Quotes About Support

My mum didn't want me to really pursue music in the beginning, but I'm a classically trained guitarist because of her.

I chucked my CA final exams to pursue modeling. My parents objected to this, but they soon came around. And after seeing my maiden movie Tum Bin, they were happy beyond words!

My parents have always wanted me to pursue a dignified career.

Mom wanted to pursue dancing further but she could not, so I think she channelled it through me.

It is our duty as legislators to protect the success of our students as they pursue higher education.

I probably wouldn't have pursued comedy further if my friends didn't tell me that my getting kicked off the stage was the funniest thing they'd ever seen.

No one pursued music professionally in my family but they are all music lovers.

I'd like my children to learn that anything is possible if you put your mind to it, and that when you make a decision to do something like pursuing the Olympics, like I have, it needs to be a family affair.

There are people in Baghdad pursuing the initiative that I started, and I want to give them every chance of success. I don't want to provide any distractions.

I know that my father was a little nervous about me pursuing a career in the arts.

My daughter is going to college and I'm very proud of her and my son is pursuing his own career in rap.

As a general principle, the American people would be well served by the active pursuit of effective policies to support longer-run growth in productivity.

When I was writing or competing in individual sports, it felt unfulfilling and lonely. When I was able to find a group of people I believed in and liked, that all worked in pursuit of a common goal, it felt incredibly rewarding.

Footballers have to help each other out. Everybody must give his best in pursuit of common goals - not individual ones. This has been the German approach through our football history.

I would say get to know somebody who isn't exactly like you and doesn't come from the same background as you, educate yourself and then just keep showing up. Finding ways to show up for people and your voice will come out of that relationship and out of your pursuit to seeing people who aren't exactly like you.

Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.

I didn't push Cory. I wanted him to decide if he wanted to go into boxing and he did. Can't blame it on me.

You need a team. You need people to push you. You need opponents.

I fought for seven years to have creche facilities at the Okinawa Institute of Science of Technology - and was ultimately successful. Less successful have been efforts to get a creche at the new Crick Institute in London, but this is something I will continue to push for.

We have to get behind the scientists and push for a dementia breakthrough. It could be that we fear dementia out of a sense of hopelessness, but there is hope, and it rests in the hands of our scientists.

As a successful artist it is my job to give the indie scene as much of a push as I can.

I always pull over for people who need a push.

My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided to get with the program. Maybe I'd be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more.

Being a mother is more exhausting than working, and sometimes I push myself too hard and burn myself out. I can appreciate how exhausting it must be for women who have to do everything themselves all the time.