Mark Twain Quotes, Writing Quotes, Trying Quotes

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

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You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Song Quotes , Trying Quotes

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

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I had no monarch in my life, and cannot rule myself; and when I try to organize, my little force explodes and leaves me bare and charred.

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Tags : Emily Dickinson Quotes , Trying Quotes , Littles 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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Tags : Adrian Marcel Quotes , Opportunity 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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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Trying Quotes

We can not escape tragic roads. It is like grasping at the sun & trying to catch air. We must take one step at-a-time. Keep going.

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Being funny should be an incidental byproduct of trying to get to something truthful, not a destination in itself.

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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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Tags : Al Yankovic Quotes , Trying Quotes , Sometimes Quotes

That's a big part of my life - doing things that I'm not prepared to do. Doing things that I don't know how to do, and keep doing them until I get good at them. I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I'll catch up.

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All my life, I've been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I've come is a bogey.

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Tags : Lou Holtz Quotes , Trying Quotes , Holes Quotes

I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.

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Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Writing Quotes , Trying Quotes

That's been lost. It's a huge problem. What you have is you have the major institutions of the world all wanting to deleverage. They want to take down their assets and liabilities. What seemed so easy to borrow against a year ago now looks like rat poison to them. So they're trying to deleverage. There is only one institution in the world that can leverage up in a way that's all a countervailing force to that, and that's the United States Treasury.

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The great wisdom of life is that we can be masters of the things that try to enslave us.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Trying Quotes , Life Is Quotes

If you look at how I've tried to and how I'll continue to try to govern, I'm not driven by some ideological agenda. I'm a pretty practical guy and I just want to make sure that things work.

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I... keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if... if only there were no other people in the world.

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Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Taoism Quotes , Trying Quotes

They [terrorists] are trying to evoke sympathy for themselves. They're not sympathetic people. They're violent, cold-blooded killers who are trying to stop the advance of freedom.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , People Quotes , Trying Quotes

As soon as I wake up I pay homage to the Buddha, and I try to prepare my mind to be more altruistic, more compassionate, during the day to come so I can be of benefit to beings. Then I do physical exersice - I walk on a treadmill.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Mind Quotes , Trying Quotes

Place (or put) a spider on top of a mountain, it will only try to catch flies; alas, they are many those who, in the figurative meaning, have spider's eyes.

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