Helpful Quotes

• I think Dirk [Gently] thinks that he's a brilliant detective, but he's the worst detective, ever. He does have this particular skill, which I suppose you might call a really bad superpower because it's just not very helpful. He is able to sense the connections between things and he's nearly always right, but the problem is that he never knows what to do with any of those messages that he receives from the universe, so he just acts on things and gets himself into terrible trouble, all the time.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Bad

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

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Idea
  • Hero
  • Winner

• 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

• Anything that you as an actor can change about yourself for a part is helpful.

  

  Michael Pitt
  • Actors
  • Helpful

• We don't take a macro view, ... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful.

  

  Robert Pozen
  • Trade
  • Hurtful
  • Sanctions

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Walter Huston
  • Working
  • Helpful
  • Stopped

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Rumi
  • Friend
  • Helpful
  • Journeys

• 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

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

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Helpful
  • My Mom
  • Handful

• 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'm not going to tell people how to write, but we do have a skill set, and the more we put ourselves out into the world as poets, as a sort of poet of the tribe, as representatives of metaphor, and try to claim space for metaphor in the inner life, that's going to be important and be helpful to poetry and bring a tension for poets writing about whatever they choose.

  

  David Biespiel
  • People
  • Important
  • Writing

• 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

• Listening to as many guitar solos as possible is the best method for someone in the early stages. But saxophone solos can be helpful. They're interesting because they are all single notes, and therefore can be repeated on the guitar. If you can copy a sax solo you're playing very well, because the average saxophonist can play much better than the average guitarist.

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • Interesting
  • Listening
  • Average

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