#usefulness

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#decline #dissolution #drunkard #fitness #gutter

In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#could #entered #environment #eventually #experience

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness. ↗

— John Cheever

#discover #life #make #need #sense

My writing practice taught me the important thing is steadfastness. It's not necessarily discipline. Discipline can become a prison. When your spiritual practices become another thing for you to be anxious about, they've lost their usefulness. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#another #anxious #become #discipline #important

The usefulness of cow-peas and soy-beans as human food has been recognized only recently in this country. ↗

— David F. Houston

#country #food #human #only #recently

In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#early #law #parallel #politics #roads

The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness. ↗

— Ovid

#crowd #friends #their #usefulness #values

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. Confucius This is a major problem in America, where greed, power, and money are the highest value. This creates a paranoia atmosphere.I mention this all the time, but first time I have ever seen it. ↗

— Confucius

#money

I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it. ↗

— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

#aware #benefits #derives #i #i am

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others. ↗

— Charles William Eliot

#cannot #choking #commandment #develop #development