Zitat des Tages über Nützlichkeit / Usefulness:
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.
It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.
If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.
The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.
A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.
Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.
It was of limited usefulness to head great rallies. The government did not listen, and, soon enough, the tear gas and the muzzles of the guns were turned against the people. The justice of our cries went unrecognized.
The reason why I take my life is because I want to go to my wife and boy. My usefulness in this world is at an end. I can not be satisfied in any business and can not be without their companionship.
The press briefing today I believe has lost much of its usefulness.
Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter.
The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it.
As you have learnt something of time, value and make a proper use of it. Once past, it knows no return; how necessary, then, that you spend it in improving your mind and fitting it for future happiness and usefulness.
What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.
In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.
Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.
Besides, my usefulness here is destroyed because all of my friends think me a man of unsound mind.
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.
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.
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
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.
To despise no opportunity of usefulness is a leading rule with those who are wise to win souls.
It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.
The vulgar crowd values friends according to their usefulness.
I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit can dream o' nights, yet on the stage it is the first thing to aim at.
My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.
Ways have to be found to maintain university research untramelled by requirements of forecasting application or usefulness.
Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.
A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.