Trying Quotes - Page 31

• Keep your eye on the prize and focus on your mission. Remember what you’re trying to do, what your value is, why it’s important, and at the same time, change course and direction. If the market’s telling you different things how are you going to adjust to that?

  Steve Case

  Eye, Focus, Important

  "INSTANT MBA: Don't Be Stubborn And Change Course If Necessary" by Carolyn Cutrone, www.businessinsider.com. November 28, 2012.

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• I remember as a young child, during one of my frequent trips to the local library, spending hours looking at book after book trying in vain to find one that had my name on it. Because there were so many books in the library, with so many different names on them, I’d assumed that one of them — somewhere — had to be mine. I didn’t understand at the time that a person’s name appears on a book because he or she wrote it. Now that I’m twenty-six I know better. If I were ever going to find my book one day, I was going to have to write it.

  Daniel Tammet

  Children, Book, Writing

  "Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant". Book by Daniel Tammet, 2006.

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• So I watched the Pink Panther last night, and so I'm trying desperately to be funny, and then it's just not working out so good... I wonder if maybe I could've been a comedian or something like that, or maybe I could've been a doctor, then I wouldn't have to make anyone laugh.

  Dave Matthews

  Night, Doctors, Work Out

  "Live at Luther College". Live album by Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds, January 19, 1999.

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• I think that most of the women when they dress in the morning, they try to be someone elseToday there is too much retouching, and I don't like it...except on me.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Morning, Thinking, Dresses

  "Frank talk from Carine Roitfeld" by Ruth La Ferla, runway.blogs.nytimes.com. November 6, 2012.

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• I don’t think we should try to make space our own. I believe that as modern people we should live in mobility. We should always be moving.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Believe, Moving, Thinking

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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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• The only thing you're taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we're all spiritual creatures.

  Smokey Robinson

  Spiritual, Soul, Needs

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• I’m attracted to the idea of drowning. Or rather the idea of jumping off and being enveloped by something, not bad or good, just enveloping.
  When I was a kid, I had a moment when I got under the water, lying on the pool floor, and felt I could breathe. I’ve been trying to recreate that feeling ever since.

  Florence Welch

  Lying, Kids, Jumping

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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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• You acquire more influence with young people when you give up using your power to control them...and the more you use your power to try to control people the less influence you'll have on their lives.

  Thomas Gordon

  Giving Up, People, Use

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• Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back into the ground. For another try. Another trip through. One life for another.

  Shirley Ann Grau

  Life, Tree, Matter

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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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• I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.

  Leo Baekeland

  Different, Shapes, Firsts

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• When I’m working with materials it’s not just the leaf or the stone, it’s the processes that are behind them that are important. That’s what I’m trying to understand, not a single isolated object but nature as a whole.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Important, Stones, Leafs

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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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• Im not trying to stay in the same place and Im not trying to compete with whats currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, Im different and the music reflects that to some degree.

  Eddie Money

  Fashion, Degrees, Different

  FaceBook post by Eddie Money from Nov 08, 2011

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• If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.

  Bobby Short

  Play, People, Tunes

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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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• It’s time to write dangerous music. It’s time to take risks. It’s time to wear your heart on your sleeve, and sing about the things that actually matter to you. It’s time to bury the shackles of religious expectation and stop trying to put new clothes on the dead.

  John Mark McMillan

  Religious, Writing, Heart

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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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