T Quotes
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“Trying to act normal is the most unnatural behavior of all.”
Source: Lovely in Her Bones
“Trying to always be the nice guy, to appear good, can be limiting. Avoiding confrontation has closed up a number of possibilities for me.”
“Trying to analyze a situation without enough data was like looking at a photograph of a ball in flight and trying to gauge its direction. Is it going up, down, sideways? Is it about to collide with a baseball bat? Is it moving at all, or is something on the blind side holding it in place? A single frame didn't mean a thing. Patterns were based on data. With enough datapoints, you could predict just about anything.”
“Trying to apply formal methods to all software projects is just as bad as trying to apply code-and-fix development to all projects.”
Source: After the Gold Rush: Creating a True Profession of Software Engineering
“Trying to avert foreclosures, once you can't just force the banks to do it as a condition of getting aid, means that you have to put some public money into it or you have to do other things that are politically unpopular. From the macroeconomic standpoint there is overwhelming need to help people reduce what they owe so that we don't get the foreclosures and we don't get people kicked out of their homes. On the other hand, there is great resistance politically to helping people, not all of whom would be worth recipients of the help.”
“Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's St Matthew Passion on a ukulele: The instrument is too crude for the work, for the audience and for the performer.”
“Trying to be a leader in a sort of very atypical workplace like 'Saturday Night Live' forces you to realize that no one wants you to be their leader. If you can help them get their thing on TV or whatever, they want that. But no adult is looking for a role model.”
“Trying to be a leader, you've got to be really sure of what you're doing and you've got to guide people the right way.”
“Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman?”
“Trying to be a professional dancer, paying my rent by posing nude for art classes, staring at people staring at me naked. Daring them to think of me as anything but a form they were trying to capture with their pencils and charcoal. I was defiant. Hell-bent on surviving. On making it. But it was hard and it was lonely, and I had to dare myself every day to keep going.”
“Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this century.”
“Trying to be able to have, let's say, more than three partners was absolutely impossible, at least for my own relationships.”
“Trying to be an actor is like playing the lottery. You may hit a few times with moderate success, but a major win can prove to be life altering.”
“Trying to be cool is the easiest path to mediocrity”
“Trying to be creative, yet having to deal with the day to day - I mean, there is a lot of stuff to deal with. Like sitting at the computer and sending emails.”
“Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.”
“Trying to be funny is one of the hardest things on the planet. I think that's tough for everyone. If you're just naturally funny it's a hell of a lot easier.”
“Trying to be happy all the time is the reason of your sadness.”
“Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body”
“Trying to be happy in this world is greatest illusion.”
“Trying to be happy without a sense of God’s presence is like trying to have a bright day without the sun.”
“Trying to be just a parliamentarian doing your duty and trying to keep family out and also the celebrity status out is rare and hopefully I have been able thus far to - been able to protect my wife and children.”
“Trying to be like my uncle, because I was an only child. He and my cousins were everything to me.”
“Trying to be number one and trying to do a task well are two different things.”
Source: No Contest: The Case Against Competition
“Trying to be offensive for the sole purpose of being offensive should always deem one the least offensive of offenders.”
Source: Healology
“Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.”
“Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
Source: Being Perfect
“TRYING TO BE POPULAR IN HIGH SCHOOL IS LIKE TRYING TO BE MAYOR OF A CITY THAT WON'T EXIST IN FOUR YEARS.”
“Trying to be really dark and alienating just felt exhausting to me, so I started going back to the music that I grew up with, whether it was African music or pop music. It took me away from being overly self-conscious about what I was doing.”
“Trying to be Sherlock Holmes is like trying to catch an arrow in mid-flight.”
“Trying to be someone else would be such a waste of time. I understood that our flaws make us unique, and it's sad that we don't realize this.”
Source: Crazy game called Life
“Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.”
“Trying to be the best. Failing. Getting back up. Those characteristics are going to allow you to make great decisions. They are going to allow you to compete. They are going to allow you to achieve your best. That's the American dream.”
“Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less.”
“Trying to become something in a world where everyone wants to become something is a thing that needs God's programming.”
“trying to
believe that i
am growing wings
that were measured
just for me,
and when the voice inside
has something to say…
that it's something
i can trust.”
“trying to believe
that i am growing wings
that were measured just for me,
that are right-sized just. for. this.
and when the voice inside
has something to say…
that it's something
i can trust.”
“Trying to block women from getting access to contraception or defunding Planned Parenthood is completely nonsensical from a policy standpoint.”
“Trying to build a disparity-free economy pursuing revenue is like trying to achieve pregnancy through vasectomy.”
Source: Ingan Impossible: Handbook of Hatebusting
“Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence.”
Source: Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters
“Trying to build the brotherhood of man without the fatherhood of God is like trying to make a wheel without a hub.”
“Trying to build the world’s largest telescope atop the most sacred mountain in Hawaii is a cultural violation to the Hawaiian’s.”
“Trying to capture the physicists' precise mathematical description of the quantum world with our crude words and mental images is like playing Chopin with a boxing glove on one hand and a catcher's mitt on the other.”
“Trying to change how we actually feel by ordering ourselves to do so is a strategy that goes nowhere, fast.”
Source: Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
“Trying to change other people is hard labor and very frustrating because it never works, so why not enjoy the aspects that you can enjoy in people and leave the rest to God?”
Source: Loving People Who Are Hard to Love: Transforming Your World by Learning to Love Unconditionally
“Trying to change our habits demands effort and effort takes energy - which is a cost. And our brains constantly look for ways to save effort. Furthermore, a change creates an uncomfortable feeling so naturally we try to avoid this feeling by not changing, That's why we take the easy way, favor shortcuts, and default options and stick to our habits. And the more emotional a decision is or the more choices we have, the more we prefer the status quo”
“Trying to change ourselves in order to please others - so that we can feel temporarily whole for having won their approval - is like cutting a flower into pieces so that it will fit into a vase.”
“Trying to change social, national, or global realities without working on human consciousness means there is no serious intention.”
“Trying to change someone only makes them cling to their existing behavior with brutish, primal force.”
Source: Fresh Oil and Loose Gravel: Road Poetry by Brian D'Ambrosio 1998-2008
“Trying to change someone to suit your desires is a setup for disappointment.”
Source: The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity