Trying Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• Make Earth Day Every Day.”  While we might not always live up to this ideal, I try to keep this quote from Denis Hayes, founder of the Earth Day Network and president of Seattle’s Bullitt Foundation, in mind when I need a little extra motivation to be a better environmentalist: “Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.

  Denis Hayes

  Running, Motivation, Beer

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• The whole universe or the structure that perceives it is a worthy opponent, but try as I may I can not escape the sound of suffering. Perhaps as an old man I will take great comfort in pottering around in a lab and gently talking to students in the summer evening and will accept suffering with insouciance. But not now; men in their prime, if they have convictions are tasked to act on them.

  Julian Assange

  Summer, Men, Talking

  "Witnessing". Selected Correspondence, Julian Assange's old blog, IQ.org (via Archive.org), web.archive.org. January 3, 2007.

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• We’re keenly aware that when we develop and make something and bring it to market that it really does speak to a set of values. And what preoccupies us is that sense of care, and what our products will not speak to is a schedule, what our products will not speak to is trying to respond to some corporate or competitive agenda. We’re very genuinely designing the best products that we can for people.

  Jonathan Ive

  People, Design, Doe

  "Jonathan Ive interview: Apple's design genius is British to the core". Interview With Shane Richmond, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 23, 2012.

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• 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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• 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 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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• As I said this year, I didn't try to put any pressure on me by setting high goals or anything, I just want to make sure that every single time I'm out there on the court I do my best, I give 100%, and see where it's going to end up next year.

  Daniela Hantuchova

  Years, Giving, Goal

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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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• 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 believe in the art of war. We are trying to get our competition to attack us with angry, virulent energy, so we can transform that into larger market share.

  Marc Benioff

  Art, War, Believe

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• Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes.

  David Chalmers

  Thinking, Views, People

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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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• 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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• I think our society is no longer properly valuing the intangible potential of innovation, even if we have to be a little uncomfortable with the risks associated with it, and a little bit willing to fail, pick ourselves up and dust ourselves off and try again. We don’t seem to want to do that as much as we used too.

  Dean Kamen

  Thinking, Dust, Risk

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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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