#tryin

I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#comet #find #i #know #little

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#fantastic #i #prose #sophisticated #stories

I'm so trying to give up meat. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#i #meat #trying #up

We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success. ↗

— George Haven Putnam

#beginning #convince #organization #our #success

I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

#attempts #effect #i #large #less

We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be. ↗

— Richard Adams

#fall #human #must #need #never

When someone goes, 'Oh, this group is really pissed off at what you said,' there's not a piece of my body that goes, 'Sweet!' That means I did it wrong. I'm just trying to make people laugh. ↗

— Trey Parker

#did #goes #group #i #just

When I played in Holland, I always tried to lob the goalkeeper. People used to say, 'Oh, you're always only trying to make a nice goal'. But I said, 'Listen, if the goalie is a little bit off his line, how much space do you have on his left or right?' It's not a lot. 'And how much space do you have above him?' ↗

— Dennis Bergkamp

#always #bit #goal #goalkeeper #him

Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball. ↗

— Bill Bradley

#jumping #like #money #out #politics

The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish. ↗

— Michael Porter

#essence #limits #must #set #strategy