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Useful Quotes
On what actually earns the label useful.
These lines test the word against real situations, from a diary that means little to its own writer but becomes invaluable to later readers, to lessons learned simply by talking with customers and coworkers. Usefulness here is often only visible in hindsight. Related sayings sit under Function.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Averages are useful because many traits, behaviors, and outcomes are distributed in a bell-shaped curve, with most results clustered around the middle and a much smaller group of outliers at the high and low ends.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Archaeologists gave the military the idea to use aerial photographs for spying and field survey. We are fortunate that the spatial and spectral resolutions of the imagery available to us are so broadly useful for archaeology.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are wasting our water mostly by putting waste into it. One cubic meter of wastewater can pollute ten cubic meters of water. Discharging wastewater into oceans turns freshwater into the less useful salty stuff, and desalination is expensive.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps the most versatile and useful plug-in in the collection is Mass Copy. It is certainly the one I use the most. Due to limitations in how plugins can interact with Finale, Mass Copy has a somewhat unusual user interface.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part.
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- Nov 07, 2020
QR codes have always been a kind of half-measure, a useful but inelegant transitional technology; the ultimate goal is augmented reality.
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- Nov 07, 2020