No Use Quotes

Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life's ills.

Those who have the most cunning affect all their lives to condemn cunning; that they may make use of it on some great occasion, and to some great end.

Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.

The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them.

Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.

Crosses are of no use to us but inasmuch as we yield ourselves up to them and forget ourselves.

Whatever power I have is nothing if I can't use it to keep safe those who mean the most to me.

I still get invitations from all over Europe to speak at dinners, and it's an honour that promoters and charities can use me to create income.

Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously.

Ideas exist in the marketplace; they are thrown out for everyone to use.

Everyone has a desire, if not a need, to use their individual signatures. Whenever people meet to talk about a project, even stuffy old businessmen, they say they want to create something new.

Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries.

Believe in better is one of the most powerful words you can use in the business community.

It applies even more to politicians because they are living, breathing embodiments of the language that they use. And it's why how you start the conversation, and how you end it, matters so much.

I have a concordance to the Talmud at home, which I have to use.

I enjoy the kind of characters that allow you to write the dark stuff. I love Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky, and when I'm writing for Dracula or Jekyll & Hyde, I get a chance to use that vocabulary.

Books Are Good For Lots Of Uses, Not For Dropping In The Toilet.

She use to knock me out until her face broke out.

Sexual gratification can only be achieved through the use of machines.

The success of our whole national program depends, of course, on the cooperation of the public--on its intelligent support and its use of a reliable system.

A technique I developed quite naturally to help me make smooth transitions was to use a word or phrase from the next routine in the preceding one.

You must study their deliveries, their use of their bodies, their timing, and their use of audio and vocal effects.

Father sighed. “Please spare me these arguments of yours.” “Whose arguments should I use?

I like to make use of what I know

Like tired dogs they stand there, because they use up all their strength in remaining upright in one's memory.

He always had a chip on his shoulder that he was ready to use to kindle an argument.

If you mean do I use the guitar when I'm sitting at home writing stuff, then basically no, never. All I would ever write would be stuff that my fingers easily fall into.

I like when I use music in film that it isn't just gilding the lily and it isn't telling you how to feel. It's giving you something, some other information that you cannot otherwise get in the scene.

I use beauty as a way of helping people to receive difficult or upsetting ideas. The topical issues are merely a vehicle for making one aware of one's own perceptual shift-which is the real thrill.

Never use 'submit' as a verb for sending work to magazine or book publishers; say 'offer,' and never, ever submit. Keep your knees unbent. Be brave.

If you are psychic, you can see into the minds of others. You can use that opening to aid somebody. Sometimes someone's trying to tell you something and they don't even know what it is.

Does power bring happiness? Does it bring refinement? Does it bring humor? Does it bring a good-heartedness, or is it just cold? Power is never cold. Cold people may use power in cold ways.

Power doesn't create happiness or unhappiness. It depends how you use it. Wisdom is the guiding force that directs happiness.

If you have only been around people who use power in cruel and petty ways, then when you hear the very word, you may have a negative reaction.

A master of will can teach you how to use will. You watch them and observe them use that will, guided by wisdom, with a happy balance.

Zen is a study. It's a discipline. It involves the active use of will to make things happen or not happen. These are the secrets of power.

In Zen we study the will. We learn how to cultivate it, to accumulate will. We use it to direct our actions, and we don't overuse it or abuse it - that's a waste.

The study of Zen is a retraining. It is a series of new ways, not just one way, to learn to use your mind more efficiently.

In dream yoga we use the etheric double and go beyond the confines of the physical, it's very ecstatic.

A time comes when you don't have to use meditation techniques anymore. You just sit down and you are nonexistence itself.

With the use of psychedelics, it was all based around the Tibetan Book of the Dead, using them to experience enlightenment.

If they're not sincere, then naturally I'll turn them down. But if what they want is to gain power and use it for a higher good, I'll help them. Then they merit some special consideration.

Tantra is not for a hedonist at all. It won't work. If you're heavily attracted to sensual experiences, tantra will definitely not be of any use to you.

All the sutras in the world are useless. All the lectures of all the teachers don't really mean anything. They are only words. They point in a direction, that is their only use.

Zen is not a religion. There is no room for a cult. There is no dependence on a teacher. There is only learning how to use your own mind and making it strong.

The teacher has nothing to do with people who use their mental powers to block the enlightenment of others. These people lack control. What can you teach someone who lacks control?

It's considered very, very bad karma, if I can cut to the chase, to take power from a teacher and not use it for something very positive.

I have a great deal of spiritual dignity. It's on loan from eternity, and you do too, and we have to use it in our relationship with each other.

I think one can advance faster outside a monastery if you use the experiences of daily life to advance yourself.

In the West people spend most of their time and energy working. The problem is you are so tired from work that you don't have much energy to meditate - unless you use work in a tantric way.