The problem is there aren`t many calls for 7`4 black actors. Still, if I had let myself get discouraged I wouldn`t be here now. I believe in myself and my acting." (from a 1985 "Starlog" interview)
Kevin Hall
Everyone wants to learn something; maybe not everyone makes the effort, because they get discouraged. I certainly was like that as a teenager in Brooklyn, always trying to hide my ignorance. But you have to find the strength to acknowledge that ignorance ...
Harvey Keitel
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn`t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore faith in yourself.
Lucille Ball
[on acting in films] I think it`s real easy to look at what`s out there and get discouraged. I was never the best-looking guy, I was never the `Tom Cruise`-looking guy. I think the biggest thing I can say is, "Don`t compare yourself". Focus on making you ...
Craig Sheffer
What happened was you had a lot of girls that were just getting discouraged about playing, ... To encourage enough girls to participate, they came up with the 80 percent rule.
William Byrd
We talk about little things, about the NBA, about not getting discouraged. He is playing well. I hope he makes it that we can have a dunk-contest winner and a Sixth Man Award winner.
Spud Webb
We played most of the game like we weren`t nervous, but we have to learn to be the aggressor. We can`t get discouraged. We have to keep working. We can compete with the teams in this region.
Donald Thompson
They (schools) want them to be able to read and write when they`re in kindergarten. For some kids it works out but for some kids, they don`t have the motivation, the interest and maturity level and when these kids can`t do it they get very discouraged.
Arnold Toynbee
She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.
Al Sinclair
Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it`s also in the system, the society.
James Hillman
Peter showed an extraordinary ability not to become discouraged when he gets into deep water or heavy current. We don`t see levels like that very often.
Aron Buchman
On one level, I enjoyed the irony of the situation: a girl who`s from a Cuban or Puerto Rican household who`s been discouraged from speaking Spanish.
Jim McKay
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.
Andy Bellin
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.
Andy Bellin
Many times I felt like I`d do better than what the director did, but some of them got a little discouraged because they didn`t have full charge of making the film, and sometimes there`d be battles of egos.
Ray Harryhausen
Many POWs went home and were discouraged from talking about their time in Taiwan. Therefore, we must work harder to make sure these men are never forgotten.
Michael Hurst
It`s a question of why they come for your advice. Whatever I tell you, it doesn`t matter, it is completely irrelevant in a way. I know so many actors who were discouraged and put that aside. You will get half-baked opinions.
Michael York
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.
Dyan Cannon
Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
Napoleon Hill
