Trying Quotes

Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes.

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.

Try to focus on the things that you do have instead of obsessing over things you don't

It usually takes me 20 to 90 minutes to write a song because once I start, I don't stop. I like when it's really organic, so I try to knock it out in one shot.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.

I try not to define myself. Other people are going to do that for you anyway.

Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication

I try not to think about the drums themselves. If I do, I'll end up hitting myself in the head with a drumstick, or sustaining some weird injury.

I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.

For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.

Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos.

In trying to become 'objective,' Western culture made 'objects' of things and people when it distanced itself from them, thereby losing 'touch' with them.

Hillary Clinton has been portrayed as robotic, someone who is trying to approximate real human emotion.

I model my life after my Lord and Master Jesus Christ and his life. He has called me into God's family and I am a representative for him so I just try to be obedient to what He asks me to do.

Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.

We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us, but frankly we won't if we're too afraid to try.

But this tree in the yard-this tree that men chopped down...this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up it's stump-this tree lived! It lived! And nothing could destroy it.

We are trying to make the world a better place, but that is not necessarily what we accomplish. Many of the problems which preoccupy us are basically insoluble.

Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.

I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.

Peace comes from within; do not try to seek it without.

If you're a Bosnian and suddenly you get attacked by the Serbs, there's just one way of getting rid of your opponents. It's taking revenge and trying to fight as hard as you can.

I have no understanding as to why you wouldn't try to make what you're passionate about work for you.

I try to work with God as a partner.

In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.

My mom was always the supplier of soccer balls, and so people were always knocking on my door, and trying to get me out so we could play.

Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor.

Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That's inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers.

My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that's a lovely addition.

The best thing to do is try and make sure you're getting something at your end. We had stretches where we didn't get that.

Trying harder doesn’t work for me. Slowly I’ve learned to pray for God’s help and He has become my greatest love and desire.

If you don't try, if you don't do something for yourself, you won't get anywhere.

I’m not in this sport to see how hard I can get hit or to see how many big punches I can take. I am in this game to fight as long as I can. I am trying to dish a lot of punishment.

The gym is where I get my chill-out time. I try to go six days a week, but when I'm working, that goes down to about three.

You know I'm not hung up on this liberating myself from the "black" man - I'm not going to try that thing.

We are here to work side-by-side with this "black" man in trying to bring liberation to all our people!

I could really try new things. That was satanism, it works really well, I made a pact.

It's the hardest thing in the world to take the mundane and try to show how special it is.

The best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it.

The Woodstock Film festival is among the finest of a dying breed: a festival that isn’t trying to sell you anything, but simply and beautifully celebrating the art & craft of filmmaking.

You're trying to pin me down. I'm not a verbal person. Look at my work and decide for yourself. It's hard to put it into words.

Even if you've written something for print, I think it's good to try [it] out on someone because it changes. You can think it's hilarious and they can tell you it's not.

I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music.

I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now Im spending years of my life trying to get away from it.

I just try and get better and better at me with every album.

Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, "Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you."

Continually push yourself out of your comfort zone. Push yourself to stretch as you try new things each day.

I believe in what science fiction can do, which is it can set up simple rules that it has to follow to try to illuminate something about the present that is somewhat invisible to us.