#helpful

People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works. ↗

— David McCullough

#doing #explain #helpful #how #people

Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid. ↗

— Bernard Meltzer

#answer #ask #before #going #helpful

If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks. ↗

— Maria Montessori

#arbitrary #arrest #avoid #complete #educational

It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#become #brain #career #frees #get

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

— Kevin Pietersen

#been #both #captain #communications #direct

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. ↗

— Luther Burbank

#always #better #flowers #food #happier

Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#aid #certain #despise #elevation #helpful

The Strait of Hormuz is an international waterway, and it is not helpful for any nation to suggest that it would attempt to restrict traffic through the strait. ↗

— John C. Stennis

#attempt #helpful #international #nation #restrict

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. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

#getting #helpful #insightful #involves #lost

One of my favorite tools is 'flip it.' 'Flip it' can become your new favorite mantra when you are having one of those mean thoughts. You can choose to flip it and change how you are feeling about yourself in that moment. This is helpful at any age. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#age #any #become #change #choose