Trying Quotes

In the simplest of terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war.

Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.

Wear something you feel gorgeous in and don't try too hard; it's much sexier when it appears effortless. Clothes that don't fit, or don't fit the wearer's personality, don't help.

If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.

That's the worst thing about money - the moment you have some you begin to suspect everyone of trying to take it away from you. And usually they are.

Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them?

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

If someone's trying to intimidate me, male or female, I don't respect them enough to be intimidated.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

Try claiming God's blessings instead of merely longing for them.

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.

I actually try and work before my mind is telling me what to do.

God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.

They [China] have indicated that they’re trying to develop nuclear capability and they want to develop more aircraft carriers like we have. So yes, we have to consider them a military threat.

A theory is scientific only if it can be disproved. But the moment you try to cover absolutely everything the chances are that you cover nothing.

I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us.

I would say that when you have a big dream or you're trying to solve a big problem, there will always be people who tell you that you can't. Here's my advice: don't listen.

A mediator is an impartial outsider who tries to aid the negotiators in their quest to find a compromise agreement.

Starbucks trying to build a different kind of company around the balance of profitably and benevolence. A social conscience. And that isn't a program it has to be a way of life.

If you feel you can't trust anyone, then try trusting in yourself.

I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.

Why ... did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions -- not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

I'm always tempted to say, 'Nah, that won't work.' But I think you should be willing to try ideas out before saying no. Be open-minded.

There are not many designers who are truly creative and literate. Most are self-indulgent, illiterate, fashion-mongering, service people trying to bridge a message between a product and an audience.

I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time, I felt like I was just scamming people.

If you try to shoot me, I will have to shoot you back and I promise I will not miss.

I feel that any man that tries, any man that comes out with something we like, is a good man. A man doesn't have to be Leonardo Da Vinci to be sincere.

I try to make myself happy ... because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy, and my shareholders are not happy, and my customers are not happy.

When I was born my father spent three weeks trying to find a loophole in my birth certificate.

I hope I'm a spiritual person. I'm trying to be a spiritual person.

If you have the ability to work with people smarter than you, always try to be the least smartest person in the room and surround yourself with talent, because iron sharpens iron.

I try to keep myself grounded and to stay true to who I am through every experience, positive or negative.

When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.

For me, poetry is a way of thinking, and like many poets, I'm driven by the idea of trying to find the impossible, perfect words: the words that will hold my subject.

Those who think profit is a dirty word should try to make one.

To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack.

Each morning, we return from the dream soul trying to adjust to the day world, that moment when the two souls exchange places in the driver’s seat.

When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.

I'm just getting to know myself. I'm no wherwhere near to being concise about it yet. I can't define myself. Wait a minute - I'm angry, I'm funny and I'm trying.

Once you learn what life is about, there is no way to erase that knowledge. If you try to do something else with your life, you will always sense that you are missing something

People need things. I don't live a monk's existence, I'm a consumer, but I try to do it to the level that doesn't feel like there's an overabundance of something.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

Whenever you compete, trying harder is truly the game of diminishing returns and a losing one at that

The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about.

When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement.

I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always.

Not only has one to do one's best, one must, while doing one's best, remain detached from whatever one is trying to achieve.