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life stories life-is
The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted... Carol Shields
life beautiful struggle
Writing is a struggle against silence. Carlos Fuentes
life strong truthful
What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life. Carlos Castaneda
life people important
I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.
life years bridges
Burn your bridges every 2 years.
life order dies
One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for
life responsibility desert
For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.
life player games
Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world. C. S. Lewis
life faith creativity
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. Agnes de Mille
knowing useless kind
Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?
knowing people trying
I'm myself - knowing I'm doing a documentary and speaking with the people, telling them I have a bed, that I can eat every day, but I would like to speak to you. And they really gave me wonderful answers. We got along very well without trying to make me look like I'm what I'm not. Agnes Varda
knowing genius sometimes
Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop. Charles de Gaulle
knowing psychology may
Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again. Charles Dickens
knowing odds mind
We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.
knowing understanding benefits
At every stage of understanding the universe better, the benefits to civilisation have been immeasurable. None of those big leaps were made with us knowing what was going to happen. Brian Cox
knowing able kind
My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either. Brian Eno
knowing wish world
Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals. Dmitri Mendeleev
knowing done terrain
At at any point in time, knowing what has to get done, and when, creates a terrain for maneuvering. David Allen
trying pressure
I'm going to try to not put a lot of pressure on myself. Carl Crawford
trying walking
When you're traveling, you can take it with you. You can use it for walking and I've done that many times actually trying to find restaurants. Lee Daniels
trying recipes want
Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good. Aaron Sorkin
trying
We were trying to play an up-tempo game, but then we started to play their style. That is how they usually play and they were more comfortable than we were. Andre Walker
trying word
We were trying to get the word out, but they were stranded. Brian Schmidt
trying friendly matter
Once I was on a plane and a woman said to me, 'Now, what's the matter with my tomatoes?' And I said, 'Well, it's a bit difficult to see from here.' She took offence and said, 'I was only trying to be friendly.' Alan Titchmarsh
trying ears violence
Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence. Charlotte Bronte
trying empty blank
Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.
trying quality honest
The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality of life. Charlie Haden