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"You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement."
"Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft."
"My experience is that our intelligence officials try to do the right thing, but even with good intentions, sometimes they make mistakes. Sometimes they can be overzealous."
"There is no excuse for not trying."
"I'm trying to move an aircraft carrier here, I'm not just steering the speedboat."
"Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it."
"Whatever you do in your daily life - driving from here to there, trying to reach someone on the phone, doing this or that - you always are going toward somewhere. That's inevitable."
"One thing you try not to do as a father, as a coach, is pressure your son to do something that you've done. You don't just keep saying, "this is what I've done, this is what I've done." You have to take a little piece at a time."
"I'm extemely competitive, so when people start counting me out or trying to categorise me, I sorta get hungry."
"And to those who believe that adventures are i say try routine: it kills you far more quickly."
"We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are."
"In practicing meditation, we're not trying to live up to some kind of ideal -- quite the opposite. We're just being with our experience, whatever it is."
"Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself."
"Do the right things instead of trying to do everything right."
"The world, the way we look at women and sexuality, is what needs to change - not our behavior, not who we are, not what we say. It's the intentions that should change. It's the mind-set. Otherwise, we're just going to be a completely confused society with not knowing what to say to one another. The mind-set of when you meet a woman is that you should try and get to know her."
"When I make music, I try to make something that is super colorful and something you've never heard before, so when you hear the whole album, it's a good feeling. Musically that's what I aspire to do whenever I'm making an album."
"After all those years of automatic success, you don't get nervous any more. It's really necessary to be nervous and be a little bit frightened. It pumps the adrenalin into you and you really get down there and try."
"I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room."
"There is no failure except the failure of trying."
"You shouldn’t act as a spokesperson for someone who’s trying to impose his will on you."
