#helpful

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

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

And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years. ↗

— Lynn Redgrave

#british #grateful #helpful #i #lip

The idea seems to be to use the next treaty talks to strike a grand bargain: Britain will be helpful to those states wishing to establish a fiscal union among themselves if, in exchange, we can amicably derogate from the aspects of the EU which we dislike. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#aspects #bargain #britain #dislike #establish

Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question. ↗

— Russell Simmons

#helpful #how #judgment #people #question

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#america #color #every #every man #face

When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points. ↗

— Confucius

#inspirational #introspection #karma #self-improvement #inspirational

When I was a Republican governor, he was obviously a Democratic president, but on issue after issue after issue, President Obama was very helpful to us in education, in the environment, with the handling of the BP oil spill. ↗

— Charlie Crist

#democratic #education #environment #governor #handling

I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#annoying #audience #din #fraud #fright