trying

Persistence may be the key to success, but the key to failure . . . is trying to please everybody.

You tell on yourself by the friends you seek, By the very manner in which you speak, By the way you employ your leisure time, By the use you make of dollar and dime. You tell what you are by the things you wear, By the spirit in which you your burdens bear, By the kind of things at which you laugh, By the records you play on your phonograph. You tell what you are by the way you walk, By the things of which you delight to talk, By the manner in which you bear defeat, By so simple a thing as how you eat. By the books you choose from a well-filled shelf- In these ways, and more, you tell on yourself. So really there's not a grain of sense In trying to keep up a false pretense.

Q: What's an IBM man-year? A: 730 people trying to get a project done before noon.

Often when you find something worth doing, you also find folks trying to keep you from doing it.

Trying to settle a problem with oratory is like attempting to unsnarl a traffic jam by blowing horns.

In every fat book there is a thin book trying to get out.

Trying to understand modern art is like trying to follow the plot in a bowl of alphabet soup. As

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us.

The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.

We are all trying to learn how to do a better job.