Trying Quotes - Page 15

• I used to try to play like [Miles Davis], and Miles caught me copying him one night at Birdland. He said, 'Hey man, why don't you play some of your own stuff.' So, I finally did, because I had copied all his solos.

  Freddie Hubbard

  Music, Night, Men

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• If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that.

  Roscoe Mitchell

  Music, Way, Sound

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• I'm trying to take a positive out the disappointment, but I'm also trying to do what's best for my career as well.

  Dathan Ritzenhein

  Motivational, Disappointment, Athlete

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• Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well.

  Inge de Bruijn

  Motivational, Country, Hard Work

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• It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  People, Political, Politics

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• As plants take hold, not for the sake of staying, but only that they may climb higher, so it is with men. By every part of our nature we clasp things above us, one after another, not for the sake of remaining where we take hold, but that we may go higher.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, May, Sake

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• Many a man never fails because he never tries.

  Norman MacEwen

  Failure, Men, Failing

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• Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Venture, Life Is, Should

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• Experiment is folly when experience shows the way.

  Roger Babson

  Way, Folly, Shows

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• For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.

  Jonathan Swift

  Block, Men, Want

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• Not merely what we do, but what we try to do and why, are the true interpreters of what we are.

  Collin H. Woodward

  Interpreter

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• She tries to get a waitressing job for a while - I mean, she's looking for a while before she finds Coyote Ugly - and it's hard to get a waitressing job in the city.

  Piper Perabo

  Jobs, Mean, Cities

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• I personally don't like eating animals. I'm not the kind of person that tries to preach to other people. But, for me, I don't feel right about doing it. That's the main reason why I stay vegetarian...I know the guys that have switched [to vegetarian] all swear by it-they say they love how it makes them feel.

  Jake Shields

  Animal, People, Guy

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• "They've been trying to test on animals for the past 50 years. Nobody's come up with a cure,"he says. "If you want to test on somebody, test on me."

  Montel Williams

  Animal, Past, Years

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• In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.

  Frederick The Great

  Focus, Prussia

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• Don't try to tell me what I am because I know what I am not

  Amit Abraham

  Honesty, Knows

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• Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Honesty, Lying, Heart

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• Who wills,
  Can.
  Who tries,
  Does.
  Who loves,
  Lives.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Inspirational, Life, Doe

  Anne McCaffrey (2016). “Dragonsong”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean.

  Bob Schieffer

  Mean, Perspective, Add

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• As you grow older and young people come up to you with their history books, you realize that some of the things I have been able to do have been impactful. But for me, I try to keep everything in perspective and stay humble.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Book, Humble, People

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• I do want to try to put things in perspective today relative to the U.S.-Canada relationship. I would like to start by talking about how important this relationship is to the people of the United States.

  Paul Cellucci

  Talking, People, Perspective

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• What does it mean to be a snowboarder? It's about having fun, with your friends or by yourself. It's about pushing yourself to try new things and do the unexpected. Finally, and most importantly, it's about being creative.

  Shaun White

  Sports, Fun, Mean

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• I'm trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can't worry about someone else's house.

  Bill Parcells

  Motivational, Sports, Worry

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• Look, when you are starting to put something together, you want the pudding to come out good. You're trying to put in the right ingredients.

  Bill Parcells

  Motivational, Sports, Together

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• You are trying not only to reach your potential but to move beyond it. If you are not in the best shape you can be, these things simply become more difficult to achieve.

  Rick Pitino

  Motivational, Sports, Moving

  Rick Pitino (1997). “Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life”, Broadway

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