Trying Quotes

It's so off the charts and off anybody's radar screen, that place. It might as well be another planet. Just try to find somebody who's been to Madagascar. Nobody has been to Madagascar.

You do not have to be an economist to know that putting up the cost of employing someone is a pretty barking thing to do when you're trying to get out of a recession.

We're trying to teach artists that if you're smart enough to develop the material, then you're smart enough to market and promote the album too.

If kindness doesn't work, try more kindness.

Don’t try to eat an elephant for lunch.

The Mollusks—generous hosts when they weren’t trying to kill you.

Humor is an escape, because you cannot think about your problems when you are trying to be funny; so, in essence, "being a humorist" gives you a valid excuse to hide from your pain.

The first time you do anything, people always take a minute to try to figure it out, but once you witness it in person, the word starts to spread and it gains momentum year after year.

What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.

I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion.

After I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian.

Of course I'm trying to trick you! That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying to outwit everyone else.

Suits are looked at more now as a business thing which is kind of a shame. If you're not wearing it just for work, you should try and trick it up a bit.

Life is a journey. Part of that journey is not just using your talents, but trying to decide what is your gift and then directing your talents to support your gift so you can soar to new heights.

Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.

I try to keep a positive attitude about everything.

Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.

I often say songwriting is like trying to climb down a ladder at night. You put your foot on the next rung and test it out and make sure it holds and then you reach for the next one.

Home runs just come from accidents by me, ... I just try to hit it solid and sometimes they go out. The record is nice to have but I'm not trying to hit them.

Yeah, I think if I were to go again, I'd try to go more on gut feelings and stick with it. I was on to Frederique. I found clues for everything, I found tons of stuff.

We should try to bring to any power what we have as women. We will destroy it all if we try to imitate that absolutely unfeeling, driving ambition that we have seen coming at us across the desk.

Try to do your best to look people in the eye and talk to them without a gadget being in between you all the time.

I was trying to put myself in the situation of someone that was going through major loss. Losing someone to death or sickness, and having to go through life on your own afterwords.

The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision.

It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.

I am always able to keep a laser focus on one thing at a time without getting distracted. It helps that I try to break everything I do into small, achievable tasks.

I believe that preventing radicalisation is far more efficient than de-radicalisation, meaning stopping someone joining is a lot easier than trying to pull someone out once they've joined.

Blessed with some success, so I'mma try my best to live my life right. When I see God, he'll be impressed.

I try to have thick skin, but every once in a while I read something that someone says about me, and it's so slanderous and moralistic and it has nothing to do with my music.

God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth and He tries you through and through.

Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else.

And she finds it difficult to believe—that a person would love her even when she isn't trying. Trying to figure out what other people need, trying to be worthy.

The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them.

I don't try to be bad as much as I just am by nature.

That's something that I'm trying to do in my work, to send a message to western people. They're the ones who are completely disconnected.

When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?

Try as we do to resist what we're given, this is the only doorway to truth. We waste too much time and energy denying or fighting where we find ourselves.

I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.

I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.

I try to visualize geometric shapes and patterns slowly spinning and expanding into infinity.

Dream the dream that is trying to be dreamed through you.

After rejection - misery, then thoughts of revenge, and finally, oh well, another try elsewhere.

How can I be expected to love someone who tries such crude manipulations as bringing me breakfast in bed?

Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.

I have funny bones. If there's ever any kind of tension, I'll always be the one to try and be funny to loosen things up.

Every day you must try to make your own self-image grow; this you can do.

Try to be all you can be to be the best human being you can be. Try to be that in your church, in your temple. Try to be that in your classroom. Do it because it is right to do.

The things that happen in your life are either your choices or opportunities and lessons the universe has put before you. Life on earth is like college and we're all just trying to pass the courses.