Trying Quotes - Page 22

• Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.

  Alan Shearer

  Team, Father, Creating

  "From the TV sofa to the dugout: Alan Shearer plots grand return". Interview with Paul Hayward, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2011.

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• Trying to accumulate wealth by the sweat of your brow and hard labor is one way to become the richest man in the graveyard. You do not have to strive or slave hard.

  Joseph Murphy

  Men, Sweat, Way

  Joseph Murphy, General Press (2016). “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind”, p.74, GENERAL PRESS

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• I AM wealthy, poor, healthy, sick, free, confined were first of all impressions or conditions felt before they became visible expressions. Your world is your consciousness objectified. Waste no time trying to change the outside; change the within or the impression; and the without or expression will take care of itself. When the truth of this statement dawns upon you, you will know that you have found the lost word or the key to every door. I AM (your consciousness) is the magical lost word which was made flesh in the likeness of that which you are conscious of being.

  Neville Goddard

  Keys, Doors, Expression

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• Stop trying to change the world since it is only the mirror. Man’s attempt to change the world by force is as fruitless as breaking a mirror in the hope of changing his face. Leave the mirror and change your face. Leave the world alone and change your conceptions of yourself.

  Neville Goddard

  Men, Mirrors, World

  Neville Goddard (2013). “Your Faith is Your Fortune”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• The only thing you're taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we're all spiritual creatures.

  Smokey Robinson

  Spiritual, Soul, Needs

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• I’m attracted to the idea of drowning. Or rather the idea of jumping off and being enveloped by something, not bad or good, just enveloping.
  When I was a kid, I had a moment when I got under the water, lying on the pool floor, and felt I could breathe. I’ve been trying to recreate that feeling ever since.

  Florence Welch

  Lying, Kids, Jumping

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• I wanted to be a witch when I was a kid. I was obsessed with witchcraft. At school, me and my two friends had these spell books; I always wanted a more magical reality. I had a little shrine at home and I did a spell to try and make the boy in the other class fall in love with me.

  Florence Welch

  Falling In Love, Book, Home

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• One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.

  J. B. Morton

  Wife, Luck, Ears

  'By the Way' (1931) p. 282

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• Try to change it and you will ruin it. Try to hold it and you will lose it.

  Laozi

  Tao Te Ching, Ruins, Tao Ching

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• I think the main thing you have to remember when going into the post-season is to stay relaxed. All of the energy and excitement can be overwhelming but the thing I'll try to relay to the younger players is just stay calm and focused.

  Holly Johnson

  Player, Thinking, Stay Calm

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• We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.

  Matthieu Ricard

  World, Temporary, Illusory

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• You acquire more influence with young people when you give up using your power to control them...and the more you use your power to try to control people the less influence you'll have on their lives.

  Thomas Gordon

  Giving Up, People, Use

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• It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw.

  Michael Lewis

  Baseball, Team, People

  Michael Lewis (2004). “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game”, p.105, W. W. Norton & Company

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• For the average audience, the credits tell them there's only
  three minutes left to eat popcorn. I take this ‘dead’ period and try to do more than simply get rid of names that filmgoers aren't interested in.
  I aim to set up the audience for what's coming;
  make them expectant.

  Saul Bass

  Average, Names, Credit

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• Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.

  Chip Kidd

  Art, Ideas, Giving

  Chip Kidd (2008). “The Cheese Monkeys”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back into the ground. For another try. Another trip through. One life for another.

  Shirley Ann Grau

  Life, Tree, Matter

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• No one can hate petitions worse than I, and no one has less faith in them than I. But for my champion I am willing to try any means that invades no other's right, even though I have little hope in it.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Hate, Mean, Champion

  Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.236, SUNY Press

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• I'm talking about: Are we competing today, every minute, in everything we do in practice. Are we letting loose and daring to be great here and now? And can we sustain that? And repeat it. Trophies are great, but we're trying to win forever.

  Pete Carroll

  Winning, Talking, Practice

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• I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.

  Leo Baekeland

  Different, Shapes, Firsts

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• The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things. Inevitably, one way of getting beneath the surface is to introduce a hole, a window into what lies below.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Art, Lying, Looks

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• Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I I try to tap through my work. I need the shock of touch, the resistance of place, materials and weather, the earth as my source. Nature is in a state of change and that change is the key to understanding. I want my art to be sensitive and alert to changes in material, season and weather. Each work grows, stays, decays. Process and decay are implicit. Transience in my work reflects what I find in nature.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Art, Weather, Keys

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• When I’m working with materials it’s not just the leaf or the stone, it’s the processes that are behind them that are important. That’s what I’m trying to understand, not a single isolated object but nature as a whole.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Important, Stones, Leafs

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• The terrible poetry of human nudity, I understand it at last, I who tremble for the first time in trying to read it with blasé eyes.

  Rachilde

  Eye, Lasts, Firsts

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• It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords

  Tommy Shaw

  Fun, Hands, Lessons

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• Im not trying to stay in the same place and Im not trying to compete with whats currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, Im different and the music reflects that to some degree.

  Eddie Money

  Fashion, Degrees, Different

  FaceBook post by Eddie Money from Nov 08, 2011

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