#useful

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. ↗

— Antisthenes

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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. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#concentrate #even #going #had #keep

I'm very close to suggesting that Mr. Pitt has now served as long as he can usefully do so. He seems to take his foot out of his mouth only for purposes of changing feet. ↗

— John Dingell

#close #feet #foot #his #i

When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

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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. ↗

— Stephen Cambone

#fighters #format #get #information #intelligence

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#always #beautiful #beauty #come #own

Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness. ↗

— Alfred Korzybski

#characteristics #correct #important #map #maps

I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

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An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles. ↗

— Francis Wright

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