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“No one knows what he can do till he tries.”

Knows Trying Long Can Do Long Time Excellence Maturity

Author:Publilius Syrus

“When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.”

Thinking Trying Remember Stupidity Envy Cruelty Frustration

Book:Taken Care Of: An Autobiography

Source: Taken Care Of: An Autobiography

“Controlling my temper is important, ... Sometimes it's hard, but I try.”

Trying Important Sometimes Hard Temper Temperance

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“How hard would it be to ask children what they see in their heads? How big should the house be in comparison to the family standing in front of it? What is it about the anatomy of the people that doesn't look right? Then let them try it again. Teach them to learn how to see and ask questions.”

People Should Trying Looks Children Hard Bigs Asks House Teach Fronts Standing Comparison Anatomy

Book:Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks

Source: Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks

“You have something to say. Something of your very own. Try to say it. Don't be ashamed of any real thought or feeling you have. Don't undervalue it. Don't let the fear of others prevent you from saying it... You have something to say, something that no one else in the world has said in just your way of saying it.”

World Way Trying Said Real Feelings Fear Ashamed

Author:William Hughes Mearns

“A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.”

Trying Paint Delight Observation Chiefs

Book:Churchill on men and events: a selection from

Source: Churchill on men and events: a selection from

“Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.”

Trying Teacher Teaching Adults Victim

Author:Elie Wiesel

“We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know.”

People Knows Want Trying Reason Struggle Communication Terrible No Reason

Book:The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman

Source: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman

“Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!”

Men Want Trying Men And Women Want Him

Author:Honore de Balzac

“When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman with disgust.”

Trying Inspire Husband Intellectual Hatred Passionate Temptation Indifference Disgusting Sentimental Tempted Unfaithful Passionate Woman

Author:Honore de Balzac

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

Trying Doe Hard Nature Mankind Human Nature Depends Succeed Experiments Hardship Spectacular Best Nature

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to slough off the unwanted self and begin a new life. They try to realize this desire either by finding a new identity or by blurring and camouflaging their individual distinctness; and both these ends are reached by imitation.”

Trying Ends Self Desire Individual Realizing Consciousness Identity Findings Burden Chiefs Frustrated Imitation New Life Unwanted Slough

Book:THE TRUE BELIEVER

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them.”

Trying Found Decision Nice Circumstances Accidents Heroic Doing Good Lambs Stealth

Author:William James

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

Trying Persons Hard Please Critics Boast

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.”

Writing Trying Firsts Book Reading Difficult Originals Trade Productions Destroying Daring Books And Reading Great Author

Author:Andre Maurois

“You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that the less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.”

Knows Men Trying Has Beens Higher Bigger Newspapers Noise Command Salary Alphas Omaha

Book:The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

“Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.”

Trying Wells Hands Sound Eternal Heavy Comforting Pulpit

Book:The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays

“Christianity isn't looking for a rainbow. If it were... we'd pass out opium at services. We're trying to serve God, not be God.”

Ifs Trying Christianity Rainbow Serving God Opium

Book:Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf

Source: Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf

“Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. Leaders shouldn't try to make every decision.”

World Needs Giving Trying Leadership Decision Leader Information Tools Strategy Insight Around The World Employee World Leader

Book:Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy

Source: Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy

“Most scientists are without exception adorably quirky, and one of the ways of making it more accessible was to try to get readers interested in the person.”

Way Trying Persons Reader Scientist Exception Quirky

Author:Bill Bryson

“Theres no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that hes chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.”

Men Way Giving Trying Shows Easier Fellows Foolish Chosen Cures Foolishness

Book:Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

Source: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

“There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.”

Trying Honor Praise

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a situation.”

Feels Trying Real Ability Situation Hunger Academic Urgency Miscellaneous

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“We are trying to communicate that which lies in our deepest heart, which has no words, which can only be hinted at through the means of a story.”

Trying Heart Mean Stories Lying Communication Communicate

Author:Katherine Paterson

“There is a penalty for trying to knock down a cockpit door, but it's the people who try to go from coach to 1st class they really beat up.”

People Trying Money Class Doors Beats Coaches Penalties Cockpit

Author:Jay Leno

“Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.”

Trying Faces Culture Sides Class Society Degrees Diversity Highest Social Justice Smile Distress Social Class Classes Of Society

Author:Thomas Fuller

“For discovering one's true inner nature, I think one should try to take out some time, with quiet and relaxation, to think more inwardly and to investigate the inner world. That may help.”

Thinking World Should Trying May Helping Quiet Discovery Discovering Relaxation Inner World

Book:Path To Tranquility

Source: Path To Tranquility

“Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out.”

Trying Two Photography Doctors Photographer Profession Satisfied Painter Dentist

Author:Pablo Picasso

“What I find horrible nowadays is that people are always trying to find a personality for themselves. Nobody bothers about what you might call a painter's ideal... the kind that's always existed... No. They couldn't care less about that.”

People Trying Kind Might Care Personality Ideals Horrible Painter Bother Idealism Always Trying

Book:Picasso on art: a selection of views

Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views

“Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle.”

Should Trying Wells Might Perfect Sea Circles Copies Should I Imitation Owl

Author:Pablo Picasso

“I must keep on trying, just to keep the experiment going until I get tired of it all. Even if the last result is not necessarily the best, I stop when my interest in the problem wanes.”

Ifs Trying Problem Lasts Interest Results Tired Experiments

Author:Pablo Picasso

“To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry.”

Trying Faith Names Half Bigotry

Book:Dryden: Selected Poems

Source: Dryden: Selected Poems

“My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss.”

Trying Has Beens Sometimes Whole Fall Sides Walks Path Danger Walking Stones Edges Whole Life Mainstream Abyss Jumping Chasms Narrow Path

Book:Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist

Source: Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist

“Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.”

Trying Humans Soul Research Corpses Anatomy Leonardo

Book:Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist

Source: Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist

“For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave.”

Ifs Trying May Ambition Dare Graves Glorious My Ambition Dare To Try Glorious Life

Book:The poetical works of George Herbert

Source: The poetical works of George Herbert

“Don't worry about the past and don't try to solve the future.”

Trying Past Worry Future Solve

Book:A Christmas Blizzard: A Novel

Source: A Christmas Blizzard: A Novel

“I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.”

Want Trying Talent Commonplace Great Talent Talent And Genius

Book:Little Women Collection: Little Women, Little Men, Eight Cousins and More

Source: Little Women Collection: Little Women, Little Men, Eight Cousins and More

“Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others, but only widen it.”

Trying Conversation Gaps Talkers

Author:Mason Cooley

“If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if you have this love for what is humble and try very simply, as someone who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor, then everything will become easier for you.”

Ifs Trying Seems Winning Poor Huge Easier Humble Small Things

Book:Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet

“Yesterday is yesterday. If we try to recapture it, we will only lose tomorrow.”

Ifs Trying Loses Tomorrow Tradition Yesterday

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1993, Bk. 2, August 1 to December 31, 1993

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1993, Bk. 2, August 1 to December 31, 1993

“I don't know how to put it, but yet you know we have so many people who the way they look at life, the way they work depends on what happens, us winning or losing. It's kind of crazy. So, I kind of got caught up in that, I'm gonna try to stay away from that.”

People Knows Way Trying Looks Kind Happens Winning Sports Know How Crazy Depends Losing Caught Caught Up Win Or Lose

Author:Mike Ditka

“Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.”

Trying Dies Natural Alive Constitution Vices Curious Calumny Natural Death Calumny Is

Book:Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion

Source: Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion

“I've always been a freak and different, oddball even in my childhood and my own family, so I can relate to people who are struggling and trying to find their true identity. I do not sit in the seat of judgment. .. I love people for who they are. We're all God's children.”

People Trying Children I Can Different My Own Struggle Childhood Identity Judgment Relate Seats Freak Being Different Freaky Individual Differences True Identity Oddballs

Author:Dolly Parton

“If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. "Little old New York's good enough for us"--that's what they sing.”

Ifs Trying Littles Enough Stuff Pieces Feet New York Paper Good Enough Sticky Old New York

Book:41 Stories: 150th Anniversary Edition

Source: 41 Stories: 150th Anniversary Edition

“Regan has been amused, in the intervening years, to watch editors who rolled their eyes at Limbaugh scramble to try to duplicate his success. What people respond to in this culture is loud and brash and pointed and sometimes vulgar -- that`s what gets p... Judith Regan.”

People Trying Years Has Beens Sometimes Eye Culture Watches Loud Editors Vulgar Amusement Amused Duplicate Intervening Brash Regan

Author:Judith Regan

“We used to have actresses trying to become stars; now we have stars trying to become actresses.”

Trying Used Stars Actresses

Author:Laurence Olivier

“Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruce—to which in fact he was once taken. Trying to imagine the same for a time-transported Nathaniel Hawthorne—who during his first visit to Europe was even shocked by the profusion of naked statues.”

Trying Firsts Facts Found Taken Imagine Europe Performances London Naked Shocked Statues Ulysses Hawthorne

Book:The Last Novel

Source: The Last Novel

“What's magical about [bears] is that they just spend one-hundred percent of every minute of every hour of every day being a bear. And a tree-frog spends all of its time being a tree-frog. We spend all our time trying to be somebody else.”

Trying Hours Tree Minutes Bears Percent Hundred Our Time Frogs

Author:Stephen Fry

“Before I put brush to canvas, I question, 'Is this mine? ...Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired from some man? ...I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all of women, as well as all of me.”

Men Trying Wells Ideas Mines Painting Skills Canvas Brushes

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“Did you ever have something to say and feel as if the whole side of the wall wouldn't be big enough to say it on, and then sit down on the floor and try to get it onto a sheet of charcoal paper?”

Ifs Feels Trying Enough Whole Bigs Sides Wall Paper Sheets Charcoal

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

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