Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
William Arthur Ward
What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it
Thomas Carlyle
While we are living in a time which demands us to urgently pay attention to such things as Climate change and Global warming, we also live in a time where we all need to encourage each other to be part of a shift and climate change in human consciousness ...
Q`Orianka Kilcher
Mate, he did that to himself. I have little time for the Oliver Reeds of this business. I`m not pleased that he`s gone. In fact, I never had a drink with Oliver, because I didn`t want to encourage him. I`ll go for long periods without a drink. When I`m on...
Russell Crowe
[On how much he disliked working on Star Wars (1977) and his attempts to encourage George Lucas to kill off Obi-Wan Kenobi]: And he agreed with me. What I didn`t tell him was that I just couldn`t go on speaking those bloody awful, banal lines. I`d had eno...
Alec Guinness
`I encourage my boys to do stuff in the arts, but I`m also an advocate of not taking any sh.., I have a heavy bag and every morning the boys go three 3-minute rounds on the heavy bag with the gloves".
Michael Madsen
On auditioning for the role of Luna - I really wanted to go, because if I didn`t I never would have known, and I`d have been annoyed with myself. They had to pick someone, so why couldn`t I have a go? It`s like in the script, when Harry`s trying to encour...
Evanna Lynch
Some scenes have to be done exactly as they are written in the scripts because otherwise the pace would suffer, like that. But then there are scenes which allow a space for improvisation and then I like to encourage improvisation, but you have to always h...
Milos Forman
I want all of my films to belong to me. There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made. Which is why I want Sideways (2004) to succeed, to encourage other film-makers.
Alexander Payne
You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.
Jim Stovall
With regard to the youth vote we should encourage them to partake in the process, making more use of our education system to show the role Government plays in their lives, but also utilise the youth media they relate to to better connect them to our messa...
Adam Rickitt
While we certainly encourage donations to worthy relief organizations, NOW is the time when we need help in order to `pick up the slack` as more than 100 U.S. Border Patrol Agents have been reassigned from Arizona and New Mexico to aid the victims of Hurr...
Anthony Cabot
What we should be trying to do is to encourage people to establish private retirement accounts and help them take pressure off the Social Security system.
Dennis Moore
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`re here to promote the entrepreneurial endeavors of students. We want to encourage the broadest thinking about starting your own business. We do it to encourage college students to consider the option of becoming entrepreneurs.
David Archer
We`re here to promote the entrepreneurial endeavors of students. We want to encourage the broadest thinking about starting your own business. We do it to encourage college students to consider the option of becoming entrepreneurs.
David Archer
We`re going to have to start thinking more seriously about fuel efficiency, about conservation, ... You`re not going to change our habits overnight, but we can look at some things to encourage people.
Bill Black
We`re also fairly stubborn, I think, fairly independent. We have our share of difficulties with our federal government, although I`ve tried to as I am here encourage a better way of discussing those problems.
Dan Miller
We want them to have fun. We have our section leaders hold at least five sectional rehearsals during the summer and we encourage two of those to be totally social such as going bowling or swimming together. This should be a very fun time of their lives an...
Paul Clark
We strongly encourage organizations to promote the Republican message of freedom, security and continued economic growth locally and are interested to see the positive results of the chairman`s efforts in doing just that,
Camille Anderson
We sing for not ourselves but for seniors, for sick people who can not sing or dance, to encourage them. There have been a lot of changes in the Indian country but the values are the same about love, respect, honor and art of living.
Michael Jacobs
We rely on the community to come in and support our organization. And when they see the banners not only will they tie it into an event, they`ll also tie it into our facility. It will encourage attendance for other things as well.
Amy Anderson
We really have the guidance counselors encourage students to take the courses that help them prepare for the SAT and to take that test,
Anita Broccolino
We need a national energy strategy to increase domestic supply, stabilize prices and encourage the development of new, clean sources of power.
Alison Adburgham