Trying Quotes - Page 10

• Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.

  O. Henry

  Country, Moving, Archives

  O. Henry (2016). “The Complete Works Of O. Henry”, p.517, ShandonPress

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• Life will take its toll on all of us. We get injured, we get old. It's really sad to try to run away from these harsh realities of life. Looks are not everything. I am not going to look beautiful all the time.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Beautiful, Running, Reality

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When it comes to innovation, business has much to learn from design. The philosophy in design shops is, 'try it, prototype it, and improve it'.

  Roger Martin

  Philosophy, Design, Innovation

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• The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition

  W. Chan Kim

  Blue Ocean, Competition, Way

  W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne (2015). “Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant”, p.4, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?

  John Keegan

  People, Wells, Whole

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• I wouldn't say Musashi is ordinary. But he is. That's what's extraordinary about him. He is not content to rely on whatever natural gifts he may have. Knowing he is ordinary, he is constantly trying to improve himself. No one appreciates the agonizing effort he's had to make. Now that his years of training have yielded such spectacular results, everybody's talking about his 'God-given talent.' That's how men who don't try very hard comfort themselves.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Men, Talking, Years

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• The point is that something I thought was perfect has been broken, and I'm having to find the beauty in what is there instead of what I thought was there. Like this shell. I can either spend all my time wishing it were perfect, trying to imagine it the way it was or might have been, or I can see how beautiful it is just like this.

  James Howe

  Beautiful, Broken, Perfect

  James Howe (1997). “The Watcher”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• The idea was to focus on the primal drama of parenthood: the way from moment to moment you swing from comforter to tormentor, just as kids simultaneously light up our lives and drive us nuts. I was trying to capture that strange, bipolar quality of parenthood. For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll ever have.

  Emma Donoghue

  Drama, Kids, Light

  "Emma Donoghue: 'To say Room is based on the Josef Fritzl case is too strong'" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2010.

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• Life does not give itself to one who tries to keep all its advantages at once. I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

  Leon Blum

  Giving, Choices, Doe

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• I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. Thats what I try to do.

  Randy Johnson

  Responsibility, Long, Teammate

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• I think everything comes together. I think it's me being more comfortable with what I am trying to do in terms of how I pitch, in using the curveball and stuff like that. It all brings the package together.

  Tom Glavine

  Thinking, Together, Stuff

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• Pressure is working down the pit. Pressure is having no work at all. Pressure is trying to escape relegation on 50 shillings a week. Pressure is not the European Cup or the Championship or the Cup Final. That's the reward.

  Bill Shankly

  Finals, Pits, Rewards

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• You can waste a whole lifetime
  Trying to be
  What you think is expected of you
  But youll never be free

  Chris Rea

  Thinking, Waste, Lifetime

  Song: Gone Fishing, Album: Auberge, 1991

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• You never know how a single interaction with a person might affect their life, so you must constantly try to be at your best.

  Bobby Orr

  Might, Interaction, Persons

  Bobby Orr (2013). “Orr: My Story”, p.36, Penguin Canada

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• I will try to make a doll of Oksana with a little dog.

  Oksana Baiul

  Sports, Dog, Dolls

  The Golden Skate Interview, www.goldenskate.com. March 7, 2003.

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• I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.

  Shawn Colvin

  Song, Writing, Successful

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• Even a wizard would have a great deal of difficulty repealing the economic law that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Since politicians are not wizards, they should not try.

  Gary Becker

  Law, Employment, Wages

  Gary Becker, Guity Becker, Guity Nashat (1998). “The Economics of Life: From Baseball to Affirmative Action to Immigration, How Real-World Issues Affect Our Everyday Life”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Without trying, I'm different.

  Paul Wellstone

  Different

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• John [Coltrane] was like a visitor to this planet. He came in peace and he left in peace; but during his time here, he kept trying to reach new levels of awareness, of peace, of spirituality. That's why I regard the music he played as spiritual music -- John's way of getting closer and closer to the Creator.

  Albert Ayler

  Spiritual, Levels, Way

  "As Serious As Your Life". Book by Valerie Wilmer, 1977.

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• Humans elect leaders on the basis of the promises they make. We [vampires] try to elect ours based solely on the strength of their character.

  Darren Shan

  Character, Leader, Promise

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• A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.

  Barbara Cartland

  Love, Women, Wife

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• Stop trying to find the formula that will instantly make your idea into a winner. Instead of being scientists, the best marketers are artists. They realize that whatever is being sold is being purchased, because it creates an emotional want, not because it fills a simple need.

  Seth Godin

  Artist, Simple, Emotional

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• We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure.

  Carly Simon

  Shapes, Pleasure, Deny

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• I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.

  Carly Simon

  Thinking, Peculiar, Particular

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• I feel blessed to have an opportunity to try out for a second Olympics team and if it doesn't work out, hey I gave it my all.

  Alicia Sacramone

  Team, Blessed, Opportunity

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