Best 203 quotes in «helpful quotes» category

The more you meditate, the more helpful you can be to others, and the more deeply you will be in tune with God.

The most important thing to remember is you must know your audience.

The only guy who was at all helpful as a producer was Sam Spiegel with On the Waterfront. He's one of the few who even knows what he's doing.

The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult terrain.

The quoting of an aphorism, like the angry barking of a dog or the smell of overcooked broccoli, rarely indicates that something helpful is about to happen.

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.

The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.

There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.

The religious lifestyle keeps you focused. It's helpful when trying to manoeuvre through the music scene.

The second thing I had to do was not to be reluctant as a leader...And when I started doing that, I realized that people are thriving from this, and that it's so much more helpful for people.

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.

The way that TV is set up is very helpful for when a show comes to an end because as an actor, you've got acting, but as a showrunner you still get to edit for three months and after that ends you get to do a sound mix. So, as a writer-performer in television, it's a very nurturing, gradual environment to say goodbye to a show.

Think like a publisher, not a marketer.

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

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.

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.

When you are aligned with the now internally, when you take responsibility for this moment, then life is helpful and tends to bring you what you need.

When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.

There are few things, apparently, more helpful to a writer than having once been a weird little kid.

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.

The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us.

This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.

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

Um," Doc said in a mild voice, "medically speaking, I'm not sure that was the most helpful thing for his condition." "But I feel better," Jared answered, sullen. Doc smiled the tiniest smile. "Well, maybe a few more minutes of unconsciousness won't kill him.

Well. That's helpful. We'll put an APB out on the Gingerbread Man. I'm not hopeful it'll do us much good, though. Word on the street is you can't catch him.

What can we surmise about the likelihood of someone's being caring and generous, loving and helpful, just from knowing that they are a believer? Virtually nothing, say psychologists, sociologists, and others who have studied that question for decade

What my previous film 'Paper Tigers' have proven, is that it can point toward helpful tools for change.

When I first became famous in the United Kingdom it was helpful because it meant there wasn't a spite of 'this bloke's a drug addict,' 'this bloke f**ks all these women' because I was just making jokes about all those things already, so it made me some kind of incorruptible indefatigable, indestructible force.

When you attempt something new, there's always fear. A couple of helpful slogans to me are "follow the fear" or "fear is a sign of growth.

When you only do 10 episodes for a final season, every character and all of her interactions in every storyline have so much more import because it's the last time we're going to do it. It's been really helpful saying, "OK, where do we want each of these characters to end?" We have 10 episodes to do it and working backward from that, I kind of envy my friends who have always been on a cable network because this is really that great benefit of doing it this way.

When you're improvising, it's fun to find something that you can lean on that is similar to your life experience. In my opinion, that's very helpful.

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

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

Without our suffering, our work would simply be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption.

You can't fake authenticity.

You can't please everyone, so proudly exclude people.

You have to understand that nothing appeals to everybody.

You must have the discipline and temperament to resist your impulses. Human beings have precisely the wrong instincts when it comes to the markets. If you recognise this, you can resist the urge to buy into a rally and sell into a decline. It’s also helpful to remember the power of compounding. You don’t need to stretch for returns to grow your capital over the course of your life.

You never in a million years thought that you would ever end up in a Woody Allen film even though that might be your dream, and there you are. Suddenly you've got one. But you're not playing the quintessential Woody Allen heroine, which is somebody that's full of self-doubt and heartbreakingly naïve. Chloe in Match Point was a nightmare in some ways and totally entitled, and felt like everything was going to be all right. Most of the women in Woody Allen films feel like everything's awful. I didn't understand what to do. But some of the confusion is helpful.

Your culture is your brand.

You wan't to invent new ideas, not new rules.

You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.

A heart that is broken is never too broken to mend.

Although an act of help done timely, might be small in nature, it is truly larger than the world itself.

Change is uncomfortable, but it’s helpful!

Every morning tell the sun that you are magical, helpful, and beautiful like the sun.

Don’t you have dragons to fight so that you started saving girls who don’t need it?

Do You want to be Surrounded by Great People? There is an Appreciative Person, behind every Successful Person. Be that Person.

Helping People is Fun. Getting to a Position to help is Not.

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