Helpful Quotes - Page 18

• Any opportunity to be helpful is an opportunity to earn money.

  Chris Brogan

  Opportunity

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• Economic systems work better when there's an extreme reliability ethos. And the traditional way to get a reliability ethos, at least in past generations in America, was through religion. The religions instilled guilt. ... And this guilt, derived from religion, has been a huge driver of a reliability ethos, which has been very helpful to economic outcomes for man.

  Charlie Munger

  Past, Men, Ethos

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• I've played an awful lot of people that other people would call villains, but that isn't a very helpful attitude to have if you're about to play them. They are just people, and they may do dreadful things and say dreadful things, but your job as an actor is to know why they do them or say them.

  Ian Mckellen

  Jobs, Attitude, Play

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• If action is possible or necessary, your action will be in alignment with the whole and supported by creative intelligence, the unconditioned consciousness which in a state of inner openness you become
  one with. Circumstances and people then become helpful, cooperative. Coincidences happen.
  If no action is possible, you rest in the peace and inner stillness that come with surrender.

  Eckhart Tolle

  People, Creative, Action

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.47, Penguin

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• We can make ourselves say the kind things that rise in our hearts and tremble on our lips - do the gentle and helpful deeds which we long to do and shrink back from; and little by little, it will grow easier - the love spoken will bring back the answer of love - the kind deed will bring back a kind deed in return.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Heart, Kind Deeds, Long

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes: Or, The Insignificant Little Habits which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.60

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• In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science - really good science: the semiconductor came out of it.

  Bill Gates

  Order, Long, United States

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• The world is broken, and all our attempts to fix it will inevitably fail, and some day all life will be extinguished from the planet and there will be no one to remember that any of us ever did anything. But this fact, strangely, does not delegitimize hope, because every now and again we find evidence that hope is helpful. This evidence, in my opinion, should be celebrated-even as we lament and fight the devastation.

  John Green

  Fighting, Broken, Doe

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• Seeds not planted or tended by choice tend to be weeds, so at least for me, it's very helpful to consciously and periodically choose which seeds I want to water, and to think through what I expect to happen from that watering. Investors can spend a lot of time and energy reacting to the latest bits of news and trying to predict the next surprise, rather than choosing a consistent set of daily actions that they can carry out as things develop, regardless of how they develop.

  John Houseman

  Weed, Thinking, Water

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• There were a couple of times that we did end up moving the set [of Helix] outside to shoot some of the outside scenes, just because we needed a bit more space, and that ended up being a little bit more helpful and easier to breathe, when you're dealing with some of the fake snow stuff. It was a lot of fun, and it looks amazing.

  Kyra Zagorsky

  Couple, Fun, Moving

  Source: collider.com

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• I always feel like, when you go into an audition, your best chance at success is to be as comfortable as you can be. It's generally more helpful for me to just be confident and comfortable.

  Hoon Lee

  Auditions, Chance, Be Confident

  Source: collider.com

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• If you would be interesting, be interested, if you would be pleased, be pleasing, if you would be loved, be loveable, if you would be helped be helpful.

  William Arthur Ward

  Interesting, Would Be, Ifs

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• When I abandoned the smoking habit of more than three decades I was given a supposedly helpful pill called Wellbutrin. But as soon as I discovered that this was the brand name for an antidepressant, I tossed the bottle away. There may be successful methods for overcoming the blues but for me they cannot include a capsule that says: 'Fool yourself into happiness, while pretending not to do so.' I should actually want my mind to be strong enough to circumvent such a trick.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Strong, Successful, Names

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.307, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The second thing I had to do was not to be reluctant as a leader...And when I started doing that, I realized that people are thriving from this, and that it's so much more helpful for people.

  Brian Chesky

  People, Leader, I Realized

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• The Imperfect Pastor by Zack Eswine might be the most helpful and profound book I've read in years. If you're in pastoral ministry grab a copy.

  Matt Chandler

  Book, Years, Profound

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• This is probably the single great subject of horror fiction: our need to cope with a mystery that can be understood only with the aid of a helpful imagination.

  Stephen King

  Imagination, Needs, Fiction

  Stephen King (2007). “Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales”, p.405, Simon and Schuster

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• The best way for parents to go about acquiring a mind-set of self-reflective parenting will be different for different individuals. Some people will find that they are already very close to being the parent they are striving to be. Other people will find reading books or blog articles to be very helpful and some other people might benefit most by engaging in discussions on the internet.

  Timothy Carey

  Book, Reading, Self

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I think Dirk [Gently] thinks that he's a brilliant detective, but he's the worst detective, ever. He does have this particular skill, which I suppose you might call a really bad superpower because it's just not very helpful. He is able to sense the connections between things and he's nearly always right, but the problem is that he never knows what to do with any of those messages that he receives from the universe, so he just acts on things and gets himself into terrible trouble, all the time.

  Samuel Barnett

  Thinking, Skills, Might

  Source: collider.com

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• I enjoyed the fans thoroughly, and they were always helpful. They were the reason that I tried so hard over the years.

  Arnold Palmer

  Years, Fans, Reason

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• The relation of the law to the self is only a helpful way of thinking about the law, that helps us better understand its validity for us.

  Allen W. Wood

  Thinking, Self, Law

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Checklists are really helpful ways to remind people around how to manage complicated tasks.

  Scott D. Anthony

  People, Tasks, Way

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Because I work with entrepreneurs who own businesses, I have found Doug Tatum's No Man's Land to be a really helpful body of working knowledge. It's very applicable to most businesses that have the usual problems of growing businesses - managing people, capital, markets, etc.

  Lewis Schiff

  Men, Land, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• It's helpful to be prepared to celebrate the tiny things that you can do, where you meet the world and you negotiate an outcome that's quite tiny. But you can still make it feel remarkable.

  Ian Bogost

  Tiny Things, World, Outcomes

  Source: app.longform.org

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• I learned how to make a documentary by having a good team around me. My editors (and co-writers)Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Frédéric Tcheng were very helpful.

  Lisa Immordino Vreeland

  Team, Editors, Documentaries

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Going for a walk is always helpful for me. I also love gratitude exercises.

  Nikki DeLoach

  Gratitude, Exercise, Walks

  "Interview with Nikki Deloach, actress in the hit show Awkward". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• No matter what's in your head, you go up into any hospital, up to a terminal ward and it'll smack you right back into reality that, "Hey man, whatever you're dealing with, if it's heavy on your heart and head, you're gonna have to let that go, because there, some people are dealing with unavoidable situations that they can't let go." And then they eventually let those go, so, I mean, that's helpful.

  Chuck D

  Letting Go, Mean, Heart

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 12, 2012.

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