(1213 quotes found)
“You encourage, you push and pull. You look out at your colleagues and say, 'Yes, you can.' To bring [performers] past the limitations of their own potential is leadership. All fine leaders conducting from the podium have that. Emotion is what it's all about. Music-making without emotion and passion is nothing. I'm never looking for a perfect performance, I'm looking for an impassioned performance.”
Lorin Maazel
“When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable”
Benjamin Spock
“What's encouraging about meditation is that even if we shut down, we can no longer shut down in ignorance. We see very clearly that we're closing off. That in itself begins to illuminate the darkness of ignorance.”
Pema Chodron
“My mom still eats meat. I will encourage her when it's appropriate to not eat meat. In fact, when we sit down at a table to eat, I don't hesitate to tell her how gross eating meat seems just as often as she nags me about my driving when we are in a car together.”
Casey Affleck
“We must encourage the commercialization of technologies that are compatible with existing infrastructure. What makes plug-in hybrids promising is that they are; we don't need a Manhattan Project to make this happen.”
James Woolsey
“Success is that feeling that comes after overcoming a failure, you will not feel it as long as you are not failing, so be proud of your failures, they are the path to your success”
Mina Tadros
“Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have.Today can be a healthy unusual day for you -- and for others -- if you take time to give someone a smile . . . to express a word of kindness . . . to lend a helping hand to someone in need . . . to write a note of gratitude . . . to give a word of encouragement to someone who is temporarily overcome with problems . . . to share a portion of your material possessions with others.”
William Arthur Ward
“If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.”
Romeo LeBlanc
“I'm quite encouraged by the results and at this point do not know whether an actual investigation will be convened and if so, with regard to which specific allegations,”
Ward Churchill
“That gives me tremendous encouragement and optimism for the human race in general, that people choose to go off and do their own things.”
Bruce Dickinson
