Trying Quotes

The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body.

Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.

You've got to try everything once, except those things you don't like, or that involve a lot of effort and getting up early.

It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.

I see many people trying to write well about the wilderness, and essentially failing. To me there are basically two aspects of a failed outdoor story. One is the phony epiphany on the mountain top.

I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean

I'm tired of trying to get other people to see into my brain. I'm done.

I'm responsible for what I am and what I want to be. I'm not trying to live by another's standards.

That's what the American odyssey is really about: Leaving home. Leaving home and coming home, and trying to understand the difference.

Emotions kick up. You try not to kick things up, but you go through things you can't help.

I try not to lie to people - the only way to control the way you're perceived is to tell the truth.

You don't even have to win a championship every year to draw the fans. You just have to show you're really trying.

That combination of thought and action defines creative confidence: the ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out.

Do it, fix it, try it.

They rushed to move it forward, uh, and then a lawsuit was filed and we spent many months litigating, rather than trying to come up with legislation and move forward on that front.

Everybody's out trying to be commercial. I'm not trying to be anything, really.

I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it.

Don't try to be just like some other singer hitting it big - find your own style and be honest in your performances. And never underestimate your audience.

If the results don't scream: "Do this again!" Try something new.

See it as it is, not worse than it is just so you have a reason not to try.

Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

Christ always had a passion for whatever He was doing. That's how I try to define myself as an athlete. That's the example I try to follow.

People try constantly to use me and I hate it.

Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm trying to represent. It's all about the individual songs.

A couple of years ago, I was following players. Now, I'm trying to have guys follow me.

I'm just trying to figure out the right balance between making fans feel good and also maintaining some dignity for myself in the process.

I finally understand for a woman it ain't easy trying to raise a man.

Trying to say something is all you got in life.

There's a huge demand for my entertainment, and I can't meet the need. So I decided to try a TV show to reach as many of my fans as possible.

My approach to the races hasn't changed in my 20-year career. If I have the chance to attack and to pass, I do it, trying to get the best possible result.

As an artist, I try not to sound the same as others. Or even as myself. It's a constant, flowing web of influence. And information. And retweets.

Trying your best is bringing your best... that's the way to do it! Desire and passion is everything.

I try to research or make up for myself what happened in any character's life. From when he was born until the first page of the script. I fill in the blanks.

If you are not trying new ways every single day in your company, you will not get to your optimal point.

Love can't be a metaphor anymore. If you try to make literature out of it, it doesn't work.

I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy.

I just have to come back tomorrow and try again, ... I have to look at the ball and keep swinging.

Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious dogma.

Nobody should try to use data unless he has collected data.

We like to have a point of view in our stories, not an obvious moral, but a worthwhile theme. ... All we are trying to do is give the public good entertainment. That is all they want.

Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.

Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.

Use book value as a starting point to try and establish the value of the enterprise.

Before selling, try to re-evaluate the company again and see where the stock sells in realtion to its book value.

What I am trying to say is that they need to learn to rely on themselves and to learn from other people, and when you learn something from other people, then you keep moving onward for yourself.

Over and over, people try to design systems that make tomorrow's work easy. But when tomorrow comes it turns out they didn't quite understand tomorrow's work, and they actually made it harder.

I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.

Do not be impatient for impatience is of the flesh. Do not try different methods because they are useful solely in helping the flesh. We must distrust the flesh entirely.

I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.