Words matter. These are the best Discouraging Quotes from famous people such as Noel Coward, Lucas Papademos, Bo Derek, John Wayne, Adam Schiff, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors.
It’s really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven’t. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me.
Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.
At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.
If you discourage saving and investment, that means you’re walking in the opposite direction of job creation. You’re discouraging good job creation and job growth.
I have had my share of flops and it’s very discouraging. It’s pathetic to be on that side.
Managers who don’t lead are quite discouraging, but leaders who don’t manage don’t know what’s going on. It’s a phony separation that people are making between the two.
In 2017, it’s discouraging that it seems like we’re going backward. And that’s not just because of Trump; that’s because we, as humans, condone discrimination; it’s a human issue. It’s part of something bigger.
It’s always discouraging to lose. You look at it and think, ‘Man, what’s going on?’ It’s always discouraging. But I’m a fighter. I don’t like to quit.
The Left, however, resists anglicizing Spanish terms because its political agenda relies on encouraging illegal immigration from Latin America and discouraging the assimilation of Hispanics into American society.
You’re not supposed to stop and listen and spy on people practicing. It’s supposed to be a private thing. But it’s when you come face-to-face with yourself and you look for your flaws and you try to fix them yourself, it’s a really intimidating process. It can be very discouraging.
You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.
I used to be a retailer, and I find it discouraging when somebody comes in and they pick something up and they say, ‘Now if you’ll sell it to me without the sales tax, I’ll buy it.’
There’s parts of Sydney totally indistinguishable from West London. It’s exactly the same – the sense of capitulation, discouraging assimilation.
It’s discouraging for me to come out there and watch the lack of fan support for a good team.
I’m a Scorpio with a Pisces moon. I am very critical of myself. I’m actually way less critical of others than I am of myself. I’m in my own head a lot. It’s hard and really discouraging.
I always loved skating but you can get hardened by it and it’s discouraging and disheartening.
When my films don’t do well, I’m hurt and surprised. It’s discouraging.
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.
We should be encouraging moms to breastfeed their infants, not discouraging it by unfairly judging and discriminating against nursing mothers.
Develop resilience and be brave. There are days when it is very discouraging. You have to develop personal resilience to environmental things that come along. If you let every single environmental challenge knock you off your game, it’s going to be very, very hard.
If you’re trying to invent something new, you’re going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.
We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
It’s always discouraging when you don’t have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.
It’s often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it’s all utterly pointless.
It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
It’s the bedsit culture: people get a cat, and then, in a few months, when they move on or go travelling, they just throw the animal out. It’s so discouraging.
YouTube can sometimes be really discouraging. When I first started doing it, I almost stopped doing it.
It would be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct and it said, ‘Yes, it is true, but you won’t be able to understand the proof.’
Playing someone difficult is tough and can be discouraging, but if you beat them the payoff is huge!
I have to say that when I first started singing, I didn’t think it was a very noble profession. I worked for people like Robert Kennedy and I thought: ‘Wow, that’s what it’s about. That’s how you change the world.’ And then I watched that disintegrate in front of my eyes, and it was very discouraging.
Managing can be more discouraging than playing, especially when you’re losing because when you’re a player, there are at least individual goals you can shoot for. When you’re a manager all the worries of the team become your worries.
It’s so hard going into a performance that you’ve worked all week for and put so much time and effort into and when a silly little simple mistake that’s never happened before happens, it can be really discouraging.
I don’t have Facebook or Twitter accounts yet. Being a compulsive storyteller, I always make up for myself discouraging stories about how such accounts will get me into embarrassing and time-consuming situations.
I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn’t know what was ahead of me.
I was lucky to marry Paul. He was a great inspiration, his enthusiasm about wine and food helped to shape my tastes, and his encouragement saw me through discouraging moments. I never would have had my career without Paul Child.
I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
Arizona really has been a trailblazer in discouraging illegal immigration.