Francis Bacon Quotes, Luck Quotes, Trying Quotes

I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck.

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If you would grow great and stately, You must try to walk sedately.

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The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.

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If you listen to the rhetoric, it is so over-the-top and so overheated, and most importantly, is not acknowledging the fact that there's nothing else [like guns] in our lives that we purchase where we don't try to make it a little safer if we can.

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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

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The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

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I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself.

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I would absolutely refuse any direct or indirect war service and would try to persuade my friends to do the same, regardless of the reasons for the cause of a war.

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I feel it's my duty as a human being, as a person who is trying - like everybody else who thinks about the state of the world - to enhance the importance of multicultural connection.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Trying Quotes

Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.

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Tags : Adam Savage Quotes , Trying Quotes , Fool Quotes

Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human nature.

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We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are.

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Rather, my perceptions about how we solve problems in health care or education span across a whole range of areas. And I want to try to capture that complexity.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Perception Quotes , Trying Quotes

When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.

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I've always been really impressed with some of the longer graphic novels and thought it would be really amazing if one day I could try something like that.

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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.

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My faith in truth and nonviolence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I too am growing every moment.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Life Quotes , Trying Quotes

There is nothing wrong with thought and it can be used whenever necessary. But in every moment you can choose to follow your thoughts or you can recognize that which is not thinking. Don’t try to stop thinking, let it happen. Just recognize that which is not thinking.

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Man cannot live upon words, however he may try.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Men Quotes , Trying Quotes

I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!

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