“People don't walk around thinking of themselves as bad people. You're part of the environment that you grow up in, and there can be decency in that. I always try to find a little glimmer of that, in anything that I do, because you can find places where there's humor or lightness in something that's deep and profound, and that tends to resonate more and make people more human. As an actor and performer, I think it resonates more with the audience when you do have the payoff.” PeopleThinkingTryingHumansLittlesActorsGrowsWalksAudienceGrowing UpEnvironmentProfoundPerformersDecencyBad PeopleLightnessPayoff Author:Jimmy Smits
“Many Christians expend so much energy and worry trying not to sin. The goal is not to try to sin less. In all your efforts to keep from sinning, what are you focusing on? Sin. God wants you to focus on him. To be with him. “Abide in me.” Just relax and learn to enjoy his presence. Every day is a collection of moments, 86,400 seconds in a day. How many of them can you live with God? Start where you are and grow from there. God wants to be with you every moment.” WantTryingMomentsChristianEnergyGrowsEnjoyGoalSinEffortWorryFocusCollectionsRelaxWhere You AreSecondsSinningWant To Be With You Author:John Ortberg
“I try to sit down at night before they go to bed and read the Bible with them and do little devotionals and pray with them. I think if you instill it in them when they are young, they'll remember when they grow up. I raise them in church. When the doors are open, I want to be there. My kids love to go. So does my wife.” IfsThinkingWantTryingLittlesDoeKidsRememberYoungNightGrowsChurchGrowing UpWifeDoorsPrayingBedRaisesMy WifeRemember WhenInstillKids Love Author:Andy Pettitte
“You gotta grow, you gotta learn by your mistakes; You gotta die a little everyday just to try to stay awake; When you believe there's no mountain you can climb; And if you get it wrong you'll get it right next time, next time.” IfsTryingBelieveLittlesDiesNextGrowsMistakeMountainEverydayAwakeClimbsNext Time Author:Gerry Rafferty
“Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.” TryingGrowsSeeingDeceitDeceivingCunning Author:Baltasar Gracian
“If one ox could not do the job they did not try to grow a bigger ox, but used two oxen. When we need greater computer power, the answer is not to get a bigger computer, but . . .to build systems of computers and operate them in parallel.” IfsNeedsTryingTwoJobsUsedGrowsAnswersGreaterComputerBiggerParallelsOxen Author:Grace Hopper
“One is faced with a dilemma: If one places total trust in all other users, one is vulnerable to the antisocial behavior of any malicious user consider the case of viruses. But if one tries to be totally reclusive and isolated, one is not only bored, but one's information universe will cease to grow and be enhanced by interaction with others. The result is that most of us operate in a complicated trade-off zone with various arrangements of trust and security mechanisms.” IfsTryingUniverseGrowsResultsCasesSecurityInformationBehaviorTradeVariousComplicatedCeaseVulnerableBoredZoneMechanismIsolatedInteractionUsersArrangementsVirusesDilemmaMaliciousAntisocialTrade OffsInteraction With OthersAntisocial Behavior Author:Fernando J. Corbato
“Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale faculty. Within the university they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers ... it is a place where the world's hostility to curiosity can be defied.” MenWorldTryingChildrenAgeGrowsAnswersGrowing UpGoes OnDisciplineAskingCuriosityUniversityBlowManageFacultyInvitedHostilityMonarchyParentalYale Author:Edmund Morgan
“In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.” KnowsLoveFeelsTryingHeartOrderGrowsPayStrugglePrideHonorEnlightenmentDeservePerfectionAnd LoveDuesDivisionRelish Author:Bryant H. McGill
“My goal as an actor is to grow and try different things.” TryingDifferentActorsGrowsGoalDifferent Things Author:Dwayne Johnson
“As an artist, I always just want to grow as a songwriter. I listen to a lot of music. I listen to music all the time, whether it's hip-hop or soul or rock or whatever. I'm always listening to music and trying to learn from other songwriters and how they tap into certain emotions and communicate more clearly.” WantTryingSoulArtistCertainGrowsEmotionRocksListeningHip HopCommunicateHipsHopsSongwritersListening To Music Author:Trip Lee
“I'm always going to be a student. I'm always learning. I'm always trying to grow. I'm always trying to understand. I never want to feel like I've arrived.” WantFeelsTryingGrowsStudentsAlways TryingAlways Learning Author:LeCrae
“All of my experience of studying religion, studying spirituality, studying natural healing, traditional medicine, has kind of enriched my vision of the world. Not only seeing reality as this moment, but as a culmination of all of the history behind us, and all of the fruit that hopefully we will be able to grow from the seeds that we are trying to plant, of goodness and peace and beauty and equality.” WorldTryingKindMomentsRealityAbleSpiritualityGrowsNaturalHealingBehindsVisionStudySeeingGoodnessMedicinePlantFruitSeedsTraditionalHopefullyCulminationNatural Healing Author:Assata Shakur