#useful

Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#between #britain #dinosaur #most #role

The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#bottom #children #crazy #distinction #egos

Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#consist #derive #future #goods #hold

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity. ↗

— Jose Marti

#attend #busy #difficult #dignity #futile

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#gone #higher #him #his #history

Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and all of that. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#cigarettes #contrast #culture #extra #i

Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#always #anyway #been #direct #direct experience

I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#between #famous #famous person #find #going

Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability. ↗

— Johannes Rau

#education #marketability #more #musical #need

Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#brother #brother and sister #dignity #doing #doing good