Quotes About Helpful

#1. I was allowed to have an imagination rather than a need to be entertained all the time by television or computers or anything like that. So, I think it's helpful to try and give your kids.

Kirsten Dunst

#2. I think the time in between albums, as much as it was not anticipated, it was much-needed, and very helpful, very useful. I've done nothing but hone my craft, and get better, and learn, and gather information in the process. So I'm grateful for it in retrospect.

Joe Budden

#3. I think having children in general is always very helpful for acting.

Josh Hamilton

#4. 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

#5. The people "placed me in an office of the highest dignity and charged me with the duty of maintaining that dignity and proper respect for the office on the part of my subordinates. . . . By your own conduct you have destroyed your usefulness as a helpful subordinate.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#6. Truly Christian conduct is not predicated on whether I have the right to do something, but whether my conduct is helpful to those about me.

Gordon D. Fee

#7. People are not on a truth quest; they are on a happiness quest. They will continue to attend your church - even if they don't share your beliefs - as long as they find the content engaging and helpful.

Andy Stanley

#8. In fact, the collective energy field of presence can be very helpful when people come together. It can give you an enormous boost.

Eckhart Tolle

#9. I actually think the reason I am interested in certain parts is because I was such a dweeb in high school. When you are such a loser, it's a helpful way in to a lot of characters because even very powerful people are not all that powerful, really.

Sigourney Weaver

#10. 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

#11. It would be helpful if we opened up ANWR. I think it's a mistake not to. And I would urge you all to travel up there and take a look at it, and you can make the determination as to how beautiful that country is.

George W. Bush

#12. When we are devoted to the development of kindness, it becomes our ready response, so that reacting from compassion, from caring, is not a question of giving ourselves a lecture: 'I don't really feel like it, but I'd better be helpful, or what would people think?'

Sharon Salzberg

#13. Talking to the parents of older kids was helpful for me, since the parents of kids the same age as yours won't admit how horrible their children are ... you can either practice being right or practice being kind. Screaming in the car helped. [p. 94]

Anne Lamott

#14. All we have to do is to receive what we are given ... We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.

Vernon Howard

#15. It is ... very helpful to think of adversity not so much as a threat to our peace of mind but rather as the very means by which patience is attained.

Dalai Lama

#16. I so earnestly believe that prayer can be helpful and guide you and protect you and inspire you. I mean, I'm in awe.

Horton Foote

#17. The practice of thrift is not outdated. We must discipline ourselves to live within our incomes even if it means going without or making do. The wise person can distinguish ... between basic needs and extravagant wants. Some find budgeting extremely painful, but I promise you, it is never fatal.

Marvin J. Ashton

#18. Librarians and other information specialists have developed user's guides to evaluating websites. These include questions we should ask, such as "Is the page current?" or "What is the domain?" (A guide prepared by NASA is particularly helpful.)

Daniel J. Levitin

#19. The reason statins are so helpful is that even those who are trying their best to reach their target and still can't do it have something else to rely on.

Antonio Gotto

#20. Be Kind. Be Generous. Be Helpful. Show Mercy. Be Forgiving. Give Love.
Be Thankful. Be Cheerful. Do Acts Of Kindness for Those Who Can Never Repay you. It all helps to brighten humanity!

Timothy Pina

#21. It's helpful to have a handbag that's a bit crazy, or shoes that have kiwis on them or something, because it distracts.

Maisie Williams

#22. If a child is given love, he becomes loving ... If he's helped when he needs help, he becomes helpful. And if he has been truly valued at home ... he grows up secure enough to look beyond himself to the welfare of others.

Joyce Brothers

#23. I throw down the gauntlet to chance. For example, I prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the canvas. Spilling a little turpentine can also be helpful.

Joan Miro

#24. Boys are different from girls, but boys are also different from other boys, just as girls are different from other girls. Calling a book 'for boys' or 'for girls' is well-meaning, but to me, not terribly helpful.

Marie Lu

#25. I try not to think in terms of good and bad but more in terms of helpful or unhelpful in regards to specific moral codes and goals.

Richard Brancatisano

#26. Did you know the following surprising facts? "Surgery has been found to be helpful in only 1 in 100 cases of low back pain.

Fred Amir

#27. Simplicity hinges as much on cutting nonessential features as on adding helpful ones.

Walter Bender

#28. I've worked with actors who were very helpful and a lot better than I was.

Diane Kruger

#29. I remember calling the council's cemetery department to ask about body decomposition in different soil types. Once they had verified that I was a novelist and not a sicko, they were extremely helpful.

Sara Sheridan

#30. Hindsight is usually more tragic than helpful.

Linda S. Godfrey

#31. To lose awareness of what is helpful or harmful in the worldly life is moh (Illusory vision & attachment).

Dada Bhagwan

#32. the way we can know if we've betrayed ourselves is by whether we are still desiring to be helpful.

The Arbinger Institute

#33. Telling an individual company to do better is a lot like telling an individual poor person to save more - true and helpful, but not so easy in practice.

Linda Tirado

#34. We need to tell people not to be helpful. Trying to be helpful and giving advise are really ways to control others ... Advice, recommendations, and obvious actions are exactly what increase the likelihood that tomorrow will be just like yesterday.

Peter Block

#35. A place that proves if you get enough talented people in a room, one or two are bound to offer some helpful advice. Kind if like monkeys with typewriters.

A. Lee Martinez

#36. A child ... who has learned from fairy stories to believe that what at first seemed a repulsive, threatening figure can magically change into a most helpful friend is ready to believe that a strange child whom he meets and fears may also be changed from a menace into a desirable companion.

Bruno Bettelheim

#37. I looked into the literature on this," said Nightingale, "and it wasn't very helpful."
"There's a literature about this?"
"You'd be amazed, Constable, about what there's a literature on.

Ben Aaronovitch

#38. Its helpful to know the reasons for our faith ... it helps us not be so vulnerable to doubt, and it helps us not be so vulnerable to false doctrine.

Holly Ordway

#39. I consider myself to be a relatively helpful person, and there's an interesting line when hope starts to become the way you actually mask or hide from what's really happening.

Kiefer Sutherland

#40. I found the sections on aging, relationships, and procrastinating especially helpful. I really found the tips and suggestions very helpful, inspiring, positive, and motivating. Yes, I would definitely recommend it.

Karen Lewis

#41. One of my greatest struggles is, and has been for a long time, seeing unkindness on this planet. Unkindness and inconsideration. I try to help that by being more conscientious and helpful towards our fellow brothers and sisters.

Kelly LeBrock

#42. They dig inside your soul and find your greatest wish! (Very helpful if you've lost your tongue or your voice and need to tell a prince to kiss you.)

Soman Chainani

#43. Statistics is like a high-caliber weapon: helpful when used correctly and potentially disastrous in the wrong hands.

Charles Wheelan

#44. The class erupted into noisy laughter and, since I was always, and have always been, determined that merriment should never be seen to be at my expense, I joined in and accepted my star with as much pleased dignity as I could muster.

Stephen Fry

#45. I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.

Alan Shepard

#46. We look at, the absurdity of the system provides us the most material. And that is best served by sort of the theater of it all, you know, which, by the way, thank you both, because it's been helpful.

Jon Stewart

#47. Do you mind even a little that you are still addicted to people-pleasing, and are still putting everyone else's needs and laundry and career ahead of your creative, spiritual life? Giving all your life force away, to "help" and impress. Well, your help is not helpful, and falls short.

Anne Lamott

#48. Airport Cars UK are always helpful and on time when we go on holiday. They have also done themselves proud with the executive people carriers at my sister-in-law's wedding

Shane Richie

#49. Meaning bad isn't the issue. Meaning you do what you do. Not without consequences for other people, of course, sometimes very grave ones. But it's not very helpful to regard your choices as a series of right or wrong moves. They don't define you as much as you define them

Ann Packer

#50. Third, it is helpful to seek advice from those who are spiritually mature and solid in their faith. A godly counselor or pastor can assist you in avoiding the common mistakes that confuse many young people.

James C. Dobson

#51. I used to read a lot about myself and the projects I was doing. When I was only acting, I wouldn't read any reviews because I didn't find them to be very helpful.

James Franco

#52. Honestly, I wish I'd known just how hard it is and how competitive the acting world is. I took my time; I went at my own pace. That's been helpful over the years, but also, I didn't quite realize how incredible everyone else was going to be: the level of competition and everyone's skill.

Max Von Essen

#53. It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.

Warren Christopher

#54. Awarness of potential distractions is helpful untill it limits your ability to focus on the task at hand

Kirsten Beyer

#55. I have learned not to do predictions. It's not helpful, psychologically. I don't sit and fret about things.

Mumia Abu-Jamal

#56. In meditation we get a sense of the countless selves within ourselves, the different forms they take. Those that don't seem positive or helpful we push aside. Those that seem progressive we enjoy.

Frederick Lenz

#57. I think having some sort of religious faith can be helpful for many people, because it kind of puts things in perspective a bit.

Dave Smalley

#58. Some people are hard to hold accountable because they are so helpful. Others because they get defensive. Others because they are intimidating. I don't think it's easy to hold anyone accountable, not even your own kids

Patrick Lencioni

#59. My brain was telling me this was a bad idea and I told my brain to shut the fuck up, because it rarely told me anything helpful.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#60. The good folk of Twitter were extremely helpful when I needed to double-check how much blackjacks and fruit salad sweets cost in the 1960s. Without them I might have written my book twice as fast.

Neil Gaiman

#61. Fear is an enemy to fight and defeat and not an enemy to fear. Fear of falling, fear of the unknown, fear of making mistakes, fear of trying new ideas, fear of failure or fear of those already there."
~ Ikechukwu Joseph

Ikechukwu Joseph

#62. Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.

Terry Pratchett

#63. Those questions which are unexpected and complicated are the ones I appreciate most. They can help me a great deal. as I am compelled to take an interest in something that might not otherwise have occurred to me.

Dalai Lama XIV

#64. Hatred is like fire. It burns the one who harnesses it. It's also extremely hard to see more helpful truths through its flames.

Morgan Rhodes

#65. As in all of biology, comparative studies showing differences among species are often helpful for a better understanding of the basic mechanisms; with all its advantages, there is a danger of clinging exclusively to one model organism.

John Tyler Bonner

#66. Yet even differences prove helpful, where there are tolerance, charity and Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

#67. I am an excellent eviscerator of chickens ... a helpful skill in Congress.

Chellie Pingree

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

Tracy Letts

#69. 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

#70. You are just so helpful, Andrei. (Esperetta)
I try to be, Princess. (Andrei)
And you fail with such panache. (Esperetta)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#71. One evening, Mike Myers and Steven Spielberg were discussing 'Goldmember,' and I just happened to joke, 'If you need a Japanese character, let me know!' The next day, they called me for audition! I find it's always helpful to maintain a sense of humour.

Nobu Matsuhisa

#72. No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

Robert Baden-Powell

#73. The sexual conquest is huge with men in terms of affirming themselves and their feelings of masculinity. That's a misguided kind of affirmation. That is not helpful, but that stuff happens.

Donald Miller

#74. I think being a little nuts is helpful.

Carter Burwell

#75. Similarly, while prayer is frequently a person's first response to a disaster, it's often the least helpful. Instead of praying for disaster victims, it would be more helpful to donate blood, send donations or volunteer. These are actions that can actually have a positive effect on someone.

Armin Navabi

#76. For me, happiness is doing my best and trying to be helpful.

Ken Kercheval

#77. One thing we do know: Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment.

Eckhart Tolle

#78. Be selfless to be helpful.

Debasish Mridha

#79. A practice can be helpful, but didn't the Buddha compare it to a raft, suggesting it be abandoned when you reach the other shore?

Eckhart Tolle

#80. I got out of difficult situations when many of my classmates didn't because I was smart, and I was lucky, and my parents were amazingly literate and helpful.

Kerry Greenwood

#81. Hugs are helpful, especially when women step out into a mostly male political world. Emotional support, at critical moments, enables women to stay in the race.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#82. Gary Sherman has written a truly insightful and helpful book that will positively change the lives of its readers. Although many books have wise teachings, few have accessible, reliable and transformative practices like this one. I highly recommend this book.

Russell Delman

#83. I remember when I was growing up, I always wore glasses and so if I was on-stage or just being able to move around playing sports, I was never really able to because I had glasses holding me back. Wearing contacts has just been very helpful.

Joe Jonas

#84. I want to get involved in things that makes a difference in peoples lives and lifts them up. I don't want to be a part of anything that's not inspiring or helpful to the community that I'm serving.

Russell Simmons

#85. Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by making Mind the object of our attention, not only does the serenity which is its nature begin to well up of its own accord but its steady unchanging character itself helps spontaneously to repel all disturbing thoughts.

Paul Brunton

#86. For I tell you this: one loving, blind desire for God alone is more valuable in itself, more pleasing to God and to the saints, more beneficial to your own growth, and more helpful to your friends, both living and dead, than anything else you could do.

Anonymous

#87. I have been taking some classes in woodworking. It's really helpful just looking at a problem, and having a very tangible way in constructing it.

Luke Kirby

#88. The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters - because we never know which things might.

Gloria Steinem

#89. That is very helpful, Mr. Holmes.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#90. A pinch of praise is worth a pound of scorn. A dash of encouragement is more helpful than a dipper of pessimism. A cup of kindness is better than a cupboard of criticism.

William Arthur Ward

#91. Narrative has been part of human consciousness for a long time. And if it has played a part in all those thousands of years, it will know a trick or two. It will be wise. It will be mischievous. It will be helpful. It will be generous.

Jim Crace

#92. For the past eight hours, I've been about as helpful as a fish out of water. Or a fish in water, because what the fuck do fish really offer to society?

Elle Kennedy

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

Gyorgy Konrad

#94. The coach must never forget that he is, first of all, a teacher. He must come (be present), see (diagnose), and conquer (correct). He must continuously be exploring for ways to improve himself in order that he may improve others and welcome every person and everything that maybe helpful to him.

John Wooden

#95. There's a few people who I've accumulated over the years who I really trust to show a first cut to and to be helpful rather than unhelpful.

Kenneth Lonergan

#96. Now that that album's done [TModern Vampires of the City], I have time to revisit things that I was working on earlier, previous to it. I actually found it very helpful to be working on some music on my own.

Rostam Batmanglij

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

Edward M. Hallowell

#98. Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.

Anne Roiphe

#99. Make others truly happy as you strive to make yourself happy. Speak a helpful word. Give a cheering smile. Do a kind act. Serve a little. Wipe the tears of one who is in distress. Render smooth a rough place in another's path. You will feel great joy.

Sivananda

#100. Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential.

Jessamyn West