Helpful Quotes - Page 5

• God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Gold, Bitter, Used

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• Whatever impatience we may feel towards our neighbor, and whatever indignation our race may rouse in us, we are chained one to another, and, companions in labour and misfortune, have everything to lose by mutual recrimination and reproach. Let us be silent as to each other's weakness, helpful, tolerant, many, tender towards each other! Or, if we cannot feel tenderness, may we at least feel pity!

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Race, May, Weakness

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• I grew up fundamentalist, evangelical, Protestant. Those are my roots, and they are good roots. But it means the Pharisees are my people. I grew up with an image of God that was not helpful -- largely the face of my father expanded.

  William P. Young

  Father, Mean, Roots

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• It would also have been helpful to have gone to a Catholic grammar school. The only people who know grammar are those people who went to Catholic grammar school. Those nuns beat it into them.

  Fran Lebowitz

  School, People, Catholic

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• Think like a customer

  Paul Gillin

  Thinking, Design, Marketing

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• It can be helpful to remember that the enlightened mind and the ordinary mind are two sides of the same coin. The mind is like the sea, which can be rough on the surface, with mountainous waves stirred up by ferocious wind, but calm and peaceful at the bottom. Sometimes we can catch sight of this peaceful mind even in times of trouble. These glimpses of peace show us that we may have more inner resources to draw upon than we had realized. With skill and patience, we can learn how to be in touch with our peaceful selves.

  Tulku Thondup

  Life Changing, Sight, Self

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• I [...] vowed that rather than let Alzheimer's take me, I would take it. I would live my life as ever to the full and die, ­before the disease mounted its last ­attack, in my own home, in a chair on the lawn, with a brandy in my hand to wash down whatever modern ­version of the "Brompton cocktail" some ­helpful medic could supply. And with ­Thomas Tallis on my iPod, I would shake hands with Death.

  Terry Pratchett

  Life, Home, Ipods

  "Terry Pratchett: my case for a euthanasia tribunal". www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2010.

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• Even if fathers are more benignly helpful, and even if they spend time with us teaching us what they know, rarely do they tell uswhat they feel. They stand apart emotionally: strong perhaps, maybe caring in a nonverbal, implicit way; but their internal world remains mysterious, unseen, "What are they really like?" we ask ourselves. "What do they feel about us, about the world, about themselves?

  Augustus Napier

  Strong, Children, Father

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• Like all twenty-one-year-old poets, I thought I would be dead by thirty, and Sylvia Plath had not set a helpful example. For a while there, you were made to feel that, if a poet and female,
  you could not really be serious about it unless you'd made at least one suicide attempt. So I felt I was running out of time.

  Margaret Atwood

  Suicide, Running, Years

  "Margaret Atwood : Writing Philosophy". Waterstone's Poetry Lecture, Delivered At Hay On Wye, canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca. June 1995.

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• No one can really picture an African as a businessman. In order to change the current situation, it would be helpful if the aid organizations were to pull out.

  James Shikwati

  Order, Organization, Would Be

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• You can educate people about politics, criminality, the law, but not about medicine? It's just silly.... I really don't want to hurt anybody, but to say the truth and to offer words that might be helpful in understanding what some of these conditions are. I can't see any reason not to do that. That's changing things for the better.

  Drew Pinsky

  Hurt, Silly, Law

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Relationships matter above all, and that you build relationships by making yourself useful, not annoying. The PR practitioner should focus on providing helpful service to the journalist whenever possible. Help them source good story ideas, provide sources with intelligent contributions to make, thank them for their time and attention.

  Laura Fitton

  Intelligent, Ideas, Focus

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• Asking questions in therapy would be so helpful if anyone ever answered them accurately. But no one ever does.

  Virginia Axline

  Asking Questions, Doe, Would Be

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• Manipulate your diet until you find something that works for you. I think people get bogged down with trying to go to the gym and doing too much cardio and lifting too much weight. Really, if you're eating well and eating at the right times, and consuming the right things, it's really helpful.

  Nick Youngquest

  Thinking, Eating Well, People

  Source: in.askmen.com

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• Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Giants, Savages

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.83, Harvard University Press

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• I believe in the empirical wisdom of science, just to start with, so I hope that there might be some treatment out there that might be helpful.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Believe, Might, Treatment

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Balopticon [a machine that projects photos on canvas to trace the lines] is an evil, inartistic, habit-forming, lazy and vicious machine! It also is a useful, time-saving, practical and helpful one. I use one often-and am thoroughly ashamed of it. I hide it whenever I hear people coming.

  Norman Rockwell

  People, Evil, Lazy

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• The fashion community has really embraced me, which has been helpful with getting my music out.

  Sky Ferreira

  Fashion, Community, Has Beens

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The first step to becoming a more peaceful person is to have the humility to admit that, in most cases, you're creating your own emergencies. Life will usually go on if things don't go according to plan. It's helpful to keep reminding yourself and repeating the sentence, "Life isn't an emergency".

  Richard Carlson

  Humility, Creating, Peaceful

  Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• When I was young, I kept trying to be in the most helpful place for me, when sometimes, as players, you have to look in the mirror and say, "It's not always going to be comfortable."

  Drew Gooden

  Player, Mirrors, Trying

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I probably complained more when I was younger. The movie industry can be frustrating but I think sometimes I could have been more helpful, approaching a film as a partnership rather than being critical of a director's ignorance. I wasn't sensitive to the fact that it's very hard to direct.

  Val Kilmer

  Ignorance, Thinking, Facts

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Love is manifested not only through the distribution of one's possessions, but even moreso through the spreading of the word of God and helpful deeds.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Writing with other people is the only way I ever really work. In some ways it's great because it's helpful to someone pull you out of the loop.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Writing, People, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I realize that in a happy life, making your bed should play a very small part, I don't know why this is so helpful to people getting started on a happiness project, but for some reason, making your bed - it's concrete, it's manageable. There's a big difference between having a bed that's unmade and a bed that's made. That little bit of outer order in people's lives seem to help them get started. So, that's a very small thing that you can do.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Happy Life, Order, Play

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I read a lot. I especially read memoirs and biographies. It's very helpful when you're thinking about what's possible and what exists in human behavior; if it exists out there then it can exist on the stage. I really try to go to a lot of concerts. A lot of live events. I just try to keep my ears really, really open.

  Jeanine Tesori

  Thinking, Trying, Events

  "Composer Jeanine Tesori on Her Artistic Process and Rewarding Female Ambition". Interview with Victoria Myers, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2015.

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