Helpful Quotes

• But privately when things got very bad I often looked into books to see whether I could find some helpful words, and one day I read, "The forgiveness of sins is perpetual and righteousness first is not required." This impressed me so deeply that I went around saying it to myself. But then I forgot which book it was.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Book
  • Sin
  • Righteousness

• And I think more of a concern has been not within the campaign, the mistakes that were made, not being able to react to the circumstances that those mistakes created in a real positive and professional and helpful way for John McCain.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Mistake

• If you would be interesting, be interested, if you would be pleased, be pleasing, if you would be loved, be loveable, if you would be helped be helpful.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Interesting
  • Helpful

• Capitalism can be helpful, but it can also be destructive when it's used by huge enterprises worldwide for the sale of weapons.

  

  Judy Collins
  • Used
  • Weapons
  • Capitalism

• There are so many different ways, most of them helpful and legal, to get yourself into a state of mind where writing is possible. It's going to be different for each person.

  

  Alice Mattison
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Mind

• I am fortunate to have a very helpful team that enables me to spend time doing things that are important but not necessarily urgent. People who have no such team need to also make these larger decisions so that they can cheerfully say No to that which is urgent but not important.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Important
  • Team
  • Decision

• Share your helping problem. More often than I care to admit I have found that when I was supposed to be helping someone, I suddenly did not know what to do next. When this happens, the best thing to do is to say to the client, “At this point I am stuck—I don’t know what to do next to be helpful."

  

  Edgar Schein
  • Problem
  • Supposed
  • Client

• No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.

  

  Rupert Murdoch
  • Travel
  • Attitude
  • Helpful

• We can't change the fossil fuel companies' behavior in isolation from the rest of the industrial system. As long as they have customers, they're going to continue to operate, whether or not we divest of their stock. However, divesting might be helpful in terms of disrupting the story that what these companies do is perfectly okay. This situation differs from apartheid in a key regard though: racial equality in South Africa was no threat whatsoever to capitalism as we know it. Ending the fossil fuel era is a much deeper change.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • Long
  • Isolation
  • Helpful

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