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  • I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge - that's part of the reason why term limits are a really useful thing.

    Thinking   Ideas   Voice  
    "Report: Obama Holds First News Conference Since Election". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. November 14, 2016.
  • I am a maker of useful things.

    "Prolific" by Judith Thurman, www.newyorker.com. December 18, 2006.
  • I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in this business. I'm glad on the one hand that I've got it, but I wish it was more powerful. I wish I had a greater range. I wish it was more accurate at times.

    Powerful   Hands   Voice  
  • True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men. To employ these rare minds on such work is like running a steam engine by burning diamonds.

    Running   Science   Men  
    Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers”, p.32, Harvard University Press
  • A studio is an absolute labyrinth of possibilities - this is why records take so long to make because there are millions of permutations of things you can do. The most useful thing you can do is to get rid of some of those options before you start

  • Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.

    War   President   World  
  • Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this; secured to the inventor, for a limited time, the exclusive use of his invention; and thereby added the fuel of interest to the fire of genius, in the discovery and production of new and useful things.

    Country   Science   Men  
    Second lecture on discoveries and inventions, delivered to the Phi Alpha Society of Illinois College at Jacksonville, Illinois, (February 11, 1859); "The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 3" edited by Roy P. Basler, (p. 357), 1953.
  • The things you leave school knowing - some dates and long division - so much of it has been of no use to me. Schools should teach the basics of cookery, first aid, how to look after your money and how to speak foreign languages. Useful things.

    School   Knowing   Long  
  • Organizations like the ACLU fought and won the good fight back in the 1960's, but it's clear that nowadays they've run out of useful things to do since they now spend most of their time defending the scum of the Earth from getting what they rightly deserve.

  • I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.

    Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.62, Hachette UK
  • But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making.

    Believe   Hero   Poor  
  • There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose.

  • Our time here on the earth is short, and our chance to make a difference is tiny. For me the grinding blocks of history came together in such a way that I was able to take what fragile defense I had and hold in place for seventy-six days. If I was able to give much it was only because I had some useful things from my life to give. I am a hotel manager...my job never changed, even in a sea of fire.

    Jobs   Block   Sea  
    Paul Rusesabagina (2009). “An Ordinary Man: The True Story Behind Hotel Rwanda”, p.131, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

    Wisdom   Philosophy   Men  
  • America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is our function, to be character types, to embody recurring themes that people can use to comfort themselves, justify themselves and so on. We're here to accommodate. Whatever people need, we provide. A myth is a useful thing.

    Don DeLillo (2012). “The Names”, p.114, Vintage
  • Instead of the primitive raw material economy, we will create a smart economy generating unique knowledge, new useful things and technologies. Instead of the archaic society, in which the leaders think and make decisions for everyone, we will become a country of intelligent, free and responsible people.

    "Medvedev wants Russia to go hi-tech" by Maxim Tkachenko, edition.cnn.com. November 12, 2009.
  • The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left.

    Wise   Ideas   Century  
  • Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn. So the last part to me is the key, especially if you have had some initial success. It becomes even more critical that you have the learning 'bit' always switched on.

    Keys   Passionate   Lasts  
  • The steadily inward look leads us all to death, nations as well as persons, and is equally infantile in them all. Perhaps the most useful thing I have learned in my lifetime is that the process of maturing gradually turns the mind away from the small-self to the greater-self that is only served by serving others.

    Self   Mind   Inward  
  • You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things -- useful things.

    People   Mind   Reason  
    Deanna Raybourn (2015). “Dark Road to Darjeeling”, p.221, MIRA
  • The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

    Erich Fromm, Karl Marx (2013). “Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'”, p.122, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

    Men   Long   Forgiving  
    Oscar Wilde (2012). “Epigrams”, p.114, BoD – Books on Demand
  • Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.

  • Sadness is one of the best universities in life! Though bad things take good things from us, they do give us useful things as well!

    Life   Sadness   Giving  
  • I believe that prizes are useful things for the disciplines, whether we are talking about chemistry or we're talking... It motivates, it, you know, inspires, it encourages and it brings, in the case of literature, it brings literature, the arts out of the ghetto.

    Art   Believe   Ghetto  
    Source: www.nobelprize.org
  • Believing that a crisis is a useful thing to create, the Obama administration - which understands that, for liberalism, worse is better - has deliberately aggravated the fiscal shambles that the Great Recession accelerated.

  • The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness.

  • Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don't learn.

  • Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

    Life   Happiness   Beauty  
    Hopes and Fears for Art "The Beauty of Life" (1882)
  • Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school. Education is indeed necessary for all, and this is evident if we consider the different degrees of ability. No one doubts that those who are stupid need instruction, that they may shake off their natural dullness. But in reality those who are clever need it far more, since an active mind, if not occupied with useful things, will busy itself with what is useless, curious, and pernicious.

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