#useful

It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#life #purpose-of-life #time #usefulness #waste

A life placed in the hands of God will be used by Him. ↗

— Matilda Wrede

#life #usefulness #life

If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed. ↗

— Criss Jami

#business #businesses #careers #college #decisions

It's easy to measure success by the number of dollars spent or by the number of programs initiated, without having too much regard for what was bought and how useful it was to the people who need it - the war fighter and the analyst. ↗

— Stephen Cambone

#bought #dollars #easy #fighter #having

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person. ↗

— Chanakya

#blind person #books #mirror #person #stupid

I find humming is very useful. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#humming #i #useful #very

Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere. ↗

— Jack Vance

#excursions #fit #i #little #manage

You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of. ↗

— Claire Danes

#dreamed #ever #how #more #problems

I don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#i #reviews #somebody #think #useful

Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good approximation to their long term behaviour, but it would be unwise not to think how in practice their behaviour may deviate from that simplifying assumption. ↗

— Evan Davis

#assume #assumption #behaviour #behavioural #deviate