- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Encourages Quotes
On the nudges that push us forward.
This page focuses on what genuinely encourages people—open cultures that reward experimentation, transparent organizations willing to be evaluated, and even the small, personal ways relationships push us to change. It ties into our wider Growth theme.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
The current concept of prom just seems so empty. Teenagers get dressed up to go to a dance at a fancy location. It encourages social inclusion or exclusion based on your ability or inability to snag a date.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not want a personal relationship with my fans. Or to do anything that encourages them to think they have one with me. They can have a personal relationship with my songs. That's fine, but they don't know me.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
We believe strongly in transparency and accountability, which is why Teach For America encourages rigorous independent evaluations of our program. Our mission is too important to operate in any other way.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
An open-minded and diverse population that readily shares information, encourages experimentation, accepts failure and dispenses with formality and hierarchy is what makes Silicon Valley the successful hub that it is.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Irresponsibility is the mark of every European politician who holds out the promise of a better life to immigrants and encourages them to leave everything behind and risk their lives in setting out for Europe.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rather than improving the wealth of their own nation, the Mexican government encourages its poor to come to the U.S. and send money home.
- Healthy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Talk radio is an asset to our nation because it encourages strong and healthy debate about public policy, and there is no reason to affect that debate with government legislation.
- Gaming
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a general rule, Las Vegas sports books take boxing bets only on major fights.The same is true of most Internet gaming sites. Within that framework, not only does boxing allow participants to bet on their own bouts, it sometimes encourages them to do so.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean, even without major spills.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of all, a good maths education encourages students to embrace difficult problems, not shy away from them. In my opinion, the problem is that most UK secondary schools don’t stretch good mathematicians and therefore fail to turn them into excellent mathematicians.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
The overwhelming number of Democrats... think our trade policy has gone in the wrong direction. They think that our trade policy encourages companies to leave the country. They think our trade policy has caused more and more businesses to outsource.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
It breaks my heart when I see young women swept up in today's celebrity culture that encourages them to give themselves away for the sake of a few likes on social media.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything that encourages a boy to open a book, in a world of more violent and therefore more compelling video games, is something I'm going to pay for.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you get people standing up saying, 'I'm going to just tell the truth; what do we have to fear?,' it encourages others, and it creates a counterresponse.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020