Trying Quotes

Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.

Culture is a product of law. And laws create norms for society. This is why anyone who wants to change the culture of a country must try to change the norms of the country.

You try not to become so emotionally attached to your character, but you do.

To find freedom and happiness in each others' arms, or you know, inside their own bodies and minds. That is a very empowering thing in a society that's trying to control us all the time.

No. Never. I have to try my best or I'll become worse and worse. Even if I can't make up with them. Even if they all ignore me. I still have to try my best.

There are so many bands always doing the same album over and over; I want to evolve, try new things.

Every time I make a record, it's a gem with different facets, and every time I like to explore a different side. The core is the same, it never changes, but I try to create a different shape.

My heart… It feels like my chest can barely contain it. Like it’s trying to escape because it doesn’t belong to me any more. It belongs to you.

There's a lot of frustration in trying to get music out when you're the only one who hears it, especially if you have something in your head that's not normal.

I try to work all over the canvas at once, because I feel that the forces of nature are unpredictable.

Go back to the breathing and try to be in that moment deeply. Because there is a possibility to handle every kind of event and the essential is to keep the peace in yourself.

I try to maintain the perspective that life is meant to be laughed at.

I'm not trying to write cinematic novels, but I have been told several times that my style is cinematic.

If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.

I'm trying to phase out my availability on the phone. People call you when you're walking down the street and say the most random stuff.

Nothing - I mean nothing - and no-one - I mean no-one - will stop me going through to the end, and trying to be ready for the challenge of 2007.

I try never to be governed by fear; that's how I choose things.

If I fall over and make mistakes, I'll pick myself back up and hope for the best and try to conduct myself with as much authenticity and moral code.

I find trying to solve problems and save lives is far more important than my film career.

The thing I'm not good with is mediocrity, when someone isn't really trying to reach something.

I try to live by the rule do what makes you happy.

I try not to put my purse on the floor - demons will get into it.

I try to eat healthy.

Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the time.

Persistence is incredibly important. Persistence proves to the person you're trying to reach that you're passionate about something, that you really want something.

So always look for the silver lining And try to find the sunny side of life.

A lot of the things I say I'm just trying to be funny... I don't really mean everything I say, because I'm not totally that airhead.

Lord, give us righteous judges who will not try to legislate and dominate this society. Take control, Lord! We ask for additional vacancies on the court.

When philosophers try to understand consciousness, much of what they claim is not conceptual analysis at all, though it may be shopped under that description.

When you try hard to do your best, the effect on your performance is often to jinx it.

We can save the world," I say, trying to smile. "You and me.

Why are you smiling?' 'I'm relieved,' I said honestly. 'I was worried I'd given myself cadmium poisoning, or I had some mysterious disease. This is just someone trying to kill me.

At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do something that's going to add something positive.

We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create.

We obviously can't compete with the big clubs trying to sign world class stars, but we've already identified some very good players and we'll see what happens.

The one thing that's closest to my story is the thing about trying out for the juvenile delinquent role and getting it. That was the start of my acting career... which I've resumed, by the way.

Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level.

I'm extemely competitive, so when people start counting me out or trying to categorise me, I sorta get hungry.

I have now spent over a year trying to figure where in the workplace I belong.

We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are.

In practicing meditation, we're not trying to live up to some kind of ideal -- quite the opposite. We're just being with our experience, whatever it is.

Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself.

I try to see what the priorities are and not get terribly fussed about things that dont matter. Not be swept away by feelings and emotions, which is my tendency.

Do the right things instead of trying to do everything right.

He is trying to decide which of two daydreams he will inhabit.

To people in my industry I'm usually a guy that tries to generate his own projects and I remain very elusive when people try and attach me to big projects.

I'm very wary of large groups of people getting together and trying to believe the same thing. It never seems to end well, whether it's political or religious or whatever.

I'm putting my consciousness towards trying to teach people through pictures and sculptures that there's something better in the world. That's what the world needs more of.

It's quite an unfair thought that Microsoft are trying to control our gaming, they're trying to force us to be online all the time. [People] didn't really think that through.

Whenever I get a tweet that's trying to promote a thing someone cares about, I'm like, "how annoying!"