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"Learn to take losses quickly and cleanly. There is something about inside information which seems to paralyze a man's reasoning powers. Beware of barbers, beauticians, waiters - or anyone - bringing gifts of 'inside' information or tips. Don't try to be a jack of all investment. Stick to the field you know best."
"Satisfy yourself beyond all doubt that you are qualified for the course to which you now aspire.....and try to achieve something in your own land before you venture on a strange one."
"magic persists without us no matter what we may do to try to spoil it"
"Lack of clarity is the number-one time-waster. Always be asking, 'What am I trying to do? How am I trying to do it."
"It is useless to try to stir the dirt Out of the muddy water, As it will become murkier. But leave it alone, And if it should be cleared; It will become clear by itself."
"I find that in life all you can do is try to be honest about who you are and how you're feeling, and trust that it will be received in the correct way."
"He used to say to his melancholia patients: "You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription.Try to think every day how you can please someone."
"Try to walk as much as you can, and keep your love for nature, for that is the true way to learn to understand art more and more. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see her. If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere."
"I'm a workaholic, I always try to fill my time with projects."
"You can make it if you try, push a little harder, think a little deeper."
"I compete only with myself, and I try to become a better human being. This is my goal."
"Often we treat certain aspects of ourselves as junk, having no value. We try to throw parts of ourselves in the garbage. But a human being is an ecosystem, and everything in that system is of value to the whole."
"I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation."
"The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to."
"Do not interrogate silence because silence is mute; do not expect anything from the gods, nor should you try to bribe them with gifts, because it is in ourselves that we must look for liberation."
"I don’t care if the world or anyone in it tries to drag me down. Because I know that in the end, they will be the ones left tired from the struggle to hold me back."
"I think the best way to waste time is to try to save time."
"A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in."
"In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life."
"I really love printmaking. It’s like a mystery and you’re trying to figure out how to rein it in."
