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• This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.

  Bill Bruford

  Style, Weakness, Sometimes

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• I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.

  Yancy Butler

  Past, Thinking, Crime

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• The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of my voice.

  Marlee Matlin

  Reading, Voice, Quality

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• During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful.

  George Andrew Olah

  Literature, London, Able

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• Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful.

  John Polkinghorne

  Thinking, Ideas, Details

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• Customers can't always tell you what they want, but they can always tell you what's wrong.

  Carly Fiorina

  Business, Design, Marketing

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• Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, moving to new neighborhoods. I was encouraged when I attended the American School in Germany.

  Marcia Gay Harden

  Dad, Moving, School

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• The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.

  Pamela Stephenson

  Pain, Insightful, Stories

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• We don't take a macro view... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful.

  Robert Pozen

  Views, Hurtful, Looks

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• Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.

  Charley Pride

  Advice, Fans, Praise

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• Memorizing dialogue has always come easy and quickly to me. My wife Eileen is also very helpful. She gives me choices, and asks me questions, and runs my lines with me.

  Bill Mumy

  Running, Giving, Wife

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• Also, schools share some responsibility and should offer helpful orientations that include general information about such recruitment efforts on their campuses.

  Rick Ross

  School, Responsibility, Effort

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• Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable, and your experience helpful. Let those who do not, seek their own kind.

  Jean-Henri Fabre

  Philosophy, Personality, Mind

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• You have to start with the basic premise that you need to know what your competition is doing.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Competition, Marketing, Needs

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• I think that's an important thing to do, to really pay attention to negative feedback, and solicit it, particularly from friends. This may sound like simple advice, but hardly anyone does that, and it's incredibly helpful.

  Elon Musk

  Motivation, Inspiration, Negative

  "The mind behind Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity". TED2013, www.ted.com. March 2013.

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• Public education for some time has been heavily focused on what curricula we believe will be helpful to students. Life-Enriching Education is based on the premise that the relationship between teachers and students, the relationships of students with one another, and the relationships of students to what they are learning are equally important in preparing students for the future.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Teacher, Believe, Communication

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2003). “Life-enriching Education: Nonviolent Communication Helps Schools Improve Performance, Reduce Conflict, and Enhance Relationships”, p.15, PuddleDancer Press

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• . . . Cultivating good humor may be helpful in finding our own identity. Young people who are trying to find out who they really are often have concerns as to their ability to meet and cope with the challenges that confront them and that lie ahead. They will find that it is easier to ride over the bumps and come quickly to their own identity if they cultivate the good humor that comes naturally. It is important that we all learn to laugh at ourselves.

  James E. Faust

  Lying, People, Laughing

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• When we are devoted to the development of kindness, it becomes our ready response, so that reacting from compassion, from caring, is not a question of giving ourselves a lecture: 'I don't really feel like it, but I'd better be helpful, or what would people think?'

  Sharon Salzberg

  Kindness, Caring, Thinking

  Sharon Salzberg (2010). “The Force of Kindness: Change Your Life with Love and Compassion”, p.4, Sounds True

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• To be the best next-generation leader you can be, you must enlist the help of others. Self-evaluation is helpful, but evaluation from someone else is essential. You need a leadership coach. Coaching enables a leader to go further faster.

  Andy Stanley

  Self, Leader, Coaching

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• It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Husband, Artist, Woman Artist

  "Redemption songs" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2004.

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• If we live by the principles of the gospel, we must be good people, for we will be generous and kind, thoughtful and tolerant, helpful and outreaching to those in distress. We can either subdue the divine nature and hide it so that it finds no expression in our lives, or we can bring it to the front and let it shine through all that we do.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Thoughtful, Expression, People

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• Of course, China is a key to the North Korea if we're going to solve that riddle, but they could also be helpful on Iraq, which is why it's important that we maintain a constructive dialogue with China.

  Frank Carlucci

  Keys, Korea, Iraq

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• And I think more of a concern has been not within the campaign, the mistakes that were made, not being able to react to the circumstances that those mistakes created in a real positive and professional and helpful way for John McCain.

  Sarah Palin

  Real, Mistake, Thinking

  "'Factor' Debut: Sarah Palin Sits Down With Bill O'Reilly for First Time". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. November 20, 2009.

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• The law of the [Cub Scout] pack guides the boys to move in the direction of being helpful, friendly, courteous, trustworthy and promote qualities which parents and the community are looking for. The whole purpose of scouting is to help the children grow up making good decisions in life.

  John C. Maxwell

  Children, Growing Up, Moving

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• Find the most talented person in the room and if it's not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. try to be helpful.

  Harold Ramis

  Trying, Rooms, Next

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