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Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Life
Silence
Together
Mind
Back
Way
Introspection
Constantly
Divinity
Attempting
Toward
Contemplative
Force
Return
Tied
Trying
Sitting
Currents
Senses
Apart
Dragged
Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.
Sasha Grey
Me
Better
Try
Rejection
Motivates
Trying
Just
Keep
I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.
Shawn Johnson
Time
Day
Reality
Joy
Anxiety
Focus
One Day At A Time
Pressure
Calm
Sets
Everything
One Day
Possible
Stay
Nerves
Excitement
Feel
Trying
I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.
Stanley Kubrick
Class
Learning
Mistake
Fear
Big
Think
Scale
Staying
Failing
Schools
Motivation
Big Mistake
Trying
Grades
Getting
Children
Anything
Interest
Etc
Produce
Teach
Your
Explosion
Using
Compared
Nuclear
Basic
The biggest hurdle that our communities have is cynicism - saying it's a done deal, who cares; there's no point to voting. If we can get somebody to care, it's a huge victory for the movement and the causes we're trying to advance.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Saying
Voting
Victory
Care
Somebody
Cares
Our
Hurdle
No Point
Point
Advance
Deal
Causes
Huge
Get
Trying
Done
Movement
Biggest
Communities
Who
Cynicism
Who Cares
When you believe in God, you've got to believe in the all-powerful God. He's not just God, He's the all-powerful God and He has total control over everyone's life. The Devil, on the other hand, is a real character that's trying his hardest to tear your life apart.
Alice Cooper
Life
God
Character
You
Devil
Control
Believe
Other
Everyone
Total
All-Powerful
He
Over
Got
Real
Real Character
His
Hand
Trying
Just
Apart
Your
Tear
Hardest
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
Barack Obama
Time
Spend
Folks
Excellence
Excellent
Idea
Lot
Trying
Internalize
Many
Need
You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.
Bill Parcells
You
Something
Results
Get
Trying
Any
Medal
Medals
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
Calvin Coolidge
Time
Best
People
Too Much
Too
Say
Best Time
People Say
Give
Invariably
Something
Make
Advisable
Am
Accomplish
Very
Effort
Trying
Done
Proclaim
Heed
Much
Deem
Found
Consequence
There are vivid memories from my childhood - what we had to go through because of low wages and the conditions, basically because there was no union. I suppose, if I wanted to be fair, I could say that I'm trying to settle a personal score. I could dramatize it by saying that I want to bring social justice to farm workers.
Cesar Chavez
Saying
Memories
Justice
Farm
Settle
Say
Vivid
Could
Through
Had
Fair
Suppose
Because
Wages
Go
Score
Conditions
Trying
Personal
Childhood
Want
Wanted
Social
Low
Workers
Social Justice
Union
Bring
Basically
The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it's so great, because for a little bit I'm out of my brain, and it's got nothing to do with me. I'm not trying to figure it out, you know what I mean? And I wonder if I can somehow find a way to maintain that mind stillness.
Chris Evans
Great
Me
You
Sunset
Stillness
Mind
Nothing
Waterfall
Way
Bit
Out
Find
See
Somehow
Something
Point
Split
Maintain
Know
Because
Got
Brain
Wonder
Trying
Little
Mean
Little Bit
Figure
Second
You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.
Clint Eastwood
You
School
Old
Men
Hair
Stupid
Young
Other
Way
High
See
High School
No Idea
Guys
Idea
Like
Know
Around
Trying
Just
Old Men
Play
Gray
Trying to do business without advertising is like winking at a pretty girl through a pair of green goggles. You may know what you are doing, but no one else does.
Cyrus McCormick
You
Business
Girl
Pretty Girl
Else
Pretty
Winking
Through
No-One
Like
Know
Advertising
Without
Does
Doing
Green
Trying
May
Pair
I don't think that people accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. It seems like religion and myth were invented against that, trying to make sense out of it.
David Lynch
Life
Religion
People
Myth
Sense
Think
Out
Seems
Invented
Fact
Uncomfortable
Like
Make
Terribly
Accept
Makes
Were
Trying
Against
I think the only way for you to grow and evolve is to keep listening, keep moving forward, keep jumping in and trying to experience.
Dianne Reeves
You
Moving Forward
Experience
Listening
Keep Moving Forward
Keep Moving
Think
Way
Evolve
Only
Jumping
Trying
Moving
Forward
Grow
Keep
When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they're not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can 'cause I know I'm gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.
Dolly Parton
Good
Day
You
Better
Cause
Wake Up
Try
Live
Others
Out
Some
About
Days
Know
Most
Make
Always
Gotta
Still
Wake
Up
Expect
Than
Trying
Just
Anyway
Little
Them
Gonna
Then
Why
Why Not
Things
Pan
Set
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Elbert Hubbard
Failure
Except
Longer
Trying
I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world.
Ellen DeGeneres
Beautiful
Day
Peace
World
Stillness
Other
Those
Minutes
Through
Hours
Make
Get
Trying
Human
Then
Fleeting
Moments
Inner
Inner Peace
You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just depict life - or criticize it - but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me, you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful.
Ernest Hemingway
Life
Beautiful
Me
You
Experience
Ugly
Feeling
Alive
Bad
Criticize
See
Something
Putting
Well
Make
Read
Without
Am
Get
Trying
Just
Depict
Stories
Across
Actual
Actually
Thing
I'm very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don't even like the word 'feminism' because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I'm not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don't want to embrace manhood; I want to embrace my womanhood.
Evangeline Lilly
Man
Woman
Women
Word
Men
Feminism
Pretend
Be A Man
Embrace
Like
Because
Proud
Hear
Womanhood
Very
Trying
Being
Want
Manhood
Not Interested
Interested
Even
Associate
Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.
George Carlin
Good
You
Example
Dust
Futility
Fact
Put
Soon
Been
Trying
Established
Next
Your
Good Example
Right
Things
If someone hurts me on social media, I want to tell them that they've hurt me. I believe you should say what you're feeling. We should all do that, but what I've also realized is that even a negative comment is from a person who is trying to reach out. When I reply, maybe I'm reminding them that there's a deeper meaning to what they're doing.
Ginger Zee
Me
You
Hurt
Social Media
Negative
Hurts
Feeling
Believe
Say
Out
Tell
Someone
Reminding
Reach
Also
Doing
Comment
Person
Reply
Trying
Maybe
Want
Social
Them
Meaning
Realized
Should
Who
Even
Media
Deeper
Deeper Meaning
You have to be confident in who you are and what you're doing. Of course, you try to evolve. I would never tell you, 'Today is the best I will ever be.' I'm always trying to be a better chef, a better dad, a better person.
Guy Fieri
Today
Best
You
Better
Try
Will
Tell
Evolve
Would
Better Person
Never
Course
Chef
Always
Doing
Person
Trying
Confident
Who
Dad
Ever
I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.
Hunter S. Thompson
People
Law
Made
Somebody
Gauge
Else
Worst
Recognized
Outlaw
Allies
Writer
Outside
Never
Term
Were
Heard
Up
Trying
Just
Who
Miller
We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
Jack LaLanne
Knowledge
Looking
Bored
More
Knew
Know
Answers
Get
Trying
Searching
Keep
Life is hard, and a lot of people come home tired from work. If they're gonna spend half an hour reading, they want some entertainment and a sense of achievement. So that's what I give them. That's all I'm trying to do. Is that really so wrong?
James Patterson
Life
Work
Home
Tired
Achievement
Entertainment
People
Life Is Hard
Half
Reading
Sense
Spend
Some
Give
Wrong
Come
Hour
Lot
Trying
Want
Them
Gonna
Really
Hard
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