that the critique I had of what was going on in our financial system from six, eight years ago-after seeing some of what we've suffered through and even since the cataclysm itself-in terms of the structural changes.
One is to ensure that the war fighters and the intelligence analysts get the information that they need when they need it, in a format that's useful to them.
There is but one dependable method of accumulating and legally holding riches, and that is by rendering useful service.
If you aren't rich you should always look useful.
Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.
Do Something Small But Useful Now.
OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets.
In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work.
Information is only useful when it can be understood
If you would reflect well and wisely, you would realize that those events you regard as personal misfortunes have served a useful purpose even in this worldly life, and indeed have worked for your betterment.
Pronouns are only useful when you combine them with other words. I have a few I can give you, if you're at a loss.
Economics is primarily useful, both to the student and to the political leader, as a prophylactic against popular fallacies.
Patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equipment as are his eyes, as useful to the race as eyes are to the individual.
Writing should be useful. If it can't instruct people a little bit more about the responsibilities of consciousness there's no point in doing it.
I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.