- 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
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think that, you know, adherence to ignorance is really something that encourages voters to support you.
- Additional
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most powerful determinant of whether a woman goes on in science might be whether anyone encourages her to go on.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Fed should make a clear commitment to stable money to reduce the swings in interest rates and inflation. Instead, it champions and flaunts unstable money. This encourages momentum trading and the growth of derivatives. Meanwhile, layers of financial regulation make Washington bigger and more powerful but don't fix the underlying problems.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their 'critical thinking.'
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
The artistic side of our family was very important because one person encourages the other. It was a vey enlightening place to be as a kid because of all the music and dancing, and my dad played banjo; my sisters played piano and sang.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice.
- Making Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Specificity is what makes good storytelling, and good storytelling is what makes money, and making money is then what encourages new producers to invest in different stories about Asians.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need legislation that encourages increased competition and tort reform and combats fraud, waste, and abuse. This would drive down health care costs, provide more 'bottom line' for our small businesses and lead to more private sector job growth.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever somebody folds, say, 'Good laydown.' It encourages them to fold on a later hand because it makes them feel like you had the best hand even if you were bluffing. It's an odd form of flattery that seems to work at the poker table.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's just always wonderful to have a director who encourages you so much to focus on the present.
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
To show men that crimes can be pardoned, and that punishment is not their inevitable consequence, encourages the illusion of impunity and induces the belief that, since there are pardons, those sentences which are not pardoned are violent acts of force rather than the products of justice.
- Enchanted
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christian Science is often inherited, and like many inheritances, it comes with family secrets. The religion encourages secrecy. Members of the Church tend to hide their illnesses from one another, even within families. My father has never once, in my presence, admitted to feeling ill.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020