Trying Quotes - Page 7

• A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

  Douglas Adams

  Inspirational, Funny, Fake People

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.690, Pan Macmillan

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• In dwelling, live close to the ground.
  In thinking, keep to the simple.
  In conflict, be fair and generous.
  In governing, don't try to control.
  In work, do what you enjoy.
  In family life, be completely present.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Family

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• It was too much. The comfortable people made comfortable jokes about weather and things but I sat mostly silent saying a word or so when necessary a word or so trying to hide from them the fact that I was a fool and feeling terrible And I was numb, numb again, numb again again and again, numbness and pain swelling in me.

  Charles Bukowski

  Pain, Numbness, Weather

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• Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Confidence, Self Esteem

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• It never ceases to amaze me how many folks jump right over "I'll try" to "I can't.

  Julia Spencer-Fleming

  Folks, I Can, Cease

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• At some point, I get a weird feeling, and that's when I know it's done. I probably ruin a lot of really perfectly fine things. So part of working on paper, and trying to work really fast, is to see if I can expand the area of not being driven by taste. Not saying, "This looks good, I'll stop."

  Amy Sillman

  Feelings, Done, Driven

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• I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity, to name a few.

  Brené Brown

  Creativity, Black And White, Love Is

  "Living Brave". Interview with Mary Sykes Wylie, Rich Simon, www.psychotherapynetworker.org. September, 2016.

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• I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.

  Al Purdy

  Atheism, Unhappy, World

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• Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

  Alberto Moravia

  Perfect, Problem, Born

  "The New Yorker" Interview, May 7, 1955.

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• We got anxious at the end of the weekend in our urgency to try to score the winning goal. Ended up playing far too many long balls forward. That style of play doesn't suit Manchester United. We must continue to play football and enjoy the game. If we do that, eventually things will come right for us.

  Alex Ferguson

  Football, Weekend, Winning

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• I knew damn well I would never be a movie star. It's too hard; and if you are intelligent, it's too embarrassing. My complexes aren't inferior enough: being a movie star and having a big fat ego are supposed to go hand-in-hand; actually, it's essential not to have any ego at all. I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try and get around to it; but if it happens, I'd like to have my ego, tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's.

  Holly Golightly

  Morning, Stars, Mean

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• Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream.
  I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be?
  So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you.
  Should've known you'd bring me heartache.
  Almost lovers always do.

  A Fine Frenzy

  Goodbye, Dream, Thinking

  Song: Almost Lover, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007

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• I am grateful for the support of those who want to see more women in Congress to better represent our country and provide leadership and solutions to DC. Ron Barber has been asleep at the switch on issues that are extremely important to Southern Arizona, such as fighting for the A-10 and Davis-Monthan. That is why Nancy Pelosi is stepping in to try to save his job in November. Sometimes the best man for the job is a woman that is why I fully intend on replacing Congressman Barber on Election Day.

  Martha McSally

  Country, Jobs, Grateful

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• [On] 'Sufferer,' I'm talking about the younger generation that has no other option for success than to find a gun somewhere. I try to appeal to them: 'I know you a sufferer, but it doesn't mean that you can't or shouldn't expect any better.' It's a lot different than from what I usually say, like, 'Get busy, shake that thing.'

  Sean Paul

  Mean, Gun, Talking

  "Sean Paul Hopes To Curb Youth Violence In Jamaica With Next Lp" by Jayson Rodriguez, www.mtv.com. Janaury 22, 2007.

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• I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.

  Laurie Anderson

  Kind, Forget, Compliment

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• You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.

  Laurie Anderson

  Being Sad, Needs, Masters

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• I try to take what voice I have and I give it to those who don’t have one at all.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Voice, Giving, Photographer

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• Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect.

  Brené Brown

  Perfect, Want, Stop Trying

  "Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect" By Brené Brown, www.cnn.com.

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• It's one thing to be helpless as one tries to lace a corset or to mount an elephant, quite another to be helpless as a bandit pushes a black steel knife against the flesh of your throat while his brother comes to join him.

  John Speed

  Brother, Knives, Elephants

  John Speed (2007). “The Temple Dancer: A Novel of India”, p.86, Macmillan

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• I'm still working on my career, still trying to learn from other artistes and develop my skills and my style.

  Sean Paul

  Skills, Careers, Style

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

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• My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That’s basically it. I’m not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I’m just reflecting on life.

  Sean Paul

  Growing Up, Who I Am, Prophet

  "Reasoning with Sean Paul". Interview with Laura Gardner, jahworks.org. October 1, 2002.

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• I remember the special quiet of rainy days
  when I felt that I could enter the pages
  of my beautiful picture books.
  Now I try to recreate that feeling of believing
  that the imaginary place I'm drawing really exists.
  The detail in my work helps to convince me, and I hope
  others as well, that such places might be real.

  Jan Brett

  Beautiful, Real, Book

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• I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits.

  Stephan Jenkins

  People, Misfits, Fixers

  "He can see clearly now / Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins looks at success, love, creativity" by Julian Guthrie, www.sfgate.com. April 20, 2003.

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• I think it's really clear that Sony lost track of what customers and what developers wanted. I'd say, even at this late date, they should just cancel it and do a do over. Just say, 'This was a horrible disaster and we're sorry and we're going to stop selling this and stop trying to convince people to develop for it'.

  Gabe Newell

  Sorry, Thinking, People

  "Internet news gatherers savour PS3 gloom" by Keith Stuart, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2007.

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• We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Ignorance, Years, Thousand

  "'Penn&Teller: Bullshit' ('Abstinence')". Comedy, Documentary, June 05, 2006.

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