Helpful Quotes - Page 33

• A pinch of praise is worth a pound of scorn. A dash of encouragement is more helpful than a dipper of pessimism. A cup of kindness is better than a cupboard of criticism.

  William Arthur Ward

  Encouragement, Kindness, Criticism

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• Look, a lot of directors were actors, even if they were unsuccessful actors which I think is helpful. I think it's a really helpful thing for a director to have experienced that. It helps you know how to talk to actors and how to get what you need from them.

  Grant Heslov

  Thinking, Directors, Needs

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• You can't fake authenticity.

  Mark Schaefer

  Fake, Marketing, Authenticity

  Mark Schaefer (2014). “The Tao of Twitter, Revised and Expanded New Edition: Changing Your Life and Business 140 Characters at a Time”, p.77, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Tell people what specific action to take.

  Jay Abraham

  People, Marketing, Action

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• There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance. Some people take the view that the universe is simply there and it runs along-it's a bit as though it just sort of computes, and we happen by accident to find ourselves in this thing. I don't think that's a very fruitful or helpful way of looking at the universe, I think that there is something much deeper about it, about its existence, which we have very little inkling of at the moment.

  Roger Penrose

  Running, Thinking, Views

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• When people say, 'Doesn't Gloria [Vanderbilt] look great? She's 85.' I say, 'Yes, she was a raving beauty when she was 20,' that's the key. Very helpful.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Keys, People, Looks

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• To me that really would be the essence of kindness, to have one's awareness so developed and refined that you could tell just what was needed, and not do any more or any less, and maybe not even be aware of what you had done, except it would be a helpful thing because of how fully present you were. Well, as Aerosmith once famously said: Dream on.

  George Saunders

  Dream, Kindness, Essence

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things.

  Mumia Abu-Jamal

  Predictions, I Have Learned

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• I think it's important to understand that a cartoonist is not drawing for favourable reviews from politicians. What we're trying to do is capture the popular feeling of the time about a politician or a particular political issue. For that reason I think it sums up public attitudes that is very helpful to historians down the road.

  Terry Mosher

  Attitude, Thinking, Drawing

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• As an advocate for kids for over twenty years, I have watched things change since I was in school. Thankfully, this book made me face what I intuitively knew was real but pretended wasn't: The youth of our culture have been deeply wounded by our collective neglect and adult-driven self-focus. Young people need adults to understand what they are going through and people to care about them without a personal agenda. This book was very helpful to me, and my attitude toward teens will never be the same.

  Doug Fields

  Attitude, Real, Book

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• So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.

  Jack Markell

  Opportunity, Two, People

  "POLITICO interview: Gov. Jack Markell". Interview with Michael Falcone, www.politico.com. October 29, 2009.

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• I can be negatively criticised, but this is actually a positive thing, especially if the critic is smart, and helpful. I am very attentive to critics, they let me go ahead and push myself harder to continue.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Smart, Let Me Go, Critics

  Source: www.stilorama.com

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• For me, with any character, there are different ways that you approach understanding him, and in this film in particular, because I had the novel to refer to. It's always really helpful to have all of that information and all of those hundreds more words which give you an idea into the background and your character and all.

  Asa Butterfield

  Character, Ideas, Giving

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Focusing on negative situations is never helpful.

  Jacqui Holland

  Negative, Situation

  "Interview with Actress Jacqui Holland on Beauty, Aging, and Embracing Pain". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I like trying jokes and seeing the response, and if I end up doing it in my act, it won't be 140 characters. Twitter is helpful that way to me. It's like a message in a bottle. But a lot of times I think I tweet the stuff I would like to say to teenage me.

  Sarah Silverman

  Teenage, Character, Thinking

  "Sarah Silverman walks the blurry lines of sarcasm". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.montereyherald.com. March 29, 2011.

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• I think also, obviously, having someone like Lucas [Goodman], and the people around me are very, not gender-driven or any of that, so when we come in as thing, that's what it is. You can work with us or not work with us and I think that has been helpful. I don't try to put myself in a vulnerable position in that way. I won't just sit quietly.

  Jillian Hervey

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I'm not even against superheroes. It's not my cup of tea. But there's just this endless stream of them and they are so repetitious and suspend certain rules in a way that I don't find dramatically helpful. The imperviousness can be too much.

  Walter Hill

  Superhero, Tea, Too Much

  Source: collider.com

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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. If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.

  Austin Kleon

  Trying, Rooms, Next

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.104, Workman Publishing

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• One of the most helpful things I introduced (and of very considerable consequence to Canadians) was my ultimate success in persuading my colleagues (after continuing battle)to reduce the qualifying age for aged pensioners from seventy to sixty-five over a five year period.

  Judy LaMarsh

  Years, Age, Battle

  Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart

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• An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What a splendid invention! What a really helpful and improving way of devoting your time to building something that turns off culture. Next week, I'm instigating Burn a Book Week, to encourage even more conversation. I've come up with a fantastic little device which I'll call a box of matches.

  A. A. Gill

  Book, Next Week, Culture

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• I love being directed. I always find it helpful to have someone else's brain in the mix and not just have to rely on myself.

  Dane DeHaan

  Love Is, Brain, Rely

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The more readily we admit the possibility of our own cherished convictions being mixed with error, the more vital and helpful whatever is right in them will become; and no error is so conclusively fatal as the idea that God will not allow us to err, though He has allowed all other men to do so.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Errors, Ideas

  John Ruskin (1873). “The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation”, p.231

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• Whenever you hear somebody else is auditioning for something, you sort of assume they're going to get it. You should try to just ignore it. I don't find it very helpful to know who else is going up for stuff, generally.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Trying, Stuff, Assuming

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Facebook revamped its search feature. Now you can search for any post that has ever appeared on your page. It's helpful if you want to waste time this year remembering exactly how you wasted time last year.

  Conan O'Brien

  Years, Want, Pages

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• I travel internationally a lot and I have a hard time sleeping and staying awake normally after crossing multiple time zones, especially going east. I've tried light therapy but not found it too helpful.

  William Gurstelle

  Sleep, Hard Times, Light

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