T Quotes
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“Trying to change the outer is like seeing your unclean or unshaven face in the mirror and trying to shave or clean the mirror.”
“Trying to change the outside by making changes to the outside, is like trying to make your lips red in your reflection by putting lipstick on the mirror!”
“Trying to change the terms of our arrangement, are we? Well, if you wanted me naked, all you had to do was ask. I'm not shy.”
Source: The Bond That Burns
“Trying to change the world is like trying to straighten the curly tail of a dog. Try as you might, it will still go hack to its natural curl. Your hands will become stronger from the exercise of trying to straighten the curly tail. Although you max' not he able to change the world, you would have acquired more spiritual strength within - and that alone will make a difference in the world.”
“Trying to change yourself—that is, who you are—will inevitably lead you to fail and feel hopeless. But if you instead focus on changing your actions without worrying about how it changes you as a person, real change becomes much simpler.
There's an old joke where a man says, "I want to go to medical school, but it takes at least seven years--and I'll be 50 in seven years!" A wise friend replies, "And how old will you be in seven years if you don't go?" If you're not where you want to be in your career--or, for that matter, in your life--never let yourself believe change is impossible. Don't allow your future to be limited by your age or your situation; stop being afraid of what might go wrong and start getting excited about what could go right.
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"If you want to change yourself,
take actions and take it now.”
“Trying to coach kindergarteners in soccer is like trying to herd cats.”
“Trying to come up with one answer to suit everyone was like trying to push the tide back into the ocean with a broom”
Source: The One
“Trying to compromise EXCELLENCE, is like trying to let a little bit of air out of a balloon with a hat pin.”
“Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground.”
“Trying to connect to the moment, that move, that breath - this is what I have been striving for; finding the oneness that can exist with all the things around and inside me.”
“Trying to conserve a privileged global position makes change traumatic for the US.”
“Trying to control information in the network age is about as successful as pissing into the wind.”
“Trying to control someone or trying to control someone's life is an abuse on its own.”
“Trying to control the emotional self willfully by manipulative attempts is like trying to choose a number on a thrown die or to push back the water of the Kamo River upstream. Certainly, they end up aggravating their agony and feeling unbearable pain because of their failure in manipulating the emotions.”
“Trying to convey an emotion through words is not easy.”
“trying to convince myself
i am allowed
to take up space
is like writing with
my left hand
when i was born
to use my right”
“Trying to convince our children or something we feel is important, can sometimes be difficult. That’s why when they call us for advice it’s absolutely a wonderful feeling.”
“Trying to convince someone that they are a racist or they have White Privilege - if it's in the air they breathe and the culture supports them, sometimes they never have to think about it at all.”
“Trying to cool his jets, trying to let her stay in charge, he attempted to hold back, but she let out this breathy little whimper like he was the best thing she’d ever tasted.”
“Trying to coordinate everything, it can be really hard to balance.”
“Trying to cope with the balance between home life and road life has been a theme in my music since early Red House Painters records.”
“Trying to copy extroverts is a recipe for failure. To achieve success, introverts must embrace their own unique and powerful abilities.”
Source: The Introvert's Edge: How the Quiet and Shy Can Outsell Anyone
“Trying to corral the suburban stampede with a bunch of school buses was like herding cats. Actually, it was worse than herding cats. It was herding white people, earth's only species with a greater sense of entitlement than a cat.”
Source: Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America
“Trying to create a next world war, he found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor, he said I never engaged in this kind of thing before, but yes I think it can be very easily done.”
Source: The Lyrics: Since 1962
“Trying to create a sense of common interest does involve getting people actually to work together on common problems. It can't be created by law, that's why I disagree with the liberal approach becuase it's essentially a lawyer's approach.”
“Trying to cut the deficit too far, too fast isn't working. The government must adopt a steadier, more balanced plan to get our deficit down and take immediate action now to support the economy and create jobs here in Britain.”
“Trying to decide---I can't say if you should wait in line at Salt & Straw or Voodoo Doughnuts. Do you have a preference?"
"Not waiting in line? Portlanders are surprisingly willing to wait for their food."
"They're willing to wait when the food is worth their time. I think Salt & Straw. And really, they've got a smart setup to keep your wait as short as possible, and they give out samples while you're in line. At least, they did when I was there."
"And this is... artisanal salt? And straw?"
"It's ice cream," I said with a laugh. "Really good ice cream, with fun, inventive flavors. And even if you don't want inventive, the basics are worth the wait."
"Well, if you're sending me to ice cream, then you have to get Cat to take you to Black Dog Gelato. Once you're back in Chicago, at least.”
Source: Together at the Table
“Trying to defend religion by invoking science is like claiming that three plus four equals ice cream.”
“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
“Trying to describe my life and feelings to you is like trying to describe coulours to the blind, or music to the deaf. It's simply not possible.”
“Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.”
“Trying to describe the process of becoming an alcoholic is like trying to describe air. It's too big and mysterious and pervasive to be defined. Alcohol is everywhere in your life, omnipresent, and you're both aware and unaware of it almost all the time, all you know is you'd die without it, and there is no simple reason why this happens, no single moment, no physiological event that pushes a heavy drinker across a concrete line into alcoholism. It's a slow, gradual, insidious, elusive becoming.”
Source: Drinking: A Love Story
“Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.”
“Trying to destroy darkness is like trying to crush water. It will always be a part of you, whether you admit it or not.”
Source: Dark Oracle
“Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by listening to the sound it made while being dropped down a flight of stairs.”
“Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.”
Source: A child of the century
“Trying to dictate to others always has a shelf life.”
Source: Life Is A Cocktail
“Trying to divert my mind, I look around the tiny living room. The peach of the faded wall reminds me why I hate the colour so much – it reminds me of this home and many other things. I avert my gaze and it lands on the wrinkled brown curtains with a tiny hole at the bottom. I wonder when was it washed last. The sofa set, the centre table, the diwan, everything needs a replacement. Even the memories.”
Source: As Night Falls
“Trying to do better is trying to be better than you actually are, and I don't think you can do that.”
“Trying to do business without an understanding of value is like trying to be a competitive swimmer without an understanding of water.
Businesses, every day, are ‘swimming’ in exchanges of value with others.”
“Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that you've got to abandon all your own preferences, your own bright ideas, and guide souls along the road our Lord has marked out for them. You mustn't coerce them into some path of your own choosing.”
“Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.”
Source: Lean In for Graduates
“Trying to do more than the firm is capable of handling is tantamount to doing nothing.”
Source: The Entrepreneurial Mindset: Strategies for Continuously Creating Opportunity in an Age of Uncertainty
“Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.”
Source: Tramp for the Lord: The Story that Begins Where The Hiding Place Ends
“Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two different things. Excellence and victory are conceptually distinct . . . and are experienced differently.”
“Trying to do what your competitors are doing but basically a little bit better is probably not going to be the winning strategy. The problem is finding what your competitors wouldnt even consider doing.”
“Trying to double talk, get myself in trouble talk.”
“Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!”
“Trying to eliminate antipathy, dislike, ridicule, and insult from the human heart and mind is a task to make that of Sisyphus seem like an afternoon stroll: precisely the type of task that authoritarian governments love, for it gives them the locus standi to interfere ever more intimately with the lives of their subjects. Hatred is hydra-headed, the task is never done, it grows with its very elimination, or rather the attempts by government at its elimination. Failure is the greatest success, since it requires ever more of the same, namely control over society.”
“Trying to eliminate worldly temptations
only makes our spiritual growth limited.”
Source: Master of Stupidity