A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him.
Ignore people who tell you 'you can't' or try to discourage you.
Don't ever discourage someone from trying to better their life and health
This is for all of you out there tonight, reaching for a dream - don't ever give up! Never ever listen to anyone, when they try to discourage you, because they do that, believe me!
I don't have a strategy. I am my own person. So if people disagree with the opinion of my father and want to dislike me because I'm his daughter, then I'm probably not going to be able to discourage them from that.
There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.
Never listen to anybody who try to discourage you.
If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
. . . there is an irrational, cultish tendency in many intellectual movements, and Objectivism, alas, is no exception. Ayn Rand's personal obsession with loyalty did little to discourage this trend. . . . Rand had often protested, 'Protect me from my followers!'
When champions fail, they get back up and try again. They don't let failure discourage them.
I just have a more holistic sense of what it means to be for life, knowing that life does not just begin at conception and end at birth, and that if I am going to discourage abortion, I had better be ready to adopt some babies and care for some mothers.
To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it.
We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.
High prices can be the result of speculation, and maybe plunging prices can be attributed to the end of speculation, but low prices over time aren't caused by speculation. That's oversupply, mainly by Saudi Arabia flooding the market with low-priced oil to discourage rival oil producers, whether it's Russian oil or American fracking.
Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.
I dont think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you dont discourage something that may be rather nice.
I never want to discourage anyone who chooses the arts as a path because it's hard enough to make it in this business or even get ahead.
Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.
The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree.
You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her.