Quotes with trying

Quotes 121 till 140 of 448.

  • Lee Iacocca I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.
    Lee Iacocca
    American businessman and CEO of Chrysler (1924 - 2019)
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  • Anna Held I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use an leads to nothing.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Marcel Marceau I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
    Marcel Marceau
    French artist (1923 - 2007)
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  • Salman Rushdie I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Arnold Palmer I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
    Arnold Palmer
    American golf player (1929 - 2016)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I really hate to be put in the position of trying to justify something, a decision that was made. I'm a military guy: when a decision is made, I go along with it, whatever the manufactured controversy and criticism.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Busta Rhymes I really only respect the Arab culture. I ain't really trying to pay no attention to, ya know, these little people in political positions and executive positions that ain't Arab culture oriented people because a lot of the times, what are you really showing all of this concern for?
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller I seek through comprehensive anticipatory design science and its reductions to physical practices to reform the environment instead of trying to reform humans, being intent thereby to accomplish prototyped capabilities of doing more with less...
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Ian Fleming I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
    Ian Fleming
    British author and journalist (1908 - 1964)
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan I started trying to be a writer and failed for years. I tried novels, short stories, sitcoms, movies, plays, anything. And then, to support myself, I had millions of jobs on the fringes of show business.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Antonia Fraser I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Edgar W. Howe I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Michael Ondaatje I think precision in writing goes hand in hand with not trying to say everything. You try and say two-thirds, so the reader will involve himself or herself.
    Michael Ondaatje
    Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer (1943 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Steve Jobs I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.
    Steve Jobs
    American entrepreneur, business magnate, inventor, and industrial (1955 - 2011)
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  • Socrates I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Paul E. Little I was frustrated out of my mind, trying to figure out the will of God. I was doing everything but getting into the presence of God and asking Him to show me.
    Paul E. Little
    American Christian author
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  • Steven Wright I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.
    Steven Wright
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer (1955 - )
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