#encourage

Years and years ago, I read a great interview with Jam and Lewis, the R&B producers, in which they described what it was like to be members of Prince's band. They'd sit down, and Prince would tell them what he wanted them to play, and they'd explain that they couldn't--they weren't quick enough, or good enough. And Prince would push them and push them until they mastered it, and then just when they were feeling pleased with themselves for accomplishing something they didn't know they had the capacity for, he'd tell them the dance steps he needed to accompany the music. This story has stuck with me, I think, because it seems like an encapsulation of the very best and most exciting kind of creative process. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#encouragement #learning #music #prince #music

Sometimes the best goal you can set is just to get out of bed every day. If you can succeed at this, then other things become possible. ↗

— Cynthia Patterson

#encouragement

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature. ↗

— David Amram

#create #down #encourage #generation #i

I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#baghdad #commit #encourage #i #i am

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs. ↗

— Alexander Payne

#always #american #being #comedy #cultural

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#authors #best-quote-ever #book-clubs #books #bookstores

Intercourse is one thing, Intimacy is everything. Be encouraged ↗

— Kerry E. Wagner

#authors #best-quote-ever #book-clubs #books #bookstores

I had an art teacher who's the reason I got there in high school who encouraged me to go to Alabama. That's where she had gone and kept raving over their art department. ↗

— Sela Ward

#art #department #encouraged #go #gone

I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off everyone. ↗

— Ahmet Zappa

#bounce #encouraged #everyone #go #i

I was encouraged to hear that GM has made great progress on the hydrogen car. ↗

— Albert Wynn

#encouraged #gm #great #great progress #hear