Alain de Botton Quotes, Envy Quotes, Trying Quotes

We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next.

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We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.

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Saying this, he turned his head toward the window as if he were trying to solve the problems of human existence by concentrating on the beauty of the universe.

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With the world's unprecedented inspections and access to Iran's program, we'll know if Iran ever tries to break out.

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I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?

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Whether at home or abroad, the task of statesman is to work with human nature warts and all, and to draw on instincts and even prejudices that can be turned to good purpose. It is never to try to recreate Mankind in a new image.

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I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.

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You learn your limitations and then you try to work within them.

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Each of us has a responsibility for being alive: one responsibility to creation, of which we are a part, another to the creator a debt we repay by trying to extend our areas of comprehension.

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It is no use trying to sum people up.

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Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

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I don't try and guess when to get in and out of the market. I have owned stocks consistently since 1942. I owned the - I was buying stocks the day before the election. I was buying the same stocks the day after election. And if Hillary had been elected, it would have been the same thing.

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No one nation can or should try to dominate another nation.

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Let's leave it all alone. I'm stupidest when I try to be funny.

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I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)

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Take the probability of loss times the amount of possible loss from the probability of gain times the amount of possible gain. That is what we're trying to do. It's imperfect, but that's what it's all about.

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Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.

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I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

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I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck.

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I try to be an open book now as much as possible.

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