#tried

I tried to learn the violin for a while. ↗

— Peter Wright

#i tried #learn #tried #violin #while

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons. ↗

— Russell Banks

#book #complex #easy #i #motivation

I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't they know I'm a kid?' I have never tried to encourage him to get a music image like other musicians have. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#adult #dad #encourage #get #got

For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#because #honesty #human #i #i tried

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#flower #grow #i #life #mind

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#cheaper #clear #clear conscience #conscience #contented

I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too. ↗

— Joichi Ito

#decided #democracy #fixing #i #japan

The whole issue of healthcare is very complicated. There have been seven Presidents who've tried to get healthcare reform passed. ↗

— Valerie Jarrett

#complicated #get #healthcare #issue #passed

Then I thought I was going to be a photographer. I tried a hand at darkroom technician. I played in a band. It took me quite some time to discover that I wanted to write. ↗

— Guy Johnson

#darkroom #discover #going #hand #i

But even though all this was going on at home, if someone had tried to take me away and put me in a children's home, I couldn't have handled it. Even though my mother was very brutal, it was my home. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#brutal #children #even #going #had