Trying Quotes

The worst thing your parents can do is try to emulate you.

Don't untie me," she said, "no matter what happens or how much I plead. I'll want to go straight over the edge and drown myself." "Are you trying to tempt me?" "Ha-ha.

I'm a proud Republican - there's no issue with that at all, so why can't I be a proud Republican and just try to solve problems?

Try something. And never be afraid to fail. That failure is useful too. It's just another building block.

In the John Wayne movies, the Indians were savages that were trying to scalp you. That culture has really suffered because of the stereotype you see in those westerns.

Try to make the time frame the minimum the story will permit.

I think we should have understanding and love and peace. I mean, peace and love has been my situation. You hear that in the song. I'm trying to promote that now: peace and love and understanding.

I'm working it out, man. I'm working through some stuff, trying to find my way like everyone.

I try not to have too much of an ego. I'll do anything

I just try to keep getting better every day, and that's all I can do.

Please don't invent a debt that does not exist, or next you will be trying to feel gratitude - and that is the treacherous first step toward complete moral degradation.

I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.

My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture.

If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.

Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.

Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties.

No one's really taking it seriously enough, being more kind of careful and cautious in planning your life out and trying to reach a goal. It takes a great deal of effort - and this cannot be taught.

What I always try to do is make the political personal.

I try to get in one, one-hour spinning class per week.

I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we?

It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.

Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't.

You know i was just thinking that it's better to die trying [to live your bravest dream] than to live sleeping.

I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.

I really just compete against myself. I look at my previous material and try to surpass what I've done.

I have a very strong, probably slightly aggressive personality, and so that just ends up coming out regardless of what I try to do.

Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be beautiful and liberating, but trying to sell art, well, that is the movie business. There are few winners, and lots and lots of losers.

It's an odd feeling, knowing someone is trying to kill you. On the front line, you learn quickly that if you're in the path of a bullet, you will get hit.

I can get a title shot any time I want to. They know I can beat 110% of the champions out there right now. I just have to be motivated. Most of them are going to be trying to not give me a shot.

I say, don't read the classics - try to discover your own classics; every life has its own.

Where you are, whatever your condition is; Always try to be a lover.

The Soul is a stranger trying to find a Home somewhere that is not a where.

Earth tries to work sorcery on us, saying Tomorrow, Tomorrow, but we outwit that spell by enjoying this now.

I want to say words that flame as I say them, but I keep quiet and don't try to make both words fit in one mouthful.

I don't tend to look at myself through the rearview mirror where dates are concerned. I have blinders on the past and try to look forward.

No matter what you're doing, try to work at that task like it's your dream job.

We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean.

Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness. There's love and emotion trying to express itself, but at the time, it just ends up being awkward.

If you think you fit into a situation, it's worth trying.

Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.

Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.

All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which they operate. My language to each of them has to suit their brain.

I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

Al Davis is the kind of guy who would steal your eyes and then try to convince you that you looked better without them

At some point I will try balut. I will make sure that I will film it

Speaking for myself, I try to go out there on the stage and make jokes with people, so I'm not really thinking about the impact anything I have. If it does resonate with people, that's really great.

Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But it's sickening to see a guy still trying to be that with a wig on 20 years later.

Security is a big concern on the social web. People are going to try to destroy social media just like they are trying to breach data in other areas.

Failure to me became not trying versus not succeeding

Failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. This way, it is about answering to yourself.