#raging

If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#give #going #invent #lot #most

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. ↗

— Al Lopez

#become #discouraging #especially #goals #individual

Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#awards #books #degrees #encouragement #encouraging

There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#alcoholism #books #die #encouraging #essays

And then to end up with a total of 347 wins, averaging 10 regular season wins for 33 years and the best winning percentage, and I'm very proud of this, of any professional team from 1970 to 1996. ↗

— Don Shula

#averaging #best #end #i #percentage

Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#did #discouraging #get #give #go

I'd like to do a television show that is encouraging, useful, and clean, and I'd like to go up against Entertainment Tonight and beat it. ↗

— John Tesh

#beat #clean #encouraging #entertainment #go

Sigh like the wind--open your arms, your chest, your heart--and all creatures will hum to you. ↗

— Penelope Smith

#inspirational #positive #communication

I will bend hearts and open doors that would otherwise be closed to you. ↗

— T. Romel Blossom

#inspirational #inspirational

All my life I've lived with a future which constantly diminishes but never vanishes. ↗

— Mark Doty

#encouraging #life