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Trying Quotes by John Steinbeck
- Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.
- We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.
- A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling or teaching or ordering. Rather he seeks…
- The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it.
- It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try…
- In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
- After the bare requisites to living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed.…
- Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and…
- I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were. If you saw one you'll know what I mean. Remember after…
- Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try.
- I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.
- life passes by in a wink so try to never miss a moment of it
- We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging…
- The clouds appeared and went away, and in a while they did not try anymore.
- We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my greatest…
- The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for they can only feel bitterness in loss and no…
- Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an…
More Trying Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash