#useful

And of course there's so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it's obviously useful through the season. There are so many people, songwriters, who are around. ↗

— Ashley Judd

#because #christmas #course #during #family

If kids can learn how to make a simple Bolognese sauce, they will never go hungry. It's pretty easy to cook pasta, but a good sauce is way more useful. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#easy #go #good #how #hungry

Any program is only as good as it is useful. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#good #only #program #useful

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. ↗

— Jules Verne

#lad #lead #little #made #make

You have an awareness of your body and how to use it and I think that if you can embody a character physically it's another really useful tool. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#awareness #body #character #embody #how

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

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#architect #bar #board #drafting #eraser

I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace. ↗

— Markus Wolf

#different #doing #expression #give #good

I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#buildings #easily #environment #find #future

I think it is probably more important to attend specialized conventions for a journeyman writer than any other, but it's useful at all stages of a career, if for nothing else, to find out how the industry is working at any given time. ↗

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#attend #career #conventions #else #find

But today’s society is characterized by achievement orientation, and consequently it adores people who are successful and happy and, in particular, it adores the young. It virtually ignores the value of all those who are otherwise, and in so doing blurs the decisive difference between being valuable in the sense of dignity and being valuable in the sense of usefulness. If one is not cognizant of this difference and holds that an individual’s value stems only from his present usefulness, then, believe me, one owes it only to personal inconsistency not to plead for euthanasia along the lines of Hitler’s program, that is to say, ‘mercy’ killing of all those who have lost their social usefulness, be it because of old age, incurable illness, mental deterioration, or whatever handicap they may suffer. Confounding the dignity of man with mere usefulness arises from conceptual confusion that in turn may be traced back to the contemporary nihilism transmitted on many an academic campus and many an analytical couch. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#existentialism #human-dignity #meaning #nihilism #usefulness