Trying Quotes - Page 36

• I was trying to put myself in a bottle that would one day wash up on the beach for my children. If I were a painter, I would have painted for them. If I were a musician, I would have composed music. But I am a lecturer. So I lectured.

  Randy Pausch

  Beach, Children, One Day

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next.

  Alain de Botton

  Envy, Diaries, Next

  Twitter post from Dec 29, 2012

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• God bless the America we are trying to create.

  Hillary Clinton

  America, God Bless, Diabolical

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• In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapon stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members... It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons.

  Hillary Clinton

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Iraq

  Hillary Clinton's Senate speech, October 10, 2002.

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• I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Irritation, Long

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• Yes, I know, shaming, isn't it? I always say you can take the girl out of the 80s, but you can't take the 80s out of the girl. Before I wrote my first novel, I was reading one of the self-help classics – and it's as cheesy as you like, so feel free to laugh, Guardian readers – called Awaken The Giant Within, by Tony Robbins, and it inspired me to try. I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit – your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don't accept your limitations, jump before you're pushed, leap before you look.

  Louise Mensch

  Girl, Book, Reading

  "Louise Mensch: 'We're not all ogres'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

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• Honesty is what brings people to change and that's what i'm trying to learn in life.

  Hayley Williams

  Honesty, People

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• I don’t care if the world or anyone in it tries to drag me down. Because I know that in the end, they will be the ones left tired from the struggle to hold me back.

  Hayley Williams

  Struggle, Tired, World

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• Focus is scary—until you realize that it only means turning your back on markets you could never have anyway. Sharp focus on jobs that customers are trying to get done holds the promise of greatly improving the odds of success in new-product development.

  Clayton Christensen

  Jobs, Mean, Odds

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• I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.

  Anne Tyler

  Character, Literature, Wonder

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• How many times have you tried to solve “the problem”? you’ll be trying to solve it not just until you die but for many more lifetimes. Instead, understand that this world is just the play of the senses. It’s the five khandhas doing their thing; it has nothing to do with you. It’s just people being people, the world being the world.

  Ajahn Brahm

  Play, People, World

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• Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

  Idries Shah

  Humble, Humility, Be Humble

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• In printmaking, I essentially use the same process as in painting with one important exception ... to try, with sensitivity to the medium to emphasize what printing can do best ... better than say, painting or collaging or watercolour or drawing or whatever ... Otherwise, the artist expresses the same vision in graphics that he does in his other work.

  Robert Motherwell

  Artist, Drawing, Vision

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• It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious.

  Kim Il-sung

  Peace, Struggle, Independence

  Biography/Pesonal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In so many ways, it feels the same now when I play as the very first time I picked up the instrument. There's always this sound out there that's just a little bit beyond my reach and I'm trying to get there and that just sort of keeps me going.

  Bill Frisell

  Play, Sound, Littles

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• You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits.

  Steven Holl

  Always Trying, World, Limits

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• I speak in a loud, clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture.

  Alfred Lunt

  Voice, Bumps, Furniture

  Biography/Pesonal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Often actors ask me if I think they should go on trying to be an actor.
  I have the same answer for everyone who asks: If you have a choice and could reasonably be happy doing something else, by all means go at once and do something else.
  Acting or writing or directing in the theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those who are so smitten with the need that there is no choice.

  Michael Shurtleff

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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• There’s a ghost of a dream that you don’t even try to shake free off because you’re too in love with the way she haunts you.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Dream, Way, Ghost

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• Just try to make the world a better place for your having been here.

  Jimmy Doolittle

  Extraordinary Person, World, Being Weird

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• There's a small island, inhabited in the South Pacific that I will try to swim to.

  Peter Arnett

  Islands, Swim, South

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• When teachers try to teach, nurses try to nurse, small businesses try to serve their clients and the police try to arrest criminals, there is always a regulator or three breathing down their necks. Conservatives want to make people's lives easier.

  John Redwood

  Teacher, Breathing, Nurse

  "Tories promise to 'lift the weight of bureaucracy'" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2005.

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• Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught the rhythm of them once and for all, in your sleep at night. The city, of course, can wreck it. So much insomnia. So many rhythms collide. The salesgirl, the landlord, the guests, the bystanders, sixteen varieties of social circumstance in a day. Everyone has the power to call your whole life into question here. Too many people have access to your state of mind. Some people are indifferent to dislike, even relish it. Hardly anyone I know.

  Renata Adler

  Love You, Sleep, Insomnia

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.7, New York Review of Books

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• I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.

  Alan Bennett

  Writing, Play, Roots

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• The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.

  Walid Jumblatt

  Ruling, Lebanese, Capable

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