Trying Quotes - Page 20

• The more you try to be interested in other people, the more you find out about yourself

  Thea Astley

  People, About Yourself

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• When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into a vacant, calm, still, silent mind. We go deep within and approach our true existence, which is our soul. When we live in the soul, we feel that we are actually meditating spontaneously. On the surface of the sea are multitudes of waves, but the sea is not affected below. In the deepest depths, at the bottom of the sea is all tranquility. So when you start meditating, try to feel your own inner existence first. That is to say, the bottom of the sea: calm and quiet. Feel that your whole being is surcharged with peace and tranquility.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Sea, Soul, Mind

  Sri Chinmoy (2015). “Beyond Within: A Philosophy for the Inner Life”, p.264, Aum Publications

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• A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus the mystic who tries to speak logically and formally of unity consciousness is doomed to sound very paradoxical or contradictory. The problem is that the structure of any language cannot grasp the nature of unity consciousness, any more than a fork could grasp the ocean.

  Ken Wilber

  Ocean, Unity, Sound

  Ken Wilber (2001). “No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth”, p.52, Shambhala Publications

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• I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean

  Tina Brown

  Mean, Being Me, Entertaining

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• I kept trying to tell people that just because I was young didn't mean I could speak for all young people.

  Joe Biden

  Mean, People, Speak

  Joe Biden (2007). “Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics”, p.84, Random House

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• You learn a lot more about all the things that are necessary to be the leader of a team and so there's day-to-day hands-on training that you get and you might not even be asking for it. You try as best you can to be organized, have a plan, know exactly what you want from a schedule standpoint, have an idea of what you would want in a staff.

  Sean Payton

  Team, Hands, Ideas

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• When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, and to compare what people were subjected to there to what happened in Philadelphia - which was inappropriate, certainly that . . . to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who risked all, for my people.

  Eric Holder

  Thinking, Philadelphia, People

  "Eric Holder: Black Panther case focus demeans 'my people'". www.politico.com. March 1, 2011.

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• If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.

  Joshua Homme

  Different, Want, Helping

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

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• The oldest philosophy in the world is conservatism, and I go clear back to the first Greeks. ... When you say 'radical right' today, I think of these moneymaking ventures by fellows like Pat Robertson and others who are trying to take the Republican Party away from the Republican Party, and make a religious organization out of it. If that ever happens, kiss politics goodbye.

  Barry Goldwater

  Goodbye, Religious, Philosophy

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• Now I wonder whether I have sufficiently realized that during all this time God has been trying to find me, to know me, and to love me. The question is not 'How am I to find God?' but 'How am I to let myself be found by him?' The question is not 'How am I to love God?' but 'How am I to let myself be loved by God?'

  Henri Nouwen

  God Love, Wonder, Found

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming”, p.106, Image

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• Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening. I must listen to my life and try to understand what it is truly about-quite apart from what I would like it to be about-or my life will never represent anything real in the world, no matter how earnest my intentions…..Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am. I must listen for the truths and values at the heart of my own identity, not the standards by which I must live-but the standards by which I cannot help but live if I am living my own life.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Real, Heart, Who I Am

  Parker J. Palmer (2015). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.13, John Wiley & Sons

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• The game of investing is one of making better predictions about the future than other people. How are you going to do that? One way is to limit your tries to areas of competence. If you try to predict the future of everything, you attempt too much.

  Charlie Munger

  Games, People, Limits

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• I try to stay two drinks ahead of reality and three behind a drunk

  James Crumley

  Reality, Two, Drunk

  James Crumley (2016). “The Last Good Kiss”, p.39, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I was walking around trying to act cool, like I had no fear at all.
  But I was afraid, afraid that somebody would find out just how scared I was.
  Now I'm finally realizing that fear is the opposite of love.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Opposites, Scared, No Fear

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• It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaign to discredit my investigation, nor to waste time trying to prove negatives.

  Jim Garrison

  Campaigns, Waste, Wasting Time

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• Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown - and the pettiness of the big.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Book, Greatness, Littles

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• I like bossy girls. I don't like girls who just do whatever they think you want them to do, and follow you around trying to please you all the time.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Girl, Thinking, Want

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• I've stuck to the same things for twenty years. I try to look like a slightly edgy geography teacher. Like what a geography teacher looked like when I was in school. Cords, sensible shoes and glasses. I never liked geography much as a subject though. In fact the only geography teacher I can remember from school was a woman who had a moustache.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Teacher, School, Glasses

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• I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.

  Sean Lennon

  Art, Believe, Information

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

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• I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best

  Sean Lennon

  Everything Happens For A Reason, Way, Happens

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

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• You just have to try and keep on grinding and hope that things will turn around eventually.

  Annika Sorenstam

  Turns

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• A system is a network of interdependent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim of the system. A system must have an aim. Without the aim, there is no system.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Working Together, Improvement, Accomplish

  "The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education". Book by W. Edwards Deming, 1993.

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• Lying and war are always associated. Listen closely when you hear a war-maker try to defend his current war: If he moves his lips he's lying.

  Philip Berrigan

  War, Lying, Moving

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• Try it first And you'll see its a blessing And it's not a curse

  Ben Harper

  Blessing, Firsts, Curse

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• I'm chasing a kind of language that can be unburdened by people's expectations. I think music is the primary model-how close can you get this language to be like music and communicate feeling at the base level in the same way a composition with no words communicates meaning? It might be impossible. Language is always burdened by thought. I'm just trying to get it so it can be like feeling.

  Terrance Hayes

  Thinking, People, Expectations

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