Used Quotes

Conversation creates a new kind of network within organizations. Current networks are used for competitive advantage, but conversation is focused on encouraging people to realize their potential.

Ideas are useless unless used.

It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.

I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.

An American credit card is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.

[Donald Trump] hedging his bets because he's used to buying politicians.

WE ARE ALL TRAPPED in our own way of thinking, trapped in our own way of relating to people. We get so used to seeing the world our way that we come to think that the world is the way we see it.

I'm used to writing short stories, which is primarily what I like to read.

Don't know whether I said the right things but I tried to! I have got to get used to it but I have said this before, what appears in cold print isn't necessarily what you actually say.

The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs'.

I used to think that diamonds were a girl's best friend, but now I realize it's carbohydrates. Seriously, I have a French baguette at home sporting a matching friendship bracelet.

Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.

I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.

In America the word revolutionary is used to sell pantyhose.

I used to collect vintage clothing - exquisite lace dresses, embroidered shawls and ornate jewelry - but that's just not me any more.

I used humor as survival, as a weapon and as comfort.

My daughter used to sit and watch Murder, She Wrote. I tried to watch with her, but I fell asleep.

I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.

I just can't get used to life.

My father used to say that you could only access culture before cinema by learning to read and write, but that once cinema was invented, knowledge was available to anybody.

Anybody can use science and technology without fundamentally altering his own frame of mind which governs how they are used.

Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name.

I used to play football for Real Madrid, and to be on stage for two hours, I can tell you it takes the same amount of strength.

The tools used by the surgeons must be adapted to the task and where the human brain is concerned they cannot be too refined.

The greatest remedy that is used against a plan of the enemy is to do voluntarily what he plans that you do by force.

I guess I've always lived the glamorous life of a star. It 's nothing new - I used to spend down to the last dime.

What I used to do with a passion, foolishly and vainly imagining I would change the world for the better, I no longer tolerate in myself or anyone else. But draw, always draw - and WRITE.

Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm not good at multi-tasking.

I used to crack A joke when Sourav Ganguly is upset and make him happy , i usually speak in bengali which would make him laugh

I'm pretty active anyway, but I'm also competitive.I used my Fitbit as an example of the innate power of data to turn information into insights and actions.

I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.

The noble person uses things; the lesser man is used by things.

Apparently, as a kid, I used to eat spiders. Maybe there's some Freudian significance behind that.

Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will be difficult at first, but you'll gradually get used to it.

I want to say categorically that all the vouchers that I have myself used were paid for, and I know nothing about any others that may have been abused.

When there was a disaster, it used to be that people went to church and all held hands. Now the minute anything happens they run to CNN.

Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.

I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd never call a person, unless we meant it cruelly

Usually music is used to hide a film's problems.

I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.

When I used to gamble, I looked for players with head covers on their irons. Those guys I could beat.

In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs.

The world went mad and used us as an excuse.

I think movies are getting dumber, actually. Where it used to be 50/50, now it's 3% good, 97% stupid.

Baseball should adopt replay, plain and simple. If we can see it at home or on hand-held PDAs, the technology should be used in games.

This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.

I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority.

The notion that the press was used in the [first Iraq] war is incorrect. The press wanted to be used. It saw itself as part of the war effort.

I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.

One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying.