Helping Quotes - Page 86

Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same.

I can't help from making money, that is all.

What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better.

Cause I's wicked, - I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it.

Seek something outside your nine-to-five job as an additional source of fulfillment and as a way to feel the joy of helping others.

A formal and consistent theory of inductive processes cannot represent the operation of every human mind in detail; it will represent an ideal mind, but it will help the actual mind to approximate that ideal.

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.

Sometimes, the people who are helping you can drop the ball.

Sometimes the parallels that are brought in can make the play seem less relevant; you can deny a play's application to the universal by making it too specific. Sometimes having a modern context does make things easier to grasp; sometimes, you go, "Why have they got swords?" "Why didn't Juliet just text Romeo? Why did she bother posting a letter? Why was the Milan post service so bad?" It throws up irrelevant questions that don't help.

I wanted to help people. I was raised by Quaker hippies... True happiness comes from helping others, that's what was pounded in my head from day one... So that began my teaching journey.

Efficiency for me is an obsession..It not only helps me get stronger but makes things simpler.

Imagine a world in which you had Saddam Hussein, who had the capacity to make a weapon of mass destruction, who was paying suiciders to kill innocent life. Imagine what the world would be like with him in power. The idea is to try to help change the Middle East. Part of the reason we went into Iraq was we thought he had weapons of mass destruction. It turns out he didn't, but he had the capacity to make weapons of mass destruction.

Unless you're doing some kind of God conscious thing and you know that He's the one who's really in charge, you're just building up a lot of karma and not really helping yourself or anybody else.

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

Being a scientist helps to support both my life as a Jesuit and my belief in God.

The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.

Paul Harris is a buffet bowler - you just help yourself.

If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?

Helping people develop their own brilliance is much more effective than giving them yours

Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.

I just haven't really had a chance to allow to sink in. I'm sure there is going to come a time when reality is going to hit me and I'm going to know that it's going to be a while before I help my teammates, and that's going to be hard for me.

To think you can just go out and help people and somehow get a better life is not reincarnation as I know it. A better life comes from being happy and inner realizations. Now if helping others adds to that, well then, it's great.

Each of the small enlightenments that a Zen practitioner has, which are known in Zen as "Satori experiences," provides deeper insights into the nature of existence and helps a person prepare for complete enlightenment.

A war undertaken and brazenly carried on for the perpetual enslavement of colored men, calls logically and loudly for colored men to help suppress it.

It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives; they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives.