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Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.


Neil Armstrong


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Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.


Milton Avery


#blowing #changing #colors #drama #fantasy

One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.


Harrison Birtwistle


#basic #basic things #i #music #one thing

I tried to be as thorough as I can, but there is a responsibility that we all have, especially with something like AA which is dependant on anonymity. Once you start banging on about it the whole time, you are potentially damaging the whole concept of it.


Jack Dee


#anonymity #banging #concept #damaging #especially

I grew up in a house where my father encouraged my brother and me to fail. I specifically remember coming home and saying, 'Dad, Dad, I tried out for this or that and I was horrible,' and he would high-five me and say, 'Way to go.'


Sara Blakely


#coming #coming home #dad #encouraged #fail

There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that.


Josh Duhamel


#bad habits #certain #fall #habits #i

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.


Albert Einstein


#made #mistake #never #new #person

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.


Albert Einstein


#anything #made #mistake #never #new

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.


Brian Eno


#commercial #complete #flop #i #i tried

And I've tried to give us a higher profile. Typically, at a board meeting, we'd pass resolutions about the civil-rights issue of the day, but we'd never tell anyone. So I've instituted a policy of announcing our resolutions at the end of our meetings.


Julian Bond


#announcing #anyone #board #day #end