Quotes by Trying Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are. Anne Lamott creatingtryingpeople Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb. Anne Lamott blowreasontrying I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda. Anne Lamott giantssecrettrying Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived. Anne Lamott cleaningtryingmean I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear; that's what Jesus said to do. Anne Lamott tryingwaterjesus I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Anne Lamott writingtryingpeople It was not facing what life dealt that made you crazy, but rather trying to set life straight where it was unstraightenable. Anne Lamott crazymadetrying My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone. Anne Lamott neighborhoodmindtrying Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper. Anne Lamott mindpatiencetrying There is nothing more touching to me then a family picture where everyone is trying to look his or her best, but you can see what a mess they all really are. Anne Lamott touchingtryinglooks We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look. Anne Lamott tryinginspirationallooks You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively. ... You put a piece of paper in the typewriter, or you turn on your computer and bring up the right file. ... You begin rocking, just a little at first, and then like a huge autistic child. ... Then your mental illnesses arrive at the desk like your sickest, most secretive relatives. And they pull up chairs in a semicircle around the computer, and they try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath, leering at you behind your back. Anne Lamott typewriterstryingchildren And you try to quiet your mind so you can hear. Anne Lamott mindtryingquiet I kept asking God for help, and after a while I realized something -- that Josh was not enjoying this either. He was just trying to take care of himself, and I made the radical decision to let him off the hook. Anne Lamott hookdecisiontrying When everything starts going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born. Anne Lamott lovelyborntrying I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world. Anne Lamott parenttryingbelieve I'm at the gym at 6, so I'm usually in my office by 7:15. And I try to not schedule a lot of meetings before 8. So I've got that first hour to get myself organized for the day and to make sure that I've structured what I want to do. Anne M. Mulcahy schedulesofficetrying Nothing is more diminishing than trying to control success or hold on to things. Anne-Marie Duff trying I see much less of an ambition gap and much more of a workplace and society that isn't allowing us to use the talent that is multiplied well beyond this room ... There are millions of women out there who ... need more than, Honey, you can do it if you try hard enough. Anne-Marie Slaughter powerfulambitiontrying What I'm suggesting is we are going to look back, and we're going to see what happened in Syria, and we're going to see the larger destabilization of the Middle East, the rise of extremism, and we're going to wonder... Why didn't we at least try to force a political solution - at an acceptable cost to us, because no one is saying we should send in ground troops - and if we did it would be worse than doing nothing... If we do not act, we are going to look back and wonder why we didn't. Anne-Marie Slaughter thought-provokingpoliticaltrying«4344454647484950515253»
