#useful

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. ↗

— Joan Didion

#any #compulsion #compulsive #down #impulse

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#make #only #past #present #useful

I've held onto little musical sketches that I thought could be useful, and the more time that I spend doing them for each film, then the more I have to draw on. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#doing #draw #each #film #held

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#doing #lazy #leisure #never #obtain

I told my father to stop smoking around the age of two or three years old and he stopped smoking. So the relationship between the kid and the parent is very powerful, and if you give the kid the right information, it can be very useful to the family. ↗

— Doug E. Fresh

#around #between #family #father #give

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#drop #drown #every #fair #only

The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#composite #distinguishing #factors #important #into

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#master #servant #technology #useful

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#fame #good #good thing #interest #me

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#devil #education #make #man #more