Trying Quotes

I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.

Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier. It takes a mile before anything happens. And if it was a wrong turn, getting back on course takes even longer.

I didn't fully realize it then, but that was the thing I was most trying to earn playing baseball. Not money. Not glory... Love.

Influence: What you think you have until you try to use it.

Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared

If I could change one thing about myself... I would try to control my generosity.

Only when we try to understand one another's suffering can we begin to bring each other joy.

Like a forensic accountant trying to solve a corporate fraud, following the trail of money around the circle is a good way to understand what actually happens as capitalism unfolds.

I'm trying to grow older with wisdom.

I'm trying to be in the moment and really enjoy my pregnancy. I feel really lucky.

In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.

We spend a lot of effort trying to make things look effortless.

New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise: So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try.

Something you hear a lot is that feminism dead. But if feminism is dead, why do people try so hard to kill it?

I try to write my own music. It's a good way of de-stressing.

Allah is not Jehovah either. Jehovah's not going to turn you into a terrorist that'll try to bomb people and take the lives of thousands and thousands of people.

We don't have to start all over again and try to keep the slate clean. There is no more slate.

The only thing that I am trying to do is to find stories that I like, stories that are meaningful and that can connect and question, since I am not 18 years old anymore.

I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.

A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves.

Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.

Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved.

When there's people on the other side of the room trying to wipe out your life and things are stacked against you, you can get nervous.

Good leaders are very curious, and they spend a lot of time trying to learn things.

I love New York, and I would love to try to live here for a while if I ever got the chance, but it's also extremely hectic. I don't think I would cope with that.

Instead of running for President, why don’t you try walking on a treadmill?

Do something you're very passionate about, and don't try to chase what is kind of the "hot passion" of the day.

Why should we stop living because some people try to kill what is left of energy in ourselves?

French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels. It requires the utmost subtlety.

Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses.

Love accepts the trying things of life without asking for explanations. It trusts and is at rest.

That's the best advice I can give - when you're trying to write a comedy, first write a drama, and then make it funny.

Oh, I think, watching Magic, him being one of my... I'm one of his biggest fans, and just trying to emulate what he did, going out on the playground, and also playing with older guys.

I try to anticipate exactly where my teammates are going to be. Sometimes I look good. Sometimes I look bad.

Let's try and fail because through failure you learn

The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.

That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.

Performers are so vulnerable. They're frightened of humiliation, sure their work will be crap. I try to make an environment where it's warm, where it's OK to fail - a kind of home, I suppose.

I try to go to the gym three times a week. And I have to watch what I eat. I'm a normal person.

It's unreasonable to expect medical doctors and pharmaceutical companies to tell you how to avoid their services by trying the alternatives.

I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.

I tend to be naive and gullible, I guess, but I try to believe that governments believe what they say.

I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.

If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again.

Sometimes I'll hit a note and sometimes I don't. Why not at least try?

Don't fit in, don't sit still, don't ever try to be less than what you are...

I'm trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

Every weekend we've been trying to go out of town, to let people know about this album. I've been trying to host parties. It's hard, because it's a lot of work to do both.

I'm getting a little tired of politicians trying to prove how 'moderate' and 'centrist' they are by taking more of my money and freedom. Where's this center - somewhere between Lenin and Stalin?

When I photograph, I try to use my instincts as much as possible. It is when pictures are unconsidered and irrational that they come to life; that they evolve from showing to being.