Trying Quotes

I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.

The problem with always being a conformist is that when you try to change the system from within, it's not you who changes the system; it's the system that will eventually change you.

We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in a fence, try to look through the cracks in the world.

God made a woman equal to a man, but He did not make a woman equal to a woman and a man. We usually try to do the work of a man and of a woman too; then we break down.

With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?

Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything.

Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.

Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.

You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.

I try to explain to them about the aloha spirit. And it's that spirit that I am absolutely convinced is what America is looking for right now.

So whatever it is you want, need or desire or just like to have, you better try to get it now, 'cause this is the only time there is.

There are only 24 hours in a day. We need to quit trying to be awesome and instead be wise.

There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going.

Don't call a girl a flirt, she's just trying to be nice. Don't call a girl obsessed when she's just in love.

I don't try to project any image at all, other than the person that I am.

Creativity is often blocked by trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions.

I don't believe in singles. The singles market has changed. I am trying to get back to the old days of releasing albums at will, like Star Wars coming out again.

The older you get, the more rules they’re gonna try to get you to follow. You just gotta keep livin’ man, l-i-v-i-n’

Only artists without talent try to shock people.

Im not trying to hate on nobody.I love everybody that works towards what I was working towards.Its a hard game,its a hard life.

I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.

Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it.

You can't stop me in bump. And you definitely can't stop me playing off. You just try to contain me and stop me from getting a lot of catches.

Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost.

Some goin' east; and-a some goin' west, Some stand aside to try their best. Some livin' big, but the most is livin' small. They just can't even find no food at all.

A competitive athlete is painful to look at; trying hard to become an animal rather than a man, he will never be as fast as a cheetah or as strong as an ox.

Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown.

We are always rushing to an appointment or trying to meet a deadline.

You can keep knocking me down forever, I'll keep getting up and trying.

When you're very successful, you become careless and try to turn many things into routine.

The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.

Conscious people always have a choice of whether to try to modify the actions of people around them or to change their response to the incoming stimuli.

Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else's shoes and trying not to judge.

Electronics were rascals, and they lay awake nights trying to find some way to screw you during the day. You could not reason with them. They had a brain and intestines, but no heart.

It’s a very interesting thing to try to be your absolute best—not a percent better or a percent worse than that.

In the attention economy, anyone trying to connect with an audience must treat the user's time as the ultimate resource.

If someone is trying to bring you down, it only means you're above them.

I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don't believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody's that smart.

My talent is that I just try and try and try and try again and little by little it comes to something.

I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad.

I try to act as a man of character if no one is watching or if the world is watching.

All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of their masterpiece.

The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.

I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter and I'm sort of reporting.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.

The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.

I promise you, a lot of it is luck. But you make your own luck by working really hard and trying lots and lots of things.

You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest.