#encouraged

The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive. ↗

— Lee Child

#big #bigger #british #cliff #either

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#being #brazil #career #death #encouraged

Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#canada #encouraged #large #place #really

Answers are not enough, students should be encouraged to ask questions and explore alternatives to the norm. Entrepreneurship and invention are the backbone of the new economy, yet I doubt they get more than a nod in economics courses. ↗

— Jim Hunt

#answers #ask #backbone #courses #doubt

I have also been saddened, though hardly surprised, by the weakness of the EU's reaction to the criminal attack on the Danish embassy in Syria, which seems to have been permitted, if not actively encouraged, by the Syrian regime. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

#also #attack #been #criminal #danish

I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet. ↗

— Philip Levine

#encouraged #i #lucky #me #mother

In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people. ↗

— Wilma Mankiller

#consider #decisions #encouraged #future #generations

It is important not to copy other people's careers but set the tone of who you want to be. My father's always encouraged me to do that. ↗

— Nicole Richie

#careers #copy #encouraged #father #important

As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.' ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#each #early #encouraged #feel #grateful

I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#avoid #avoiding #encouraged #ever #fantasies