Trying Quotes - Page 12

• Being superficially different is the goal of so many of the products we see... rather than trying to innovate and genuinely taking the time, investing the resources and caring enough to try and make something better.

  Jonathan Ive

  Caring, Goal, Different

  The Globe and Mail, January 2007.

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• I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me.

  Boz Scaggs

  Years, Rays, Nerves

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• Fail big if you have to, but go down trying.

  Margaret Haddix

  Failing, Bigs, Ifs

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• I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Writing, Dangerous, Interest

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• I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and understands best what I'm trying to do.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Writing, Wife, Mind

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• Failure is information-we label it failure, but it's more like, 'This didn't work, I'm a problem solver, and I'll try something else.'

  Carol S. Dweck

  Labels, Information, Problem

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• What did you try hard at today?

  Carol S. Dweck

  Today, Growth Mindset, Hard

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.235, Random House

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• I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator.

  Spike Lee

  Common, Audience, Lowest

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

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• What I do when speaking in public is trying to do it as best as possible and trying to make everybody comfortable with my words. Sometimes getting this is very difficult, but I try my best.

  Andres Iniesta

  Sometimes, Difficult, Speaking In Public

  "Q&A with Spain's Andres Iniesta". Interview with Richard Deitsch, www.si.com. June 02, 2011.

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• I'm being a lot more consistent, trying to make every swing look the same. I'm doing what the situation calls for and trying not to do too much.

  Nick Swisher

  Swings, Looks, Too Much

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• I just have to come back tomorrow and try again, ... I have to look at the ball and keep swinging.

  Vladimir Guerrero

  Balls, Looks, Tomorrow

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• I think I have handled things pretty well last year and this. What I have to do now is try do it even better.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Sports, Thinking, Years

  Interview with Stephen Bierley, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.

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• But I have been hitting for a week now and trying to get back into some sort of routine because I need to play well at tournaments.

  Kim Clijsters

  Play, Routine, Needs

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• I'm happy with what I've done but it's a challenge to try to win more.

  Jennifer Capriati

  Winning, Challenges, Done

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

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• I just want to get to the level where I can say that that's my level, just try to play well, get up there.

  Jennifer Capriati

  Play, Levels, Want

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

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• There’s no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible, and therefore never even trying.

  Max Tegmark

  Convincing Yourself, Guarantees, Impossible

  Max Tegmark (2014). “Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality”, p.29, Vintage

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• I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.

  Samantha Power

  Mean, Dreamer, World

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• We're gonna totally sell out and try to dominate the world

  Wes Borland

  World, Sells

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• Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.

  Bob Feller

  Morning, Roosters, Sunbeams

  "Bob Feller, Whose Fastball Dazzled, Dies at 92" by Richard Goldstein, www.nytimes.com. December 15, 2010.

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• We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.

  Pat Travers

  Years, Battle, Albums

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• As much progress as we think we've made with legislation, litigation and education, anti-Semitism still continues to be the No. 2 hate crime in the United States. You can't eliminate it, but you can try to keep a lid on it.

  Abraham Foxman

  Hate, Thinking, Progress

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• The selection rules are the same for everybody. I am trying to make a comeback just like some other players who got dropped after the Pakistan tour. I hope my time will come.

  Sourav Ganguly

  Player, Pakistan, Comeback

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• Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm trying to represent. It's all about the individual songs.

  Tracy Chapman

  Song, Connections, Records

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• A friend is someone who can brighten your day with a simple smile, when others try to do it with a thousand words.

  Rachel

  Simple, Spiritual Love, Brighten Your Day

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• I’m a total atheist, and for me it’s just about trying to find something that rises above the banal day-to-day bullshit of living.

  Myla Goldberg

  Atheist, Bullshit, Rise Above

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