Maya Angelou Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Trying Quotes

Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.

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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.

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Every second of the search is an encounter with God. When I have been truly searching for my treasure, every day has been luminous...I've discovered things along the way that I never would have seen had I not had the courage to try things that seemed impossible for a shepherd to achieve.

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Sometimes people just feel as if we want to try something to see if we can shake things up.

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I try to turn a written thing, when I'm in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.

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Tags : Adam Gopnik Quotes , Trying Quotes , Stories Quotes

A meditative mind is at ease because it's not trying to acquire anything.

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Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , White Quotes , Trying Quotes

Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Water Quotes , Trying Quotes

For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from it—as if it were quite other than himself—and then trying to grasp it. But a third response is possible. Not withdrawal, not stewardship on the hypothesis of a future reward, but the fullest collaboration with the world as a harmonious system of contained conflicts—based on the realization that the only real "I" is the whole endless process.

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He tries to show each person how much they are capable of achieving.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Light Quotes , Trying Quotes

Whether at home or abroad, the task of statesman is to work with human nature warts and all, and to draw on instincts and even prejudices that can be turned to good purpose. It is never to try to recreate Mankind in a new image.

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Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.

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I would say that an RFC-like thing might make sense. I probably would do it myself. But I don't think trying to combine that with what's going through now, I think what is needed now is liquidity.

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Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful.

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Tags : Alan Ball Quotes , Long Quotes , Trying Quotes

Every time I hit the stage I try to take something from it. There are a lot of shows and opportunities to be seen like that. I like to just take all of them and allow them to help me build.

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I try to find a way that the other guy hasn't thought of using a sound or a sample.

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That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

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Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

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The writing begins when you’ve finished. Only then do you know what you’re trying to say.

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An active mind needs an outlet. If it stops by itself from within, well and good; otherwise one should not try to stop this by force.

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