Trying Quotes

You are who you are, there's nobody like you, and to try and be like someone else is just a lie.

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

Imitate. Don’t be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable.

When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy.

I'm still trying to do me and just make good music and quality music, music that you can feel.

The greatest mistake marketers make is trying to create demand.

I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.

Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.

Learn the ABC of science before you try to ascend to its summit.

My father was a psycho-analyst and I think that fact was very influential on my development as an artist. Trying to search beneath the surface of things for an unexpected sense of mystery.

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.

The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.

I try to take what voice I have and I give it to those who don’t have one at all.

I'm using my own person in pieces, but I'm trying to turn my person into a nonperson in the sense of a person without will, without volition. I'm subjecting myself to a scheme.

X Games, it's an event but it's still ... it's a show. I try to put on the best show possible, ... I'm thrilled. This is awesome.

I'm a little bit of a geek - I have to be the first person to get new things when they come out. I always want to buy and try new gadgets.

Our task is to become our best selves. One of God's greatest gifts to us is the joy of trying again, for no failure ever need be final.

I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it

Trying to find my flaws is like trying to find a black person at one of our concerts

Never give up on your dream...Perseverance is all important. If you don't have the desire and the belief in yourself to keep trying after you've been told you should quit, you'll never make it.

I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.

...never try to follow another's path for that is his way, not yours. When that path is found, you have nothing to do but fold your arms and the tide will carry you to freedom.

There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects.

Women who try to be equivalent with men need desire.

The only thing you're taking out of here is your spirit and your soul, so we need to be conscious to try and develop that part of ourselves, because we're all spiritual creatures.

Competition pushes me to improve. If I see someone do a big trick, I try it.

Pointing fingers, trying to catch each other in scandal does not bring honor to this House.

James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.

Try something new each day. After all, we're given life to find it out. It doesn't last forever.

I'm blessed. I'm blessed every day I wake up. So I just try to maximize every day to the fullest.

I think it's very important that whatever you're trying to make or sell or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won't be here in ten years.

I’m interested in natural growth patterns, and the beautiful forms that only nature creates. How that flows through me and how that comes out is what I’m trying to understand.

And leadership then is about mobilizing and engaging the people with the problem rather than trying to anesthetize them so you can go off and solve it on your own.

Life is like a maze in which you try to avoid the exit.

Cynicism is the largest obstacle to social change. Cynicism is dangerous because people throw up their hands and say, "Well it's not possible. Why should I even try?"

The most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.

The pathetic thing about it is that many scientists are trying to prove the doctrine of evolution, which no science can do.

But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape.

The next time your core beliefs are challenged - try being curious instead of furious.

All I did was take my time, figure out where I made a lot of mistakes and try not to make them no more.

Why do we try so hard to make Jesus cool?! He doesn’t need a makeover.

I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that you have to be pulled into a corner to be taught about.

People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than what you are trying to hide.

The idea of trying able to explain why you do what you do is absurd.

All of us gave it all we've got, overcame a whole lot just being on the show and learned a lot about ourselves. We're just normal people trying to do what we love and follow our dreams.

With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.

You can't force inspiration. It's like trying to catch a butterfly with a hoop but no net. If you keep your mind open and receptive, though, one day a butterfly will land on your finger.

It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.

The good life begins with Christ and ends with me. I need to stop following me and stop trying to make life all about me.