#useful

In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art. ↗

— Sallust

#action #art #being #engaged #enjoy

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. ↗

— Karl Marx

#people #production #results #things #too

The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

#most #thing #useful #user #utmost

I think the Internet is absolutely extraordinary. It's very, very useful and I think one of the things we've got to do is make sure that the African continent gets on to that information super highway. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#african #continent #extraordinary #gets #got

I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in. ↗

— Natalie Merchant

#control #could #drills #found #head

To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#exercise #hard #notes #out #over

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

Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful. ↗

— Larry Page

#basically #goal #information #make #organize

The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#characters #common #good #good person #into

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