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Denial is a useful defense mechanism until it's not. — Rosalind Kaplan

No, I am not powerful nor do I wish to be, for it is God using my weakness that makes me potent and I would never wish to surrender that. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are - to most people - not important at all. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You're not useful to me until you've made three momentous mistakes. — Dan Wieden

The Price of Security is Insecurity--Until It's Not Useful — Dan Harris

Power is not to resist the criticisms; power is to seek for something useful to use amongst the criticisms! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're throwing away. — Will Shetterly

The asanas are useful maps to explore yourself, but they are not the territory. — Donna Farhi

ANXIETY i will transform you into something useful and productive. I will not bow down to you. ~THE END — Jaeda DeWalt

People will urge you to go to school. They'll tell you an American education is useful. That is not true. That is 80's. You are here to hustle. — E. C. Osondu

I began to suspect that this doctrine, tho' it might be true, was not very useful. — Benjamin Franklin

He was leaving my stepmother for a sailboat. Not that I blamed him. A sailboat would at least be useful. — Darynda Jones

Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information. — Scott Adams

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Not only does the summer bring warm weather and tons of summer activities, but it also yields a fresh crop of increasingly useful avocados! — Marcus Samuelsson

The useful type of successful teacher is one whose main interest is the children, not the subject. — Walter Raleigh

Consider the useful agreeable, even though if were not. — Publilius Syrus

Tradition is a fine thing. Nothing comes out of the blue, except perhaps thunderbolts and they are not really very useful things. — Stacy Aumonier

Having a decent share of the national wealth for the middle class is not bad for growth. It is actually useful both for equity and efficiency reasons. — Thomas Piketty

Do not become more useful than God. — Matshona Dhliwayo

A belief is not true because it is useful — Henri Frederic Amiel

Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful ... but also when it comes to happiness. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

When I buy Windows 98, I'm not only buying something useful, I'm giving money to Bill Gates, which is a really good thing. — Penn Jillette

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it — Oscar Wilde

An inspired and infallible passage whose meaning you cannot be sure of is not much more useful than an uninspired, fallible passage. — Robert M. Price

While one is singing one does not think about whether of not the singing is useful. One simply sings. — Hermann Hesse

The best ideas and the most useful and ground-breaking are often, though not always, in one sense, very simple ideas. — Joe Grant

You succeed because you've chosen to be confident. It's not really useful to require yourself to be successful before you're able to become confident. — Seth Godin

A belief is not true simply because it is useful. — Henri Frederic Amiel

It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs. — John Brunner

Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared. — Dan Millman

Technology and tools are useful and powerful when they are your servant and not your master. — Stephen Covey

While perspective is a handy device to construct imagined spaces, it is not useful, and possibly detrimental, to sketching existing environments. — Paul Laseau

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society. — Man Ray

After all, a right that can't be exercised is not very useful to anyone. — Jessica Valenti

The romantic fairy tales we grew up with -- where marriage is the happy ending rather than the opening scene -- are not useful for grown-ups. — Ada Calhoun

Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either. — Kurt Vonnegut

I feel that I've had a happy life, not a very useful life, but a happy one. — Ryan Shawcross

Anyone who does anything useful will not go unpaid. — Henry Ford

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when not well. — Samuel Johnson

The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while. — Yann Martel

We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Chubs is useful," I reminded her. "Please try not to kill him."
"Yeah, yeah we'll see. All I'm saying is, accidents happen. — Alexandra Bracken

Data is not useful until it becomes information. — Seth Godin

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves. — Douglas Hurd

It is really this "mathematical mindset" that seems to be most useful to those who are not trained to think as mathematicians. — Edward Frenkel

It is not so much whether a theorem is useful that matters, but how elegant it is. — Stanislaw Ulam

I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra. — Nicolas Malebranche

If everything turned out just the way everybody expected, life would be exceedingly dull, and learning in any useful sense simply would not occur. — Harrison Owen

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord. — Nikolai Gogol

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. — Jerry Saltz

The blogosphere might be very useful as propaganda or as therapy. But it's not journalism. — Pete Hamill

I am not an artist. My thread pictures look like rainbow vomit. I'm not useful. — K.F. Breene

Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful. — Rob Pike

There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose. — Ovid

Learning Is Not Useful, Without Taking Action On It — Shyam Chathuranga

For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God. — John Calvin

Useless people are not improved by giving them the impression they are useful. — John Barnes

In the spiritual realm nothing is indifferent: what is not useful is harmful. — Leo Tolstoy

I'd want to fly. I know it's not very useful, but ... it's flying. — Rainbow Rowell

Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful. — George E.P. Box

Faith will not be restored in the West because people believe it to be useful. It will return only when they find that it is true. — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth

A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly. — Henry David Thoreau

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it. — Edward De Bono

Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off. — Nicky Gumbel

The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives. — Henry A. Kissinger

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

This is not an easy problem. For every useful whistle-blower there are probably many unbalanced idiots, or malicious troublemakers. — Chester Porter

Do not hope; instead, observe were words that Flora, as a cynic, had found useful in the extreme. She repeated them to herself a lot. — Kate DiCamillo

Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time. — Thomas Jefferson

Love is not reasonable. If we could assign it to the reasonable world, it would not be useful. — Frederick Lenz

In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark. — Nicholson Baker

...It's [kindle] a useful addition to our library, not a replacement for it. — Andy Miller

But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Advice is not really very useful. People gave me terrible advice, and I guess I was just smart enough to ignore some of it. — Travis Morrison

I don't give interviews on Chanel because it is not useful for the Chanel business. — Alain Wertheimer

Evolution did not design us to believe only true facts, nor to buy only useful products, nor to say only meaningful sentences — Piero Scaruffi

All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility. — Zhuangzi

The world forgets about people who are not useful. — Alain Ducasse

I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing yourself. — Elizabeth Fry

Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own. — Bruce Lee

The ego being shattered is not what frightens me - that can be useful for writing - but the ego being inflated is sort of like it dying of gout. — Garth Risk Hallberg

It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us. — Samuel Johnson

Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful. — George Eliot

History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men. — H.L. Mencken

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. — Bertrand Russell

In the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers. — Madame De Stael

Data by itself is not useful. Data is only useful if it can be applied for public benefit. — Todd Park

not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.' 'But — Arthur Conan Doyle

People in my situation get to read about themselves whether they want to or not. It's generally wrong. Or oversimplified - which is sometimes useful. — Gore Vidal

Tape reading is a lost art that today is not very useful. — Steven A. Cohen

It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful. — Samuel Johnson

I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us. — Charles Spurgeon

I like it when someone tells me 'I don't agree.' This is a true collaborator. When they say 'Oh, how great, how great, how great,' that's not useful. — Pope Francis

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. — Samuel Johnson

The best graphics are about the useful and important, about life and death, about the universe. Beautiful graphics do not traffic with the trivial. — Edward Tufte

You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful. — Epictetus

The story tells us that living the life of an artist is not as useful as living our lives as a work of art. — Martin Prechtel