We've taken disturbances and fluctuations and averaged them together to give us comfortable statistics. Our training has been to look for big numbers, important trends, major variances. Yet it is the slight variations - soft-spoken, even whispered at first - that we need to encourage.
Beautiful and familiar objects can help us to feel better. Photos of family and friends, which remind us of the people we love and who love us, are important mood-lifters. Items that inspire us or encourage periods of reflection do the same.
Although logging workouts seems to be a very simple action, it is often forgotten. Once several days go by, it is hard to remember what was done on a particular day. After working out for several months, you will feel an unbelievable sense of achievement when flipping through the pages of the log book. You should also notice a sign of improvement. 'Material proof' can be great motivation and will encourage you to keep on going.
The major weakness of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of definite decision.
Being human, we are imperfect. That's why we need each other. To catch each other when we falter. To encourage each other when we lose heart. Some may lead; others may follow; but none of us can go it alone.
As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.
Throughout my career I've struggled to encourage people to read my books on a more metaphorical level. I'm less attached to my settings than, for example, Saul Bellow. The setting of a novel for me is just a part of the technique. I choose it at the end.
I encourage girls to play sports and play hard.
I never help my kids and I never encourage them and I never give them any advice.
I want to encourage young women to stand up for each other and speak up when they see others in a tough situation.
Write great songs that sound amazing if sung and played on the piano or acoustic guitar. Always encourage sing-alongs! Be prolific! Say "Yes" to new collaborations because you never know where it could lead.
Encourage 'random' picks on the ball because they cannot be scouted
The pleasures of relaxed chat, of casual conversation, encourage the ethnographer in everyone
We must encourage people to get educated, to get tested, to get involved in the fight against AIDS.
New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation.
Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment, and I would encourage you to follow that pathway as far as you can, into ecstasy.
What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate.
There may be some issue where God is calling you to surrender. I don’t know what you may be struggling with, but whatever it is, let me just encourage you: Don’t delay obedience.
You can't overestimate what happens when you encourage regulators to believe that the goal of regulation is not to regulate.
Righteousness alone can exalt America as a nation. Whoever thou art, remember this; and in thy sphere practice virtue thyself, and encourage it in others.