Usefulness Quotes

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.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

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

We must not forget that 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. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.

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

The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed in the production of the milk supply render its abundant production important.

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.

A person`s worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

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.

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world

Reducing out-of-stocks is an example of the portal`s usefulness with RFID.

The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.