Helpful Quotes - Page 31

• It's always helpful to remember that in the grand scheme of things you are much more important than... um, wait, than... something, maybe.

  Demetri Martin

  Waiting, Important, Remember

  Twitter post from Jun 14, 2012

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• There's no drama. There's nothing. Everyone is there to work, everyone is really kind and everyone is very helpful, especially to me. I went in there, hoping to learn. I could have easily been put on some project with somebody who really doesn't care about teaching or sharing. But, while I was there, all of the cast were very helpful. I would constantly ask questions.

  Steven Yeun

  Drama, Teaching, Care

  Source: collider.com

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• Writing music is always really helpful for me. It always reveals to me how I am feeling.

  Erika M. Anderson

  Writing, Feelings, Music Is

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I really don't like watching myself and for the most part I will never watch myself. I worked with Kevin Smith on Yoga Hosers and I really respected the way that he directed. He told me, "It's very important to watch yourself." So he would direct by going, "Hey come over to the screen and watch this scene." And so it was very uncomfortable for me to have to watch myself but then he talked me through the process of that and it was very helpful.

  Austin Butler

  Yoga, Important, Hey

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• My wife, trying to be helpful, goes to the grocery store and buys this stuff called soy bacon. Let me tell you something: I know soy beans are good for a lot of things. Let's stay out of the bacon market! It says It looks and tastes like real bacon! No it doesn't! It tastes like somebody bacon-flavored a turd, that's what it tastes like!

  Bill Engvall

  Real, Wife, Trying

  FaceBook post by Bill Engvall from Jan 16, 2013

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• Every weekend, I would get the drunk driving lecture. Of course, Dad drank and drove all the time. I guess it wasn't a lecture; it was helpful tips from the master.

  Christopher Titus

  Dad, Weekend, Drunk

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

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• I have family members that are bipolar. One had a case recently that I witnessed, and it was very, very helpful.

  Trai Byers

  Bipolar, Cases, Members

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• In a dilemma, it is helpful to change any variable, then reexamine the problem.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Variables, Problem, Dilemma

  Robert A. Heinlein (2005). “Have Space Suit, Will Travel”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• Two basic values, autonomy and solidarity, serve as helpful prompters in any decision-making process.

  Gyorgy Konrad

  Two, Decision, Process

  György Konrád (1995). “The Melancholy of Rebirth: Essays from Post-communist Central Europe, 1989-1994”, Harcourt

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• We've got at least two other streams of that are filled with good, helpful material on meditation - the Catholic stream and the Quaker stream that are not primarily based on meditating on the Scripture.

  Timothy Keller

  Two, Meditation, Catholic

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• National security is a place where the private sector could be helpful because the government is woefully behind the technology curve. But secondly, the bureaucratic processes that have been in place since 9/11 are woefully inadequate as well.

  Carly Fiorina

  Technology, Curves, Government

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Yoga really helped with stress relief and just not hurting myself when I tour. It really was super helpful.

  John Feldmann

  Hurt, Stress, Yoga

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• Often we tell ourselves, "Don't just sit there, do something!" But when we practice awareness, we discover that the opposite may be more helpful: "Don't just do something, sit there!"

  Nhat Hanh

  Opposites, Practice, May

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “Making Space: Creating a Home Meditation Practice”, p.16, Parallax Press

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• Our fascination with weather: its caprices and changes as an antidote to the eternal repetition of daily life; a helpful illusion of novelty

  Derren Brown

  Weather, Fascination, Novelty

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• Again and again I find that my own inner counselor, my secret dreaming self, is not only wise and helpful but usually amusing as well.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Wise, Dream, Self

  Sheldon Kopp, Sheldon B. Kopp (1987). “Who am I-- really?: an autobiographical exploration on becoming who you are”, J P Tarcher

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• The more helpful our phones get, the harder it is to be ourselves. For everyone out there fighting to write idiosyncratic, high-entropy, unpredictable, unruly text, swimming upstream of spell-check and predictive auto-completion: Don't let them banalize you. Keep fighting.

  Brian Christian

  Writing, Fighting, Swimming

  "The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive". Book by Brian Christian, 2010.

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• Noble be man,
  Helpful and good!
  For that alone
  Sets him apart
  From every other creature
  On earth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Noble, Earth

  "Das Gottliche" (1783)

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• People going into a business have to have a plan. It's helpful to write it out, even if you're the only one there to see it and execute it. It's your bible. Stick to it, unless things happen in the market that cause you to change your plan. I do that myself.

  Michael Franzese

  Writing, People, Causes

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• It would be helpful to be able to see the layout and for the maps to label what exits to use to get to nearby sites/buildings so you aren't wandering the station trying to read the signs in the crowds.

  Robert James Thomson

  Trying, Would Be, Labels

  "Dr. Gridlock". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• Empathy is a human trait. But lots of humans exercise some traits more energetically than others. By "the usefulness of empathy" I mean the way in which a progressive might claim that empathy is a crucial aspect of any benign political system, and the way a conservative might argue that not only is it not necessary, but it might not even be all that helpful, in that regard.

  Jim Shepard

  Mean, Exercise, Empathy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• "Biblical theology" refers to something more precise than theology that is faithful to the Bible. It might be helpful to draw a contrast: at the risk of oversimplification, systematic theology tends to organize theology topically and with an eye cast on its contemporary relevance, while biblical theology tends to organize the same biblical material so that it is easier to see the distinctive contribution of each biblical book and human author, and to trace the trajectories of themes across the Bible so we see how the books of the Bible hold together.

  D. A. Carson

  Book, Eye, Biblical

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Sometimes I think of blogging as finger exercises for a violinist; sometimes I think of it as mulching a garden. It is incredibly useful and helpful to my "real" writing.

  Kate Christensen

  Real, Writing, Exercise

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Imagining the world without us is a recipe for despair and paralysis. I actually think it's more helpful to imagine the world before us, to look back at those unstable ecosystems of the Triassic and realize that were in another phase of unstable ecosystems. Knowing that, demystifying our situation as it were, makes it easier to think about solutions. We are not looking into the unknown. The only thing unknown about the situation is how we're going to fix it, and when.

  Annalee Newitz

  Thinking, Ecosystems, Knowing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When you're looking around for metaphor or simile, I do think it's often helpful to keep inside the world of the book, to gather your comparisons from the stuff particular to that world - be they king salmon and aviation fuel, or pot roasts and spatulas.

  Leigh Newman

  Kings, Book, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Some of the folks we see are in for defending themselves against their abusers, or drug charges that, because of the California state prison system, they have mandatory sentencing and life in prison for three counts of simple drug possession, or whatever. I find it not only helpful but, I think, necessary in maintaining my grounding and my perspective. Because music is such an unrealistic job to have. It's a really lucky job to have, but it's also very unrealistic.

  Thao Nguyen

  Jobs, Simple, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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