#encouraged

I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years. ↗

— Indra Nooyi

#applied #asked #boston #consulting #encouraged

I know that Oswald killed Kennedy. Now, was he pushed? Encouraged to do it by outsiders? Possibly. Possibly. Was he sitting down with Fidel Castro? No. ↗

— Bill O'Reilly

#down #encouraged #fidel #i #kennedy

Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college. ↗

— Ellen Ochoa

#calculus #college #continue #encouraged #go

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. ↗

— Frank Press

#best #colleagues #different #encouraged #gave

I visited the compound of the American embassy and talked to the police and the people and encouraged them, and I told them to take the proper measure and apply the law against the people who are attacking them and attacking the buildings. ↗

— Hesham Qandil

#american #apply #attacking #buildings #compound

We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#audiences #encouraged #laughs #liked #loved

Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally. ↗

— Donna Rice

#carolina #city #compete #encouraged #friends

On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself. ↗

— Pierre Salinger

#encouraged #had #himself #kennedy #lover

When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did. ↗

— David Selby

#classes #college #department #did #encouraged

I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices. ↗

— Aarti Sequeira

#because #encouraged #food #i #indian