Trying Quotes - Page 20

• To try to cure unemployment by inflation rather than by adjustment of specific wage-rates is like trying to adjust the piano to the stool rather than the stool to the piano.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Piano, Unemployment, Stools

  Henry Hazlitt (2016). “The Failure of the "New Economics": An Analysis of the Keynesian Fallacies”, p.542, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

  C. Wright Mills

  Men, Vision, Orbit

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.3, Oxford University Press

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• Each day men sell little pieces if themselves in order to try to buy then back each night and weekend.

  C. Wright Mills

  Weekend, Night, Men

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• You learn a lot more about all the things that are necessary to be the leader of a team and so there's day-to-day hands-on training that you get and you might not even be asking for it. You try as best you can to be organized, have a plan, know exactly what you want from a schedule standpoint, have an idea of what you would want in a staff.

  Sean Payton

  Team, Hands, Ideas

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• When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, and to compare what people were subjected to there to what happened in Philadelphia - which was inappropriate, certainly that . . . to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who risked all, for my people.

  Eric Holder

  Thinking, Philadelphia, People

  "Eric Holder: Black Panther case focus demeans 'my people'". www.politico.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Every time I go to Washington, I break out in a cold sweat. So I try not to spend too much time there.

  John Kasich

  Sweat, Break Out, Too Much

  "Kasich: 'Obama Should Let Me Run Ohio'" by John Kasich, www.foxnews.com. February 25, 2011.

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• If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.

  Joshua Homme

  Different, Want, Helping

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

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• The oldest philosophy in the world is conservatism, and I go clear back to the first Greeks. ... When you say 'radical right' today, I think of these moneymaking ventures by fellows like Pat Robertson and others who are trying to take the Republican Party away from the Republican Party, and make a religious organization out of it. If that ever happens, kiss politics goodbye.

  Barry Goldwater

  Goodbye, Religious, Philosophy

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• Think of each wound as you would of a child who has been hurt by a friend. As long as that child is ranting and raving, trying to get back at the friend, one wound leads to another. But when the child can experience the consoling embrace of a parent, she or he can live through the pain, return to the friend, forgive, and build up a new relationship. Be gentle with yourself, and let your heart be your loving parent as you live your wounds through.

  Henri Nouwen

  Hurt, Children, Pain

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• Now I wonder whether I have sufficiently realized that during all this time God has been trying to find me, to know me, and to love me. The question is not 'How am I to find God?' but 'How am I to let myself be found by him?' The question is not 'How am I to love God?' but 'How am I to let myself be loved by God?'

  Henri Nouwen

  God Love, Wonder, Found

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming”, p.106, Image

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• Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening. I must listen to my life and try to understand what it is truly about-quite apart from what I would like it to be about-or my life will never represent anything real in the world, no matter how earnest my intentions…..Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am. I must listen for the truths and values at the heart of my own identity, not the standards by which I must live-but the standards by which I cannot help but live if I am living my own life.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Real, Heart, Who I Am

  Parker J. Palmer (2015). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.13, John Wiley & Sons

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• Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Day by day, and at the end of the day-if you live long enough-like most people, you will get out of life what you deserve.

  Charlie Munger

  Long, People, The End Of The Day

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• The game of investing is one of making better predictions about the future than other people. How are you going to do that? One way is to limit your tries to areas of competence. If you try to predict the future of everything, you attempt too much.

  Charlie Munger

  Games, People, Limits

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• I try to stay two drinks ahead of reality and three behind a drunk

  James Crumley

  Reality, Two, Drunk

  James Crumley (2016). “The Last Good Kiss”, p.39, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.

  Samuel Richardson

  Laughing, May, Cry

  Samuel Richardson (1784). “Clarissa: Or, the History of a Young Lady. Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life. ... By Mr. Samuel Richardson. In Eight Volumes”, p.1091

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• I believe that we face incredible obstacles in our attempts to see the world. Everything in our nature tries to deny the world around us; to refabricate it in our own image; to reinvent it for our own benefit. And so, it becomes something of a challenge, a task, to recover (or at least attempt to recover) the real world despite all the impediments to that end.

  Errol Morris

  Real, Believe, Challenges

  "The Museum of Modern Art with Ron Rosenbaum". www.errolmorris.com. Fall, 1999.

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• Music has become really important now. It's helped me to open up more and take a chance on loving people. Music is a good reason to care. It's just a vehicle though. It's a way to try and give somebody something that you feel. If trying the best I can isn't good enough, I'll just have to try harder next time...it's all I can do. If I do the best I can, then at least I did the best I could in this life The way I like to look at it is....if that's the last time /I ever got to play, I'd better give it everything I've got.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Play, People, Giving

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• I was walking around trying to act cool, like I had no fear at all.
  But I was afraid, afraid that somebody would find out just how scared I was.
  Now I'm finally realizing that fear is the opposite of love.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Opposites, Scared, No Fear

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• It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaign to discredit my investigation, nor to waste time trying to prove negatives.

  Jim Garrison

  Campaigns, Waste, Wasting Time

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• I always try to work with people who are better than me, so I can learn more.

  Bela Fleck

  People, I Can

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• Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown - and the pettiness of the big.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Book, Greatness, Littles

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• I couldn't imagine anything more horrifying than three middle aged men trying to pretend that 'Black Dog' is still significant. It's inappropriate.

  Robert Plant

  Dog, Men, Black

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• Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.

  Justin Theroux

  Thinking, Suffering, Fame

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• I like bossy girls. I don't like girls who just do whatever they think you want them to do, and follow you around trying to please you all the time.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Girl, Thinking, Want

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• I've stuck to the same things for twenty years. I try to look like a slightly edgy geography teacher. Like what a geography teacher looked like when I was in school. Cords, sensible shoes and glasses. I never liked geography much as a subject though. In fact the only geography teacher I can remember from school was a woman who had a moustache.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Teacher, School, Glasses

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