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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 May 30, 2021
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
'HEAVN' is about black girlhood, about Chicago, about the people we miss who have gone on to prepare a place for us somewhere else, about the city/world we aspire to live in. I hope this album encourages listeners to love themselves and love each other.
- Allocation
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he can - including paying me off - to get that business? Because bribery encourages people to make decisions based on the wrong criteria, which means in the business world that it distorts the efficient allocation of resources.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have kids growing up in some of the worst circumstances financially, living in some of the worst ghettos, and they succeed. They succeed because an adult figure, typically a mother, maybe a grandmother, nourishes the kid, supports the kid, protects the kid, encourages the kid to succeed. It's as if the environment never happened.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chicago is an exciting place which renews itself. The workshop system encourages close reading and frank discussions of papers and ideas.
- Office
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- Nov 07, 2020
Amazon deliberately provides cafeteria space for only a third of its employees, which encourages people to venture out of the office.
- Creation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although many of us consider ourselves forward-thinkers, we still cling tenaciously to the old values of the monetary system. We accept, without sufficient consideration, a system that breeds inefficiencies and actually encourages the creation of shortages.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
On healthcare, climate change, nuclear disarmament, gun control and countless other issues, President Obama consistently made difficult choices and put the national interest over his own political interest to do what was right. All the while, he resisted the politics of cynicism in a system that too often encourages it.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump's biggest failure as a political leader is that he sees the worst in people, and he encourages the worst in people.
- Madness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.
- Corrosive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I personally believe that the iPod is a frankly corrosive device because it encourages you to surround yourself with your favorites. The whole idea of a playlist is to surround yourself with your favorite things, and the interesting thing is that when you do that, they cease to be your favorites.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indeed, there is much in pure humanitarian culture, as opposed to rigid scientific training, which encourages absorption in the affairs of mankind, and more or less indifference to the unfathomed abysses of star-strown space that yawn interminably about this terrestrial grain of dust.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came here to help make America more competitive and prosperous by developing an energy policy that increases conservation, promotes cleaner technologies, encourages development of renewables and enhances domestic production of gas and oil.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020