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"I pick what are my priorities and I limit those priorities to less than five in my life and really in those particular areas put in the energy to try to make good choices."
"To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can."
"We must all try to empathize before we criticize. Ask someone what's wrong before telling them they are wrong."
"I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the way they are."
"It's pure instinct that makes me rebel every time someone tries to control my life and hand out more rules."
"Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it."
"We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will."
"My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything."
"The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!"
"I try to just make what I want to make or what I would want to see. I try not to think about the audience too much."
"You cannot improve your future if you are not willing to try something new and risk making mistakes and learning from them"
"When companies get bigger they try to replicate their success. But they assume their magic came from process. They try to use processes to substitute content."
"We had the hardware expertise, the industrial design expertise and the software expertise, including iTunes. One of the biggest insights we have was that we decided not to try to manage your music library on the iPod, but to manage it in iTunes. Other companies tried to do everything on the device itself and made it so complicated that it was useless."
"The sea was angry that day my friend, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli."
"Communism is trying to take the world by force. But God will take the world by love."
"Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted."
"Try another way of looking. Try you looking and the whole universe seeing."
"Well, the end of another busy day. I can't wait till I get back to bed. If that don't work I'll try to sleep."
"Where my own mission is concerned, my thought is active, and I try to wish everyone well in spite of doubts and mistrust."
"The more you try to suppress us, the larger we get."
