Trying Quotes

If you think there is such a thing as an unimportant game, just try losing one.

Just let me do what I'm doing, and then when all of this is up, then you can say how my career was. Don't try to sum up my career in one or two seasons. Let me finish it first.

Whenever we propose a solution to a problem, we ought to try as hard as we can to overthrow our solution, rather than defend it.

Never try to snow a snowman.

It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

I think everyone is most confident when they are just being themselves and not trying to impress others.

I have had some great successes and great failures. I think every entrepreneur has. I try to learn from all of them.

Try to realize, and truly realize, that what stands between you and a different life are matters of responsible choice.

You spend your whole life trying to get known and then you spend the rest of it hiding in the toilet.

Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.

I've been trying to get down to the heart of the matter but my will gets weak and my thoughts seem to scatter but I think it's about forgiveness... forgiveness, even if you don't love me anymore.

My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.

Especially during the first nine months, there was so much going on with trying to hire 55 people to run the city, it was hard to imagine any honeymoon.

The best recommendation I can have is my own talents, and the fruits of my own labors, and what others will not do for me, I will try and do for myself.

We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear.

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.

Live every day as if you've come back in time from a dystopian future to try and prevent everything from breaking.

Amateurs built the Ark; Professionals built the Titanic.

By positional play a master tries to prove and exploit true values, whereas by combinations he seeks to refute false values ... A combination produces an unexpected re-assessment of values.

Rage or fear... It oscillates. Rage I need to motivate me to try things that I can't ordinarily do - as I'm a lazy man. Fear - to keep pushing harder so we don't lose what we've accomplished.

You can’t always get what you want. But, if you’re lucky, you get what you need.

Discipline works from the inside out, and punishment tries to work from the outside in.

Well, I come down in the morning and I take up a pencil and I try to THINK.

You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.

Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's what makes it so damn beautiful.

Whatever it is that you're passionate about... try to figure out a way to make money at it and give it a shot.

The honeymoon is the only period when a woman isn't trying to reform her husband.

I'm just trying not to get run over. That's number one. Number two is you gotta catch the guy in front of ya.

I will search for hidden talents that I didn't know I had and do my best to cultivate them. I am grateful for each day, and I will try to use each day as a stepping stone to greater achievements.

When you try to convince yourself that something doesn't bother you, it usually bothers you more.

No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.

I'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins, I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in.

My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding.

Don't hang on to your failures, because you can always try again. Trying gives hope. Hope gives us life.

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.

There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.

It’s okay to wonder how you could try so hard and still get stomped all over. Just don’t let them change you.

You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits.

Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down on the ground, having given up.

What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory.

Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.

Don't stop trying, learning, fighting, experimenting, doing, until the miracle happens.

With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be trouble because you rest on your laurels, so to speak, you think it's going to translate easily.

I really believe in trying to increase the amount of useful information in the world and in being accurate in the sense that you can take what I say to the bank, even if you disagree with me.

When someone comes along later and tries to preach the Gospel to them because they're living in the world, they won't listen.

I don't know whether I will drink again in my life but I didn't drink yesterday, I am not drinking today and I'll try not to drink again tomorrow.

Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy.

Insulting the Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) is like trying to spit at the sun, it will only come back in your face.