To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.
I desire no other epitaph - no hurry about it, I may say - than the statement that I taught medical students in the wards, as I regard this as by far the most useful and important work I have been called upon to do.
I mean, making simulations of what you're going to build is tremendously useful if you can get feedback from them that will tell you where you've gone wrong and what you can do about it.
Fame is useful in certain ways, because it helps you get more roles.
We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going. . . Concentrate on something useful.
Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.
When you're a houseguest and you leave, it's nice to straighten something up or send your hosts a useful gift. And when you leave the planet, it's nice to have made a positive contribution.
knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy.
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
Up to a certain extent the UN soldiers are useful. But they are consuming a lot of resources in relation to the little work they are doing.
Do Something Small But Useful Now.
'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'.
All new tools are useful to animators, but great animation comes down to great animators.
It is great to be introspective, self analysis can be useful, but only if it results in action.
We meet With few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between these two extremes: the interval is filled with multitudes of ordinary geniuses, but all very useful, and the ornaments and supports of the commonwealth.
We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable and useful promise made and kept is difficult to overstate.
France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has tended to take useful positions in our view.
Cabbage as a food has problems. It is easy to grow, a useful source of greenery for much of the year. Yet as a vegetable it has original sin, and needs improvement. It can smell foul in the pot, linger through the house with pertinacity, and ruin a meal with its wet flab. Cabbage also has a nasty history of being good for you.
Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.
All models are wrong, but some are useful.