Helpful Quotes

• I love technology, and man, is it helpful. But it also means you're always on. Always findable. Always available to 'just take five minutes' to answer an email, tweet a link for someone, check in quickly on FourSquare.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Man
  • Technology
  • Helpful

• I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me.

  

  Sanford I. Weill
  • School
  • Home
  • Teacher

• Just because I've stopped working doesn't mean that I've stopped being helpful.

  

  Walter Huston
  • Working
  • Helpful
  • Stopped

• The only guy who was at all helpful as a producer was Sam Spiegel with On the Waterfront. He's one of the few who even knows what he's doing.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Guy
  • Producer
  • Sam Spiegel

• I love making music but with that comes a lot of responsibility and you have to put yourself out there more. I'm learning as I go. The music has drawn me out of my shell. It's made me open my door a little more and be able to look at people in the eye. In that sense of the word, it has been helpful to me so I am happy now.

  

  Daniel Powter
  • People
  • Responsibility
  • Eye

• There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well - that really makes me happy. The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Pleasure

• To be successful is to be helpful, caring and constructive, to make everything and everyone you touch a little bit better.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Successful
  • Helpful
  • Constructive

• Truly, there is something to the idea that hero-worship is helpful, provided one worships a winner.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Idea
  • Hero
  • Winner

• We pretty much want to get back is some of the integrity of the band from everybody and move ahead. So we don’t dwell on that much. Everything is well, done and over. It’s over. If people really don’t want to play or have a negative take on everything, it’s not too helpful to the brand you know.

  

  Stephen Pearcy Ratt
  • Negative
  • Move
  • Brand

• If it is not truthful and not helpful, don't say it. If it is truthful and not helpful, don't say it. If it is not truthful and helpful, don't say it. If it is truthful and helpful, wait for the right time.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Helpful
  • Truthful
  • Right Time

• I think it is helpful having a history other than playing music. We've toured a lot together, hung out a lot. So, we knew each other pretty well before we ever got together, which is important. You could probably call on the greatest studio musicians in the world and it doesn't mean they can work together.

  

  James Patrick Keeler The Afghan Whigs
  • Music
  • History
  • Helpful

• Am I getting nobler, better, more helpful, more humble, as I get older? Am I exhibiting the life that men take knowledge of as having been with Jesus, or am I getting more self-assertive, more deliberately determined to have my own way? It is a great thing to tell yourself the truth.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Great
  • Men

• Violence is like money in the bank; it's only helpful if you don't have to use it.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Violence
  • Use
  • Helpful

• Of all devotions, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the greatest after the sacraments, the one dearest to God and the one most helpful to us.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Blessed

• I would consider myself a perfectionist, yeah. I don't think that is always that helpful, either. Sometimes it's good to be a little more open-minded; you can overthink things when things are actually fine, and it's that moment that you lose it. Looking back, sometimes I've made mistakes from being a perfectionist.

  

  Tom Odell
  • Moments
  • Sometimes
  • Mistake

• I like meeting directors. It can be helpful because sometimes when you meet filmmakers you find out if you like them and if they like you, and that is important in terms of considering a role. Choosing a role is all about whether I relate to the role and the story really. That's the criteria.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Important
  • Role
  • Directors

• 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
  • People
  • Father
  • Mean

• My mom said I was a handful. Now I'm helpful.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Helpful
  • My Mom
  • Handful

• To tell a person who has ADD to try harder is about as helpful as telling someone who is nearsighted to squint harder.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Person
  • Helpful

• The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Enjoy
  • Pets
  • Present Moment

• Writing about craft has forced me to think more about my own writing technique, and to break down my process in ways that have been enormously helpful to me.

  

  David B. Coe
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Process

• 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 Chvrches
  • People
  • Writing
  • Helpful

• I know with Gary Ross especially, he kind of gave me pointers here and there, but he kind of let me become firm in any way that I needed, and he just let me try things and to explore what I can do with my acting. So that was very helpful.

  

  Willow Shields
  • Trying
  • Acting
  • Helpful

• Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.

  

  Rumi
  • Friend
  • Helpful
  • Journeys

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