Sentence examples for strive instead for from inspiring English sources

It was she who taught me never to compromise, never to be tempted by the frivolous fancy of the moment, to strive instead for quality".

It is to chafe daily against the way things run; to resist the idealistic temptation to change all that; and to strive instead for success and solutions within the constraints.

By focusing on something concrete and achievable, you sidestep the ridiculousness of goals like "I want to rule the world" or "I want to visit every city in the world" and strive instead for what can really be done.

She waved off most of the attention and strived instead for a purposeful sort of invisibility, spending 28 years nursing at a leper colony in the Belgian Congo and at an Ethiopian hospital.

The outbreak of war on 3 September 1939 obliged him to postpone his plans for several months, striving instead to secure the future of the London Philharmonic, whose financial guarantees had been withdrawn by its backers when war was declared.

What should be strived for instead is a form of autonomy that allows for full cultural and religious freedom.

When NIH decided not to go forward with the merger last year, Director Francis Collins said that it would instead strive for "functional integration" of research between the two agencies.

They can't bear to be seen as they are, but instead strive for the perfect 'I woke up like this' face.

So, it's not odd that in both arenas, I ultimately woke up to the idea that I should set perfection off to the side, and instead strive for success.

And remember to stay humble: Remove the striving for accomplishment and instead go for the experience of whatever you can do in the moment.

"And Now You Can Go" is a swift, fleet novel, a spare but polished miniature that isn't ashamed to strive for small truths instead of great lumbering ones.