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“The fear of not getting the reward becomes the fear of rejection. The fear of not being good enough... is what makes us try to change, what makes us create an image.”

Trying Enough Fear Rewards Be Good Rejection Good Enough Fear Of Rejection Being Good Enough Not Being Good Enough

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“No one can liberate you, for no one has bound you; you hold on to the nettle of worldly pleasures and you weep for pain. The kite is pursued by the crows so long as it carries the fish in its beak, it twists and turns in the sky trying to last and it drops the fish. That moment it is free. So give up the attachment to the senses; then grief and worry can harass you no more.”

“I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my paintings more contrapuntal, richer.”

Trying Problem Painting Opposites Structure Symbolic

Book:Robert Motherwell

Source: Robert Motherwell

“Spouses often point out each other's deficiencies. Instead, we should be each other's motivator. My husband touches my spirit, and I try my best to motivate him, too.”

Should Trying Spirit Husband My Husband Spouse Deficiency Matrimony

Author:Ken Blanchard

“Some people say their life is full of darkness and I wonder why they don't just try and switch the lights on.”

People Trying Light Life Is Wonder Darkness

Author:William H. Gass

“I was a very unpleasant young man. If I met the young Ingmar today I'd say, 'You're very talented and I'll try to help you, but I don't want anything else to do with you.”

Ifs Men Want Trying Character Helping Today Young Mets Young Man

Author:Ingmar Bergman

“Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of his great rival.”

Trying Artist Fall Models Thoughtful Construction Rivals

Author:Paul Cezanne

“In earlier days, even as a child, the beauty of landscapes was quite clear to me. A background for the soul's moods. Now dangerous moments occur when Nature tries to devour me; at such times I am annihilated, but at peace. This would be fine for old people but I... I am my life's debtor, for I have given promises.”

People Trying Children Soul Moments Would Be Given Nature Clear Dangerous Fine Promise Mood Backgrounds Landscape Old People Debtors

Book:The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

“Without trying to clear up the degree of correctness of a qualification which no one, one must hope, will be asked to understand exactly, I will limit myself to a few words of explanation to cut short any misunderstandings.”

Trying Clear Cutting Limits Degrees Explanation Misunderstanding Correctness Qualifications Few Words

Author:Gustave Courbet

“You have to realize that your work is done by your body, and if your body is in very bad health, it's not going to work for you no matter how young you are. So, I'm a bit of an athletic coach when it comes to trying to respect my body's needs and tendencies, and when I teach students, I try and persuade them of the same.”

Ifs Needs Trying Matter Done Body Young Bits Realizing Teach Students Your Body Coaches Tendencies Going To Work Athletic Bad Health

Author:Reynolds Price

“Democrats don't have reasons for people to vote for them. They're just trying to gin up anger and resentment for their opposition. And it's just not working anymore.”

People Trying Reason Vote Anger Democrat Opposition Resentment Gin Anger And Resentment

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time for considering alternative strategies... Do it in the 'closed' mode. But the moment the action is over, try to return to the 'open' mode... because in that mode we are the most aware, most receptive, most creative, and therefore at our most intelligent.”

Ifs Trying Moments Action Creative Return Intelligent Strategy Alternatives Considering Bad Times Receptive Creativity And Innovation Timeliness Takeoff

Author:John Cleese

“Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.”

Trying Self Violence Society Self Esteem Deeds Significant Esteem Our Society

Book:Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence

Source: Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence

“There's good directors and bad directors. Some of the critics are really conscientious and really try to do what they can popularize the work or to explain the work and so on. And then there's the critics who just wants to make a reputation by attacking. Those are the ones I'm not keen on.”

Want Trying Directors Criticism Critics Reputation Attacking Good Directors

Author:Peter Bogdanovich

“I don't think Seurat would have been aware of the dots - he would have been aware of what he was trying to do. The dots were an instrument.”

Thinking Trying Has Beens Instruments Dots Methodology

Author:Frank Auerbach

“Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.”

Trying Facts Individual Class Misery Renunciation

Book:The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Glitter Around and Darkness Within, 1873-1892

Source: The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Glitter Around and Darkness Within, 1873-1892

“This is a terrible confession to make, but after I left the Army I had a number of things to try. I had a great conceit to think that if all else failed I could always go to Hollywood. So when all else did fail I really went to Hollywood. And then I found out how wrong I was.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Found Left Numbers Failing Terrible Hollywood Army Confession Conceit

Author:David Niven

“We can try to kill all that is native, string it up by its hind legs for all to see, but spirit howls and wildness endures.”

Trying Spirit Endure Killing Legs Native Strings Howl Wildness

Book:An Unspoken Hunger

Source: An Unspoken Hunger

“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.”

Ifs Men Trying Mean I Can Hard Humility Humble Trying So Hard

Author:Mike Tyson

“Above all am I convinced of the need, irrevocable and inescapable, of every human heart, for God. No matter how we try to escape, to lose ourselves in restless seeking, we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God.”

Needs Trying Humans Heart Matter God Loses Divine Source Seeking Convinced Substitutes Human Heart Restless Irrevocable

Book:Adventures in Two Worlds

Source: Adventures in Two Worlds

“Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.”

Needs Trying Artist Term Secret Encouragement Ashamed Pregnancy

Book:The Sound of Paper

Source: The Sound of Paper

“We imagine that if we had time we would quiet our more shallow selves and listen to a deeper flow of inspiration. Again, this is a myth that lets us off the hook - if I wait for enough time to listen, I don't have to listen now, I don't have to take responsibility for being available to what is trying to bubble up today.”

Source: The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life

“The Law of Probabilities: the more things you try, the more likely one of them will work.”

Trying Law Experiments Probability

Book:Pearls of Wisdom: 30 Inspirational Ideas to Live Your Best Life Now!

Source: Pearls of Wisdom: 30 Inspirational Ideas to Live Your Best Life Now!

“This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on.”

World Trying Looks Courage This World Coward Unselfish Success Or Failure

Book:Life changing quotes By Swami Vivekananda

Source: Life changing quotes By Swami Vivekananda

“Shock is shock. Your body goes into shock, regardless of it being real blood or fake blood. The mind sends powerful messages to all the various glands and secretions in the body. It's impossible trying to act it; it just happens. It's a very important question: no acting.”

Trying Mind Important Real Body Happens Powerful Acting Impossible Blood Messages Various Your Body Fake Shock Being Real Important Questions Glands

Author:Ben Kingsley

“Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.”

World Want Love Life Feels Trying Art Happiness Young Felt Bits Space Teacher Fans Retirement Freak Devoted Aspire Feels Just

Author:Lady Gaga

“I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.”

Ifs Feels Trying Humans Persons Matter Beautiful Human Beings No Matter What Single Person Something Beautiful Good Human Being

Author:Lady Gaga

“We deprive our children, our charges, of persistence. What I am trying to say is that we need to fail, children need to fail, we need to feel sad, anxious and anguished. If we impulsively protect ourselves and our children, as the feel-good movement suggests, we deprive them of learning-persistence skills.”

Ifs Needs Feels Trying Children Failing Movement Protect Skills Our Children Feel Good Persistence Anxious

Author:Martin Seligman

“Trying to find equivalents for things in words helps me find equivalents in painting.”

Trying Helping Painting Help Me

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“If you're an artist, you try to keep an ear to the ground and an ear to your heart.”

Ifs Trying Heart Artist Ears

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky sentence, I try to write up to the poetry that I have recited beforehand.”

Writing Trying Poetry Dies Language Poet Standards Sentences

Author:Janet Fitch

“everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You will want to write a long letter, or draw a picture, or sing, or make a dress or a garden.”

Want Writing Trying Humans Long Happens Humanity Hours Four Communication Draws Garden Letters Twenties Dresses Express Yourself

Book:If You Want to Write

Source: If You Want to Write

“For me it's the challenge -- the challenge to try to beat myself or do better than I did in the past. I try to keep in mind not what I have accomplished but what I have to try to accomplish in the future.”

Trying Mind Past Challenges Beats Accomplish Accomplished

Author:Jackie Joyner-Kersee

“We're not trying to recreate Yugoslavia”

Trying Recreation Yugoslavia

Author:Chris Patten

“At first I thought I would have to put on an English accent and try a sort of affected Shakespeare thing.”

Trying Firsts Affected Accents

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“I have certainly not got re-elected to retire, and I shall certainly start trying to push my influence in politics as far as I possibly can”

Trying Politics Influence Retiring

Author:Kenneth Clarke

“I try to not focus on what people expect from me.”

People Trying Focus

Author:Lady Gaga

“Produce as many ideas as possible. Try to produce unlikely ideas.”

Trying Ideas Produce Unlikely

Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“Try to be inspired by something every day. Try to inspire at least one person every day.”

Trying Persons Inspiration Inspire Inspired Be Inspired

Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“I have a naive trust in the universe - that at some level it all makes sense, and we can get glimpses of that sense if we try.”

Ifs Trying Universe Levels Make Sense Glimpse Naive

Author:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“I'm not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas.”

Way Trying Certain Revelations Canvas

Book:Martin Scorsese: Interviews

Source: Martin Scorsese: Interviews

“For artists diving into a new technology, it is a triple short-cut to mastery: you get a free ride on the novelty of the medium; there are no previous masters to surpass; and after a few weeks, you are the master. Try that with the violin.”

Trying Artist Technology Cutting Week Masters Mediums Mastery Novelty Violin New Technology Diving Short Cuts

Author:Stewart Brand

“How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree.”

Thinking Men Trying Two Matter Agree Doctrine Absurd Roman Emperor Timepieces

Author:Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

“Don't let the workings of adversity totally absorb your life. Try to understand what you can. Act where you are able; then let the matter rest with the Lord for a period while you give to others in worthy ways before you take on appropriate concern again.”

Way Giving Trying Matter Able Lord Periods Concern Adversity Worthy Appropriate Where You Are

Author:Richard G. Scott

“Strive for simplicity! Don't have the face a checkerboard of tints! Use such colors as nature uses, but not try to keep them distinct! Your work may be called monotonous, but one tone is better than many which do not harmonize.”

Trying May Use Faces Color Strive Simplicity Tone Monotonous Checkerboard

Author:William Morris Hunt

“A Christian marriage is [not] one with no problems or even a marriage with fewer problems. (It may well mean more problems.) But it does mean a life in which two people are able to accept each other and love each other in the midst of problems and fears. It means a marriage in which selfish people can accept selfish people without constantly trying to change them -- and even accept themselves, because they realize personally that they have been accepted by Christ.”

“No matter what verbal space you try to enclose Zen in, it resists, and spills over... the Zen attitude is that words and truth are incompatible, or at least that no words can capture truth.”

Trying Matter Space Attitude No Matter What Capture Spills

Author:Douglas Hofstadter

“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.”

People Trying Ideas Soul Helping Lord Sun Path Easier Shining Guides Abandon Midnight Preference Our Lord Without God Sun Shines Coerce Bright Ideas

Author:Therese of Lisieux

“You can only live on the past for so long, and we kind of stretched our luck on that. We think we're on the way back, but it's just a matter of how quickly things come together. Common sense tells you it's not going to happen overnight because we're trying to catch up.”

Thinking Way Trying Kind Long Matter Happens Together Past Common Luck Common Sense

Author:Richard Petty

“You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result.”

Trying Results Technique Painter

Author:Jackson Pollock

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