Helping Quotes - Page 12

• There was a time when my whole life was in chaos, really, and I didn't help myself sort it out. But one day I came to my senses, and I think I was lucky because a lot of people don't.

  Billy Idol

  Thinking, People, One Day

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

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• I'm notorious for giving a bad interview. I'm an actor and I can't help but feel I'm boring when I'm on as myself.

  Rock Hudson

  Giving, Actors, Interviews

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• Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.

  Ken Livingstone

  House, Needs, Parliament

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• I'd been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings.

  Clarence Thomas

  Teaching, Self, Self Help

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• The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost. A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost.

  John Steinbeck

  Mother, Men, Long Ago

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.11, Penguin

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• Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

  David Riesman

  Work, May, Executives

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.176, Transaction Publishers

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• Each child comes to us with a message from God and it is our job to help them deliver that message.

  Jim Kern

  Jobs, Children, Messages

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• The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.

  David Dinkins

  Country, Art, New York

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• And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling cooped we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help-for it As impotently moves as you or I

  Omar Khayyam

  Moving, Hands, Sky

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• It is good to have a reminder of death before us, for it helps us to understand the impermanence of life on this earth, and this understanding may aid us in preparing for our own death. He who is well prepared is he who knows that he is nothing compared with Wakan-Tanka, who is everything; then he knows that world which is real.

  Black Elk

  Death, Real, Understanding

  "The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux". Book by Black Elk and Joseph Epes Brown, 1953.

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• Money helps, though not so much as you think when you don't have it.

  Louise Erdrich

  Money, Thinking

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• The fundamental question for the United States is how it can cooperate to help meet the basic needs of the people of the hemisphere despite the philosophical disagreements it may have with the nature of particular regimes. It must seek pragmatic ways to help people without necessarily embracing their governments. It should recognize that diplomatic relations are merely practical conveniences and not measures of moral judgment.

  Nelson Rockefeller

  Philosophical, Government, People

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• Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.

  Fannie Flagg

  Children, Good Life, Years

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.456, Random House

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• I think you should use whatever power you have to try to help people who need your help. Then we'd all be happy. Instead there's this bizarre notion the government propounds that we should all run around selfishly acquiring money. I just don't understand that.

  Clive Stafford Smith

  Running, Thinking, Government

  "This much I know". Interview with Ursula Kenny, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2005.

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• No one is so rich that he does not need another's help; no one so poor as not to be useful in some way to his fellow man; and the disposition to ask assistance from others with confidence and to grant it with kindness is part of our very nature.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Kindness, Men, Doe

  Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.322, TAN Books

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• As an author, I realise, you're on your own. You have to do everything you can to help The Book. If I make sure people know it's out there, they can make up their own minds whether they want to read it.

  Tibor Fischer

  Book, People, Mind

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• You don't really have to go anywhere in particular in New York City to have a good time. In every part of town, there's always something going on. It helps to know people there, too, because everything changes so fast, and they will be able to point out what's hot this month.

  Tibor Fischer

  New York, Cities, People

  "I lost my heart in ... New York". Interview With Tim Wapshott, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2003.

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• I'm not an expert on the Middle East or terrorism or the use of military force or politics. It's all I can do to know a little bit about how to help people raise their kids and what to do when they get sick. When a war happens, I just hope it gets over with quickly so that how we take care of children becomes more important again.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Children, Military, War

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• What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those who are unable to help themselves and then to fasten some moral superscription upon it. This I loathe so much that I cannot conceivably explain how much it is.

  Malcolm Lowry

  Men, Weakness, Morality

  Malcolm Lowry (1965). “Selected letters”

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• Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ.

  Albrecht Durer

  Jesus, Fall, Voice

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• I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable. I have to start something new-in the agency or in my personal life-every two years or so. Taking risks gives me energy. I can't help it, it's my personality. I'd like to think it's not really a compulsion toward high risks, but the spirit of an entrepreneur.

  Jay Chiat

  Thinking, Agency, Years

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• You come to work because the office is a resource: The office is a place where you can meet with other people, and the office has libraries of books and information on CD-ROM that might help you with your work.

  Jay Chiat

  Book, Cds, People

  "Virtual Chiat". Interview with David Dix,, www.wired.com. July 1, 1994.

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• I love meeting people and helping them.

  Princess Diana

  People, Meetings

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• Imagination helps me to become part of that journey that I'm going through in font of the camera, or in front of an audience. I used to think you had to disappear within a character, but I find that puts a mask on what I do.

  Kim Cattrall

  Character, Journey, Thinking

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• If you're in the position to help someone and you do it, it's very rewarding.

  Tim Robbins

  Position, Ifs

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