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Quotes About Discouraging

The news was its usual discouraging self—people in Chicago can't help but shoot at each other, and we only hear about the ones who didn't miss.
~ Jordan Castillo Price
I stand looking at the aircraft, trying in vain to remember all the theoretical lore which i was supposed to have absorbed in school. The effort is discouraging.
~ Ernest K. Gann
Arizona really has been a trailblazer in discouraging illegal immigration.
~ Kris Kobach
This was exactly what I had noticed about the "stopping" aspect of First Steps. When we try a new habit for the first time, it feels full of promise, even if it's arduous. But most of that excitement is gone the second time, and the habit's drawbacks are more apparent. Plus, there's the discouraging feeling of having lost ground, of going backwards. "Hang in there," I said.
~ Gretchen Rubin
This was exactly what I had noticed about the "stopping" aspect of First Steps. When we try a new habit for the first time, it feels full of promise, even if it's arduous. But most of that excitement is gone the second time, and the habit's drawbacks are more apparent. Plus, there's the discouraging feeling of having lost ground, of going backwards.
~ Gretchen Rubin
discouraging as he'd been, hadn't actually hit on my real worry about my project: Was it supremely self-centered to spend so much effort on my own happiness?
~ Gretchen Rubin
It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me.
~ Bo Derek
Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful than charitable.
~ Michael Crichton
He often argued that human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful than charitable
~ Michael Crichton
Flies are of course always irksome, but the Australian variety distinguishes itself with its very particular persistence. If an Australian fly wants to be up your nose or in your ear, there is no discouraging him. Flick at him as you will and each time he will jump out of range and come straight back. It is simply not possible to deter him.
~ Bill Bryson
It's so hard going into a performance that you've worked all week for and put so much time and effort into and when a silly little simple mistake that's never happened before happens, it can be really discouraging.
~ Jenna Johnson
It's discouraging for me to come out there and watch the lack of fan support for a good team.
~ Jerry West
YouTube can sometimes be really discouraging. When I first started doing it, I almost stopped doing it.
~ Bethany Mota
It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me.
~ Bo Derek
I like to be hands-on because that's what motivates me. I like to involved from the ground-breaking to ribbon-cutting to auditing the funds. Just giving money away is a little discouraging because I don't know where it is going.
~ apl.de.ap
The Left, however, resists anglicizing Spanish terms because its political agenda relies on encouraging illegal immigration from Latin America and discouraging the assimilation of Hispanics into American society.
~ Michael J. Knowles
Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors.
~ Lucas Papademos
It is always a painful process and often a most discouraging one. The process continues until all that can be shaken is removed and only those things which cannot be shaken remain. Through this shaking the deliverance for which we prayed is accomplished. Through it all, we will be brought into the secure place for which we long."3
~ Neil T. Anderson
It is no disaster to be unhappy but how discouraging it must be to know that there is nothing to pin the blame on, outside oneself?
~ Gerard Reve
My progress report concerning my journey to the palace of wisdom is discouraging. I lack certain indispensable aptitudes. Furthermore, it appears that I packed the wrong things.
~ James Baldwin
My progress report concerning my journey to the palace of wisdom is discouraging.
~ James Baldwin
At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.
~ Adam Schiff
There is somebody not far from you at this moment, my doubting, discouraged friend, who could step into your place and command victory with the resources which you think so inadequate for the work you have to do. There is somebody who has no more ability than you have who could see an unusual opportunity in the situation which you find so hopeless, so discouraging.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.
~ Ernest Hemingway