#tryin

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#business #close #get #interested #months

Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered--sometimes it seemed to take forever--went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down. ↗

— Bernard Malamud

#rat-race #trying #business

[T]he whole point is the wishing and remembering--not if what you want happens, not if remembering hurts. Because when you wish for something, you're askin. And when you ask, you're trying. And all anyone can do really is try, right? ↗

— Melissa Senate

#trying #wishes #wishing #love

Maybe the future is like rowing for shore. Your only choice is to try or give up. ↗

— Kristen Chandler

#hope #inspirational #trying #inspirational

Trying is always enough. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#trying #inspirational

A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted. ↗

— Matthew Barney

#anchor #angles #becomes #before #broadcast

I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#back #feel #hedonistic #i #i feel

We've seen a massive attack on the freedom of the web. Governments are realizing the power of this medium to organize people and they are trying to clamp down across the world, not just in places like China and North Korea; we're seeing bills in the United States, in Italy, all across the world. ↗

— Sergey Brin

#attack #bills #china #down #freedom

We're trying to be very careful and precise in our use of language, because I think the language we use and the images we project really do have resonance. It's the reason why I don't use the term jihadist to refer to terrorists. It gives them the religious legitimacy they so desperately seek, but I ain't gonna give it to them. ↗

— John O. Brennan

#careful #desperately #give #gives #gonna

I was trying to do Billie Holiday, because she was the voice to be heard at that time. ↗

— Ruth Brown

#billie #billie holiday #heard #holiday #i