Trying Quotes - Page 17

• The regular division of the plane into congruent figures evoking an association in the observer with a familiar natural object is one of these hobbies or problems...I have embarked on this geometric problem again and again over the years, trying to throw light on different aspects each time. I cannot imagine what my life would be like if this problem had never occurred to me; one might say that I am head over heels in love with it, and I still don't know why.

  M. C. Escher

  Years, Light, Might

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• I spend my day trying to make myself as happy and relaxed as I can be. If I have positions going against me, I get right out; if they are going for me, I keep them.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Position, Relaxed, Ifs

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• Bernanke and company are trying to reflate the economy with almost stated objective of inflation at 2 percent and higher in order to provide some type of safety margin for a future recession. That's where they want to go.

  Bill Gross

  Order, Safety, Want

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• There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions and tell us they’re not really answerable. I draw on art and literature, and music in particular, because music is a wonderful example of something that’s in this world but not of this world. Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.

  Roger Scruton

  Art, Real, Important

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• I had at one point this rather depressing image of some alien culture seeing the death of this planet - coming down in their spaceships and sniffing around; finding all our skeletons sitting around our TV sets and trying to work out why our end came before its time and they come to the conclusion that we amused ourselves to death.

  Roger Waters

  Depressing, Skeletons, Work Out

  "Amused to Death" syndicate Radio Premiere, 1992.

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• There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.

  Stephen Dunn

  Simple, Events, Legends

  Stephen Dunn (1995). “New and Selected Poems 1974-1994”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Thinking, Ideas, Sitting Down

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• It took cancer to realize that being self-centered is not the way to live. The answer is to try and help others.

  Terry Fox

  Cancer, Helping Others, Self

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My Prime Minister regards the economy as our highest priority and forgets that economics and ecology are derived from the same Greek word, oikos, meaning household or domain. Ecology is the study of home, while economics is its management. Ecologists try to define the conditions and principles that enable a species to survive and flourish. Yet in elevating the economy above those principles, we seem to think we are immune to the laws of nature. We have to put the ‘eco’ back into economics.

  David Suzuki

  Home, Thinking, Law

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• Do not try to know the truth, for knowledge by the mind is not true knowledge. But you can know what is not true-which is enough to liberate you from the false. The idea that you know what is true is dangerous, for it keeps you imprisoned in the mind. It is when you do not know, that you are free to investigate. And there can be no salvation, without investigation, because non investigation is the main cause of bondage.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Ideas, Mind, Causes

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• Simple people have much to offer. We too in return must give to them to the best of our abilities. We must with all our heart, try to help them acquire what they truly deserve.

  Simin Daneshvar

  Heart, Simple, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social Security system.

  Paul Sarbanes

  Respect, Security Systems, People

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• All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.

  Scott McCloud

  Careers, Always Trying, Form

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. August 23, 2000.

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• One might as well try to perform brain surgery with a sledgehammer.

  Ben Bernanke

  Brain, Might, Surgery

  Remarks by Governor Ben S. Bernanke, before the New York Chapter of the National Association for Business Economics, New York, New York, www.federalreserve.gov. October 15, 2002.

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• The one thing that scares me the most is failing. It scares me that one day I wont be at this level. But while Im here and while Im having success early, Im trying to do everything to stay on this level.

  Terrell Davis

  One Day, Scare, Levels

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• The Saints are doing a good job adjusting. I think their focus is on trying to make the best of their season, but also to try and help the people of New Orleans in the process. From everything I've seen and heard they are doing a good job of it.

  Archie Manning

  Jobs, Thinking, New Orleans

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• I’m trying to tell people that I am happy the way I am. But why do people have to call my happiness a failure?

  Kim Ung-yong

  People, Way

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• I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children] is compulsory schooling...and that children are sitting there and they are taught and told what to believe. They are passive from the very beginning, and one must be very, very aggressive intellectually to have a high IQ [...] the child is taught. Right from the beginning, it's a passive process. He or she sits there, and they simply try to believe everything they're told.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Children, Believe, Intelligent

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• No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Tasks, Done, Half

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• Even if there were only two men left in the world and both of them saints they wouldn't be happy. One them would be bound to try and improve the other. That is the nature of things.

  Frank O'Connor

  Men, Two, Saint

  Frank O'Connor (1944). “Crab Apple Jelly: Stories and Tales”

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• There is such a desire to give everybody a piece, we're probably wasting a great deal of homeland security money trying to be politically correct, when we really need to make sure that our cities get the money they need.

  Shelley Berkley

  Cities, Giving, Desire

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• I've spent my life trying to make things simpler.

  Hans Zimmer

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. June 11, 2013.

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• The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.

  Bill Klem

  Team, Mistake, Umpires

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• It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Practice, Tennis, Psychologist

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• Mary Joe Fernandez rarely has a bad loss. She never tries for stupid shots.

  Tracy Austin

  Stupid, Loss, Shots

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