Helpful Quotes

...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.

It was helpful to be able to call a lawyer...it turns out, that not only did they help me, but they really helped the whole community.

A lot of the time writers are just sponges... for what's around them, and so books are helpful for focusing your mind and literally putting it into words.

When asked what single event was most helpful in developing the Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein replied, "Figuring out how to think about the problem".

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man - not a color.

Our greatest hope is to bring up children inspired by their opportunities for being helpful and loving.

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.

I don't write anything that I haven't lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not.

Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.

My mom said I was a handful. Now I'm helpful.

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

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.

It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.

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.

But the thing I’m finding out is some people don’t really appreciate it when you’r trying to be helpful.

What really concerns me is for Christians to understand the fundamentals of evangelism in a way that is helpful in the contemporary scene.

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

Soul recovery, I think, is much richer and more helpful. Instead of having a shaman retrieve our soul for us, we help each other to become the shamans and healers of our own soul.

Sometimes the most helpful thing you can do is to stop trying to be helpful.

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

If for some reason you are unsure where to go, all you have to do is stand there looking lost, and within seconds a helpful New Yorker will approach to see if you have any "spare" change.

The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of my voice.

I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing.

I did not always achieve what I set out to do. Nevertheless, my personal example certainly suggests that hands-on experience can be helpful to future leaders.

Abstinence is many times very helpful to the end of religion.

God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master.

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.

I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.

She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.

It might be helpful to realize, that very probably the parents of the first native born Martians are alive today.

I love being directed. I always find it helpful to have someone else's brain in the mix and not just have to rely on myself.

I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. I don't mean to be reckless, but setting a goal that seems a bit daunting actually is very helpful toward recovery.

With public speaking, practicing congruence is very helpful - allowing the words to be expressed with the face and body. It helps to think of simply "turning up the nonverbal volume."

If I have a lot of adrenaline in my body, that is helpful because I feel less pain

I believe in celebrating the female figure and embracing what we've been given, not hiding that.

My parents divorced when I was one year old so I don't really remember any of the details, but luckily my mom does so she's been really helpful.

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.

If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all

I find the Alexander Technique very helpful in my work. Things happen without you trying. They get to be light and relaxed. You must get an Alexander teacher to show it to you.

It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.

Helpful is the new viral.

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

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.

Women's magazines continue to print 'helpful' articles on How to Hang on to Your Husband while thousands of wives write to me and complain that 'hanging is too good for 'em.

Make it about them, not about you.

It would also have been helpful to have gone to a Catholic grammar school. The only people who know grammar are those people who went to Catholic grammar school. Those nuns beat it into them.

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.

It is very helpful to have a partner on whom you can rely in any situation. But the problem starts because some people don't like it that one twin would be president and the other prime minister.

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

Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways.