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“I was hoping for 13 episodes that my friends would like. It’s a good lesson, isn’t it? If you do something trying to make your friends laugh and that you can be proud of, you can also be successful.”

Ifs Trying Laughing Successful Proud Lessons My Friends Being Successful Episodes Be Proud Proud Of You

Author:Sam Simon

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Critics should help people see for themselves; they should never try to define things, or impose their own explanations, though I admit that if... a critic's explanations serve to increase the general obscurity, that's all to the good.”

People Ifs Should Trying Helping Increase Critics Explanation Obscurity

Book:Georges Braque, 1882-1963: An American Tribute

Source: Georges Braque, 1882-1963: An American Tribute

“How about this miracle... God says if you plant the seed I will make the tree. Wow, you can't have a better arrangement than that. First, it gives God the tough end of the deal. What if you had to make a tree? That would keep you up late at night trying to figure out how to make a tree. God says, "No, leave the miracle part to me. I've got the seed, the soil, the sunshine, the rain and the seasons. I'm God and all this miracles stuff is easy for me. I have reserved something very special for you and that is to plant the seed.”

Ifs Giving Trying Firsts Ends Night Easy Stuff Deals Tree Special Figures Late Tough Rain Seasons Miracle Plant Seeds Soil Sunshine What If Wow Arrangements Reserved

Author:Jim Rohn

“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.”

Ifs Knows Trying Mind May Littles Ideas Hard Difficult Progress Terrible Walking Dry Pace Wet Going Out Showers Fog

Book:Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

“There may be a time in life when one is tired of everything and feels as if all one does is wrong, and there maybe some truth in it- do you think this is a feeling one must try to forget and to banish, or is it 'the longing for God,' which one must not fear, but cherish to see if it may bring us some good? Is it 'the longing for God' which leads us to make a choice which we never regret? Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Trying Mind May Doe Feelings Choices Evil Forget Regret Longing Tired Patient Gentle Distinction Good And Evil Cherish Be Patient Eccentric Never Regret Longing For God

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“Every building you come out of, there is a parasite there exercising his constitutional right to make money out of being a parasite, trying to take your photo. Frankly, folks, I go to work, I do my job. I really concentrate, and if you go to the cinema, pay your money and have a good time. That's the end of it, as far as I'm concerned.”

Ifs Trying Ends Jobs Pay Building Exercise Concerned Folks Making Money Cinema Good Times Having A Good Time Parasites

Author:Russell Crowe

“If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often, thankfully, but you know, she's doing (oh, she's good at some things) but if she's cooking, you know, she's dealing with people on the phone, she's talking to the kids, she's painting the ceiling, she's doing open-heart surgery over here; if I'm cooking, the door is shut, the kids are out, the phone's on the hook, if she comes in I get annoyed, I say "Terry, please, I'm trying to fry an egg in here, give me a break.".”

“If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time.”

Ifs Way Trying Years Ends Courses Teach Practice Study Four Teaching Taught Theory Four Years Engineering Unbroken

Author:Charles Kettering

“If I'm a cruel satirist at least I'm not a hyprocrite: I never judge what other people do. Neither a politician nor a priest, I never censor what others do. Neither a philospher nor a psychiatrist, I never bother trying to analyze or resolve my fears and neuroses.”

People Ifs Trying Judging Politician Bother Hypocrisy Priests Resolve Psychiatrist Neurosis Satirist

Author:Federico Fellini

“You don't need to try to be God, you are! But if you try to be God it means you don't know you are.”

Ifs Knows Needs Trying Mean Reality

Author:Alan Watts

“Very beautiful situations have developed using chaos as part of the enlightened approach. There is chaos of all kinds developing all the time... If you are trying to stop those situations, you are looking for external means of liberating yourself, another answer. But if we are able to look into the basic situation, then chaos is the inspiration, confusion is the inspiration.”

Ifs Trying Looks Kind Mean Inspiration Able Beautiful Answers Situation Approach Chaos Confusion All Kinds Developing Enlightened Liberating Very Beautiful

Book:The Pocket Chögyam Trungpa

Source: The Pocket Chögyam Trungpa

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“If Congress were to censure, fine or otherwise try to punish a president, it would dramatically alter the balance of power between the branches.”

Ifs Trying President Fine Balance Congress Branches Censure Balance Of Power

Author:Mike DeWine

“I am not saying I will vote against John Ashcroft because he is pro-life, .. But let me say if someone was nominated for attorney general who was vehemently pro choice -- who in his or her career spent decades trying to find ways to expand the law abortion at nine months would be perfectly legal -- wouldn't you be more upset and raise more of a voice than against a nominee who was simply pro-choice?.”

Ifs Way Trying Would Be Law Choices Voice Careers Months Vote Let Me Raises Decades Nine Upset Abortion Attorney Pro Life Nine Months

Author:Charles Schumer

“There's nothing worse than people who are confused when deciding about something, so hopefully we can clear up any questions folks have. I know a lot of people are confused as to what the options are for White County so if nothing else, we will try to explain the scenario.”

People Ifs Knows Trying White Clear Folks Confusion Hopefully Confused Scenarios County

Author:Steve Burton

“What the Fed is really trying to say is that it doesn't know what it is going to do next. And if the markets abhor anything, it is uncertainty. Expect bond and stock market volatility to increase from here until the inflation outlook solidifies.”

Ifs Knows Trying Next Increase Uncertainty Feds Outlook Inflation Volatility

Author:Scott Anderson

“If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.”

Ifs Trying Children Crime Tough Our Children Desperation Deprivation Sensory Deprivation

Author:Carrie P. Meek

“If you have a car and you win a race, you cannot just settle for that. You must try and make the car better. We're a good car but you always want a bigger engine.”

Ifs Want Trying Winning Race Car Bigger Settling Engines

Author:Rafael Benitez

“Were really trying to make Crisis as accessible as possible, which is extremely difficult to do because it involves so many characters. But, again, you dont need to know all the details. Obviously the mainstays are there Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and heavily focused on. There are a ton of great characters, and a lot happens to them over the course of Infinite Crisis . Some change and evolve, others fall, but it really is about trying to bring everybody on stage. We probably have 90 percent of the DCU showing up, if not more but without losing focus on what the story is.”

“If people aren't laughing at you, you aren't saying anything very unusual. So let your voice be loud and strong, dare to try things that may fail.”

People Ifs Trying May Strong Voice Laughing Failing Failure Dare Loud Unusual Dare To Try

Author:Joline Godfrey

“Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.”

Ifs Trying Home Originals Cooks Originality Places To Go

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“If you get an image try to destroy it.”

Ifs Trying Imagination

Author:Richard Diebenkorn

“Scan your subject for things that are clearly impossible. After all, paint isn't magic! If you see that certain elements in the subject are beyond the limits of your pigments, try to form an idea beforehand of how you are going to handle those areas when you get to them.”

Ifs Trying Ideas Form Certain Impossible Magic Subjects Limits Elements Areas Paint Handle Pigment

Author:Richard Schmid

“One of the main reasons I paint is because I think nature is so wonderful. I want to try to get my feelings of that down on canvas, if possible.”

Ifs Thinking Want Trying Reason Feelings Wonder Wonderful Paint Canvas

Author:E. J. Hughes

“If at first you do succeed, try something harder.”

Ifs Trying Firsts Success Vision Succeed Harder

Author:Ann Landers

“If you do not yet know where you fit, I suggest you try seeking it in receptive silence. I used to walk amid the beauties of nature, just receptive and silent, and wonderful insights would come to me.”

Ifs Knows Trying Used Walks Silence Vision Wonderful Fit Silent Seeking Insight Receptive Nature Beauty

Book:Steps Toward Inner Peace

Source: Steps Toward Inner Peace

“If you think your hands are more important in your golf swing than your legs, try walking a hole on your hands.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Important Hands Walking Golf Legs Holes Swings Golf Swing

Author:Gary Player

“Trouble is bad to get into but fun to get out of. If you're in trouble, eighty percent of the time there's a way out. If you can see the ball, you can probably hit it; and if you can hit it, you can move it; and if you can move it, you might be able to knock it in the hole. At least it's fun to try.”

Ifs Way Trying Might Able Moving Fun Trouble Percent Balls Golf Holes Eighty

Author:Arnold Palmer

“If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.”

Ifs Men Trying Mean Doe Matter Successful Creatures Ideals Toughness

Book:In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena

Source: In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena

“When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.”

“If you are writing about baloney, don't try and make it Cornish hen, because that's the worst kind of baloney there is. Just make it darn good baloney.”

Ifs Writing Trying Kind Worst Humorous Advertising Hens Baloney

Author:Leo Burnett

“If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Persons Funny Animal Influence Dog Pet Cowboy Puppy Canine Dog Training Poodle Dogs Man And Dog Funny Dog Dogs And Life Short Dog Dog Best Friend

Author:Will Rogers

“If you want your children to listen, try talking softly - to someone else.”

Ifs Want Trying Children Funny Talking Our Children Witty Your Children

Author:Ann Landers

“Somebody threw a book at President Obama. If you're trying to scare a president by throwing a book at him, you're one president too late.”

Ifs Trying Book President Late Too Late Scare Throwing President Obama

Author:David Letterman

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