Discouraging Quotes - Page 6

• I'm not denying that in the world there's been some tremendous musical happenings, like DJ Shadow or whatever, that kind of thing. But when it goes into the weird thing where you get a remix done by a certain person because they need a brand name, that's when it becomes really discouraging.

  Paul Morley

  Names, Musical, Shadow

  Source: www.chaoscontrol.com

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• I certainly discourage people getting involved with any group or organization that foster living a homosexual lifestyle.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Organization, People, Groups

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• Likewise the piercing of the body for multiple rings in the ears, in the nose, even in the tongue. Can they possibly think that is beautiful? It is a passing fancy, but its effects can be permanent. Some have gone to such extremes that the ring had to be removed by surgery. The First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve have declared that we discourage tattoos and also “the piercing of the body for other than medical purposes.” We do not, however, take any position “on the minimal piercing of the ears by women for one pair of earrings”-one pair only.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Tattoo, Beautiful, Thinking

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• We should also build the attitude that there is nothing of a vacation, nothing of a holiday in this great missionary service. It is hard, and at times discouraging, work. Last year our missionaries averaged sixty-seven hours a week in actual proselyting effort. Let those who contemplate missions realize that they will work as they have never worked before, and that they may expect such joy as they have not previously known.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Attitude, Holiday, Vacation

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• We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It's a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don't want to die.

  Umberto Eco

  Escaping, Want, Way

  "'We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die'". Interview with Susanne Beyer and Lothar Gorris, www.spiegel.de. November 11, 2009.

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• Modern society seems to be a celebration of all the things that lead away from the Truth, make Truth hard to live for, and discourage people from even believing that it exists.
  And to think that all this springs from a civilization that claims to adore life, but actually starves it of any real meaning; that endlessly speaks of making people “happy”, but in fact blocks their way to the source of real joy.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Block, Spring, Real

  Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• All corporatism - even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea - encourages inflexibility, discourages individual accountability, and risks magnifying errors by concealing them.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Hard Work, Errors, Korea

  "Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World". Book by Margaret Thatcher, April 16, 2002.

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• It is very discouraging to be in a team with white athletes. On the track you are Tommie Smith, the fastest man in the world, but once you are in the dressing rooms you are nothing more than a dirty Negro.

  Tommie Smith

  Team, Dirty, Athlete

  "1968: Black athletes make silent protest". news.bbc.co.uk. September 1967.

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• When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Political, Honor, Progress

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• It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.

  Mark Twain

  Wisdom, Mind, Trying

  Mark Twain (2010). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.177, Univ of California Press

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• 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.

  Etgar Keret

  Stories, Embarrassing, Situation

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• I'd address his way of trying to discourage Ian later. After all, he could have come up with something other than saying I was a whiny, smelly, trumpet-snoring bad lay.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Trying, Addresses, Way

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• The boy heaved a sigh. "I would ask to go with you," he said, " but I have to finish my lessons. I so look forward to the day when I know everything. Then I won't have to read any more books or do any more counting." Beatrix smiled. "I don't wish to be discouraging, Rye, but it's not possible to know everything." "Mama does." Rye paused reflectively. "At least, Papa says we mus t pretend she does, because it makes her happy." "Your father," Beatrix informed him with a laugh, " is one of the wisest men I've ever known.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Father, Book, Men

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• I would rediscover the secret of great communications and great combustions. I would say storm. I would say river. I would say tornado. I would say leaf. I would say tree. I would be drenched by all rains, moistened by all dews. I would roll like frenetic blood on the slow current of the eye of words turned into mad horses into fresh children into clots into curfew into vestiges of temples into precious stones remote enough to discourage miners. Whoever would not understand me would not understand any better the roaring of a tiger.

  Aime Cesaire

  Horse, Children, Rain

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• A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him.

  Napoleon Hill

  Taken, Mind, Genius

  Napoleon Hill (1993). “Napoleon Hill's a Year of Growing Rich: 52 Steps to Achieving Life's Rewards”, p.4, Penguin

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• I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms are in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people, which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Government, Punishment

  Letter to James Madison, 30 Jan. 1787

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• Trying to predict the future is a discouraging and hazardous occupation. If by some miracle a prophet could describe the future exactly as it was going to take place, his predictions would sound so absurd that people everyone would laugh him to scorn. The only thing we can be sure of about the future is that it will be absolutely fantastic. So, if what I say now seems to you to be very reasonable, then I will have failed completely. Only if what I tell you appears absolutely unbelievable have we any chance of visualizing the future as it really will happen.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Laughing, People, Miracle

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• On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, Birth Rate, Today

  Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.295, Inkling Books

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• As an advocate of birth control I wish ... to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and the 'fit,' admittedly the greatest present menace to civilization, can never be rectified by the inauguration of a cradle competition between these two classes. In this matter, the example of the inferior classes, the fertility of the feeble-minded, the mentally defective, the poverty-stricken classes, should not be held up for emulation.... On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.

  Margaret Sanger

  Eugenics, Civilization, Class

  "The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda". "Birth Control Review", (p. 5), October 1921.

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• It's sometimes discouraging to see all of a director's movies, because there's so much repetition. The auteurists took this to be a sign of a director's artistry, that you could recognize his movies. But it can also be a sign that he's a hack.

  Pauline Kael

  Directors, Sometimes, Repetition

  Pauline Kael, Francis Davis (2002). “Afterglow: A Last Conversation with Pauline Kael”

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• I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any ordinary taste for literature.

  Edward Bellamy

  Book, People, Liberty

  Edward Bellamy (2000). “Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887”, p.101, Applewood Books

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• If we send industrialists to jail, we would be discouraging investment.

  Salman Khurshid

  Jail, Would Be, Investment

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• Avoid any diet that discourages the use of hot fudge.

  Don Kardong

  Running, Weight Loss, Hot

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• The marriage-based society...discourages all the competing alternatives to marriage. You can't have a marriage-based society and a social value of sexual freedom. They don't work together

  Scott Lively

  Gay, Social Values, Together

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• The larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment. When the total tax burden grows beyond a bearable size, the problem of devising taxes that will not discourage and disrupt production becomes insoluble.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Taken, Political, Income

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.35, Crown Business

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