Be Helpful Quotes

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.

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

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.

During my time as England captain I have always been both helpful and direct in my communications with the ECB.

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.

People can be good, people can be generous, people can be helpful. People can help those who are in need when they need it.

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.

Obama saying Gaddafi must go. Putting it upfront like that... it's not very helpful.

I think it's more helpful to keep your books sort of a singular focus. Get it said, get it said well, fascinate people with your words and then write another book.

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

It's a good thing to feel like you have to prove something

Writing with other people is the only way I ever really work. In some ways it's great because it's helpful to someone pull you out of the loop.

I don't usually like talking about acting or what my process is, and all those kinds of things, because I don't necessarily think it's helpful to talk about how I do my job.

I believe in the empirical wisdom of science, just to start with, so I hope that there might be some treatment out there that might be helpful.

I learned how to make a documentary by having a good team around me. My editors (and co-writers)Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Frédéric Tcheng were very helpful.

I hope that all new filmmakers see that the Internet and social media are helpful tools in establishing a fan base as well as being able to interact with your fans.

Obviously input is helpful to faculty in trying to come up with a curriculum, but ultimately it's the faculty's job to know what students need to know. Make a decision about it and present it.

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.

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

My films are doing well in Polish cinemas, so I don't really have problems financing them, and my international accolades are helpful.

Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, moving to new neighborhoods. I was encouraged when I attended the American School in Germany.

Personally, one of the most helpful things I learned was three-act structure. For my first four or so novels, I built the structure intuitively.

Be helpful to all who need your assistance, but don't overdo it. Over-helpfulness too often results in under-performance.

I've done a lot of tough stories over the years. I've done a lot of profiles over the years that have not always been, shall we say, helpful for the person who is being written about.

If I'm within reach and can be helpful, I have a tendency to say 'Yes.' It's hard to say 'No.

Good advice is never as helpful as an interest-free loan.

The Imperfect Pastor by Zack Eswine might be the most helpful and profound book I've read in years. If you're in pastoral ministry grab a copy.

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.

The reason to have more racial diversity on any team is because it's helpful to have different perspectives on any issue. And I also believe that. It's easier said than done, unfortunately.

Don't be too optimistic while you are tied to a railway when the train is coming; it won't be helpful for the solution!

Anything that you [as an actor] can change about yourself for a part is helpful.

Just to have the confidence to say, "Which end of that spectrum am I usually on?" That's been very helpful to me. Because it's a really awkward setting.

Some period of time later you look up and say, "That concern was right on the mark; it happened exactly as I thought it would." So that's been really helpful to recognize.

I wouldn't call it "police reform," but I would say that police procedure enhancement could be helpful - these police shootings are absolutely horrible.

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

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.

Going for a walk is always helpful for me. I also love gratitude exercises.

[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.

The "If you build it, they will come" approach to filmmaking has always been helpful to me.

On intervention under the UN framework, I think that sometimes that's legitimate, in fact even helpful.

In general I don't think the image of the state as a divinity is very helpful.

The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.

Dreamers who regard dreams as important and even vital to success in life will receive and remember helpful dreams.

He taught only one class: 'Unlikely Maths'. But since the time was listed as "now" and the place, "everywhere," this was hardly helpful in tracking him down.

Distance is always helpful, and the fact that I'm a U.S. politics junkie helps a lot.

It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'

Brick walls are there for reason. And once you get over them-- even if someone has practically had to throw you over-- it can be helpful to others to tell them how you did it.

It's not helpful if we spend every day dreading tomorrow ~Jai

Bear heard Rose in the background saying, 'Why thank you, Mr. Fish.' 'Good redhead. Helpful redhead,' Fish returned.

Although practice swings Can be helpful things, Twere better, indeed, not take any Than to fiddle and fret And before playing get Exhausted from taking too many.