Attempting Quotes - Page 6

• Sometimes you can defuse a difficult situation simply by being willing to understand the other person. Often all that people need is to know that someone else cares about how they feel and it attempting to understand their position.

  Brian Tracy

  Difficult Situations, People, Needs

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• Attempting to identify with the source is an idea.  You are already that.

  Mooji

  Ideas, Source

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• English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.

  H. Beam Piper

  Men, Arms, Barmaids

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• Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Teaching, Ego, Benefits

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.15, Shambhala Publications

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• I can think of nothing more gallant, even though again and again we fail, than attempting to get at the facts; attempting to tell things as they really are. For at least reality, though never fully attained, can be defined. Reality is that which, when you don’t believe in it, doesn’t go away.

  Peter Viereck

  Believe, Reality, Thinking

  "The First Conservative" by Tom Reiss, www.newyorker.com. October 24, 2005.

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• I'm a dreamer and continue to dream of what can and will be, "Expecting great things from God, Attempting great things for God

  William Carey

  Dream, Expecting, Great Things

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• The most common mistake we make as teachers is attempting to tell our students too much.

  Robert H. Frank

  Teacher, Mistake, Too Much

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• This situation, where men rally to the defense of a doctrine they are unable to define scientifically, much less demonstrate with scientific rigor, attempting to maintain its credit with the public by the suppression of criticism and the elimination of difficulties, is abnormal and undesirable in science.

  W. R. Thompson

  Men, Criticism, Doctrine

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• There is little sense in attempting to change external conditions, you must first change inner beliefs, then outer conditions will change accordingly.

  Bryan Adams

  Law Of Attraction, Littles, Firsts

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• Attempting to define science fiction is an undertaking almost as difficult, though not so popular, as trying to define pornography... In both pornography and SF, the problem lies in knowing exactly where to draw the line.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Lying, Knowing, Trying

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• I've been on a faculty in a university, and I felt it was incumbent on me to deal with the Bible not as something I was attempting to convert people to, or to have them enter into my religious experience, but rather as an academic and scientific discipline.

  Hershel Shanks

  Religious, Discipline, People

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Ultimately it's a snowboarding film [Fourth Phase], of course, so the main thing that we wanted to celebrate was how awesome snowboarding is! Secondly, we wanted to celebrate the environment that we all shape our lives around. So the film documents myself and other like-minded individuals attempting to follow the hydrological cycles that shape the worlds we've committed our lives to.

  Travis Rice

  Snowboarding, Shapes, World

  Source: www.snowmagazine.com

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• When I talk about the polling, I'm talking about the principles. It shows these officials are knowingly attempting to shift public opinion, even though they know what they say is not factual.

  Edward Snowden

  Talking, Principles, Public Opinion

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.

  Al Sharpton

  Doors, Inches, Force

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The technologies of virtual reality are attempting to make us see from beneath, from inside, from behind... as if we were God.

  Paul Virilio

  Technology, Reality, Behinds

  Source: ctheory.net

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• I do not think an enormous permanent underclass is a very good thing to have if you're attempting to operate something that at least pretends sometimes to be a democracy.

  William Gibson

  Thinking, Democracy, Sometimes

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• I am attempting to move away from the exclusionary practices of feminist theory, particularly anti-pornography rhetoric, in order to amplify the discussion about the complexity of pleasure for women.

  Barbara Degenevieve

  Moving, Order, Practice

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• [State] finds [frontier] either with the aid of force, as in 1914, when Germany invaded Belgium in order to deal a blow against France or it "borrows" a frontier, such as Germany did with regard to Latvia, for instance, in 1918, in attempting to break through to Leningrad across Latvia.

  Joseph Stalin

  Blow, Order, Break Through

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• I don't spend too much time attempting to defend myself against people who seem to have zero desire to have a substantive conversation.

  Sho Baraka

  Zero, People, Desire

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I did a lot before [being cast] because I knew how important it would be for playing somebody real, or attempting to - to show the team [the role] was something I would be fascinated to do. I read a couple of biographies and I watched everything I could find [about princess Margaret].

  Vanessa Kirby

  Couple, Team, Real

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• If so much of your experience is devoted to the thought of documentation, you're already sort of spinning out this narrative from this moment that you are attempting to control instead of just experiencing it.

  Ted Leo

  Documentation, Narrative, Spinning

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• By attempting the impossible one can attain the highest level of the possible.

  August Strindberg

  Levels, Impossible, Highest

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• The characters in my novels, from the very first one, are always on some quixotic effort of attempting to control something that is uncontrollable - some element of the world that is essentially random and out of control.

  John Irving

  Character, Effort, Elements

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• I like not thinking when I am working. I thrive on that feeling of attempting to move on total instinct and inner feelings... that to me is "soul"; soul music. Almost everyone else uses a great deal of thought processes... they are idea men.

  Howe Gelb

  Moving, Men, Thinking

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• If the agent aims to make the attempt if and only if it would be apt, then a distinctive element of risk assessment becomes relevant: How probably would the agent succeed in attempting that fuller end?

  Ernest Sosa

  Ifs And, Assessment, Risk

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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