Helping Quotes - Page 36

• You priests. You're all the same. You think fasting helps you think about God, when anyone who can cook would tell you that fasting just makes you think about food.

  Joanne Harris

  Thinking, Make You Think, Fasting

  Joanne Harris (2012). “Peaches for Monsieur le Curé (Chocolat 3)”, p.447, Random House

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• When we show people that something is possible that they didn't think was possible it does more than just change things. It changes the way people think about the possibility of things changing. It helps them see that life is not the same day-after day, unsurprising, unending drudgery that so much of life teaches them that it is. And that is a huge contribution to their humanity.

  Dan Pallotta

  Thinking, People, Humanity

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• People can help us heal, can give us medicine, advice, many forms of help, but nobody can manage our minds for us.

  Lee Lozowick

  Medicine, People, Giving

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• Ubuntu is about a community coming together to help one another.

  Paul Pierce

  Ubuntu, Community, Together

  "Paul Pierce of the Boston Celtics Talks Holiday Traditions with Bleacher Report". Interview with Mike Walsh, bleacherreport.com. December 12, 2012.

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• Trust and mutual value creation helps both employer and employee compete in the marketplace.

  Reid Hoffman

  Creation, Employers, Employee

  "Reid Hoffman: How To Manage Talent In The Networked Age". Interview with Josh Bersin, www.forbes.com. August 30, 2014.

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• To conclude this discussion, assessment of justice demands engagement with the 'eyes of mankind',first, because we may variously identify with the others elsewhere and not just with our local community;second, because our choices and actions may affect the lives of others far as well as near;and third,because what they see from their respective perspective of history and geography may help us to overcome our own parochialism.

  Amartya Sen

  Eye, Assessment, Justice

  Amartya Sen (2009). “The Idea of Justice”, p.130, Harvard University Press

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• Jiu-Jitsu is like a philosophy. It helps me learn how to face life.

  Helio Gracie

  Philosophy, Faces, Jiu Jitsu

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• The brave view is that talking it out helps work it out. Maybe the realistic view is that talking it out inflames the issues further. But that is America, especially these days.

  Jane Smiley

  Views, Talking, America

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• I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It's one of those places where you can't help but trip over history at every turn. It's a city of enormous contradictions. Within a few yards of Lenin's Tomb is some of the most expensive shopping in the world.

  Daniel Silva

  Cities, Shopping, Moscow

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• I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our personal lives, but what Buddhist awareness training does is it actually allows the person to develop skills to stay in what's going on.

  Tara Brach

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Thinking

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• The Olympics are only once every four years so you have to take advantage of all your opportunities, both to be an inspiration to people and help support your sponsors who help you.

  Lolo Jones

  Inspiration, Opportunity, Years

  "Lolo Jones' future: Running, 'Dancing With the Stars', or talking about sports on TV?". www.foxnews.com. August 12, 2012.

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• If you can see, hear, feel, and think, you should know that King Dollar rules the United States, and that the workers are robbed and exploited in this country to the heart's content of the masters.If you are not deaf, dumb, and blind, then you know that the American bourgeois democracy and capitalistic civilization are the worst enemies of labor and progress, and that instead of protecting them, you should help to fight to destroy them.

  Alexander Berkman

  Country, Kings, Heart

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• American field players would really help themselves if they were exposed to a steady stream of box experience. Box lacrosse is an extremely valuable background for a young player, we need to incorporate more of the indoor skills in to the field game. It is almost a requirement to have a top player with indoor experience on your roster right now.

  Dom Starsia

  Player, Games, Skills

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• If you're going to help somebody, sneak in, sneak out, do what you can. I just sneak along and do my thing and meet wonderful people, some people I've never met, new friends.

  Bobby Orr

  Sneak In, People, New Friends

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• We're professional athletes. People know who we are, and if there's some way we can help with a friend or someone in need, that's a responsibility we have. I really strongly believe that.

  Bobby Orr

  Believe, Athlete, Responsibility

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• I thoroughly enjoy the work I do in helping motivate and empower young girls to celebrate and love their natural selves.

  Dominique Dawes

  Girl, Self, Empowering

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• In our quest to quickly make three-dimensional objects, we can miss out on the experience of making something that helps give us our first understandings of form and material, of the way a material behaves--'I press too hard here, and it breaks here' and so on. Some of the digital rendering tools are impressive, but it's important that people still really try and figure out a way of gaining direct experience with the materials.

  Jonathan Ive

  People, Giving, Missing

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• I know firsthand how alone you can feel when you’re being broken down in a relationship and forced to defend it or stay silent. Just being able to send a text message is anonymous and safe. Mary Kay and I believe that everyone deserves a safe, healthy relationship that makes you stronger and better and I want to make sure people know how to get the help they need.

  Debby Ryan

  Believe, People, Broken

  "Jessie Star Debby Ryan Named Voice of Dating Abuse Prevention Campaign" by Danica Lo, www.glamour.com. February 17, 2015.

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• If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Funny, Humor, Helping Others

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• At the end of the day, you got to learn from people that been through what you been through; they help you learn from your mistakes.

  French Montana

  Mistake, People, The End Of The Day

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• There is no more compassionate and effective way to help poor people in New York City than to give to Robin Hood.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  New York, Cities, People

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• What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Men, Good Woman

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• One day my dad would say, 'OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.' And that's how it started. And I had a goal. I wanted to beat my mom first. And my parents and my brother. And that was the ultimate goal.

  Caroline Wozniacki

  Mom, Brother, Dad

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

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• I read the landscape to help me through, to know what's come before me there, to find my footing in time.

  Deborah Tall

  Identity, Landscape, Help Me

  Deborah Tall (1993). “From where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place”

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• We know all along that time is squeezing us into a corner while we mentally rocket to each new star that flares across our sky, and yet we can't help ourselves.

  Seymour Krim

  Time, Stars, Sky

  Seymour Krim (1991). “What's this cat's story?: the best of Seymour Krim”, Paragon House Publishers

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