Quotes and Sayings About Trying
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For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers.
-- Albert Camus -
I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head.
-- Albert Camus -
More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.
-- Albert Camus -
You know, [women] do not really condemn any weakness: rather, they try to humiliate or disarm our strengths. That is why women arethe reward, not of the warrior, but of the criminal.
-- Albert Camus -
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It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature.
-- Albert Einstein -
Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.
-- Albert Einstein -
The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.
-- Albert Einstein -
The emotionally sound person should be able to take risks, to ask himself what he really would like to do in life, and then to try to do this, even though he has to risk defeat or failure. He should be adventurous (though not necessarily foolhardy); be willing to try almost anything once, just to see how he likes it; and look forward to some breaks in his usual life routines.
-- Albert Ellis -
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And just as two wrongs don't make a right, rage against offenders is probably the worst way to try to correct them.
-- Albert Ellis -
That is one of the reasons one enjoys acting. Now and again, you get scenes where you work with somebody really good and you have a good time trying to make it really work and really work well.
-- Albert Finney -
A military leader often faces a situation he has to deal with, but because it is his duty, no court can try him.
-- Albert KesselringSource : "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004.
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There is no time to fool around when you practice. Every drill must have a purpose. I try to never get away from thathabits are important
-- Albert Pujols -
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I try to spend as much time as possible with God and my family. That's more important than anything I'm doing in baseball.
-- Albert Pujols -
I consider myself a line drive hitter with power. I just try to put my best swing on the ball every time.
-- Albert Pujols -
Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
I'm having a good time, Please don't blame me, I'm knocking myself out Don't try to tame me Let me have my fun, I've got to have my fling, Some folks say I'm blowing my top Talk don't mean a thing,...
-- Alberta Hunter -
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I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary. . . . So long as I've learned something about why.
-- Alberto Giacometti -
The one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.
-- Alberto GiacomettiSource : Paul Cézanne, Alberto Giacometti, Felix Andreas Baumann, Poul Erik Tøjner, Tobia Bezzola (2008). “Cézanne & Giacometti: paths of doubt”, Hatje Cantz Pub
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I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
-- Alberto Giacometti -
I can understand that there are those who can think and imagine the world without words, but I think that once you find the words that name your experience, then suddenly that experience becomes grounded, and you can use it and you can try to understand it.
-- Alberto Manguel -
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Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.
-- Alberto Manguel -
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
-- Alberto MoraviaSource : "The New Yorker" Interview, May 7, 1955.
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Life will drag us kicking and screaming to our destiny if we try to escape it.
-- Alberto Villoldo -
There ain't no rules here, we're trying to accomplish something...All this talk about rules...When the deal goes down...we make 'em up as we go along.
-- Alcee Hastings -
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Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.
-- Aldous Huxley -
You are not special. There is no plan for you. Nothing happens for a reason. Just try not to die and shut up.
-- Alec SulkinSource : Twitter post from Mar 28, 2012
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What I am trying to do when I use symbols is to awaken in your unconscious some reaction. I am very conscious of what I am using because symbols can be very dangerous. When we use normal language we can defend ourselves because our society is a linguistic society, a semantic society. But when you start to speak, not with words, but only with images, the people cannot defend themselves.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
I have no problem with whatever the next big look is. Just don't try and tell me that only one look is beautiful.
-- Alek Wek -
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A fish does not campaign against fisheries-it only tries to slip through the mesh.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn