Discouraging Quotes - Page 8

• Private charity discourages poverty while public subsidies encourage it.

  James Cook

  Charity, Subsidies, Poverty

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• Transfer payments discourage the recipients from earning income in the present and from investing in their potential to earn income in the future. People respond to a reduced cost of idleness by choosing to be idle more often.

  Robert Higgs

  People, Income, Cost

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• Pursuing your dreams involves you accepting where you want to go. Don't allow anybody else to talk you out of things or discourage you from doing whatever you want to do. You can hold on to your dream and never pursue it or you can start pursuing it. If you can see it, or if you can envision it... it can happen.

  J. B. Smoove

  Dream, Want, Accepting

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• The invention of writing will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom.

  Socrates

  Memories, Writing, Character

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• Journalistic information and presentation actually discourage action... we think we know, and because we think we know, we think we care. But it stops there.

  Alfredo Jaar

  Thinking, Care, Information

  Alfredo Jaar, Willie Avon Drake, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (1991). “Alfredo Jaar: geography”, Virginia Commonwealth Univ

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• We live in an imbalanced society when it comes to encouraging male sexuality and discouraging female sexuality.

  Demi Lovato

  Males, Female, Sexuality

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• So it's discouraging and, yet, when you make a movie like Wonder Boys, in a sense it's its own reward, because it does move people, it gets great reviews, and it becomes part of that library of movies that exist out there. As time goes by, it will find its audience.

  Curtis Hanson

  Moving, Boys, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There are two things that a playwright can have. Success or failure. I imagine there are dangers in both. Certainly the danger of being faced with indifference or hostility is discouraging, and it may be that success - acceptance if it's too quick, too lightning-quick - can turn the heads of some people.

  Edward Albee

  Acceptance, Two, People

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.65, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I think the biggest pushback comes from people who perceive me to be a threat. Having bloggers who are dedicated to making up false information about you, having anonymous people write nasty emails and letters, having organizations file legal requests for your work-related emails, and all the other things that happen can be very depressing and discouraging.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Depressing, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As Indigenous peoples, we know there is more to the world. We know spirits exist. We know as women, because we're especially attuned to this kind of knowledge, that spirits exist and have a presence in our lives. Some of us are gifted and can communicate with the spirit world. Not everyone has that gift and can perceive the borders between the living and the dead and our society actively discourages us of exploring the knowledge of what many of us have already always known in our cultures.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Borders, Culture, World

  "The Rumpus Interview With Sandra Cisneros". Interview with Olivia, January 13, 2016.

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• A lot of times you tell yourself no with things, a lot of times you discourage yourself. I've told myself yes more than no, and with those yeses, I've been able to actually have a career.

  Cedric Yarbrough

  Careers, Able

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• If top marginal income tax rates are set too high, they discourage productive economic activity. In the limit, a top marginal income tax rate of 100 percent would mean that taxpayers would gain nothing from working harder or investing more. In contrast, a higher top marginal rate on consumption would actually encourage savings and investment. A top marginal consumption tax rate of 100 percent would simply mean that if a wealthy family spent an extra dollar, it would also owe an additional dollar of tax.

  Robert H. Frank

  Mean, Dollars, Income

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• There is a struggle inside you between these two parts. It's as if at times your heart becomes a battlefield! The secret part, full of light, seems so small and weak in the face of the discouraging and morbid part, which seems enormous and overwhelming. However, if you light a small candle in a dark room, everything is lit up. It is a matter of trusting in this little light in the deepest part of your being which can gradually chase away the darkness.

  Jean Vanier

  Struggle, Heart, Dark

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• Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Summer, Fall, Boys

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• The story of the gospel is so much better than the legal model suggests. It tells us that we are created as God's partners, not God's enemies. Sin does a lot of damage to that partnership - it disables us, it discourages us, it disturbs us - but it never destroys the bond that exists between God and humanity.

  Doug Pagitt

  Humanity, Enemy, Doe

  Doug Pagitt (2012). “A Christianity Worth Believing: Hope-filled, Open-armed, Alive-and-well Faith for the Left Out, Left Behind, and Let Down in us All”, p.85, John Wiley & Sons

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• For a long time I thought-'I've got to buck up and be strong. I've got to put on a brave face-and get through this near burn-out or that discouraging time in my life,'" "God has really seriously changed my thinking on this. When you take off the mask, you relate at a base level to everyone else who has been through pain-and everyone has. Honesty promotes intimacy and promotes us together relying on God. True honesty is beautiful.

  Rebecca St. James

  Beautiful, Strong, Pain

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• There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson - real lows. And it's never come back. It's a trend that, if you're liberal, is really discouraging.

  Robert Caro

  Real, Government, Feelings

  "Robert Caro: a life with LBJ and the pursuit of power" by Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2012.

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• The learned are seldom pretty fellows, and in many cases their appearance tends to discourage a love of study in the young.

  H. L. Mencken

  Study, Appearance, Cases

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• You're also looking at a global warming solution here in Europe: smaller vehicles, more energy efficient, many which use diesel fuel which is more efficient. And the price of gas here is $6 a gallon to discourage guzzling. A lot of big ideas and innovations coming out of Europe.

  Chris Cuomo

  Europe, Ideas, Innovation

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• Limitation is a good discipline because it discourages inappropriate generalization, which distracts attention from the profound, particular complexity that characterizes anything at all.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Discipline, Profound, Attention

  "One of Obama’s Favorite Writers Redefines Spirituality". Interview with Gregory Barber, www.motherjones.com. October 25, 2015.

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• Some kids are fine, but often I don't like what I see in child actors. My kids are young and they are already showing an interest, so I have to try to discourage them, squash that in them.

  John Leguizamo

  Children, Kids, Squash

  "Ice Age 2 - John Leguizamo (Sid) interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Don't ever give up. You can't let discouragement get you down. You can always find negative people that will try to discourage you from your goals. You can't be discouraged, and you can't let the word "no" stop you.

  Paula Deen

  Giving Up, People, Goal

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• I wanted to be an actor ever since I was five. My grandparents - my mom's parents in New York - were stage actors. I think indirectly I wanted to do it because of them. My grandfather would tell me stories about Tennessee Williams and actors he worked with in New York. He had such a respect for acting and such a love for storytelling about that world. I grew up hearing him tell tales of it.They were never encouraging me or discouraging me to take part. They were always feeding me with theater.

  Lydia Wilson

  Thinking, Grandparent, Grandfather

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The enemy will hit you in your area of strength to discourage himself.

  Johnny Hunt

  Leadership, Enemy, Areas

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• When we have an effort made at sanctions involving many other nations it has a potential of greater impact on Russia and discouraging Putin.

  Kelly Ayotte

  Effort

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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