Trying Quotes

It's just really about trying to do whatever it is I do at a level of excellence. That's really all I'm trying to do while I'm here.

I expect that [trying to do the best] of my players today and of my kids. My wife says I shouldn't expect that of my children, but I don't think that's asking too much.

Let's make really good stories that people get something out of. That's the one common denominator with everything I try to do.

When you are writing for an artist you are trying to get into that artist's point of view. What does that artist want to say? What do they care about? And musically, you want to show off that artist.

Nothing I've ever written has been motivated by trying to impact or influence anybody.

That should be the anti-speeding advert. It should be footage of Richard Hammond trying to remember his own wedding day.

Trying to conceal a crime is like burying a seed in the ground.

I try to maintain a high level of coolness. Which means I've gotta look at lot of magazines. I've gotta look at a lot of ads to see what people want to wear.

A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism.

Bruce Lee, before he fought, he would try to visualize how the fight would go, because he was visualizing a victorious path out of the combat.

When I go to shows, I'm really looking forward to hearing the songs I know. I don't like it when a band tries to expose me to new stuff.

When they come out to my shows they like me but trying to get them to come out to my shows they're like "I don't want to go and see that old guy" But when they do they totally get it.

Trying different things is very important to me. I see people and want to wear their clothes and drive in their cars for awhile. Thats probably one reason I became an actor.

Don't try to solve the entire problem on day one.

I hate trying to play charming. Thinking about being charming is really tough.

In a film, you always try to have your main character be changed by the end.

I'm trying to listen to my past, listen to what's most deeply going on inside myself, my creative set of fictional characters, a fictional world - to listen to that world, to search.

What I try to do is read stuff that won't deal with the dangerous dark things I hope I am writing about.

When I am writing a novel I try not to read great prose stylists into which I will fall.

If you are psychic, you can see into the minds of others. You can use that opening to aid somebody. Sometimes someone's trying to tell you something and they don't even know what it is.

When you have grown accustomed to sitting and meditating, try to stop your thoughts. That's the bottom line in meditative practice.

Some people like destroying for the hell of it; they love destroying beauty; they try to feel those people and then crack the egg.

Begin with your daily life. Take your life as a challenge and try to bring yourself into harmony with each thing in your life.

Sometimes, as we practice jnana yoga, we feel that life has no meaning, no purpose. We feel that there is no reason to try, that life is empty. This is another illusion.

As long as you're too busy trying to become something that you're not, you can't see your own immortality.

Try to have a more expanded sense of that which you are. Feel that you are eternity. There's only goodness. There's only light.

Selfless giving is a choice. The primary choice we make is not what to give, how to give, where to give. What we are trying to do is become perfect givers.

We could be unhappy and discouraged for ourselves, but we're trying to be in a high vibratory state so we can be of service to others.

Zen is discipline - the discipline of living life, the discipline of taking a breath, the discipline of not knowing and not trying to know.

There is a sense of competition in Zen. You are competing with your thoughts and trying to overcome them.

Go out into the world, do your best all day, try to think higher thoughts, try to be kind and compassionate, but don't let people take advantage of you.

I'm always waiting for you, hoping that you'll be really interested, that you'll try completely. In every life I wait for you. I've always been waiting and I always will.

The more moral you pretend to be, the less moral you are; the less moral you try to be, the more moral you are.

You're always looking for the ultimate. It's kind of like journeying to Ixtlan. You're never going to get there, but that is no reason not to try.

I would recommend, initially, if you are trying to increase your personal power level, to meditate on the navel center, not the lower two.

If you are losing power in your relationships, with others, then you have to try and remedy that, if you can't, you need to sever the relationship.

It is a tremendous waste of energy to try to block anyone else. That same energy could be applied to furthering your own success.

Today it is very popular to do a thing we call channeling. People are trying to channel entities and have these beings come through them. In my estimation this is downright ridiculous and dangerous.

Universities are very clarifying places of power, because everyone is focused on trying to figure out exactly what to do with their lives.

A person trying to meditate is doing something that's impossible since meditation is not an action.

Don't judge your meditations. Don't rate them. The physical mind cannot tell how well you did. As long as you are sitting there trying, something will happen.

Sometimes people start to meditate and they get a headache. It's because they're trying too hard. You're pulling in too much energy.

Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and mindfulness.

Eventually you're supposed to get so confounded by this whole thing that you just give up completely, and that's when it starts to work. Not give up the practice, but give up trying to figure it out.

It's just not working. One nation trying to destroy another, one race trying to destroy another, one religion trying to destroy another - It's the same old story over and over again.

We sit here on the oasis of human consciousness and the verbal plane trying to talk about something that we just have to go and see and do and feel.

Your inner being already knows. It's trying to communicate with you. But it needs to shift you into a different state of mind.

If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so many concepts that are contradictory, yet each make complete sense in its own right.

Meditation is not emptiness. That is a way of trying to talk about something that is impossible to put into words. It is a world of fullness, if anything.

The way to meditate is by not trying to be too good at it too quickly. This is essential, because otherwise you won't have any fun with it.