That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away. — Hippocrates
Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. — Peace Pilgrim
Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness. — Marshall McLuhan
If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production. — Pete Seeger
There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré. — Georges Clemenceau
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there. — Gordon Bell
The usefulness of the cup is its emptiness. — Bruce Lee
One of the few things that can't be recycled is wasted time. — Sean Covey
Knowledge that is not put into practice is like food that is not digested. — Sathya Sai Baba
When nothing is done, nothing is left undone. — Lao Tzu
Short Unused Quotes
I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love. — Nathaniel Parker Willis
Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest wastes are unused talents and untried ideas. — Unknown
Pollution is an unused resource. — Bill Mollison
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. — Stephen Covey
A people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove. — George Washington
Briefcases, like CEOs, should never look new and unused. — Lois Wyse
Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities. — Saul Bellow
Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all. — Mark Twain
To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all. — Lyndon B. Johnson
Unused Potential Quotes
Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused funds from your bank account, for example, and transferred them to some potentially useful purpose like helping a family buy a home or send a kid to college. — Noam Chomsky
There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it. — Ice Cube
It is by extending oneself, by exercising some capacity previously unused that you come to a better knowledge of your own potential. — Harold Bloom
If you are involved totally, sex disappears because sex is a safety valve. When you have energy unused, then sex becomes a haunting thing around you. When total energy is used, sex disappears. And that is the state of brahmacharya, of virya, of all your potential energy flowering. — Osho
Good Unused Quotes
What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unused. — William Shakespeare
I've heard Braggadocio about excess baggage charges, multiple unused hotel rooms, and rental cars held unused for long periods of time, which makes me lose respect for certain photographers. Sometimes it's worth it to spend money on a good idea, but wasting money makes me ill. — Peter Menzel
The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation. — Emily Post
All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go unused, and in every thing, event, and person we would welcome manure, rain, or sunshine. — Friedrich Nietzsche
All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly. — Hippocrates
One of the most wicked destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power ... If someone has a creative gift and out of laziness, or for some other reason, doesn't use it, the psychic energy turns to sheer poison. That's why we often diagnose neuroses and psychotic diseases as not-lived higher possibilities. — Marie-Louise von Franz
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man. — Thomas Mann
I call the phenomenon of transforming unusable raw materials into usable resources resource mastery. Just as designated experts ignored fossil fuels’ massive climate mastery benefits when predicting climate catastrophe, they also ignored fossil fuels’ massive resource mastery benefits when they predicted resource catastrophe. — Alex Epstein
A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable. — Leslie Lamport
All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused. — Martha Graham
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure. — Stephen Covey
When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are lit only from one side unused and empty. — Christopher Alexander
To expect ... the same service from raw and undisciplined recruits, as from veteran soldiers, is to expect what never did and perhaps never will happen. Men, who are familiarized to danger, meet it without shrinking; whereas troops unused to service often apprehend danger where no danger is. — George Washington
Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut -- a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul. — Anzia Yezierska
There is something inexpressibly beautiful in the unused day, something beautiful in the fact that it is still untouched, unsoiled; and town and country share alike in this loveliness. — Margaret E. Barber
I think size is the most unused quotient in the sculptor's repertoire because it requires lots of commitment and time. To me it's the best tool. With size you get space and atmosphere: atmosphere becomes volume. You stand in the shape, in the zone. — Michael Heizer
Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused - hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms moving further and further away from our world, or that magical beings require our faith, our belief in their existence, to survive. That is a lie. All they require is our recognition. — Charles de Lint
Unicorn. Old French, unicorne. Latin, unicornis. Literally, one-horned: unus, one and cornu,a horn. A fabulous animal resembling a horse with one horn. — Peter S. Beagle
Obsolescence is a factor which says that the new thing I bring you is worth more than the unused value of the old thing. — Charles Kettering
Computers shouldn't be unusable. You don't need to know how to work a telephone switch to make a phone call, or how to use the Hoover Dam to take a shower, or how to work a nuclear-power plant to turn on the lights. — Scott Mcnealy
No longer will our penises remain flaccid and unused! From now on, we fight will for every man out there who isn't getting laid when he should be! This is our day! This is our time! And, by God, we're not gonna let history condemn us to celibacy! We will make a stand! We will succeed! We will get laid! — Kevin Myers
One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report.
[Lat., Unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem,
Non ponebat enim rumores ante salutem.] — Quintus Ennius
Let me cradle myself back Into the darkness Of the half shapes ... Of the cauled beginnings ... Let me stir the attar of unused air, Elusive ... ironically fragrant As a dead queen's kerchief ... Let me blow the dust from off you ... Resurrect your breath Lying limp as a fan In a dead queen's hand. — Lola Ridge
People often wonder just what trainers give the sheepdog in exchange for its boundless willingness. Food treats and praise sit on the trainer's shelf, untouched, unused. The sheepdog is shown its possibilities, he learns what life is like for a good dog and is invited to walk in a rational world whose farthest boundaries are defined by grace. — Donald McCaig
Money is only unused power. The real purpose of wealth, after food, clothing and shelter, is philanthropy. — Leon Levy
My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there are unused resources ... people having skills which are not being used. — Milton Friedman
The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used does not need to be remembered; practice forms habits and habits make memory unnecessary. The rule is nothing; the application is everything. — Henry Hazlitt
No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power. — James Cash Penney
Yes, he is not unused to playing in midfield, but at the same time he's not used to playing there either. — Emlyn Hughes
...it’s not just the person who fills a house, it’s their I’ll be back later!s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats, their belongingnesses. — David Mitchell
If the Poe Lock were ever rendered unusable due to a terrorist attack or natural disaster, it would halt commerce on the Great Lakes and these industries would be helpless. — Bart Stupak
I’m not very creative” doesn’t work. There’s no such thing as creative people and non-creative people. There are only people who use their creativity and people who don’t. Unused creativity doesn’t just disappear. It lives within us until it’s expressed, neglected to death, or suffocated by resentment and fear. — Brené Brown
An unused life is an early death. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If we are not using our brains' capacity for challenge it feels to me as though it atrophies like an unused muscle. — Philippa Perry
Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition. — Henry Ward Beecher
Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put upon him, a great field of unused material ready for his art. — Langston Hughes
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