Trying Quotes

Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.

It's better to become who God created you to be than to try to promote yourself to become something you're not.

Don't try to skin your rabbit and keep it as a pet too.

Sometimes the only way to win is to die trying.

Fiscal policy, monetary policy, they need to work together to try and raise the level of growth.

Throughout the life cycle we consciously and unconsciously edit the events of our life, trying to give them meaning.

My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.

Even now I can't stand being recognized in the street. I just hate it when strangers come up and try to talk to me. I'm pathologically shy.

Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.

Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd

For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

And just as two wrongs don't make a right, rage against offenders is probably the worst way to try to correct them.

God has the tough end of the deal. What if instead of planting the seed you had to make the tree? That would keep you up late at night, trying to figure that one out.

Don't waste your time trying to turn ducks into eagles. Hire people who already have the motivation and drive to be eagles and then just let them soar.

A fish does not campaign against fisheries-it only tries to slip through the mesh.

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

When I'm shooting in other cities, I'm just trying to make it look like California.

Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that.

I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.

Courage is a self-inflicted quality that gains momentum every time you try it.

My advice to authors would be to try to do something original rather than to try to anticipate what the market is looking for.

I love people who have died trying to save wildlife. When I see that passion, that gives me hope.

Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right? I want it that way.

I try to conceal art with art.

As wonderful as it is, not everyone likes magic. Try to only share your magic with people who enjoy it.

If monotony tries me, and I cannot stand drudgery; if stupid people fret me and little ruffles set me on edge; if I make much of the trifles of life, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

You know, catching the knuckleball, it's like trying to catch a fly with a chopstick.

I'm not 21 and trying to prove something with my words.

I just think it's really important to be yourself and not trying to be something you're not.

Honey, if you've had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do... Try A Little Bit Harder.

It's very hard trying to have love and a career at the same time. For those who can, great, but I can't.

I say things, but I say them indirectly. At the same time, I try to make my images as direct as possible.

Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.

I try to be classic without being mumsy.

I try not to live in the past...but...sometimes the past lives in me

Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat -- it is perfectly sane to prefer a partner with a better sense of balance.

Now listen. You can't fool all the people all the time-- but I want you to try.

Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color.

I respect the people who buy my records and come to my concerts. It's only fair that I always try to give them the very best that's in me. After all, I need them more than they need me.

I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know.

They say that the truth will set you free But then again, so will a lie... It depends if you're trying to get to the promised land Or if you're just trying to get by.

It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.

I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.

Try saving when your salary is low. So after making more money, you will not be able to do this anywhere

Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives.

Sometimes the answer to fear does not lie in trying to explain away the causes, sometimes the answer lies in courage.

The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.

There is no other place on earth even remotely like New Orleans. Don't even try to compare it to anywhere else.

Trying to build the brotherhood of man without the fatherhood of God is like trying to make a wheel without a hub.