Always Trying Quotes - Page 14

• I like embracing kind of normal forms but am always trying to approach them as if no one's ever done that before. As if I'm literally the first person to ever write a book.

  Miranda July

  Book, Writing, Done

  Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. 2015.

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• I think I'm always trying to challenge myself. I'm definitely going a new direction and trying to write more concisely, but that's the toughest part for me and I definitely think I'm growing in that way, which feels exciting.

  Stacey King

  Writing, Thinking, Challenges

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us toward is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again. For however important chastity (or courage, or truthfulness, or any other virtue) may be, this process trains us in habits of the soul which are more important still. It cures our illusions about ourselves and teaches us to depend on God. We learn, on the one hand, that we cannot trust ourselves even in our best moments, and, on the other, that we need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hands, Soul, Despair

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• Innovation is not a big breakthrough invention every time. Innovation is a constant thing. But if you don't have an innovative company [team], coming to work everyday to find a better way, you don't have a company[team]. You're getting ready to die on the vine. You're always looking for the next innovation, the next niche, the next product improvement, the next service improvement. But always trying to get better.

  Jack Welch

  Team, Innovation, Everyday

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• I was always trying to do different things to entertain people. And at the same time, I think, I was, whether subconsciously or not, trying to get kicked out of school because I hated it so much.

  Marilyn Manson

  School, Thinking, People

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• It should be borne in mind that the target is always trying to shift responsibility to get out of being the target. There is a constant squirming and moving and strategy . . . on the part of the designated target. The forces for change must keep this in mind and pin that target down securely. If an organization permits responsibility to be diffused and distributed in a number of areas, attack becomes impossible.

  Saul Alinsky

  Moving, Responsibility, Numbers

  "Rules for Radicals". Book by Saul Alinsky, 1971.

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• I was very preppy in my childhood. I also went through an anti-clothing moment where I just wanted to wear sweats because I'd just moved to Canada. My mom was always trying to get me into proper clothes, but I never wanted to wear them, and now that's all I wear.

  Jason Wu

  Mom, Clothes, Sweat

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A lot of people that are always trying to be funny and "on" and performing are just hiding. It's just a cover for what they really are and how they really feel.

  Manny Montana

  People, Hiding, Performing

  Source: collider.com

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• I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that with what is really important.

  Tom Hanks

  Jobs, Responsibility, Balance

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm always trying to find something unique or a project that I can do something unique in.

  Josh Hartnett

  Unique, Projects, Can Do Something

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• I think what I am always trying to do is make clothes for every girl to wear, to make things that you are going to accessorize from day to night. I am really trying to focus on casualwear - making your basic sweatpants cool, trendy, and funky.

  Whitney Port

  Girl, Night, Thinking

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• Self-righteousness....is the largest idol of the human heart - the idol which man loves most and God hates most. Dearly beloved, you will always be going back to this idol. You are always trying to be something in yourself, to gain God's favour by thinking little of your sin, or by looking to your repentance, tears, prayers ; or by looking to your religious exercises, your frames, etc; or by looking to your graces, the Spirit's work in your heart. Beware of false Christs. Study sanctification to the utmost, but make not a Christ of it.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

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• Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Society, Grind, Surface

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• Are you always trying to get somewhere other than where you are so that you can finally be happy? The truth is that all unhappiness is caused by denial of the present.

  Robert Anthony

  Happiness, Denial, Truth Is

  Robert Anthony (2004). “Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want”, p.174, Morgan James Publishing

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• Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.

  Andrew Cohen

  Reality, Ideas, Mind

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• To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

  John Eldredge

  Character, Kind, Psychologist

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• It's a funny thing. It's an odd thing to have your dad just come and work with you. But I think they all enjoyed working with him. It was a lot of fun. David loved teasing my dad, but I know respects him very much and when he gave him direction, David was always trying to do what he asked and we had a lot of fun.

  Emily Deschanel

  Dad, Fun, Thinking

  "Emily Deschanel Talks Bones: Season 2". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. September 26, 2007.

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• The spiritual mind is always metaphorical. Spiritual thinking is poetic thinking. It's always trying to put a very diaphanous experience into words, realizing all the while that words are inadequate.

  Sam Keen

  Spiritual, Thinking, Mind

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• The best stories are universal stories that have been told for as long as humanity has existed it's just figuring out new ways to do it, with language, with structure. And so I'm always trying to do that.

  James Frey

  Long, Humanity, Stories

  Interview with Toby Litt, tobylitt.wordpress.com. February 5, 2015.

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• As a director, you always want things to look good. You're always trying to make things look tidy. That's what we're all trained to do.

  Declan Lowney

  Directors, Looks, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• A lot of the men were upset or jealous of me because I got the girl. Men are always trying too hard. When I effortlessly get the girl, it pisses them off.

  Jackie Warner

  Girl, Jealous, Men

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Adults trying to protect children from reality, right? And adults always trying to fill children with fantasy - the tooth fairy, Santa, make-believe games, etc. But kids are really smart, I think they know from an early age about death, this void and hole they are immediately traveling toward.

  Shane Warren Jones

  Children, Smart, Believe

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.

  Wendell Berry

  Independent, Thinking, May

  Wendell Berry (2012). “It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays”, p.27, Counterpoint Press

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• The main challenge is technology and that's something I really push and work closely with Adidas on. They're real leaders in sports performance; always trying to push that further and further and get the best technology they can. That takes time and has rigorous testing, it's very laborious, but it's also very rewarding. You get to work with fantastic athletes, and that's a fantastic thing that has nothing to do with my day job in ready-to-wear.

  Stella McCartney

  Sports, Jobs, Real

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I was pillaging a lot of music that had nothing to do with guitar playing, using a lot of strange tunings and voicings and chord structures that aren't really that natural to the guitar; I ended up developing a harmonic palette that's not particularly natural to the guitar because I was always trying to make my guitar sound like something else.

  Daniel Rossen

  Guitar, Sound, Tuning

  Source: pitchfork.com

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