I think that superhero comics in particular are really useful for talking about big emotions and feelings, and personifying and concretizing symbols.
In a strange way the spiritual life isn't "useful" or "successful. " But it is meant to be fruitful. And fruitfulness comes out of brokenness.
I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing.
It's obviously tricky to convert cellulose to a useful biofuel. I think actually the most efficient way to use cellulose is to burn it in a co-generation power plant. That will yield the most energy and that is something you can do today.
I began making pictures because I wanted to record what supports hope: the untranslatable mystery and beauty of the world. Along the way, however, the camera also caught evidence against hope, and I eventually concluded that this, too, belonged in pictures if they were to be truthful and thus useful.
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.
If all men and women were kept at some useful employment there would be less sorrow and wickedness in the world.
If you aren't rich you should always look useful.
The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left.
Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it. Not learning other people's ideas, or memorizing a body of information, however much those may sometimes be useful. Developing your own ideas. In short, thinking for yourself.
He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
Lose no time; be always employed in something useful.
Aromatherapy is extremely useful. If you want to go to sleep at night, and you have an aroma that calms your mind, it will help you sleep.
Shareholder value theory - the destructive idea that companies should be run solely for the benefit of shareholders - has led to financialized businesses that do not invest in the areas that will lead to future growth or the invention of useful new products.
In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work.
If a book has no index or good table of contents, it is very useful to make one as you are reading it.
The reflex of fear was soon replaced with another, more useful emotion. Rage.
Fairy dust is very useful. I use it to turn oatmeal into cake.