Trying Quotes

Better to try and fail than not to try at all

Bruno, my old faithful. I haven't sufficiently described him. Is it enough to say he is indescribable? No. Better to try and fail than not to try at all.

I'm trying to build an empire, because after this, I cannot get a normal job

I try and have family time, all the time, so you know, I get to see them a lot. And I'm always with my friends, my boyfriend, it helps me keep grounded and kind of sane

I don't trust valets, waiters - nobody. I don't waste my time anymore trying to figure out who leaks things to the press.

With every year, I always try and learn something new and grow gracefully, and that's just kind of my rule for every year.

It's been a pattern in my life - when I get in trouble, I try to get out of it, since I was little.

You know, I try to avoid Googling myself, but sometimes I slip up. Sometimes I just want to see how the world is viewing me on a particular day.

I try to go to the gym three to four times a week and mix it up with yoga or a personal trainer.

I like pieces that are cool and simple. I try to wear really cute things, but they just don't suit me at all.

We will all, at some point in our lives, fall. Every single one of us. We shouldn't spend our time trying to avoid falling. We should spend it finding someone who will help us up!

No one's playing records anymore, so find your favorite and frame it, then get rid of the rest - try selling or donating them.

There are certain times when a painting accelerates beyond you, and you have to try and understand and catch up with it.

There is a major turning point in life when you have to decide: shall I grow old gracefully or shall I try everything to stem the tide? For me, that point came in 2001, when I stopped dyeing my hair.

We're just trying to restore equilibrium to the Universe, that's all.

My biggest vulnerability now is my son, Hudson. I am often plagued with fear: Is he ok? Is he safe? I'm in the process of trying to work through this fear. It's a hard one.

I try to impress upon my students the importance of looking, listening... paying attention, in other words. You must pay attention.

We just didn't put any pressure on each other, and I think that everybody needs somebody, and I didn't do it to try to do it; it's what we [with Nina Simone] were to each other.

I think that, you know, Russia is full of themselves. They've always been full of themselves. But that's - it's more of a facade that they try and show as opposed to anything else.

What Donald Trump is trying to do is find his own team, figure out how he's going to do it. But we have to remember, he can hire and fire anybody else that he wants to do.

For a bill to become law, it truly has to be the will of the people, and for a president to stop the will of the people and stop what you're trying to do in your state is not the role of Washington.

It's physically very, very, very trying to be onstage as a performer, not unlike an athlete, for thirty years.

I mean, I love to try and cook. I'm pretty good, but I'm not saying I'm great.

I'd like to try different genres: comedy, period drama, rom-com, action.

I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.

I try to procrastinate, if I can, productively, like I'll work on something else as procrastination. Or I take a walk. Because often I find, if you get out, more things come to you.

To try to be at once a Lithuanian yeshiva and a New England prep school: that was the unspoken motto of the Maimonides School of Brookline, Mass., where I studied for 12 years.

The ideal is to create a completely fragmented atomized society where everybody is totally alone, doing nothing but trying to pursue created wants, and the wants are created.

Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.

The responsibility of the writer as a moral agent is to try to bring the truth about matters of human significance to an audience that can do something about them.

On the road, I try to maintain my connections with friends and family as much as I possibly can. That keeps me pretty grounded.

I try to get a vision of the future, and then I try to figure out where the discontinuities are.

I always try to do something nobody else has done.

I guess that's what Little League is all about -- trying.

I think it's ok to have wishes that conflict with each other - it's irrational to try to make them both come true, but not irrational simply to have them.

You can't look good everytime, even if you try to no matter what.

Weirdly enough, I don't like to pretend. I try to use things in me, and translate them into the situation and the characters, so it always needs to run through my own veins.

I was just trying to get his attention!" the man protested at the top of his lungs. "If he'da listened, I wouldn'ta had to bash him.

Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.

I'm not trying to conquer Hollywood. I love my day job.

I always try to do something different. I don't think I've made the same record over and over.

I had success early on where I'm able to try to keep it fun, and I don't have to do things just for the sake of making a living, which a lot of my musician friends don't have that luxury of course.

On Update, the only real original thing was trying to take away the cleverness of the punchline and make it as blunt as possible.

If the argument is that failure helps you succeed, well, so does success and it's quicker. This suggests at least one reason for trying to succeed.

People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.

I'm trying not to pay too much attention to the rankings because calculations can distract you.

I'm trying to enjoy my lie as much as I can and I know that tennis hopefully is going to be my life the next 10, 15 years.

I always try to have something that keeps my mind relaxed, keeps my mind a little bit off tennis.

I always try to adjust to the situation.

A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist.