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“Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.”

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Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.”

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Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little. It is not like going out in a shower in which you know when you get wet. In a fog, you do not know you are getting wet, but as you keep walking you get wet little by little. If your mind has ideas of progress, you may say, 'Oh, this pace is terrible!' But actually it is not. When you get wet in a fog it is very difficult to dry yourself.”

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Book:Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

“When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.”

Trying Has Beens Hard Perfect Perfection Tendencies Repeats

Book:Seven novels and other short stories

Source: Seven novels and other short stories

“I can talk about humility, but I'm not humble. I mean, if you say, I'm humble, you've just contradicted yourself. But I'm trying to be, man, I'm trying so hard.”

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Author:Mike Tyson

“I really want to do well at this upcoming match! I'm going to try really really hard! Because it may be my dad's first memory of a match. I really want to win.”

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Author:Kim Su-mi

“I have noticed several times that people don't think I know how to behave even when I'm trying as hard as I can.”

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Author:Astrid Lindgren

“If you are not discouraged about your writing on a regular basis, you may not be trying hard enough. Any challenging pursuit will encounter frequent patches of frustration. Writing is nothing if not challenging.”

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Author:Maxwell Perkins

“What the Secretary of Agriculture is trying to do is to teach the farmer corn acreage control, and the hogs birth control, and one is just as hard to make understand it as the other.”

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Author:Will Rogers

“The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties - he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.”

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Book:Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year

Source: Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year

“The hard work, you discover over the years, is in learning to discern between correct and incorrect anxiety, between the anxiety that's trying to warn you about a real danger and the anxiety that's nothing more than a lying, sadistic, unrepentant bully in your head.”

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Book:Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety

Source: Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety

“Mitt Romney is doing what he can. He's trying very hard. He wants to unite America, the rich with the wealthy, the poor with the indigent, and the white with the Caucasian.”

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Author:David Letterman

“Im not trying to hate on nobody.I love everybody that works towards what I was working towards.Its a hard game,its a hard life.”

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Author:Nick Diaz

“Not too hard for me to stay motivated when I'm in sport where everyone's trying to knock me out.”

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Author:Nate Diaz

“A lot of people are like, "What do you do to get pumped up for a fight?" Like, really? You're locked in a cage with someone trying to kill you in front of thousands of people. It's not too hard to get pumped up... You've got to calm everything down, you've got to remind yourself to relax.”

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Author:Stephan Bonnar

“Before a fight I'm always afraid... before I used to have a hard time just dealing with it because I would try to run away from it, but then as I competed more I understood the fact that this is how I'm supposed to feel.”

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Author:Rashad Evans

“I don't try to be satirical. I just try to get what's in my head on the page. And that part is hard for me to do. It takes a long, long time to make it poetic, somewhat essayistic.”

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Author:Paul Beatty

“I like to take my time and not try to put too much pressure on myself, but it's hard. I think I forget every time - you give birth and you want your stomach to be flat again.”

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Author:Kourtney Kardashian

“Those opportunity gaps begin early, often at birth. And they compound over time, becoming harder and harder to bridge, making too many young men and women feel like, no matter how hard they try, they may never achieve their dreams.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“The nature of acting is that one is many characters and jumps from one skin to another as a way of life. Sometimes it's hard to know exactly what all of your characters think at the same time. Sometimes one of my characters overrules one of my other characters. I'm trying to get them all to harmonize. It's a hell of a job. It's like driving a coach.”

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Author:Anjelica Huston

“Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy.”

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Book:Writings For A Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader

Source: Writings For A Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader

“By trying so hard to provide the perfectly happy childhood, we're just making it harder for our kids to actually grow up.”

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Author:Lori Gottlieb

“As an entrepreneur, you can always find a solution if you try hard enough.”

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Author:Lori Greiner

“When you try hard to do your best, the effect on your performance is often to jinx it.”

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Author:Patricia Ryan

“It's hard to figure out the secrets of the universe when you're trying to figure out where you and your girlfriend are going to sleep next month.”

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Author:Antony Garrett Lisi

“I reached this level by sheer dint of hard work, toiling away at scores of tricks and experiments. I used to play with the ball from dawn till dusk and just kept practising. If I wasn't playing matches, it was trying out one on one or two against two with a tennis ball. Then I used to try aiming at certain targets. That's the only way to learn. And if I missed the target, I kept trying until I scored”

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Author:Zinedine Zidane

“When I've produced a song, I try to record a vocal over it, and sometimes it becomes really hard. Sometimes I've already said a lot that I want to say within the production. The vocal is just adding to it, rather than it being a song.”

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Author:Sampha

“I don't like it when a girl tries too hard to act cute or pretty.”

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Author:Jay Park

“I stared hard, trying to find a pattern. Thinking if I kept looking hard enough, maybe the pieces of the world would fit back together into something I could understand.”

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Author:Carol Rifka Brunt

“After a snowstorm is the best time to be in the woods, because all the empty beer and soda cans and candy wrappers disappear, and you don't have to try as hard to be in another time. Plus there's just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on.”

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Book:Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel

Source: Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel

“We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.”

Trying Hard Used Felt Trying Too Hard

Author:J. J. Abrams

“Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table.”

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Author:Ina Garten

“It is possible to tell things by a handshake. I like the "looking in the eye" syndrome. It conveys interest. I like the firm, though not bone crushing shake. The bone crusher is trying too hard to "macho it." The clammy or diffident handshake - fairly or unfairly - get me off to a bad start with a person.”

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Book:All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings

Source: All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings

“As hard as you try to write a good script and you have great intentions, this alchemy has to occur.”

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Author:Carlton Cuse

“When people are bothering you constantly when you're trying to do just a simple thing that humans do every day but they won't let you do it without bugging you about it, that was a hard thing. Because I became a movie star overnight. From a working actor and working writer to a movie star.”

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Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“I try to tell people to do, or advise them, anyway, is adopt conservative philosophies like hard work, preparation, perseverance, love of God, love of country, personal responsibility. Start to think for yourself and then go out and vote. And I think that once they start to do that, they will know where their vote should go.”

“When I was growing up, I would try to sing out of key very consciously. I was probably afraid of trying too hard to do something beautiful, and then I just wasn't good enough. But I've learned that I was also on the outside - wanting more challenge by living in that more conventional world.”

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Author:Jenny Hval

“When you're ambitious, it's really hard to be supportive of other people. But it's our job to try, even though one gets jealous.”

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Author:Squeak Carnwath

“I am trying for nothing so hard in my own personal life as how not to be respectable when married.”

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Author:Mary Heaton Vorse

“I try really hard to separate myself from other celebrity brands.”

Trying Hard Brands

Author:Lauren Conrad

“People confuse friendship and relaxation. It's incredibly important to be relaxed - you don't have a chance if you're not relaxed. So I try very hard to relax any kind of tension. But friendship is different.”

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Author:Bill Murray

“Its very hard trying to talk to an actor about how they should deliver lines, or cut their hair, unless it comes from a place of a strong point of view.”

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Author:Tony Scott

“To try deliberately for self-actualization is like trying very hard to fall asleep or to have a good time.”

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Author:Cornelius Plantinga

“People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher -- a Roosevelt, a Tolstoi, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.”

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“There are many stages of grief. It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way -- cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain. I'm a human being, having a human experience in front of the world. I wish it weren't in front of the world. I try really hard to rise above it.”

“You can spend your life competing in a world that talks too loud / You can lose your own direction getting lost among the crowd / Confusion - is it any wonder that the road ahead's not clear / Well you can try too hard to find it now I realise it's here”

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Author:Kim Wilde

“Try as I might, I could never feel any great affection for a man who so much resembled a Baked Alaska - sweet, warm and gungy on the outside, hard and cold within.”

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Author:C.P. Snow

“In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons, it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn't there. Or ignore what is. We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality. We try to connect. We try to find truth. We dream and we hope. And underneath all of these strivings, we are haunted by the suspicion that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the whole.”

Source: The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew

“When I try to describe how I feel when you hold me, I get butterflies, I hear lullabies, it's hard to explain -- like the scent of a rose or the sound of the rain. It's too precious and too wonderful to give it a name.”

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Author:Christina Aguilera

“I'm a poor kid from the streets. What I've been able to achieve has really just been through hard work and not letting anyone tell me that I couldn't do something. I always try to encourage people to just pursue your dreams.”

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Author:Dave Bautista