Quotes About Encouragement

I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for the younger ones also in the fact that Ireland is exceptional in its ability to make theater part of the national dialogue, and it reaches to all four corners of the country.

When you tell your kids they can be anything, you've got to be careful. I told my kids that, and I ended up with a music producer and an interior designer. But they're doing it.

The beauty of having a producer is that you have someone who says, You're finished.

My mum's father was a producer and her mother was an actress, so my mum was fully behind me going into acting.

One thing I've learned is that the best thing a producer can do is help you be you.

My producer for the first 'Kung Fu Panda' movie, Melissa Cobb, is an amazing woman. She's supersmart and helps push everyone - male, female, anyone - to do their best.

As an actor I think sometimes producers need a little bit of encouragement to see you in a particular role, they may not have as much imagination as you would expect.

Shaming people isn't productive. That makes you feel bad about yourself.

Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.

My parents never said to me, 'Why don't you go and get a real profession?' And that really helped.

My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist.

How can we salute - encourage the American spirit? That means many different things to many different people.

I see dog stories as an antidote to the dire news that nothing is ever going to get better.

As a director you come in and tell the actors how good they are.

Never, never listen to anybody that try to discourage you.

I know when I get down and discouraged, it's hard for me to be able to just see anything except for right where I am.

I discovered Deborah Ellis's books in the school library after my head teacher encouraged me to go beyond the school curriculum and look for books I might enjoy.

I discuss everything with Tanushree no matter which part of the world she is in. She is the reason I make good decisions. She advises me to concentrate and work hard. She keeps telling me that she is proud of me - that makes me content with my work.

Anything or anyone that limits the dream you have for yourself and for your career is just to be dismissed. Do not keep that company, and do not hear those words.

There needs to be more encouragement and support for women - at an impressionable age - to explore that choreographic side of their brains.

With my childhood and growing up in a very free place where my parents were artists and always encouraging me to explore, you wouldn't think I was locked up in my own mind, but I was.

It's a big responsibility to help someone express themselves as an artist.