Quotes and Sayings About Trying
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If you try to use Christ as a solution to your problems, it will not work. You have to serve Him in order for Him to serve you.
-- Alexandra AdornettoSource : Alexandra Adornetto (2012). “Heaven”, p.156, Macmillan
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Sometimes it's better to stop trying to make sense of things. Life isn't clear cut, there are always gray areas.
-- Alexandra AdornettoSource : Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.153, Macmillan
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We'll just have to try to make better mistakes tomorrow.
-- Alexandra Bracken -
Try to imagine where we'd be without you, darlin', and then maybe you'll see just how lucky we got.
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I don't know what your damage is, but in case you've failed to notice,we're in a bit of trouble here. Can you focus on something other than trying to get into my pants?" His lips curled. " I can multitask.
-- Alexandra IvySource : Alexandra Ivy (2010). “Beyond the Darkness”, p.46, Zebra Books
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I think the press gets lazy once a certain kind of image is out there. It just adheres, rather than the press trying to break that down.
-- Alexandra KerrySource : Interview with Lisa Henricksson, www.marieclaire.com. May 5, 2007.
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Everyone says corruption is everywhere, but for me it seems strange to say that and then not try to put the people guilty of that corruption away.
-- Alexei NavalnySource : "Alexei Navalny: Russia's new rebel who has Vladimir Putin in his sights" by Tom Parfitt, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2012.
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As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
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I'm just a spirit trying to be human.
-- Alexi MurdochSource : Song: Shine, Album: Time Without Consequence, 2009
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Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe.
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How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose - and fearing that they will make us lose?
-- Alfie Kohn -
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Trying to be number one and trying to do a task well are two different things.
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The only problem is getting comfortable with myself. It's different for me, a different team. I have to try to do the best I can, working, trying to get comfortable in the left field and with my teammates, too.
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Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that.
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He used to say to his melancholia patients: "You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription.Try to think every day how you can please someone.
-- Alfred Adler -
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Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual is a fixed quantity, a quantity that cannot be augmented. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism; we will try to demonstrate that it is founded on nothing.
-- Alfred BinetSource : "Modern Ideas About Children". Book by Alfred Binet, 1909.
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Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeonholes.
-- Alfred KinseySource : Sexual Behavior in the Human Male ch. 21 (1948)
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I speak in a loud, clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture.
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I love theater work because of the immediate effect your performance has on the audience. And I love the repetition; I love getting on the same stage for more than a month and reciting the same lines, trying to make a small or large step towards an improvement in my acting.
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There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.
-- Alfred P. SloanSource : Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. (1941). “Adventures of a White-Collar Man”
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I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.
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I know how I want to try and live my life. I know I dont want to leave any darkness behind me.
-- Ali Hewson -
I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.
-- Ali Smith -
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I think he was trying to produce more of a... sort of a cheaper image.
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Some maniac butcher is trying to hack away your balls.
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I appreciate an audience that reacts to the music, even if they jump on stage and try to beat us up, I think that's a fantastic reaction. I think that they're really hearing something then.
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We try to be as much involved in our product as possible, because then it's us.
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Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.
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The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous. Invariably, it is repressed. To be confronted with this truth all at once and to try to integrate it into our consciousness, however ardently we may wish it, is clearly impossible.
-- Alice Miller