Trying Quotes

We can proceed according to the planned itinerary, strenuously trying to make life conform to our needs, or we can adapt to whatever we meet and flow without effort.

People who try to create a musical revolution do not have a chance, but those who turn their back to music can sometimes find it.

Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.

I was trying to do like a spaghetti western but using World War II iconography.

Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.

The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable.

I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.

If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly.

A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.

It's a guy thing, playing the guitar. Being a female and trying to go to the same auditions as the guys, it's pretty hard.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

In abortion they are trying to destroy the last bastion of the image of God.

When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.

Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

You're broke, eh?" I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.

You know what make me laugh? Good, clean, honest humor. Not-trying-to-be-funny humor.

I try not to think in terms of good and bad but more in terms of helpful or unhelpful in regards to specific moral codes and goals.

To develop working ideas efficiently, I try to fail as fast as I can.

I'm a person who tries not to have regrets.

Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try building.

What you discover about people you try not to offend is that you can offend them without trying.

In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also.

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

You do what you do best, try to stop guys like me

I do know, for most of us, the very best of times are when you're in your own space sweating, trying to squeeze quality out of imperfect capabilities.

A lot of times, jazz musicians try to educate people. What other genre does that?

I couldn't imagine anything more horrifying than three middle aged men trying to pretend that 'Black Dog' is still significant. It's inappropriate.

The only failure is not trying.

Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal.

Trying to connect to the moment, that move, that breath - this is what I have been striving for; finding the oneness that can exist with all the things around and inside me.

I was brought up in the Christian church and I studied in the teachings of Jesus. I believed in caring for others and trying to be kind. It's something I still have to work on every day.

Confidence makes you willing to try harder and attracts the kind of support from others that makes "winning" possible.

I want my film to be possible to use as a reference when we are trying to live our lives.

I'm in the process of brainstorming with my marketing team and all that stuff, trying to come up with a concept for a late-night restaurant for people in Birmingham.

Most managers receive much more data (if not information) than they can possibly absorb even if they spend all of their time trying to do so. Hence they already suffer from an information overload.

I don't see many artists who are not trying to bring their work to the public - -to the contrary I see artists nearly desperate to get attention for their art and, failing that, often for themselves.

Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.

Failure is not the outcome - failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

As we learned a bitter lesson with the launch of the Nintendo 3DS, we are trying to take every possible measure so that the Wii U will have a successful launch.

Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist

There is no greater path to mediocrity in life than trying to be realistic.

When you try to stop activity to achieve passivity your very effort fills you with activity.

You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.

Don't ever be someone you're not. We are all that we are, so why try to change that?

Draw, draw, hundreds of drawings. Try to remain humble. Smartness kills everything.

The minute you try to threaten and use boycotts I think it is outside the democratic perception.

If you try to observe the precepts, that is not true observation of precepts. When you observe the precepts without trying to observe the precepts, that is true observation of the precepts.

Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to connect me to, but I refuse such comparisons very well.