Trying Quotes

The Chilean novelist Isabel Allende says there's no such thing as writer's block, you just need to live a bit more. I try to bear that in mind.

The student will try to defy the master. Always.

Don't give me that look. I'm not trying to find out who you are. I don't care who you are. I just want to know why it is you are the way you are.

My friend is having his period," I told the pizza guy, and handed him his tip. "He needs Britney and extra cheese to get him through it. I'm trying to be supportive.

He's a pit bull," Adam said. "I know some really nice pit bulls." "He's the kind of pit that makes the evening news. Gansey's trying to restrain him." "How noble.

I try very hard to keep my eyes from darting to Sean because I'm quite certain that no one will be able to miss how I look at him and how I find him looking back.

As long as you are trying your very best, there can be no question of failure.

Be the change you're trying to create

If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling.

History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.

The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress.

My faith in truth and nonviolence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I too am growing every moment.

I must try to live in society and yet remain untouched by its pitfalls.

What we can do, we will try to do.

I had read some books on the Baha'i Faith. I had read - I was looking into Buddhism and trying to understand sort of the agnostic approach, so there was just a bunch of stuff I was just looking at.

How to fail: Try too hard.

That was it! The whole Redwood City philosophy was based on a willingness to try harder than anyone else.

Don't you run around here trying to make friends with somebody who's depriving you of your rights. They're not your friends, no, they're your enemies. Treat them like that.

In America you have the mouse now trying to sit down on the elephant, thinking that he's going somewhere. And it's - and it's absurd.

Uncle Sam is forcing integration only because he's trying to impress the people of - abroad that he's morally qualified to be the leader of the world.

The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house.

I never like to be the person trying to hard sell, saying, "This is why you should watch it." I know that my fans, who have followed me for years, want to know what I'm doing.

I had to try to figure out what it would be like to do things for the first time, almost as if you're a child.

One of the glorious things about being a person in the world is that you don't have to worry about whether or not someone else is trying to be creepy.

I'm my own worst critic, so I try and not focus on what I've done wrong, or what I could improve on.

I definitely am looking to do some more dramatic roles; I'd love to do a period piece. I'm just getting started; I feel like there's a whole wealth of options out there to try my hand at.

I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.

Eastern churches simply often try to please Muslims. Why doesn't the New York Times report this?

My concern is what fight we can give to the fans. My first concern as a boxer is to try hard and give a good fight for the fans.

I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the mainstream thing again.

I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.

Never give up. Last year I was trying to give up but I couldn't.

I try to do my best to have fun off the court.

'I think as a guy you need a little bit to be on your own from early on, to start to live your own life, and try to understand what is going on around you, you have to be able to survive...

I'm always more interested in trying things that will push me, and I don't care if I fall flat on my face doing it.

I have always said that your work stays with you for a long time, and I try to get involved in projects where I truly believe if I had to do them again, I would the same way.

For a long time, I was more involved in basketball, baseball and golf. My parents didn't push me into football when I was a little kid, but they coaxed me into trying it as a 10th grader.

I always try to stay objective, and to remove myself from the process and look at the film again.

Sephora is a mecca for cosmetics, and it supports what I enjoy: You go into the store, and touch it, and try it, and love it. I've never bought anything on the Internet. I like experience.

One reads the papers as one wants to with a bandage over one's eyes without trying to understand the facts, listening to the soothing words of the editor as to the words of one s mistress.

But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.

I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel.

With a Web and iPhone app, I try to find new and tiny ways to delight my customers. They may not notice, but it helps drive goodwill and makes your product remarkable.

Big government helps the people who have made it. It doesn't help the people who are trying to make it; it crushes the people who are trying to make it.

You know who a complicated tax code kills? The guy or gal trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home. So we've got to simplify our tax code.

All my shows are therapy, trying to navigate interesting subjects so I can work them out and to be honest and say some things are beyond the wit of this man.

If the manager really is the problem, try to get reassigned elsewhere in the organization or start looking for one in which you can play to your strengths.

In most cases, no matter what it is, if you measure it and reward it, people will try to excel at it

There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.

When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.