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• It's pretty easy to kind of lose your way. Having kids is really helpful. They kind of disabuse you of the notion of your greatness pretty quickly.

  Matt Damon

  Children, Kids, Greatness

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• If you have any helpful suggestions I'd be pleased to hear them. If all you can do is make snide insinuations then it would probably benefit all concerned if you bestowed the fruits of your prodigious wit on someone with the spare time to give them the consideration they doubtless deserve.

  Iain Banks

  Giving, Suggestions, Benefits

  "Excession (The Culture, Book 5)". Book by Iain Banks (Chapter 7 "Tier", Section III, p. 219), 1996.

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• I try to be a lot of things for the authors I work with - a careful reader, a helpful friend who also happens to be an experienced writer, a thoughtful editor, and a creative midwife.

  Kevin Sampsell

  Thoughtful, Editors, Creative

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• As an actor, I started using dreams more, which is not mystical or anything like that. I just found that I've been using that as a tool to give me another point of view towards the work. It's often surprising but really helpful.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Dream, Views, Giving

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes you can learn things from the way a person denies something. The choice of lies can be almost as helpful as the truth.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Lying, Choices, Way

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.322, Penguin

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• Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful. And if possible, get into therapy at different stages of their life with different kinds of therapists just to sample a bit.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Long, Needs, Sides

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• I will vote adamantly against the interests of my district if I actually think what I am doing is going to be helpful.

  Eric Massa

  Thinking, Vote, Interest

  "Rep. Massa: I will vote against the interests of my district". www.washingtontimes.com. August 16, 2009.

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• I'm so happy that James Baraz's AWAKENING JOY class is now available in book form.  His class has been helpful to thousands of people.  I plan to give it to all my clients who are struggling with creating a life of meaning and happiness.  Joyfulness is our birthright.  This book shows you how to reclaim it.

  M. J. Ryan

  Struggle, Book, Class

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• The desire to give advice is itself a symptom of disapproval; and further, it is usually the result of a desire to express that disapproval. And we are most moved to give advice to those for whom our affection and regard may be taken for granted, but to whom we would rather express our disapproval. We cannot go to them and say that we disapprove of them. That would not be affectionate, and might lead to reprisals. But we can give them advice in which the disapproval is implied and which yet seems innocently helpful.

  John William Mackail

  Taken, Giving, Advice

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• I'm kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent.

  Tracy Letts

  Thinking, Kind, Pessimism

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• Honor the tradition but expand the understanding. That's what religions must do right now if they hope to be helpful to humans in the years ahead.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Years, Understanding, Growth

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “Tomorrow's God: Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• The evolution of the cosmos invokes in me a sense of mystery; the increase in biodiversity invokes the response of humility; and an understanding of the evolution of death offers me helpful ways to think about my own death.

  Ursula Goodenough

  Humility, Thinking, Understanding

  Ursula Goodenough (2000). “The Sacred Depths of Nature”, p.20, Oxford University Press, USA

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• In a sense, journalism can be both helpful and detrimental to a writer of fiction because the kind of writing you need to do as a journalist is so different. It has to be clear, unambiguous, concise, and as a writer often you are trying to do things that are more ambiguous. I find that writing fiction is often an antidote to reading and writing too much journalism.

  Aravind Adiga

  Reading, Writing, Trying

  "MoJo Interview: Aravind Adiga". Interview with Sonja Sharp, www.motherjones.com. June 19, 2009.

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• I wrote Normal Life using concepts that have been helpful to me, and hoping to offer those as accessible tools for thinking differently about the pitfalls trans resistance faces, in particular the temptation to focus on legal equality and the limitations of that approach, and the alternative approaches being taken by racial and economic justice focused trans activists.

  Dean Spade

  Taken, Thinking, Justice

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• I worked in a steel mill, I worked in a foundry, I worked in a paper mill, I worked in a chemical refinery, construction, I did all that. It was great work, it was good. I learned welding, mechanic, carpentry, but it saved me from going back to prison because that's helpful. It's really sad because those jobs are gone.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Jobs, Steel, Welding

  Source: bluemesareview.org

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• We supported the cooperative movement among farmers. The movement was still young and stubbornly opposed to the commercial distributors. I believed it to be one of the most helpful undertakings, for according to my social theories any organization run by citizens for their own welfare is preferable to the same action by the government.

  Herbert Hoover

  Running, Wisdom, Government

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• Life is not dependent upon our classifications and our categories, our science. But we are. We find it interesting and helpful.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Science, Interesting

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• The study of law, medicine and the arts, in each of these instances, the developed mindset is very helpful to one who is practicing meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Art, Buddhism

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• I think, in life, being nervous about something that's forthcoming is very helpful, whether it's an awards show or a family gathering or a job interview. If you're too calm and confident, then I think you aren't executing to the best of your ability. So I try not to let nerves get the best of me, but I welcome them because it tends to fuel me to try harder.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Jobs, Thinking, Awards

  "Neil Patrick Harris welcomes a Kanye moment at Oscars". CBS Interview, www.cbsnews.com. February 19, 2015.

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• I don't think you could teach someone to be a genius, but you can certainly teach them to not make rookie mistakes and to look at writing the way a writer looks at writing, and not just the way a reader looks at writing. There are a lot of techniques and skills that can be taught that will be helpful to anybody, no matter how gifted they are, and I think writing programs can be very good for people.

  Michael Chabon

  Mistake, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 22, 2000.

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• Fred Wilson is a legendary VC and the Managing Partner of Union Square Ventures in New York City. At AVC, he writes one of the most popular startup blogs and covers issues from negotiation to hiring to fundraising. He's a machine for dispensing helpful advice and insightful commentary for those in our industry.

  Emerson Spartz

  New York, Writing, Squares

  "8 Bloggers to Follow for Startup Inspiration and Advice". www.businessinsider.com. June 28, 2013.

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• Some parents were awful back then and are awful still. The process of raising you didn't turn them into grown-ups. Parents who were clearly imperfect can be helpful to you. As you were trying to grow up despite their fumbling efforts, you had to develop skills and tolerances other kids missed out on. Some of the strongest people I know grew up taking care of inept, invalid, or psychotic parents--but they know the parents weren't normal, healthy, or whole.

  Frank Pittman

  Growing Up, Kids, Skills

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• Improv definitely made me a better auditioner, without a doubt. We did do an audition semester in grad school, and that was helpful for those times that you have a script and you have a few days to prepare it, to really work on sides. But the auditions I was doing in New York, if you got it the night before, you were very lucky.

  Rich Sommer

  New York, School, Night

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• Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out.

  Katherine Waterston

  Character, Design, Important

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• I remember my manager telling me, 'Be myself, be humble, keep rooted, keep God first'. Those words were very helpful.

  John Boyega

  Humble, Firsts, Remember

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

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