A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Theodore Roosevelt
45 quotes about usefulness follow in order of popularity. Be sure to bookmark and share your favorites!
Men define intelligence, men define usefulness, men tell us what is beautiful, men even tell us what is womanly.
Sally Kempton
Human life consists in mutual service. No grief, pain, misfortune, or ''broken heart,'' is excuse for cutting off one's life while any power of service remains. But when all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.
Charlotte P. Gillman
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
Josh Billings
Software Assurance has outlived its usefulness. The farther we get into this [new upgrade cycle], the less attractive SA has begun to look.
Paul Degroot
This is the time for Connecticut to wake up and realize that zone pricing has outlived its (usefulness).
Sen Judith Freedman
The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness.
Old Chinese Proverb
To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.
William Ellery Channing
Why, sir, there is every possibility that you will soon be able to tax it! (to PM William Gladstone, on the usefulness of electricity).
Michael Faraday
Detroit needs to increase its competitiveness by focusing on things it does well, like Ford's F-Series pickup trucks, and they need to discard brands that have outlived their usefulness, like Buick, Mercury and perhaps Pontiac.
Daniel Gorrell
My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Josh Billings
This is an era of woman's work in many spheres of activity -- of independent thought and individual achievement in the arts and sciences and learned professions, as well as the humbler, but not more self-sacrificing fields of usefulness. But every woman pursues the eternal quest for love, for sympathy, for understanding, for happiness, and in her heart is the great, holy yearning for motherhood.
Billie Burke
I've got a feeling that the usefulness of the bird surveillance program may have passed. We always relied on mosquito data anyway.
Theodore Andreadis
The biggest usefulness the U.N. had for the U.S. was the Korean War.
Joel Diemond
I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.
Lane Kirkland
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 W. Eliot
SIA found the guidance useful. Members firms have taken it under advisement and are now working at both meeting the regulatory requirements and maximizing the guidance's usefulness for investors.
Travis Larson
One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
Ann Radcliffe
The press briefing today I believe has lost much of its usefulness.
Marlin Fitzwater
Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public?
Sara Jeannette Duncan
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a 'common goal' of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.
Lewis Thomas
It was better for the budget at the time to go public safety. It has saved some money, but through the years I guess it wore out its usefulness. We're having fewer fires so we're needing less manpower.
Capt. Randy Hardy
Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved.
William A. Foster
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.
Charles Simmons
The community can look at the post and determine the usefulness. The stronger messages of more value can rise to the top.
Peggy White
HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in the West Indies and is preferred by certain old-fashioned sea-captains. It is also used in the construction of the upper decks of steamboats, but generally speaking, the hurricane's usefulness has outlasted it.
Ambrose Bierce
However, the effect is moderate, and further studies in younger people and over longer periods of time are needed in order to demonstrate clinical usefulness.
Dr. Stevo Julius
What started to erode some of the popularity was the amount of time it took to prepare and the usefulness: What are we accomplishing educationally for the amount of time that's going into that program?
Kyle Clark
The problem with Super Bowl advertising now is that companies feel they have to do it because it's their only chance to reach a mass audience. Prices continue to rise even though the usefulness of the ads have diminished.
James Mcquivey
Because of the limited usefulness I see in my continued service, I have reached the conclusion that it is best to cease my activity in the public arena.
Menachem Begin
When I read of the vain discussions of the present day about the Virgin Birth and other old dogmas which belong to the past, I feel how great the need is still of a real interest in the religion which builds up character, teaches brotherly love, and opens up to the seeker such a world of usefulness and the beauty of holiness.
Olympia Brown
All constituents benefit from high-quality standards; however, greater consistency and reduced complexity fosters greater transparency and usefulness for investors. This standard embodies those characteristics.
Pat Donahue
OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an _old man_. Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an _old_ book. 'Old books? The devil take them!' Goby said. 'Fresh every day must be my books and bread.' Nature herself approves the Goby rule And gives us every moment a fresh fool. .
Ambrose Bierce
Husni said, ''those magazines start losing their usefulness.
Samir Husni
A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.
Kjell Magne Bondevik
I'm kind of skeptical about its ultimate usefulness.
Joe Wilcox
Reducing out-of-stocks is an example of the portal's usefulness with RFID.
Christine Wan
[At least one analyst was unimpressed.] Software Assurance has outlived its usefulness, ... The farther we get into this [new upgrade cycle], the less attractive SA has begun to look.
Paul Degroot
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.
Alfred Korzybski
This is a significant step forward for consumer IM. When you look at the usefulness of IM, it's important to have that interoperability. Right now you have all these little islands of IM. Interoperability has been sorely lacking, and that tends to limit the usefulness of IM.
Michael Osterman
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
Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by obscure, unseen investigators who, in a lifetime of intensive study, may never see any practical use for their findings but who go on seeking answers to the unknown without thought of financial or practical gain.
Eugenie Clark
Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality . . . creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.
Eric Temple Bell
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.
Ellen Terry
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