Trying Quotes
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It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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My responsibility is, I'm always trying to look for new people of color or even artistic people who need a chance.
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It felt like it was the first game of the season. It was just fun to be back out there and be in the environment and playing with my team and trying to help.
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The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness.
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I've never really been nervous about any concerts. I enjoy it so much. All that matters is getting the songs played well, trying to get them to sound as close to the record live, which isn't easy, because my music is quite complicated to play.
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The thing that's different about 'Girls' and 'Sex and the City' isn't just that we live in Brooklyn; it's that these girls aren't trying to find their major career paths or life partners. They're just literally trying to get through the week and pay the rent. It's a really different time of life.
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Life itself is a strange mixture. We have to take it as it is, try to understand it, and then to better it.
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I view my strongest competition as myself. You're always trying to top yourself, rather than worrying about what other people are doing.
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Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve. There's no reason why these problems shouldn't be easy, and yet they turn out to be extremely intricate. Fermat's Last Theorem is the most beautiful example of this.
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It’s a very interesting thing to try to be your absolute best—not a percent better or a percent worse than that.
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Nowness is the essence of meditation. Whatever one does, whatever one tries to practice, is trying to see what is here and now. One becomes aware of the present moment through such means as concentrating on the breathing. This is based on developing the knowledge of nowness, for each respiration is unique. It is an expression of now.
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Don't fret, boy. I'm not so foolish as to ridicule the myths and legends of other people. For countless generations, people, no matter where they're from, have been trying to understand this world of ours.
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I was trying to sound like some of the people I was listening to, like Mala and Coki.
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He was too good a soldier to go around asking questions, trying to round out his knowledge.A soldier’s knowledge wasn’t supposed to be round.
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I have no doubt that Russia tried to meddle in our election. They're going to continue trying to - just like they have my entire lifetime.
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I'm happy to be part of this chorus of people who are trying to tell more complex stories about Haiti.
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What could be funnier than a fat person trying to run a marathon?
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We, as a band, are going to try to do a remix pack for some of our latest songs and do as much as we can. Every single that we release gets that. That's the thing that we enjoy. You meet a lot of talented producers and DJs, you revisit friends and ask them if they want to do a remix, that's one of the beauties in it right now: hearing different versions of our versions and just being able to put those out, as well.
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In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.
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Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.
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There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you possibly can and use the sorrow that you have now to make you know how the early sorrow came. And you must always remember the things you believed because if you know them they will be there in the writing and you won’t betray them. The writing is the only progress you make.
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We believe in the art of war. We are trying to get our competition to attack us with angry, virulent energy, so we can transform that into larger market share.
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For me, the best thing I can do is play live. The best way for me to put over what I'm trying to do is to play live. Whether it's an acoustic show, electric or whatever... if I shine at all, that's where it all really happens - it just took me a while to rediscover that.
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I really do enjoy making movies and I try to test myself on occasion with some different stuff.
