Sentences with phrase «kept trying harder»

I just kept trying harder and harder to «measure up».

Keep trying hard Akira.

An example of praising efforts rather than results would be to say, «I like the way you you kept trying hard when you were struggling with your math.»

In fact, new research suggests that pride, as long as it stems from a real success and doesn't slide into know - it - all obnoxiousness or narcissism, not only pushes us to keep trying hard but actually makes others like us more.

I do the best I can with what I have and just keep trying harder to do better.

That keeps us trying hard.

Not exact matches

Maybe we can not expect to keep data safely locked away even if we try harder.

The number of middle - class thieves grew this year, too, as those hit hard by the recession tried to keep up with the Joneses.

My three kids, ten grandchildren and I have had the hardest time trying to keep it a secret until today's big announcement.

But no matter how hard they try, they keep coming up short.

Winners keep pressing and never take «No» for a final answer - just an opportunity to try harder, even if it's on the next idea.

In one entry, she describes trying to nail a maneuver 22 feet up, repeatedly failing until she finally identified the kernel of fear within her that was keeping her from kicking hard into the flip.

And it's certainly a LOT harder to hide problems then ever before (just ask any politician or sports figure who has ever tried to keep a romantic dalliance with someone other then their spouse a secret).

Suster recently took to his blog to offer lessons he learned through hard experience as a founder for others trying to balance starting a company and keeping a marriage together.

«While kneading the dough, I was sweating profusely and my sweat kept falling in the dough, also I had a runny nose to deal with, howsoever hard I tried I couldn't keep more than a few drops from falling in it.

The dance between stress, exercise, insulin, various kinds of food — and what impact all those factors and more have on blood sugar — is notoriously hard to master, and trying to keep Jacoby in a healthy range was both exhausting and frightening.

It all comes down to how you praise them - rather than telling them they're «the best» and «Mommy's little champion», tell them you're proud of them because they practiced really hard and kept trying until they succeeded.

It's hard to keep track with what MoviePass is doing these days, but here's trying.

Stephen Maher: With Andrew Scheer upping his game, Trudeau will need to try harder to get re-elected and hope the NDP keeps failing

Of course, this also means Chase may not try as hard to keep your business by matching competitor quotes.

«Now,» Bernanke said, «I face an impossible task, since my Fed is between a rock and a hard place in trying to keep the economy going.»

No matter how hard it may try, no company can keep a premier position forever.

I fear somewhat that this series on Calvinism will fall into that, but I am trying my hardest to keep it positive and encouraging...

In the attempt to keep their children «innocent» and «free,» parents tell their children a different type of fairy tale, a modern American story: everyone loves you because you're special, you are good at everything you try, and if you work hard enough and be a good little boy or girl, you'll be successful.

The sons of Adam try so hard to be satisfied with so little — which keeps them from ever being satisfied at all (p. 377).

We're trying really hard — after all, we keep showing up to your lady events and we leave feeling just a bit empty.

Whatever we feel, it inevitably extends beyond our innermost selves no matter how hard we try to keep it suppressed.

The best, way for science to succeed, is to stop trying to disprove the intangible, and keep prooving hard facts, which many great ideas and advances will stem.

It truly is up to us to try and figure out the truth, but it just keeps getting harder when you can't believe what you you hear or read from the various news agencies.

If you are trying VERY hard to not think certain thoughts, then those thoughts will keep staying in your mind!

And they got upset and were trying to figure things out and finally became so frustrated that the Law was so hard to follow and God kept sending them into captivity and there was so much death and eventually the prophets started prophesying about a day that would come where the hearts of the fathers would return to their children and a sacrifice that would be the final sacrifice so that they could all stop killing so many animals (which God also admitted He never wanted in the first place because that was not the point), and also that God would eventually wipe out the old system and write his law on their hearts and minds so that they could finally follow him without making so many mistakes and messing up everything.

Keep therefore your feathers on and try hard not to be swooned by the ugly duckling's alter ego.

We're trying really hard - after all, we keep showing up to your lady events and we leave feeling just a bit empty.

My sister kept trying to get through to me: «Sarah, she's healthy and you're healthy, that's what matters, you are being too hard on yourself!»

How about trying the third option that I use often, stand respectfully and keep your mouth shut until the others are finished... how hard is that.

Clearly you don't want to, as you keep dodging, trying to distract, giving a non-answer and the usual tactics you are known to use when you don't have an answer to the hard questions.

If you are done with the megachurch, why don't you come to the little country church, where the old people are trying to keep things going, where the pews are a little older and harder and the music is not as hip or well done.

I tried me hardest to get them people in the trading village to take it — but they kept asking «why?

And I was also having a hard time trying to keep my pancakes together in one piece because they fell apart.

Will have to give it a try (although keeping things cold in London right now = not hard!)

Trying to keep in mind that, like most people, I'm my hardest critic, and that no one (save for me) expects perfection.

Have had this recipe pinned FOREVER and thought that it might be too hard so I kept trying other «easier» recipes.

I'm hard on cookbooks even though I try my hardest to keep them pretty.

Next you head into the supermarket (remembering that you had to actually dress up, do your hair, fix makeup etc. to do this) and wander the aisles wasting time looking at ingredient lists and trying to remember if the gums, preservatives and additives have dairy / eggs in them... taking the rolls to the counter, working out whether or not you want to go through the self checkout or keep a checkout operator employed for a few more years... pay... get back in the car... find somewhere to buy bottled water for the dogs... drive 50 km home... unpack dogs and buns and suddenly getting up, stretching... wearing whatever the heck you like with your hair in the air, no makeup, dogs within a hard stares range in case they feel like eating the furniture while you are working and that slow measuring out, baking etc. doesn't seem so time consuming any more.

But It's spring now and I am working hard to try to reverse some of the effects of a long winter in the house with holiday treats and good comfort food that helped keep me warm and cozy this winter and added a few pounds.

I've had a hard time in the beginning because I was trying to watch what I ate, and keep things light not super heavy.

I am trying my best to keep an overload of sugar out of our diets, and that is so hard to avoid these days if you don't pay attention.

«We try really hard to keep the prices as reasonable as possible, but we don't sacrifice any ingredients,» she continues.

Being Diabetic and trying to keep carbs out of my diet is a little hard.

But it was still hard trying to keep my carb intake at the very minimum.