Phillips Brooks Quotes

You gotta use everything you possibly can!

To use is necessary. And if you can't be used, then you're useless.

Everything that I make I use.

I loved my computer; it's a tool. A tool increases your mechanical advantages. It allows you to use your strengths and talents to greater advantage, and that's what tools do, and that's what my computer does for me. It's not my toy, it's my tool.

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.

Do nothing which is of no use.

What I'm trying to do is maximize every day.

I like modern efficiencies and functionality.

Usefulness depends on tractability.

You cannot grow more hours in the day. However, you can make better use of those hours.

Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.

Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.

Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.” -R. Daneel Olivaw

Use your time, energy and talents to do the best you can right now. Spend no time wishing it were better

It is much easier to put existing resources to better use, than to develop resources where they do not exist.

Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.

Never allow the thought, 'I am of no use where I am.' You are certainly of no use where you're not.

That power is in vain which is never in use.

The best thing a person can be is of-some-use.

It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.

Everything may serve a lower as well as a higher use.

Thirty spokes meet in the hub. Where a wheel isn't is where it's useful. Hollowed out, clay makes a pot. Where the pots not is where it's useful. Cut doors and windows to make a room. Where the room isn't, there's room for you. So the profit in what is, is in the use of what isn't.

I've only got a fraction of the energy I once had, but I think I probably use it better.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.