Quotes About Encouragement

I always feel pleasure while introducing new talent.

Usually, people that I like to work with are people that I believe in more than they believe in themselves, and they just need that extra boost and the person to give them a little more time and understanding and introspection into their own character to find that box office that lives inside of them.

I grew up in this room filled with musical instruments, but most importantly, I had a family who encouraged me to invest in my own imagination, and so things I created, things I built were good things to be building just because I was making them, and I think that's such an important idea.

Well, I was lucky to have people throughout my life who invested in me.

I like to make everything my friends are involved in a little better. I should have just become a manager.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Iron sharpens iron, and that's one man getting another guy ready to play.

If I can inspire someone or help somebody to deal with their issues and their sexuality, then I'm here for it.

One of my favorite pieces of fan mail was a gift that I got. It was a jar filled with handwritten nice thoughts.

In real life, I'm not a catty, jealous woman, so in the industry I'm not gonna be that. I'm a real-life fan of the girls who came before me, who's coming up and at the same level as me. I'm here for it.

People at Marvel and DC, we're rooting for each other. And when we're friends, like me and Jeff Lemire, or Charles Soule, or even Dan Slott - it doesn't matter if you're Marvel or DC. You'll talk story with each other, and there's like an agreement that you're just helping each other out.

People like Bill Burr and Jim Gaffigan and Zach Galifianakis and Sarah Silverman - they were all amazing and helpful to me.

I don't crush the kids. But I do want them to know that they have to earn what they get. I'm not like Jimmy Piersall's dad or anything. I mean, I tell them I'm happy if they just do the best they can. My parents were that way with me.

Joan was one of my biggest fans, as was Chrissie Hynde.

When I think about the person who's been most in my ear, it's Joe Dumars.

I have to thank you...because you have so often helped me forget the evils of today.

Dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres. (In this country England it is thought well to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others. from Candide)

With a more expansive stretch, there's a better chance that I'll be around at the precise, random moment when one of my nephews drops his guard and solicits my advice about something private. Or when one of my nieces will need someone other than her parents to tell her that she's smart and beautiful.

I give people hope.

We do well to remember dolphins. If a dolphin ails, then others come alongside and nudge him gently through the waters; because a dolphin must keep moving in order to keep breathing. We all have need of our dolphins alongside us from time to time.

My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.

A word of encouragement: if your foundations are in Jesus Christ, then you can weather the storm.

Every time we tell anybody to cheer up, things might be worse, we run away for fear we might be asked to specify how.

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.