The events of your past are fixed. The meaning of your past is not. The influence of every experience in your life is determined by the meaning you assign to it. Assign a more useful...

Having no resources within himself, he was compelled to be the copyist of many, and being such, he was forever the victim of inconsistency;

It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important...

We actually have a real community of people doing useful things.

What youths need to grow is the truth that will set them free from inimical lies and limiting ignorance

Acting has been very useful to me.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher.

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam — good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied...

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the useful and ornamental arts, and worthy the attention of the liberal mind. And it must always become more and more...

I have been branded with folly and madness for attempting what the world calls impossibilities, and even from the great engineer, the late James Watt, who said … that I deserved hanging for bringing into...

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

Don’t take criticism personally; take from it what’s useful. Apply it and move on to something better.

Forget your past,Use your pain;Accept that pain,And Achieve the gain.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what’s critical is that Afghanistan’s relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful.

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.

You look too pretty to be useful.

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

To me, every kitchen appliance is useful and nothing’s overrated. When I look at my little espresso machine, I don’t see coffee. I see a steaming valve as an opportunity to make amazing creme brulee.

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

Your choices become your directions the moment you start to implement them. When you make choices and you don’t implement them, your choices may be the best ever, but the most useless.

Speaking one day to Monsieur de Buffon, on the present ardor of chemical inquiry, he affected to consider chemistry but as cookery, and to place the toils of the laboratory on the footing with those...

I’d rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

You keep your followers confused when you begin very well and give up too early… Suspense is useful in movies, but useless when writing your success stories!

Sometimes when you’re going fast, your instincts can be very useful.

In my experience, the content strategist is a rare breed who’s often willing and able to embrace whatever role is necessary to deliver on the promise of useful, useable content.

I am a maker of useful things.

Being useful should be in our blood.If not than we must work hard to own it.

Will fluorine ever have practical applications?It is very difficult to answer this question. I may, however, say in all sincerity that I gave this subject little thought when I undertook my researches, and I believe...

Don’t feel bad if your youth cannot be joyful, but at least make it useful.

Program your life the way you want it to be: don’t waste the unuse energy that lodges in the matrix of your soul. You are transcendent, be a superintendent.

Whenever you feel a little stricken down in pain, think about this. The knife has to be sharpened by striking and rubbing it against something strong before it can become useful! You are going to...

Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful

You are the salt of the earth. But remember that salt is useful when in association, but useless in isolation.

Thinking before taking actions is useful only if you are going to take action, otherwise you are wasting time and insulting your mind.

I never feel more useful than when I’m making my kids a bowl of soup.

Your title is what you are; your visions are who you are. When you know who you are, then you will know where you can be useful most.

The lake of my mind, unbroken by oars, heaves placidly and soon sinks into an oily somnolence.’ That will be useful.

I wake up to write stuff down all night. Useful things like this: To more efficiently make love nocturnally, I must combine the best characteristics of bats, bears, and my Uncle Norman who disappeared in...

It’s very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.

Flash is one of those very useful, very closed, very proprietary non-weblike things that has great tools and serves a need very well. But in the long run, we see video as part of the...

How many seconds does it take to win second? As many as it takes to win first—if you don’t use them properly.

You’re about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.

It’s more useful to have someone fear you than respect you.