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• Mindfulness is the primary tool in that we get a little space between ourselves and the thoughts and then we actually can be more responsive, as in: Do I want to listen to that? Do I want to ignore it? Do I want to say "no thank you". Do I want to inquire if that's really true or helpful? So we start with mindfulness and we're not engaging, because as soon as we do that, we've given the critic authority. Instead, we want to notice the critic but not give it any attention, not really give it much value.

  Mark Coleman

  Space, Giving, Mindfulness

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Conscience is all about using discernment, discrimination and assessment, rather than looking to the rather crude form of advice from the judge that's mostly attacking our sense of worth or value, instead of giving us helpful information.

  Mark Coleman

  Assessment, Giving, Judging

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I think training is helpful, but so is living a well-rounded life full of different experiences.

  Cynthia Addai-Robinson

  Thinking, Different Experiences, Training

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Before you can be all deprecating it's helpful to be self-deprecating.

  Jeff Ross

  Self, Self Deprecating

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When I talk to different lawmakers, I'm trying to get them to reach across the aisle. There's legislation out there that would be helpful for women and families, but like with the Paycheck Fairness Act, legislation has been on the floor many times, and voted down many times. It's something we need to get passed already.

  Patricia Arquette

  Trying, Different, Would Be

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In general I don't think the image of the state as a divinity is very helpful.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Divinity, States

  Source: chomsky.info

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• The Office of Government Ethics has taken the right position on this, one consistent with many Republicans and Democrats. And by the way, OGE and Walt Shaub in particular, were very, very helpful in moving the [George W. Bush] nominees through. This is not a partisan organization at all.

  Reince Priebus

  Taken, Moving, Organization

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.

  Akbar Ganji

  Pressure, Release, Regimes

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It's the balance I'm trying to find - not being disconnected but giving myself some space to be in my world. I feel like I'm surrounded by friends of mine who are very different from one another but all care about similar things. We talk about this a lot, and I think that's probably the main thing - being surrounded by good people is the best way to stay in a solid head space. You want to be able to talk about these things, and be able to think things through and feel things through. That's helpful for me.

  Tei Shi

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I actually think history doesn't repeat itself. There are recurrent themes, but they're repeated with variations. Each time there's an immigration crisis, a threat from outside which is met with inhospitable wall building, it's different. And I think it's helpful to notice the big patterns in history, but it's also important to pay attention to the details, which makes each situation distinct from another.

  Lucy Hughes-Hallett

  Wall, Thinking, Important

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• Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as short or shorter than a haiku. Not very helpful.

  Campbell McGrath

  Art, Long, Odyssey

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I suppose it's nice that I've made films that some people have heard of and respect. That's great. And it's certainly helpful in some regards, but they're really tough economic prospects. They always have been, and that's not necessarily getting any better. And not just the films, but it's also been a rough 10 years for that independent film market. And so I have stumbled onto this point in the timeline where the kind of stuff that I'm trying to do is not... it was a lot easier to know what to do with it 20 years ago.

  Andrew Bujalski

  Nice, Independent, People

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• The basic problem with the Non-Proliferation Treaty is there's no teeth in it, no penalties for countries that don't comply. Worse, as you say, the very naïve structure of the NPT has actually made it helpful for countries who want to acquire nuclear weapons. Iraq, North Korea, Iran, all used the NPT to build up their nuclear programs.

  Kenneth M. Pollack

  Country, Problem, Program

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• I'm not going to tell people how to write, but we do have a skill set, and the more we put ourselves out into the world as poets, as a sort of poet of the tribe, as representatives of metaphor, and try to claim space for metaphor in the inner life, that's going to be important and be helpful to poetry and bring a tension for poets writing about whatever they choose.

  David Biespiel

  Writing, People, Important

  Source: therumpus.net

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• That's the old AA maxim, "Always have a drink in your hand and you'll never want a drink." That's one of the most classic deceptions in the literature: "I'll take a drink tomorrow." I actually don't think that's necessarily a very helpful maxim in AA, but it's a very good maxim in showing how strategic self-deception can be employed, even self-consciously. That's the amazing thing, to me, about self-deception.

  Clancy Martin

  Thinking, Deception, Literature

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It would be helpful if everybody would focus on getting the right outcome from Brexit. An aggressive stand by the EU will only feed into those who promote the narrative of "better off out".

  Keir Starmer

  Focus, Aggressive

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think listening to people is helpful.

  Rose McIver

  Thinking, People, Listening

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When we, believers, sing our songs of worship, not only do we praise God through them, but we preach to ourselves. As we sing the truth of who it is we're worshipping, as well as honoring God, it can be so helpful to us. Worship is about magnifying the right things. It can be so easy to let the struggles of this become all consuming, and we must not ignore them. But when we worship, instead of magnifying and focusing on those things, we magnify and focus on the name, the strength, the power, the grace of Jesus. When we do that, it puts everything into perspective.

  Matt Redman

  Song, Jesus, Struggle

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• If you want to look at a purely socialized health care, you would have to go to the United States, where we have it. In particular, that's the system we reserve for our veterans. So if I hear politicians run down socialized medicine - and I have done that before the Congress - I say: Do you hate your veterans? Why do you reserve purely socialized medicine - there's only the U.S. and Cuba that have that - for the veterans? So getting the terms right would be very, very helpful in our national conversation on health reform.

  Uwe Reinhardt

  Running, Hate, Done

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I love making music but with that comes a lot of responsibility and you have to put yourself out there more. I'm learning as I go. The music has drawn me out of my shell. It's made me open my door a little more and be able to look at people in the eye. In that sense of the word, it has been helpful to me so I am happy now.

  Daniel Powter

  Eye, Responsibility, People

  Source: www.today.com

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• I understand why some bands don't like test new songs, but for us it's been very helpful and it hasn't really backfired. I was nervous that our second record was - you know, you could hear the whole thing on YouTube before the album came out because we played it all live, but it ended up being something that people appreciated.

  Taylor Goldsmith

  Song, People, Appreciated

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For a while I used to listen to those whispers about babies costing you books, and Cyril Connolly's loathsome quote that "There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall." But it's rubbish. Absolute rubbish. A huge amount of your work is done when you're not at your desk. Knotty problems that you need your unconscious to solve. So it can be helpful to walk away and focus on other things and it can be helpful to be a bit harassed in your daily life, to be hungry for time to write.

  Maggie O'Farrell

  Baby, Art, Book

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Along the way, about certain things, you realize, "I don't know anything about this." You think, "Is this going to sound ridiculous?" So I pestered more than a hundred different people over the course of the book. And when I finished the book I gave it to six or seven trusted readers, who are always the same, but I also gave it to a brother of mine who's a doctor and I asked him to read it, and he was very helpful. It's good to have a group of trusted readers. As my kids have grown up, they've joined this group.

  Jaume Cabre

  Brother, Book, Kids

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Germany and Austria have had positive experiences with strong states and a cooperative democracy. I am certain that this example could be helpful in a constructive debate on the Catalonian situation.

  Gunther Oettinger

  Strong, Democracy, Debate

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• I can't imagine just dusting my pants off and going about my life like, "Phew! I sure made it through a tough spot, now where am I headed?" I feel more of an obligation to be helpful.

  Tig Notaro

  Tough, Imagine, Obligation

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