1. Famous Quotes:

1. Everyone knows the use of useful things, but no one knows the use of useless things. Useless things are of great use. ——Zhuangzi

2. No matter what kind of knowledge you master, it is useful to intelligence. It will throw away useless things and retain good things. ——Leonardo Da Vinci

3. Being useful means a kind of slavery. Uselessness means existing only for yourself, and uselessness is the real freedom. Because it is useless, you can use it for yourself. ——Zhang Fangyu

4. The interesting things in the world, including poetry, wine, philosophy, and love, are often useless. Reciting useless poems, getting drunk on useless wine, reading useless books, and loving useless things, he finally became a useless person, but he lived a meaningful life because of it. ——Zhou Guoping's "Leisure"

5. Read some useless books, do some useless things, and spend some useless time, all in order to retain an opportunity to transcend yourself in life outside of everything known. Some of the most remarkable changes in the world come from moments like this. ——Liang Wendao's "Pleasure of Oneself"

2. Typical examples:

1. Haizi is useless. He is only obsessed with the beauty of "facing the sea in spring and blooming flowers", so he is pure, Contains no impurities; Nalan is useless, he only pursues the tender love when he first meets his beautiful woman, but every family is singing the drinking song, how many people know Nalan's thoughts? Li Yu is useless, has strange eyes, and is the late ruler of the Southern Tang Dynasty. His country is in decline, but his poems are as poignant as flowing water. Useless and useful, these useless people present to us are actually useful.

2. Because the oak tree was useless, it became a sacred tree and lived happily for centuries; because of its usefulness, the catalpa tree became a ghost under the sword and suffered ruthless cruelty year after year. felling. This is the misfortune brought by usefulness and the luck brought by uselessness.

3. The knowledge in primary and secondary school textbooks is useless, but it helps us expand our thinking and broaden our horizons; mathematics is useless, but it stimulates the potential of the brain and makes people flexible; Confucius is useless because he does not know the five grains, but he He is a Confucian master whom we admire; Zhuangzi is useless and inactive, but he is also happy and carefree. His insights are still elusive. From this point of view, a useless person is of great use. Useless things are caused by thick accumulation and thin hair.

4. Van Gogh devoted his life's enthusiasm to art, but only sold one painting; Balzac worked day and night to create, but in the end he was poor; Michelangelo was exhausted in sculpture and painting A lifetime of suffering only resulted in numerous illnesses... However, it was these "useless" works of theirs that opened one glorious door after another in art, shining brightly in the history of human civilization.

5. Qian Xuesen has been engaged in scientific research all his life, but he is still grateful for the Chinese education he received since childhood. This "useless thing" has achieved his national integrity and perseverance; Einstein dedicated his life to theoretical physics. But he still benefited from the violin he learned when he was a child. This "useless thing" made him extraordinary creative. Picasso devoted his life to art, but he was still grateful for the physics knowledge he learned. This "useless thing" made him bizarre and exquisite. The art of painting. No matter you are busy studying or working intensely, you should take some time to listen to lectures by famous experts, learn practical techniques, develop a hobby, participate in some practical activities, and then skillfully apply it to yourself In your career, you can turn "useless" into "useful" and make yourself more fulfilled.

6. When Jobs was young, he was very obsessed with calligraphy. He went to Reed University specifically because Reed had the best calligraphy education in the United States. "I was obsessed with calligraphy at that time, just because I liked it. I didn't think about its practical application in life. But I didn't expect that when I entered the IT industry ten years later, I would actually use what I learned in the calligraphy course. Ten years later. Later, when I designed the first Apple computer, I applied "calligraphy" to font design. "So the world's first computer that "can realize font typesetting" was born, and many people fell in love with Apple.

7. A deer came to the river to drink water. It looked down and saw its own reflection in the river. The deer was very satisfied with its two big, thick horns with beautiful branches, but it looked at its four legs and said, "It's just that my legs are not very beautiful, they are thin and weak." Suddenly, a lion didn't know it. It sprang out from somewhere and rushed towards the deer.

The deer ran towards a large open space, leaving the lion far behind. But as soon as it turned into the forest, its head was caught on a branch, and the lion caught up with it. Before dying, the deer said: "I am a complete fool! What I thought was ugly and weak saved me; and what I was proud of cost me my life."

8. When Edison was developing incandescent light bulbs, he conducted 1,200 experiments in search of a high-efficiency filament material, but failed to obtain satisfactory results. An ignorant person joked: "You have failed one thousand two hundred times." "No," Edison retorted, "I have proved that one thousand two hundred materials are not suitable for making filaments. This is a big problem." Achievements." The great scientists continued their experimental explorations with "useless" materials as irrefutable counter-evidence.

9. Whether it is useful or useless, we all look at it from different angles. Only by analyzing things from multiple angles and levels can we come up with an objective and fair evaluation. "The distance is different, the distance is different, the height is different." If you look at mountains like this, how about people? Villains are bad and everyone hates them, but Lao Tzu said, "Those who are not good to others are the assets of good people." Bad people are a reference for good people. If you use bad people as a mirror, you can make fewer mistakes and take fewer detours. So, what is useful and what is useless? There is no certain standard for this. If you can use it, useless things will become useful. If you can't use them, useful things will become useless. This is true for things and people.