"Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible."

-- Robert Fitzgerald

#Encouragement Quotes #Facts Quotes #Needs Quotes

“If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.”

Source : 'Politicians, Socialism and Historians' (1980) ch. 33
“I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.”
“I was 18 when I started. I was hanging out with some friends and they asked if I had tried stand-up before. I hadn't, but I thought: 'What the hell?' So I went to an open mic night, and I liked it.”
“In railway halls, on pavements near the traffic, They beg, their eyes made big by empty staring And only measuring Time , like the blank clock. No, I shall weave no tracery of pen-ornament To make them birds upon my singing tree: Time merely drives these lives which do not live As tides push rotten stuff along the shore.”

Source : Stephen Spender (2015). “New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.50, Faber & Faber
“The Bring the Noise buzz was so strong, so we put it out on a release called 'Attack of the Killer B's' which was a record made up of B-sides and things like that - so it wasn't out on our new album, you know what I mean? But we always felt strongly about it.”

Source : Interview With Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. December 27, 2010.
“Supporters have every divine right to slag your players off when they're not winning games.”
“Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up.”
“Trust is the foundation of real teamwork. And so the first dysfunction is a failure on the part of team members to understand and open up to one another. And if that sounds touchy-feely, let me explain, because there is nothing soft about it. It is an absolutely critical part of building a team. In fact, itâ€™s probably the most critical.”

Source : Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.41, John Wiley & Sons

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