To Be Of Use Quotes

If you found yourself in a situation where you could either save a drowning man, or you could take a Pulitzer prize winning photograph of him drowning, what shutter speed and setting would you use?

The use of the right word, the exact word, is the difference between a pencil with a sharp point and a thick crayon.

I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a knowledge of the opponent's good and bad qualities is of the greatest importance.

Magic is the practice of causing change through the use of powers as yet not defined or accepted by science.

If you want to change something, you have to use new ways.

My favorite part of my body is my brain. I think no matter what my body looks like I wont be satisfied unless I know how to use it.

Anger is just anger. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters. It's like anything else. You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.

Cupid in these latter times has probably laid aside his bow and arrow, and uses fire-arms -- a pistol -- perhaps a revolver.

My friends, your people have both intellect and heart; you use these to consider in what way you can do the best to live.

Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.

Can the sarcasm,' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.

Be subtle! be subtle! and use your spies for every kind of business.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them

Always observe your opponent carefully. You need to use the first seconds of every encounter to evaluate the length of their blade, the length of their arms, etc.

Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language.

When I was nine years old I use to copy ( not trace ) the covers of the Donald Duck comics. Many years later I became a close friend of Jack Hannah, the director of the Donald Duck film shorts.

Society is best served when the means of production are in the possession of those who know how to use them best.

[God] is able to take your life, with all of the heartache, all of the pain, all of the regret, all of the missed opportunities, and use you for His glory.

I used to think I could shape the circumstances around me, but now I know Jesus uses circumstances to shape me.

When you use an armament, you use it to defend the civilians. You kill terrorists in order to defend civilians. That's the natural role of any army in the world.

The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

No matter what lens you use, no matter what speed the film, no matter how you develop it, no matter how you print it, you cannot say more than you can see.

Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds and the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?

I have just as much woman in me as I have man. It's just a matter of channeling the energy into which way you use it.

Always return your weapon along the same path it traveled out on. In this way you can use it again without having to relocate and rethink our attitude.

Toddlers are active explorers. They eagerly try new things and use materials in different ways. Toddlers want to be independent and they have a strong sense of ownership.

Be very careful about your care. Don't use it for sexual high jinks. It can get ugly - trust me. Also be careful when flushing.

There are days when everyone in the world looks like a Diane Arbus to me. She's a genius but her work is completely different to mine. But on those days I don't use my camera.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

Satan never gets very far from the Bible. And every one of the cults, even Satanism, uses the Bible.

If you don't dream big, there's no use of dreaming. If you don't have faith, there's nothing worth believing.

What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while, So pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, And smile, smile, smile.

Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all

I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.

From a pound of iron, that costs little, a thousand watch-springs can be made, whose value becomes prodigious. The pound you have received from the Lord,--use it faithfully.

A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.

Use fear as an engine, not as a brake.

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form.

When you find your spiritual gift, God will give you an opportunity to use it.

The use of methamphetamines has become pervasive in our country, and especially in rural areas.

Science walks forward on two feet, namely theory and experiment. Sometimes it is one foot which is put forward first, sometimes the other, but continuous progress is only made by the use of both.

The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers are smarter than the average guy but use their intelligence deviously. Well, they're wrong. Usually they are not smarter.

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."

Use the light that is in you to recover your natural clearness of sight

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.

The King is a fighting piece. Use it!

Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its vain Competitive excuse.

Use absolutely no pressure. Just like an angel's wing.