Trying Quotes - Page 31

• It appears to me that men are trying to speak for God instead of letting God speak for himself.

  Theodore M. Burton

  Letting Go, Men, Speak

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• It’s called the pursuit of perfection. The pursuit is the idea that you’ll never be perfect in gymnastics but you can continue to pursue it as long as you’re doing it. I don’t think it’s possible to be perfect in gymnastics. It’s just one of those sports that you’re always trying to improve and pursue that perfection.

  Jonathan Horton

  Sports, Gymnastics, Thinking

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• I'm trying to drink more water.

  Heather Donahue

  Water, Drink

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• I try my hardest to push the point that I am a feminist.

  Jenna Jameson

  Feminist, Hardest

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

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• Life is more fragile and precious than I can comprehend, but believe me, I'm trying.

  John O'Callaghan

  Believe, Life Is, Fragile

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• Just know that someone out there always has it worst, and you should try to realize that there really is a lot to look forward to

  John O'Callaghan

  Looks, Realizing, Should

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• The composer Stravinsky had written a new piece with a difficult violin passage. After it had been in rehearsal for several weeks, the solo violinist came to Stravinsky and said he was sorry, he had tried his best, the passage was too difficult, no violinist could play it. Stravinsky said, 'I understand that. What I am after is the sound of someone trying to play it.'

  Thomas Powers

  Sorry, Play, Sound

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• To dream the impossible dream, to fight the unbeatable foe, to bear with unbearable sorrow, to run where the brave dare not go, to right the unrightable wrong, to love pure and chaste from afar, to try when your arms are too weary, to reach the unreachable star. This is my quest, to follow that star, no matter how hopeless, no matter how far. To fight for the right, without question or pause, to be willing to march into hell for a heavenly cause. And I know if I’ll only be true to this glorious quest that my heart will be peaceful and calm when I’m laid to my rest.

  Joe Darion

  Running, Dream, Stars

  "The Impossible Dream (The Quest)" (song) (1965)

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• Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Art, Tricks, Happens

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• Life is a celebration… I try to enjoy it as much as possible.

  Rashad Evans

  Celebration, Life Is, Enjoy

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• One day these will just be memories that I haveso I try to enjoy it as much as possible

  Rashad Evans

  Memories, Mma, One Day

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• I saw that animals were important. I saw that plants were even more important. I was also to learn that compared to many of the other species, we weren't important at all except for the damage we do. We do not rule the natural world, despite our conspicuous position in it. On the contrary, it is our lifeline, and we do well to try to understand its rules.

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

  Animal, Important, World

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• Be there for your children. Sit on the bed and enjoy the late-night talks—try to stay awake! Pray for the Lord to inspire you. Forgive often. Choose your battles. Testify frequently of Jesus Christ and His goodness and of the Restoration. And most of all, let them know of your trust in the Lord.

  Bonnie D. Parkin

  Jesus, Children, Night

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• Continue to invest in your personal development. Expand your occupational horizons by constant study . . . look to your present job as a stepping-stone along your career path. Take time to think. The dimensions of most jobs are constrained only by the mind of the uncreative worker. I like what one business man counseled: If at first you do succeed, try something harder!!!

  J. Richard Clarke

  Inspirational, Jobs, Men

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• Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.

  Ikue Mori

  Art, Thinking, Lunch

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• The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.

  Ikue Mori

  Inspiration, Book, Ideas

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• One of the problems with fame is they try to pigeonhole you... like I'm stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life.

  Charles A. Reich

  America, Problem, Fame

  "Fame the Blaze and the Burnout". "Fame the Blaze and the Burnout" by Don Oldenburg, www.washingtonpost.com. March 24, 1987.

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• We must never try to escape the obligation of living at our best.

  Janet Erskine Stuart

  Obligation

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• As far as cuisine is concerned one must read everything, see everything, hear everything, try everything, observe everything, in order to retain in the end, just a little bit.

  Fernand Point

  Order, Littles, Cuisine

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• Always, with any movie that I do, I have a book of ideas that I've heard, or seen, or whatever, and I always try to incorporate it in the film.

  Adrian Lyne

  Book, Ideas, Film

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• The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.

  Adrian Lyne

  Challenges, Film, Moments

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• I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.

  Pete Fountain

  Reading, Thinking, Play

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• So it's really hard for a horn player to comp. But I'm totally into trying to switch those paradigms around and find a little magic space where that works, and try to mine that.

  Charlie Hunter

  Player, Space, Horny

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• The artist tries to see what there is to be interested in... He has not created something, he has seen something.

  T. E. Hulme

  Artist

  "Speculations: Essays on Humanism and the Philosophy of Art". Book by T. E. Hulme, 1924.

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• A single person is a manageable entity, whom you can either make friends with or leave alone. But half of a married couple is not exactly a whole human being: if the marriage is successful it is something a little more than that; if unsuccessful, a little less. In either case, a fresh complication is added to the already intricate business of friendship: as Clem had once remarked, you might as well try to dance a tarantella with a Siamese twin.

  Jan Struther

  Couple, Successful, Half

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