Trying Quotes - Page 14

• There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…)
  A good novel editor is invisible.

  Terri Windling

  Book, Editors, Vision

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• I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.

  Laurie Anderson

  Kind, Forget, Compliment

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• I try to take what voice I have and I give it to those who don’t have one at all.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Voice, Giving, Photographer

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• Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect.

  Brené Brown

  Perfect, Want, Stop Trying

  "Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect" By Brené Brown, www.cnn.com.

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• We have to try to beat Everyone.

  Alex Ferguson

  Beats

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• We got anxious at the end of the weekend in our urgency to try to score the winning goal. Ended up playing far too many long balls forward. That style of play doesn't suit Manchester United. We must continue to play football and enjoy the game. If we do that, eventually things will come right for us.

  Alex Ferguson

  Football, Weekend, Winning

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• My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That’s basically it. I’m not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I’m just reflecting on life.

  Sean Paul

  Growing Up, Who I Am, Prophet

  "Reasoning with Sean Paul". Interview with Laura Gardner, jahworks.org. October 1, 2002.

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• [On] 'Sufferer,' I'm talking about the younger generation that has no other option for success than to find a gun somewhere. I try to appeal to them: 'I know you a sufferer, but it doesn't mean that you can't or shouldn't expect any better.' It's a lot different than from what I usually say, like, 'Get busy, shake that thing.'

  Sean Paul

  Mean, Gun, Talking

  "Sean Paul Hopes To Curb Youth Violence In Jamaica With Next Lp" by Jayson Rodriguez, www.mtv.com. Janaury 22, 2007.

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• Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream.
  I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be?
  So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you.
  Should've known you'd bring me heartache.
  Almost lovers always do.

  A Fine Frenzy

  Goodbye, Dream, Thinking

  Song: Almost Lover, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007

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• I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits.

  Stephan Jenkins

  People, Misfits, Fixers

  "He can see clearly now / Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins looks at success, love, creativity" by Julian Guthrie, www.sfgate.com. April 20, 2003.

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• I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.

  Al Purdy

  Atheism, Unhappy, World

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• I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Ifs, I Can

  "Writers at Work 08: The Paris Review Interviews". Book by George Plimpton and Joyce Carol Oates, 1988.

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• We cannot point to a single definitive solution of any one of the problems that confront us — political, economic, social or moral, that is, having to do with the conduct of life. We are still beginners, and for that reason may hope to improve. To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind. There is no need to be dismayed by the fact that we cannot yet envisage a definitive solution of our problems, a resting-place beyond which we need not try to go.

  Peter Medawar

  Political, Mind, Progress

  Presidential Address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Exeter, September 3, 1969.

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• To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life could hold, after telling over with muddied and calculating fingers what it has offered; this is music, made after long silence. The soul flexes its wings, and, clumsy as any fledgling, tries the air again

  Mary Stewart

  Sleep, Air, Years

  Mary Stewart (1978). “Hollow Hills”, Fawcett

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• The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

  Mary Stewart

  Essence, Useless, Knows

  Mary Stewart (1979). “The Last Enchantment”

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• I think it would be stupid for us to try and tell people who are dancing in a discotheque about the problems of the world. That is the very thing they have come away to avoid.

  Giorgio Moroder

  Stupid, Thinking, People

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• I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European.

  Lasse Hallstrom

  Europe, Style, Wish

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• I would also hope that no one would think about trying to amend the constitution as a political strategy.

  Mary Cheney

  Thinking, Political, Constitution

  "Mary Cheney on 'FOX News Sunday'". "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 15, 2006.

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• To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Real, Book, Artist

  Naomi E. Maurer, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin (1998). “The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin”, p.15, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• Corporate documents, like football game plans, are not easily drafted in a stadium, with thousands of very interested fans participating, each with their own red pencil, trying to reach a consensus on every word.

  Jon Postel

  Football, Games, Fans

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• For Europe, for ourselves and for humanity, comrades, we must turn over a new leaf, we must work out new concepts, and try to set afoot a new man.

  Frantz Fanon

  Men, Europe, Work Out

  Frantz Fanon (1968). “The Wretched of the Earth”

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• Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

  John Searle

  Simple, Style, Concerned

  "Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind". Book by John Searle, 1983.

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• One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with genes. That's not how it works. It works by realizing the concept of a replicator.

  Susan Blackmore

  Mistake, Thinking, People

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• Try not to become disappointed if someone doesn't like a story you've written. Stick up for your ideas, but listen to what other people say, too. They might have good advice.

  Margaret Mahy

  Writing, Ideas, People

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• I was getting close to thirty and was trying on the idea of becoming more mature. I was reading more. I had gone out and bought a lot of shirts.

  Joe Meno

  Reading, Ideas, Gone

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