Trying Quotes - Page 22

• Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.

  Walter Rauschenbusch

  Children, Doctrine, Generations

  Walter Rauschenbusch (2013). “A Theology for the Social Gospel”, p.8, Ravenio Books

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• Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.

  Alan Shearer

  Team, Father, Creating

  "From the TV sofa to the dugout: Alan Shearer plots grand return". Interview with Paul Hayward, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2011.

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• I AM wealthy, poor, healthy, sick, free, confined were first of all impressions or conditions felt before they became visible expressions. Your world is your consciousness objectified. Waste no time trying to change the outside; change the within or the impression; and the without or expression will take care of itself. When the truth of this statement dawns upon you, you will know that you have found the lost word or the key to every door. I AM (your consciousness) is the magical lost word which was made flesh in the likeness of that which you are conscious of being.

  Neville Goddard

  Keys, Doors, Expression

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• Stop trying to change the world since it is only the mirror. Man’s attempt to change the world by force is as fruitless as breaking a mirror in the hope of changing his face. Leave the mirror and change your face. Leave the world alone and change your conceptions of yourself.

  Neville Goddard

  Men, Mirrors, World

  Neville Goddard (2013). “Your Faith is Your Fortune”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.

  J. B. Morton

  Wife, Luck, Ears

  'By the Way' (1931) p. 282

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• Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.

  Laozi

  Tao Te Ching, Ruins, Tao Ching

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• We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.

  Matthieu Ricard

  World, Temporary, Illusory

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• For the average audience, the credits tell them there's only
  three minutes left to eat popcorn. I take this ‘dead’ period and try to do more than simply get rid of names that filmgoers aren't interested in.
  I aim to set up the audience for what's coming;
  make them expectant.

  Saul Bass

  Average, Names, Credit

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• Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.

  Chip Kidd

  Art, Ideas, Giving

  Chip Kidd (2008). “The Cheese Monkeys”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• No one can hate petitions worse than I, and no one has less faith in them than I. But for my champion I am willing to try any means that invades no other's right, even though I have little hope in it.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Hate, Mean, Champion

  Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.236, SUNY Press

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• I'm talking about: Are we competing today, every minute, in everything we do in practice. Are we letting loose and daring to be great here and now? And can we sustain that? And repeat it. Trophies are great, but we're trying to win forever.

  Pete Carroll

  Winning, Talking, Practice

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• The terrible poetry of human nudity, I understand it at last, I who tremble for the first time in trying to read it with blasé eyes.

  Rachilde

  Eye, Lasts, Firsts

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• It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords

  Tommy Shaw

  Fun, Hands, Lessons

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• At some point I will try balut. I will make sure that I will film it

  Sam Tsui

  Film

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• You can do anything if you accept the challenge, rise to the occasion, try harder, and drive it home!

  Tyler Ward

  Home, Challenges, Accepting

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• I really appreciate anyone trying to inject art into mainstream film.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Art, Appreciate, Film

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• Once in a while, I try to sneak in something less known anyway.

  Bobby Short

  Sneak In, Known, Sneak

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• The government decides to try to increase the middle class by subsidizing things that middle class people have: If middle-class people go to college and own homes, then surely if more people go to college and own homes, we’ll have more middle-class people. But homeownership and college aren’t causes of middle-class status, they’re markers for possessing the kinds of traits — self-discipline, the ability to defer gratification, etc. — that let you enter, and stay, in the middle class. Subsidizing the markers doesn’t produce the traits; if anything, it undermines them.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Home, College, Class

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• If you're starting out or trying to get to the next level, surround yourself with people who keep you motivated and energized - people who inspire you to achieve your best every day. When you do this, you can't lose.

  Anthony Famiglietti

  People, Inspire, Starting Out

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• We all say things when we are trying to get elected.

  Christy Clark

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• I think the themes in my songs are very similar from the first album to the newest one. It's all about the human condition and how we are all trying to learn to live with each other and survive love and life.

  Deana Carter

  Song, Life And Love, Thinking

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• The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear.

  Will Ferguson

  Humorous, Canada, Disappear

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• Well, I'm still looking for Maurice Ashley. My essential qualities. I think that more than anything, I try to do the right thing, I think about doing the right thing.

  Maurice Ashley

  Thinking, Quality, Essentials

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• It isn't surprising that many children consider their parents to be a little dim, and that they sometimes try to update them. The fact that they don't usually try too hard is just as well; a thoroughly updated parent is an unappetizing sight.

  Peg Bracken

  Children, Sight, Parent

  Peg Bracken (1969). “I Didn't Come Here to Argue”

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• I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.

  Laurence Housman

  Healthy, Orthodoxy, Tribes

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