Helpful Quotes

It’s been very helpful for my career, but I’m trying to stay on the path I was on before.

Some critics have commented that understanding the specific Brazilian political context of the novel is helpful for reading Quiet Creature. This may be true, but it’s not prerequisite for understanding it.

Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions – adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers – none can equal the Internet.

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

Dissenting opinions are useful even when they’re wrong. So instead of speaking to highly agreeable audiences, target suggestions to people with a history of originality.

If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.

It was universal pressure on the regime to secure my release. International pressure was certainly helpful in my release.

There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get along, but that’s not going to be very helpful for us in the long run, in terms of solving our problems. And somebody has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to, you know, the bullies.

I was always observing my siblings and hearing stories about their lives that turned out to be helpful as an actress.

The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.