Helpful Quotes - Page 17

• Again and again I find that my own inner counselor, my secret dreaming self, is not only wise and helpful but usually amusing as well.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Wise, Dream, Self

  Sheldon Kopp, Sheldon B. Kopp (1987). “Who am I-- really?: an autobiographical exploration on becoming who you are”, J P Tarcher

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• Learning how to do some of the technical work on the film can be helpful too and allows you to start the film on your own. However, if you are passionate about an idea, just begin.

  Chris Hegedus

  Ideas, Passionate, Film

  "Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Chris Hegedus – ‘Unlocking the Cage’". www.indiewire.com. January 23, 2016.

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• Some of the folks we see are in for defending themselves against their abusers, or drug charges that, because of the California state prison system, they have mandatory sentencing and life in prison for three counts of simple drug possession, or whatever. I find it not only helpful but, I think, necessary in maintaining my grounding and my perspective. Because music is such an unrealistic job to have. It's a really lucky job to have, but it's also very unrealistic.

  Thao Nguyen

  Jobs, Simple, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When you're looking around for metaphor or simile, I do think it's often helpful to keep inside the world of the book, to gather your comparisons from the stuff particular to that world - be they king salmon and aviation fuel, or pot roasts and spatulas.

  Leigh Newman

  Kings, Book, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Imagining the world without us is a recipe for despair and paralysis. I actually think it's more helpful to imagine the world before us, to look back at those unstable ecosystems of the Triassic and realize that were in another phase of unstable ecosystems. Knowing that, demystifying our situation as it were, makes it easier to think about solutions. We are not looking into the unknown. The only thing unknown about the situation is how we're going to fix it, and when.

  Annalee Newitz

  Thinking, Ecosystems, Knowing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Sometimes I think of blogging as finger exercises for a violinist; sometimes I think of it as mulching a garden. It is incredibly useful and helpful to my "real" writing.

  Kate Christensen

  Real, Writing, Exercise

  Source: therumpus.net

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• "Biblical theology" refers to something more precise than theology that is faithful to the Bible. It might be helpful to draw a contrast: at the risk of oversimplification, systematic theology tends to organize theology topically and with an eye cast on its contemporary relevance, while biblical theology tends to organize the same biblical material so that it is easier to see the distinctive contribution of each biblical book and human author, and to trace the trajectories of themes across the Bible so we see how the books of the Bible hold together.

  D. A. Carson

  Book, Eye, Biblical

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Empathy is a human trait. But lots of humans exercise some traits more energetically than others. By "the usefulness of empathy" I mean the way in which a progressive might claim that empathy is a crucial aspect of any benign political system, and the way a conservative might argue that not only is it not necessary, but it might not even be all that helpful, in that regard.

  Jim Shepard

  Mean, Exercise, Empathy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It would be helpful to be able to see the layout and for the maps to label what exits to use to get to nearby sites/buildings so you aren't wandering the station trying to read the signs in the crowds.

  Robert James Thomson

  Trying, Would Be, Labels

  "Dr. Gridlock". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• People going into a business have to have a plan. It's helpful to write it out, even if you're the only one there to see it and execute it. It's your bible. Stick to it, unless things happen in the market that cause you to change your plan. I do that myself.

  Michael Franzese

  Writing, People, Causes

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• Noble be man,
  Helpful and good!
  For that alone
  Sets him apart
  From every other creature
  On earth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Noble, Earth

  "Das Gottliche" (1783)

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• The more helpful our phones get, the harder it is to be ourselves. For everyone out there fighting to write idiosyncratic, high-entropy, unpredictable, unruly text, swimming upstream of spell-check and predictive auto-completion: Don't let them banalize you. Keep fighting.

  Brian Christian

  Writing, Fighting, Swimming

  "The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive". Book by Brian Christian, 2010.

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• Writing music is always really helpful for me. It always reveals to me how I am feeling.

  Erika M. Anderson

  Writing, Feelings, Music Is

  Source: thequietus.com

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• There's no drama. There's nothing. Everyone is there to work, everyone is really kind and everyone is very helpful, especially to me. I went in there, hoping to learn. I could have easily been put on some project with somebody who really doesn't care about teaching or sharing. But, while I was there, all of the cast were very helpful. I would constantly ask questions.

  Steven Yeun

  Drama, Teaching, Care

  Source: collider.com

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• It's always helpful to remember that in the grand scheme of things you are much more important than... um, wait, than... something, maybe.

  Demetri Martin

  Waiting, Important, Remember

  Twitter post from Jun 14, 2012

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• As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.

  Carlton Cuse

  Thinking, Brain, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• No one else in my family is an actor or aspires to be, and most of my friends aren't actors. Most of my friends are the people that I grew up with back in Georgia. It's really helpful to be surrounded by a world that's bigger than the entertainment industry.

  Chris Lowell

  People, Actors, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. This is a helpful pointer for our everyday presence-practice. Can you catch yourself angrily defending your point of view or attacking the other person's? There's the ego.

  Gautama Buddha

  Views, Practice, Ego

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• I have found it helpful to say a prayer asking to understand the scriptures when I read them. Then I ask, "What does Heavenly Father want me to learn from this scripture?" He always helps.

  Allan F. Packer

  Prayer, Father, Doe

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• If I can play a scene in a master shot, I always prefer it. And the actors always prefer it. It's fun to look at on the screen, the actors get a chance to sink their teeth into something substantial, and it's economically helpful.

  Woody Allen

  Fun, Play, Teeth

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• I don't have family members calling me and saying, "Is this rumor about you in the newspaper true?," because they know it's all bullshit. I already have that support system, and it's actually been really helpful. My parents have been in the entertainment business for so long that they really know what not to do.

  Eve Hewson

  Support Systems, Bullshit, Long

  Source: collider.com

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• One helpful thing to keep in mind as a retort-stopper is that you won't "win," you won't change anyone's mind, you won't change any votes, you won't make the atmosphere in the room any better, YOU won't feel any better.

  Carolyn Hax

  Winning, Atmosphere, Mind

  "Carolyn Hax Live: Use the china". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. November 20, 2015.

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• What do you think the Devil is going to look like if he's around? Nobody is going to be taken in if he has a long, red, pointy tail. No. I'm semi-serious here. He will look attractive and he will be nice and helpful and he will get a job where he influences a great God-fearing nation and he will never do an evil thing... he will just bit by little bit lower standards where they are important. Just coax along flash over substance... Just a tiny bit. And he will talk about all of us really being salesmen. And he'll get all the great women.

  Albert Brooks

  Jobs, Nice, Taken

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• As I've been involved in the fight for marriage equality, one of the things I've learned is how many people were harmed by the campaigns in which I was involved. I apologize to them and tell them I am sorry. While there have been recent victories, this could still be a long struggle in which there will be setbacks, and I'll do my part to be helpful.

  Ken Mehlman

  Sorry, Struggle, Fighting

  "Same sex, opposite impact". Interview with Thomas Schaller, www.salon.com. March 2, 2012.

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• Dr. [Paula] Menyuk and her co-workers [at Boston University's School of Education] found that parents who supplied babies with a steady stream of information were not necessarily helpful. Rather, early, rich language skills were more likely to develop when parents provided lots of opportunities for their infants and toddlers to "talk" and when parents listened and responded to the babies' communications.

  Jane Brody

  Baby, Communication, School

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