#useful

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#letters #like #little #most #nation

I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things. ↗

— Regina Spektor

#care #hell #i #i care #just

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#conceive #convenience #greatest #i #itself

Good human work honors God's work. Good work uses no thing without respect, both for what it is in itself and for its origin. It uses neither tool nor material that it does not respect and that it does not love. It honors nature as a great mystery and power, as an indispensable teacher, and as the inescapable judge of all work of human hands. It does not dissociate life and work, or pleasure and work, or love and work, or usefulness and beauty. To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that is made, and whomever it is made for. This is blasphemy: to make shoddy work of the work of God. But such blasphemy is not possible when the entire Creation is understood as holy and when the works of God are understood as embodying and thus revealing His spirit. (pg. 312, Christianity and the Survival of Creation) ↗

— Wendell Berry

#creation #excellence #god #nature #respect

I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless. ↗

— William Golding

#communication #usefulness #art

Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#harmed #less #made #our #recreation

God uses those who seem ill-fitted for a significant life. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#god #significance #usefulness #life

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#important #important thing #life #men #purpose

Besides, my usefulness here is destroyed because all of my friends think me a man of unsound mind. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#besides #destroyed #friends #here #man

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#doing #imagination #left #men #obsessed