Helping Quotes - Page 98

My faith protects me. My Kevlar helps.

Making women the sexual gatekeepers and telling men they just can't help themselves not only drives home the point that women's sexuality is unnatural, but also sets up a disturbing dynamic in which women are expected to be responsible for men's sexual behavior.

[Nabokov's] language is made visible . . . like a veil or transparent curtain. You cannot help seeing the curtain as you peek into the intimate rooms behind.

There are many things you can point to as proof that the human is not smart. But my personal favorite would have to be that we needed to invent the helmet. What was happening, apparently, was that we were involved in a lot of activities that were cracking our heads. We chose not to avoid doing those activities but, instead, to come up with some sort of device to help us enjoy our head-cracking lifestyles.

I was lucky to receive help at the beginning of my career and now I want to help other writers as much as I can.

Stop helping everyone else make their films, and enlist them to help you make yours. This is an exaggeration, but the point is - you are the one person who cares the most about your project, so you have to take the leadership in driving it forward.

A good therapist uses their whole being to engage fully with the whole being of the person coming for help.

Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.

It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese.

Help people see themselves in your future vision to motivate them to help make change happen.

Retire for what? What would I do? I made my name as a person that is helping. I'm like Moses in the music business.

She had always told herself that she did hti job because she wanted to help others; afterall, hadn't Maurice told her once that the most important question any individual could ask was, "How might I serve?" If her response to that question had been pure, surely she would have coninued with the calling to be a nurse.... But that role hadn't been quite enough for her. She would have missed the excitement, the thrill when she embarked on the work of collecting clues to support a case.

When [my father] asked me to help him, I really didn't suspect the consequences.

Health is actually the foundational tool to help us live the life.

Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty.

You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.

Anyone who wants to help me doesn't. Anyone who wants to kill me might. Anyone who wants to love me better not.

I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth.

But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me.

You can write better about a place you've seen for yourself. You don't have to have been there - I've sure written about places I've never seen - but it does help.

Well, demonization itself can help ... to provide an alibi. You succumb to the Devil incarnate, and as a result you're not guilty yourself.

The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired.

I worked in fashion forecasting and I think that helps in being an editor because I love to know what's next, and I like to predict. I like to predict the trends going into the shows and normally I've organized all of our stories before we go. Fashion is my second language.

To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.

Helping people helps defines a strategy that makes public and private moneys more effective when it comes to helping save lives.