Trying Quotes
22548 quotes by 9956 authors
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If Christ did not want to dismiss the Jews without food in the desert for fear that they would collapse on the way, it was…
— St. Jerome
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No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.
— Antoinette Brown Blackwell
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Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying…
— Carly Fiorina
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Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats the Good, by…
— Franz Kafka
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.
— Virginia Woolf
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are…
— William Faulkner
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The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into one ugly boot…
— John Taylor Gatto
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All these years you've been searching and looking and trying to change things, trying to add thing onto yourself, trying to acquire things when you…
— Robert Adams
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It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond…
— Wilma Rudolph
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Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
— Carol Ann Duffy
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The holidays are also a time when people freak out about their finances. If you don't want to spend the money, why not try some…
— Christina Applegate
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One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory…
— Robert Collier
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Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.
— Eugene Ionesco
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We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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In today's economy there are no experts, no 'best and brightest' with all the answers. It's up to each one of us. The only way…
— Tom Peters
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To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.
— Thomas Jefferson
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I try to extract something positive from every situation, even if it's just learning not to make the same mistake twice.
— Claudia Schiffer
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You have to be reminded of a basic fact: intelligence belongs to the watching consciousness; memory belongs to the mind. Memory is one thing -…
— Rajneesh
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The Bauls say, "Don't try to force anything." Let life be a deep let-go. See God opening millions of flowers every day without forcing the…
— Rajneesh
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Just do two things: meditate, watch your thought processes; become just a spectator of your mind. That is meditation, becoming a witness. And second: follow…
— Rajneesh
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