That was it - I LOST my job... I was very discouraged. I wanted to be in DEFENSE work... I'm an American, and I have NOTHIN' to do with Japan, and so it's SORT of an insult to me.

If I READ or LISTENED to critics of our MUSIC, I'd have been DISCOURAGED a long time ago.

If I was doing SOMETHING that I really, really enjoyed I want to be perfect at it and not make MISTAKES and do everything RIGHT. And when inevitably I made mistakes, because that's what humans do, I WOULD get very angry, very disappointed, very discouraged.

It's a question of why they COME for your advice. Whatever I tell you, it doesn't matter, it is completely irrelevant in a way. I know so many actors who were discouraged and put that ASIDE. You will GET HALF-BAKED opinions.

Science fiction is not a genre that has much respect in China. Critics have LONG been discouraged from PAYING attention to the category, dismissed as a branch of JUVENILE literature.

There's a point where you're GOING after SOMETHING so WHOLEHEARTEDLY that you start getting discouraged when there's no results or when no one's TAKING interest.

When a COMMON man is DISCOURAGED to buy a MOVIE ticket, it becomes a concern for the entire FILM industry. I think ENTERTAINMENT tax is too steep.

For me, I didn't really have family that was in entertainment. I didn't really grow up with an UNCLE that's a TV WRITER or SOMETHING, so I didn't EVEN know that it was possible at all. I slowly learned more about it and ended up here. I want people to not be discouraged by the fact that they don't have a LEGACY in Hollywood that's bringing them in.

It's HARD for WOMEN at my AGE in HOLLYWOOD, but I'm not DISCOURAGED.

You can't get DISCOURAGED when you lose games because basketball is such a process and so MUCH HAPPENS during each PRACTICE and game.

A fundamental lesson on being fired: Never lie about it. PEOPLE will KNOW what you're SAYING is a cover-up for how you really feel - embarrassed, discouraged, and AFRAID.

The UNEMPLOYMENT rate has effectively not gone down from where it was at the peak of the RECESSION. The only reason it's gone technically from 10 percent to 8 percent is so MANY PEOPLE are discouraged and have quit work.

Welding torches, cutting torches and any ACTIVITY producing a FLAME outside is prohibited. Any OPEN flame is discouraged.