Trying Quotes

I'm gonna try and change the course of hip hop again.

I've always been trying to write songs like Lightfoot. A song of mine like 'Come Monday' is a direct result of me trying to write a Gordon Lightfoot song.

In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I'd sooner save the energy for something more meaningful.

There is no time to fool around when you practice. Every drill must have a purpose. I try to never get away from thathabits are important

...when people already know they're deficient, they have nothing to lose by trying.

The only way to fail for me is just not to try.

I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.

Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain endeavor?

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.

The moment is freedom. — I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do.

I'm a terrible dancer! I dance like a guy who is trying to dance.

Don't try to impress people. Always be yourself!

Trying to change social, national, or global realities without working on human consciousness means there is no serious intention.

Trying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.

The analysts try in vain to conceal the fact that they do not deduce: they combine, they compose ... when they do arrive at the truth they stumble over it after groping their way along.

The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.

The thing I would like most to leave behind is to be remembered for trying hard.

Unless you stop trying, how can you not fail anymore?

I try not to worry about things I can't do anything about.

I’m trying to tell people that I am happy the way I am. But why do people have to call my happiness a failure?

Because I believe that I know about that aspect of hip-hop better than any one else, I'm trying my best in order to be the most real I can in this situation.

When a man marries a woman, they become one-the trouble starts when they try to decide which one.

Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or elections.

I avoid social networks and I try to live a very normal, simple life. I love spending time and hang out with my friends any time I can. I like a very simple life.

I am freeing myself from security, sensation and power addictions that make me try to forcefully control situations in my life and thus destroy my serenity and keeps me from loving myself and others.

What I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition.

Perhaps my number one rule is: Don't try to make a profit on a bad trade, just try to find the best place to get out.

If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.

Pop and metal aren't friends. Each knows exactly where the other lives and tries to keep its distance. They choose different streets, neighborhoods, zip codes.

What makes a person sexy is when he's not trying to be sexy.

If you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough.

I'm just trying to rid the world of all these fevered egos that are tainting our collective unconscious.

Don't you quit! You keep walking. You keep trying. There is help & happiness ahead.

I would just encourage any artist to stay focused, of course keep God first, and just keep working hard. Try to outwork those who you idolize.

We please God most, not by frantically trying to make ourselves good, but by throwing ourselves into His arms.

If you try to measure the future, you will never risk the present. Playing it safe. A ghastly game.

Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.

I am trying to break free from my stripes addiction, but the pull is strong! I need help buying non-stripes.

I wouldn't trust a man who wouldn't try to steal a little.

The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.

I no longer worry about being a brilliant conversationalist. I simply try to be a good listener. I notice that people who do that are usually welcome wherever they go

I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.

Nature's action is complex: and nothing is gained in the long run by pretending that it is simple, and trying to describe it in a series of elementary propositions.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

I still feel thirty, except when I try to run.

Try to understand me. Nothing is impossible.