Trying Quotes - Page 37

• Pay close attention to when you're being the real you & when you're trying to impress an invisible jury.

  Derek Sivers

  Real, Attention, Pay

  Derek Sivers (2015). “Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur”, p.64, Penguin

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• If you think that hiring professionals is expensive, try hiring amateurs

  Red Adair

  Thinking, Hiring, Ifs

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• Every song youre trying to find something that going to connect in different ways but for me the songs that Im really drawn to are inspirational, songs that lift you and that everybody can relate to no matter where youre from.

  Rodney Atkins

  Song, Different, Matter

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• I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me.

  Blythe Danner

  Play, Different, Labels

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• But in the end our government usually - not unfailingly - is responsive to the people; and usually - not always - will try to do what is right.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Government, People, Ends

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• I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.

  Daniel Johns

  Way, Corny

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

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• I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment.

  Daniel Johns

  Animal, Talking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What I’m trying to show is that the main event today is not seen by those of us that are living it… So it’s not the effect of [technology], it is that everything exists with-in [its milieu]. It's not that we use technology, we live technology. Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Technology, Air, Events

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• My father taught me respect for quality as well as a sense of dignity - great values as we face a world going in a different direction. I try to teach my children to stay close to the real things.

  Diego Della Valle

  Children, Father, Real

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• Every year I try to keep in excellent shape and improve some part of my game. I play in the offseason overseas to keep my game tuned up and hopefully improve a little in some area.

  Sue Wicks

  Games, Play, Years

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• The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.

  Philip Wylie

  Liberty, Quality, Businessman

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• But I also like to be in control, like anyone else. I try to achieve a balance.

  Trevor Dunn

  Balance, Achieve

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• My aim was to create armaments to protect the borders of my motherland. It is not my fault that the Kalashnikov became very well-known in the world; that it was used in many troubled places. I think the policies of these countries are to blame, not the designers. Man is born to protect his family, his children, his wife. But I want you to know that apart from armaments, I have written three books in which I try to educate our youth to show respect for their families, for old people, for history.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Country, Children, Book

  "For Patriotism and Profit". Interview with Robert Fisk, www.worldpress.org. July 2001.

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• Let me just try to give you sort of the intuitive one here on the stimulus funds. If you have a two-person economy - let's imagine we have two farms, and that's the whole world, just two farms. If one of those farmers gets unemployment benefits, who do you think pays for him? Am I going way over your heads today?

  Arthur Laffer

  Thinking, Two, Giving

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• Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Helping Others, Inspire, Weakness

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1890). “Ordination Addresses and Counsels to Clergy”

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• Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try to catch those ripples. No one’s hands are fast enough.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Ocean, Mean, Hands

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• To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

  Eduardo Chillida

  Looks, Difficult, One Thing

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• The more I learn and read about the 10th Muse i realize what a great fan base and cult following she has. I'm going to try to live up to the fantastic image of the 10th Muse!

  Cindy Margolis

  Fans, Realizing, Muse

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• People are supposed to accumulate, I thought, as they get older, but I seem to be sloughing off, like a person wrapped in a hundred layers of cellophane, tearing one layer off at a time, trying to get down to me.

  Pam Houston

  People, Layers, Hundred

  Pam Houston (1999). “Waltzing the Cat”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.

  Lance Secretan

  Inspiration, Fall, Essence

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• I purposely try to hire people who are really self-motivated and good at what they do, and then I just leave them alone.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Self, People, Motivated

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• When I die and go to hell, the devil is going to make me the marketing director for a cola company. I’ll be in charge of trying to sell a product that no one needs, is identical to its competition, and can’t be sold on its merits. I’d be competing head-on in the cola wars, on price, distribution, advertising, and promotion, which would indeed be hell for me. Remember, I’m the kid who couldn’t play competitive games. I’d much rather design and sell products so good and unique that they have no competition.

  Yvon Chouinard

  War, Kids, Unique

  Yvon Chouinard (2016). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual”, p.119, Penguin

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• I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Believe, Thinking, Growth

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• To be a European is to try to negotiate morally, intellectually and existentially the opposing statements and praxis of the city of Socrates and the city of Isaiah.

  George Steiner

  Cities, Praxis, Opposing

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• You don’t have to look like an old fuddy-duddy, but I believe it was Chanel who said, ‘Nothing makes a woman look so old as trying desperately hard to look young’. I think you can be attractive at any age. I think trying to look like a spring chicken when you’re not makes you look ridiculous.

  Iris Apfel

  Spring, Believe, Thinking

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