Helpful Quotes

The staggering babies embody the deepest truth about deep practice: to get good, it's helpful to be willing, or even enthusiastic, about being bad. Baby steps are the royal road to skill.

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.

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

Writing about craft has forced me to think more about my own writing technique, and to break down my process in ways that have been enormously helpful to me.

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

I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.

When I was young, I kept trying to be in the most helpful place for me, when sometimes, as players, you have to look in the mirror and say, "It's not always going to be comfortable."

I see [activists] getting really angry that people won't just do what the evidence tells them, and that's not very helpful. You need to actually think why that is.

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

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.

Learning about the way people process information and their emotions is hugely helpful to my work.

I will vote adamantly against the interests of my district if I actually think what I am doing is going to be helpful.

I got Michael Caine's book, Acting In Film, and I read it on the plane, desperately trying to glean information from him about how to adapt my craft, which was actually very helpful.

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

The most helpful piece of advice that I could give to anybody is to select a charity, or create a charity, that you really feel passionate about and if you do, don't give up.

When people say, 'Doesn't Gloria [Vanderbilt] look great? She's 85.' I say, 'Yes, she was a raving beauty when she was 20,' that's the key. Very helpful.

Becoming a Christian was terribly helpful to me. I can't imagine finding my way without it. I think it can be very crucially important to ally yourself with some religion.

Life is not dependent upon our classifications and our categories, our science. But we are. We find it interesting and helpful.

The study of law, medicine and the arts, in each of these instances, the developed mindset is very helpful to one who is practicing meditation.

The highest type of meditation is done in silence. In silence there are no mantras. Mantras are not essential, but they can be very helpful.

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.

It is helpful to know the proper way to behave, so one can decide whether or not to be proper.

Every work brings new and different challenges. Research is always helpful, regardless of whether the play is contemporary or not.

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."

Germany and Austria have had positive experiences with strong states and a cooperative democracy. I am certain that this example could be helpful in a constructive debate on the Catalonian situation.

I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.

We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him.

I always feel like, when you go into an audition, your best chance at success is to be as comfortable as you can be. It's generally more helpful for me to just be confident and comfortable.

I certainly don't advocate terrorism as a way of progressing and understanding people, nor do I believe labeling everything as a terrorist act is helpful either.

It's helpful to be prepared to celebrate the tiny things that you can do, where you meet the world and you negotiate an outcome that's quite tiny. But you can still make it feel remarkable.

If you ask me, what is helpful to creativity is training the eye to notice things, to observe closely and precisely, being careful not to make a muddle of it.

Depression is something that has always figured in my life but now I'm dealing with it. I wish I'd done this years ago because it's been really helpful.

So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.

Focusing on negative situations is never helpful.

We do not draw red lines unless we intend to carry them out. We have made very clear that we are willing to work with China, and we believe China has tried to be helpful.

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

Looking at health through a gender lens is the first step to a more helpful and personalized approach to healing.

Before you can be all deprecating it's helpful to be self-deprecating.

I do know a lot about Scientology. And I know about the practices. I know all about what the technology is and all that kind of stuff. It's very helpful.

My background has been very helpful for this experience. But everyone was so accommodating because they knew it's not the most comfortable position to be the new kid.

Is such an alliance helpful to us in this day and age? Are we creating a cold war in order to justify NATO?

Noble be man, helpful and good!

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

Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.

Instead of asking, 'What should a woman do—what is her role?' it would be far more helpful to ask, 'What is a woman—what is her design?' and, 'Why did God place Woman in our midst?

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

That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough to allow us to choose what matters to us.

If you chose to listen within you will get some really helpful information. You really do know the answer. Intuition is always at the ready.

If you find something helpful to give you a hand, allow it to assist you, hands down!

A helpful hand is a lesson in sharing and if you have the means why not play your part. Those who refuse your help are foolish, as we all know appreciating the helpful hand is just smart.