#encouraged

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#confidence #create #creative #creative spirit #dictate

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#africa #apartheid #around #corporate #could

Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies - assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged. ↗

— Paul Begala

#against #assaults #attacks #blind #blind eye

Yet the effort to inform the public also encouraged responsible public discussion that succeeded in developing a consensus for the measured approach that many scientists supported. ↗

— Paul Berg

#approach #consensus #developing #discussion #effort

I'm enormously proud of the fact that Star Trek has really not just sparked an interest, but encouraged, a few generations of people to go into the sciences. ↗

— LeVar Burton

#enormously #fact #few #generations #go

My parents really encouraged me. ↗

— Randy Castillo

#me #parents #really

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

By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products. ↗

— Ellen Willis

#contained #continually #could #demand #easily

You know as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help them to be better than without a conductor. And sometimes young talented musicians have to be encouraged. ↗

— Kurt Masur

#better #build #conductor #cooperate #encouraged

I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains. ↗

— Bill Mauldin

#cartoons #conception #draw #encouraged #gag