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Trying Quotes
Sometimes the effort matters more than the outcome.
This collection finds humor and sincerity in the act of trying - baseball becoming enjoyable again only after quitting the attempt to play it, and a small reading ritual used to get through a demanding project. Related reading in I Am Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one.
- Guy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will be happier if I crash by trying than not trying and running around behind the same guy for 70 laps.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
Information overload refers to the notion that we're trying to take in more than the brain can handle.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The foreign press seems obsessed with the Freedom Tower, as if it was the only thing going on here. In fact, we're trying to keep a huge juggling act in balance, with the tower as just one of the many balls in play.
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Google views Facebook as a threat to its business and has been trying to launch a social-networking service to compete with it.
- Assembling
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
- Better Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.
- Meant To Be
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we're trying to think about.
- Live
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
- Make
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Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to have a catalogue or a share in a company. I’m trying to take my family’s name from lower-middle class to aristocracy. I have my sights set high.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's only so many things you can do with fights, so I'm always trying to shake it up and find something different, new, exciting and fun.
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