Helping Quotes - Page 121

Planning my food a bit helps me. Knowing what I'm going to be eating for lunch helps, instead of getting hungry and then looking for something.

The reliance on stereotypes is in part the result of a structural problem within the media. Most newspapers have a business beat, with a number of highly trained journalists who know how to cover companies, trading, the markets and so on. But almost none have labor reporters anymore, and to my knowledge, none have full-time poverty-beat correspondents. And all of this helps to render invisible the lives and the life stories of tens of millions of Americans.

Would it help if I stood around uselessly not knowing what to say?

I have changed my mind. You can help cook by standing in a corner and not touching anything. Do it carefully. -Nick to Jamie

Silent mantra practice helps me respond rather than react.

Coming close to what you thought you wanted can help you attain what you never dreamed you could.

In other words, the hidden subsidies [designed to help individuals seeking college degrees] are not helping those who most need help in getting a degree. It's also helping lenders, by providing an incentive to borrow. So why not take that $22.75 billion or so that we're already spending and putting it directly toward making public higher education free?

but accepting help doesn‟t have to mean giving up control.

"I just don't know," I said, my voice sounding bumby, not like mine, "how do you help someone who doesn't want your help. What do you do when you can't do anything?"

It's in everyone's best interest to help close the gender gap in the sciences.

When someone needs help, you help. Right?

Wasn't that the point to being married? That you had a partner, someone you trusted, to help with important decisions.

How can we know the true meaning of charity if we don't even know how to help those closest to us?

all we have is our deep and abiding love for each other. We can't loose that or we loose ourselves. If we don't help each other, who will?

It's time to hand back responsibility for being an adult to everyone in the situation. You're not helping anybody by staying in a romantic relationship that isn't good for you or staying in a work relationship that sucks or staying in a friendship where you hate the other person. That's not helping anyone.

One of the best practices in the manual of human existence is to assist people who need help when you can safely do so. The best people help those who need help.

Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.

The thing I remember the most was not understanding why, if you were doing the right thing, then why did people want to kill you? I remember asking my parents, 'Why is it when people are trying to help other people then they're dying?'

Christ seeketh your help in your place; give Him your hand.

No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.

It's very disconcerting to have a camera shoved in your face. It's really discombobulating. If you're the least bit nervous you forget what you just said, you can't find your way through, you can't follow the logic of your own statements sometimes. It's a weird sensation. And I think that really helps to lock people in place.

Books in your head help no one.

We are at our best when we help the weakest. The weak make us strong.

A third advantage of mission oriented companies, is that people outside the company are more willing to help you.

You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.