I have always discouraged young writers from self-publishing, by which I mean going to a vanity publisher and spending your hard earned savings – say, some two-three lakhs – and getting your book printed. It’s not published; it’s printed!
When a common man is discouraged to buy a movie ticket, it becomes a concern for the entire film industry. I think entertainment tax is too steep.
Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That’s not the place to become discouraged.
What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.
I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.
I always knew how to cook and at one point in my career where I had done nine television pilots before Three’s Company and they all failed, I just got discouraged.
A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying – but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.
The reason that I discouraged my boys as I was discouraged was not because of wrestling itself. The reason I discouraged them as a father was from having lived the lifestyle – like my father did – and understanding the hardships that come along with it. It’s not the wrestling itself. It’s the 90 percent divorce rate.
If you fail, do not be discouraged.
I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn’t see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education.
Even missionaries get discouraged at times.
Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.
I have become down-hearted, I have become discouraged, I have become depressed. I’m just like you. I’m a human being and I have my problems.
I love some of the most hateful tweets. I think they’re very funny. In the negative attacks on me, there are frequently some real displays of humor. I want to reply, but I won’t, because there are all sorts of other people making serious points that I care about, and I don’t want them to be discouraged.
Every time I wrote fiction, I was discouraged, and every time I wrote nonfiction, I was encouraged.
Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.
There’s something about when it gives a shockingly incorrect answer with the same chirpy HAL 9000 voice that feels so hopeful. Watson won’t get discouraged, it will just try again.
Aim to write for an hour per day. I used to be a teacher, and an hour a day before school was all it took for me to write my first book. Don’t get discouraged if a holiday or illness interrupts your writing habit. Just start it up again.
It would be really easy to get discouraged over gun safety, and I have to explain all the time why I am not giving up and why people should not give up.
As children, my siblings and I were actively discouraged from acting. I have no memories of going on set with my parents – aside from ‘Gulliver’s Travels.’
You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who come to applaud you. And to me, those people are very important.
If I read or listened to critics of our music, I’d have been discouraged a long time ago.
I want to venture out into music education for kids. As a child, I was discouraged by a lack of money, and now I want to use my platform to give back to kids without resources.
Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It’s a mysterious process.
I won’t tell you that I’ve never been discouraged. Of course I have; as a human being, that’s bound to happen.
I’m just glad when I was fighting for us to wrestle I would always have people tell me, ‘Gail, women’s wrestling is for the bathroom breaks, you know they really don’t want to see it.’ I would get discouraged a little bit but I was very adamant, so I’m glad that we girls proved them wrong.
You can’t get discouraged when you lose games because basketball is such a process and so much happens during each practice and game.
I know when I get down and discouraged, it’s hard for me to be able to just see anything except for right where I am.
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