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Letter "T" » Trying
«In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.»
Author: Hannah Arendt
(Philosopher, Political scientist)
| About:
Living,
Perfection,
Trying
| Keywords:
go on, involved, perfectionism
«It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible»
«I'm trying as hard as I can, and sometimes things don't go your way, and that's the way things go.»
«If at first you do succeed, try something harder»
«Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Trying
| Keywords:
bother, contemporaries, predecessors, The Contemporary
«If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Trying
| Keywords:
Against Me, all right, angels, attacks, closed, For any, keep on, Mean Business, No Angel, shop, swearing
«I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We are born lucky. Yes, we are born lucky.»
«It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. - former US President Franklin D. Roosevelt»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Common sense,
Failure,
Trying
| Keywords:
former, franklin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, frankly, President Roosevelt, Roosevelt
«If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die.»
«For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.»
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