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He that tries to seize an opportunity after it has passed him by is like one who sees it approach but will not go to meet it.
It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.
I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.
I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.
I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.
I play guitar a bit. I'm trying to learn drums - I feel like I can play violin. I've never tried, but I just feel like I can.
For Vladimir Putin to be trying to impact our elections, that - we have to - there has to be - he has to be held accountable.
There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.
I don't think there's anything to be desired in a bunch of people chasing you around, trying to get a piece of your clothing.
Failure is nothing but success trying to be born in a bigger way. Most seeming failures are just installments toward victory!
I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences.
The trouble is if we take no new steps to try a new challenge, our comfort zone doesn't seem just to stay still, but retract.
Paralympics... fascinating because just watching anyone with a major disability trying to do everyday chores is fun to watch.
Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant.
As your mother tells you, and my mother certainly told me, it is important, she always used to say, always to try new things.
So many of my staff is young enough that they're going to do amazing things. And I'm going to be helping them try to do them.
I'm like a surfer right now. I'm just surfing the wave. Except that I can't swim, so I'm on the board trying to hold on tight.
I never wanted to be on any billionaires list. I never define myself by net worth. I always try to define myself by my values.
Let us all try to stand a little taller, rise a little higher, be a little better. Make the extra effort. You will be happier.
I try to think professionally that my body is my job and just get up and do my modeling work, you always feel better after it.
This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.
God cannot take sides; for He is in all of us. We are all a part of Him, and when we try to destroy Him, we destroy ourselves.
James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do.
I always try to make myself be very approachable and easy to talk to, so hopefully people will feel that they can approach me.
I felt like I got more comfortable on "Idol" when I just started being myself and not trying to be what I thought I had to be.
I try to hang on to as much mystery as possible. How can we go through our lives not wanting to have any element of surprise?’
I try to look at things in a positive way. If someone says something negative to me, I'll just turn it around into a positive.
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
I never thought about becoming wealthy. It never crossed my mind. What really motivated me was to try to accomplish something.
I'm old, and so busy with work, that I like to just stay home and get my sleep now. I try not to burn both ends of the candle.
Trying to change the outer is like seeing your unclean or unshaven face in the mirror and trying to shave or clean the mirror.
The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.
Most of us die with our music underplayed...We should try to step out of our comfort zones and do the things we're capable of.
[Rumi] is trying to get us to feel the vastness of our true identity... like the sense you might get walking into a cathedral.
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.
Of course he wouldn't hesitate before trying something that had never been done before. He was Vlad Tepesh. How could he fail?
I feel like the American people are being lied to and manipulated. President Bush is trying to force 9/11 and Saddam together.
I don't know who he (Wladimir) was trying to impress in that homo-erotic video of his doing bicep-curls. It didn't impress me.
A man spends his whole life trying to prove his worth to others. A woman spends her life trying to prove her worth to herself.
There are times when you get hit upon, Try hard but you cannot give. Other times you'd gladly part, With what you need to live
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment. I want to feel it all because I've realized nothing lasts.
I try to keep the music fresh in my head. And I don't always listen to rap; I listen to a little bit of everything: R&B, rock.
Begin with your daily life. Take your life as a challenge and try to bring yourself into harmony with each thing in your life.
The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.
But if I was still trying to be in Guns N' Roses while I wasn't in the band... I wouldn't want to maintain an image like that.
I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.