Trying Quotes - Page 21

• I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.

  Sean Lennon

  Thinking, Use, World

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

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• I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.

  Sean Lennon

  Art, Believe, Information

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

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• I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best

  Sean Lennon

  Everything Happens For A Reason, Way, Happens

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

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• Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist

  Sean Lennon

  Mean, Artist, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm an elderly gentleman. I haven't been in a fight involving bodily contact in 60 years. Look, I fall trying to put on my underwear in the morning.

  Pete Stark

  Morning, Fall, Fighting

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• I see myself as an athlete and just try to market myself as a feminine athlete.

  Natalie Gulbis

  Athlete, Feminine

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• Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better

  Karrie Webb

  Get Better, Said

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• You just have to try and keep on grinding and hope that things will turn around eventually.

  Annika Sorenstam

  Turns

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• A system is a network of interdependent components that work together to try to accomplish the aim of the system. A system must have an aim. Without the aim, there is no system.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Working Together, Improvement, Accomplish

  "The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education". Book by W. Edwards Deming, 1993.

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• Well, I’ve been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Actors, Documentaries, Film

  "A Conversation with Daniel Berrigan". Rattle Interview, www.rattle.com. May 3, 2016.

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• Lying and war are always associated. Listen closely when you hear a war-maker try to defend his current war: If he moves his lips he's lying.

  Philip Berrigan

  War, Lying, Moving

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• Try it first And you'll see its a blessing And it's not a curse

  Ben Harper

  Blessing, Firsts, Curse

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• Whatever you do, don't play it safe. Don't do things the way they've always been done. Don't try to fit the system. If you do what's expected of you, you'll never accomplish more than others expect.

  Howard Schultz

  Success, Play, Inspire

  Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). “Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time”

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• A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

  Helen Dunmore

  Writing, Stories, Shapes

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• I'm chasing a kind of language that can be unburdened by people's expectations. I think music is the primary model-how close can you get this language to be like music and communicate feeling at the base level in the same way a composition with no words communicates meaning? It might be impossible. Language is always burdened by thought. I'm just trying to get it so it can be like feeling.

  Terrance Hayes

  Thinking, People, Expectations

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• One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's own and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism.

  Freya Stark

  Differences, Healthy, Tourism

  "Riding to the Tigris" by Freya Stark, quoted in "The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road" by Paul Theroux, McClelland & Stewart, (p. 226), July 12, 2011.

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• Keep your eye on the prize and focus on your mission. Remember what you’re trying to do, what your value is, why it’s important, and at the same time, change course and direction. If the market’s telling you different things how are you going to adjust to that?

  Steve Case

  Eye, Focus, Important

  "INSTANT MBA: Don't Be Stubborn And Change Course If Necessary" by Carolyn Cutrone, www.businessinsider.com. November 28, 2012.

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• I enjoyed high school and college, and I think I learned a lot, but that was not really my focus. My focus was on trying to figure out what businesses to start

  Steve Case

  School, College, Thinking

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• It is easy to prescribe improvement for others; it is easy to organize something, to institutionalize this or that, to pass laws, multiply bureaucratic agencies, form pressure groups, start revolutions, change forms of government, tinker at political theory. The fact that these expedients have been tried unsuccessfully in every conceivable combination for 6,000 years has not noticeably impaired a credulous unintelligent willingness to keep on trying them again and again.

  Albert J. Nock

  Agency, Government, Years

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• I remember as a young child, during one of my frequent trips to the local library, spending hours looking at book after book trying in vain to find one that had my name on it. Because there were so many books in the library, with so many different names on them, I’d assumed that one of them — somewhere — had to be mine. I didn’t understand at the time that a person’s name appears on a book because he or she wrote it. Now that I’m twenty-six I know better. If I were ever going to find my book one day, I was going to have to write it.

  Daniel Tammet

  Children, Book, Writing

  "Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant". Book by Daniel Tammet, 2006.

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• So I watched the Pink Panther last night, and so I'm trying desperately to be funny, and then it's just not working out so good... I wonder if maybe I could've been a comedian or something like that, or maybe I could've been a doctor, then I wouldn't have to make anyone laugh.

  Dave Matthews

  Night, Doctors, Work Out

  "Live at Luther College". Live album by Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds, January 19, 1999.

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• More is spent in a single month [in the U.S.] fighting the war on drugs than all monies ever expended domestically or internationally fighting slavery from its inception. Per month, we spend more on the drug war than we ever have trying to free slaves.

  Mira Sorvino

  War, Fighting, Drug

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• I think that most of the women when they dress in the morning, they try to be someone elseToday there is too much retouching, and I don't like it...except on me.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Morning, Thinking, Dresses

  "Frank talk from Carine Roitfeld" by Ruth La Ferla, runway.blogs.nytimes.com. November 6, 2012.

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• I don’t think we should try to make space our own. I believe that as modern people we should live in mobility. We should always be moving.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Believe, Moving, Thinking

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• Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.

  Walter Rauschenbusch

  Children, Doctrine, Generations

  Walter Rauschenbusch (2013). “A Theology for the Social Gospel”, p.8, Ravenio Books

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