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• Religions are the training wheels of self enlightenment. They can be helpful in the beginning but at some point they must be let go.

  Reggie Watts

  Letting Go, Self, Training

  Twitter post from Nov 17, 2014

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• Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.

  Irene Rosenfeld

  Discipline, Diversity, Exposure

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• Dreamers who regard dreams as important and even vital to success in life will receive and remember helpful dreams.

  Patricia Garfield

  Dream, Important, Remember

  Patricia Garfield (1995). “Creative Dreaming: Plan And Control Your Dreams To Develop Creativity Overcome Fears Solve Proble”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• Boys are different from girls, but boys are also different from other boys, just as girls are different from other girls. Calling a book “for boys” or “for girls” is well-meaning, but to me, not terribly helpful.

  Marie Lu

  Girl, Book, Boys

  "Writing a Book for Boys" by Marie Lu, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2013.

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• I listen a lot to how people speak. I've read a great many good books in my life. I had some excellent English teachers. Surely, those things were helpful.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Teacher, Book, People

  "Anthony Bourdain The ‘Parts Unknown’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. January 9, 2015.

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• I couldn't imagine a more unreliable, more unprofitable way to make a living than writing. My advice? Show up, do the best you can. Keep your day job. If you get a lucky break, don't f*** up. It was helpful to be older because I had made all the really stupid mistakes already.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Jobs, Mistake, Stupid

  Interview with Karen Brown, blog.etsy.com. May 13, 2013.

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• You need to know that you are a spiritual being so that you can do helpful things to allow your innate qualities to unfold and express.

  Roy Davis

  Spiritual, Quality, Needs

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• Network news accustoms audiences to assertion not argument. Over time, it reinforces the notion that politics is about visceral identification and apposition, not complex problems and their solutions. ... sound bites aren't very helpful. They can tell a voter what a candidate believes, but not why. And many issues are too complex to be freeze dried into a slogan and a smile. ... What's lost in a world in which everything's an ad? Perhaps the country that created the assembly line has simply found a more efficient way to do politics.

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson

  Country, Believe, Issues

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• Do you mind even a little that you are still addicted to people-pleasing, and are still putting everyone else’s needs and laundry and career ahead of your creative, spiritual life? Giving all your life force away, to “help” and impress. Well, your help is not helpful, and falls short.

  Anne Lamott

  Spiritual, Fall, Careers

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• Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion.

  John Tillotson

  Abstinence, Ends

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• Public opinion which, to be sure, can at times be helpful, must never for an instant swerve us from what we know in our heart we are trying to convey. For honesty is the great requisite of art. If we remain honest with ourselves, art, which is always there, never lets us down.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Art, Honesty, Trying

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• I think everybody should act! I would encourage everybody to do one thing, join a theater class or something. It's so good to take a character that you think is wildly different from who you are, and to try to relate to that person and become that person is very helpful. It's hard to articulate what you learn, but you can feel the effect of these characters that you play and take with you.

  Ryan Gosling

  Character, Thinking, Class

  "Ryan Gosling Talks Blue Valentine". Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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• High school was the first time I ever saw spoken word poetry. The first place I ever performed a poem was at my school, so in some ways it was the nucleus of how it all started. For me I think high school was a period of trying to figure myself out, and poetry was one of the ways I did that, and was a very helpful avenue to try to do that.

  Phil Kay

  School, Thinking, Trying

  Source: saseye.com

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• Thinking about writing as an act of celebration is sometimes a helpful framework for me. It allows me to prioritize what I want to call attention to and what I want others to know about me. It makes me ask: What is worth celebrating?

  Sarah Kay

  Writing, Thinking, Attention

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• Based on the timely and helpful responses to my support issues, I feel that I made the right decision to become a customer earlier this year. LuxSci is definitely a quality, customer-oriented business.

  Kevin Smith

  Issues, Years, Support

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• I know with Gary Ross especially, he kind of gave me pointers here and there, but he kind of let me become firm in any way that I needed, and he just let me try things and to explore what I can do with my acting. So that was very helpful.

  Willow Shields

  Trying, Acting, Here And There

  "Comic-Con 2012: 'Hunger Games' Star Willow Shields on Playing Jennifer Lawrence's Sister". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 17, 2012.

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• Dave Stark has taken the best of recent marketplace management concepts and married them to timeless biblical principles of leadership, translating business jargon into ministry language. The combination is an encouraging and practical guide to Christ-centered ministry leadership. This book will be helpful to anyone involved in leading a church or serious about modeling servant leadership.

  Jonathan Reckford

  Book, Taken, Biblical

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• Contemporary research shows that happy people are more altruistic, more productive, more helpful, more likable, more creative, more resilient, more interested in others, friendlier, and healthier. Happy people make better friends, colleagues, and citizens.

  Gretchen Rubin

  People, Creative, Citizens

  Gretchen Rubin (2009). “The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• We cannot create blueprint for future society, but it is good to think about that. It is good to have in mind a goal. It is constructive, it is helpful, it is healthy, to think about what future society might be like, because then it guides you somewhat what you are doing today, but only so long as this discussions about future society don't become obstacles to working towards this future society. Otherwise you can spend discussing this utopian possibility versus that utopian possibility, and in the mean time you are not acting in a way that would bring you closer to that.

  Howard Zinn

  Mean, Thinking, Long

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• Making photos is helpful of course to master the craft. To get comfortable with the camera. Learn what a camera can do and how to use the camera successfully. Doing exercises for example if you try to find out things that the camera can do that the eye cannot do. So that you have a tool that will do what you need to be done. But then once you have mastered the craft the most important thing is to determine why you want to shoot pictures and what you want to shoot pictures of. That's where the thematic issue comes to life.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Eye, Exercise, Issues

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• Being in the moment is everything. So being in the moment for me is just letting the narrative play out, listening to the designers and giving them helpful feedback about what they're doing.

  Tim Gunn

  Play, Giving, Listening

  "Tim Gunn and Cat Deeley on Good Hosts, Bad Reality Shows and Unfair Judges". Interview with Debra Birnbaum, variety.com. August 5, 2014.

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• Sometimes people that are very good at improvisation in life, meaning like stage improvisation, aren't good in films because you have to ultimately take a scene where it needs to go. It's not about just saying something that's funny. You can say something funny but if it's not on story or driving the scene to its end it's really not very helpful at all.

  Vince Vaughn

  People, Meaning Of Life, Needs

  Source: movieweb.com

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• At the other end of the spectrum is, for example, graph theory, where the basic object, a graph, can be immediately comprehended. One will not get anywhere in graph theory by sitting in an armchair and trying to understand graphs better. Neither is it particularly necessary to read much of the literature before tackling a problem: it is of course helpful to be aware of some of the most important techniques, but the interesting problems tend to be open precisely because the established techniques cannot easily be applied.

  Timothy Gowers

  Interesting, Important, Trying

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• Here! 'Not thread nor glue, not nails nor screws, will ever self and shadow wed.' Helpful, those poet-types. Perhaps this one: 'Seek the grimy queen of dread machines, if you your errant shadow miss.' Now that's quite good! As a Prophetic Utterance, Third Class (Vague Hints and Mysterious Signs), you couldn't ask for better. It's downright plain-spoken!

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Queens, Self, Class

  Catherynne M. Valente (2012). “The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There”, p.202, Macmillan

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• I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life.

  Amanda Palmer

  Artist, Thinking, Meditation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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