Trying Quotes
Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.
You work your whole life to try to be the best you can, even if it's for only one day or one week.
As your mother tells you, and my mother certainly told me, it is important, she always used to say, always to try new things.
It would have been sad for me to spend my life just trying to superimpose stuff on people rather than trying to encourage them to look within themselves for what's of value.
The best thing to do is find one person in your life and try to love them unconditionally. If you've accomplished that, you've accomplished a lot.
Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.
I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.
The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.
As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland... because you're going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things.
I'm one of those guys like whatever the situation is, as long as people are cool and everybody is trying to be funny, I have a good time.
Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no longer trying. It is the courage to continue that counts.
I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to tell kids.
I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.
All disturbance and chaos folds up in the teeth of truth. Dont ever try to stop truth. Its the only thing that can go through 16-inch armor plate.
A new report says ISIS is trying to recruit professionals like doctors, engineers, and accountants. Sorry, kids, even ISIS says they're not hiring liberal arts majors.
A big mistake people make when they are trying to lose weight is that they stop eating. They'll eat salads once a day and then their body starts trying to protect itself and holds onto the fat.
I try never to worry in general. Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.
I don't look at what people do with their homes in terms of money, but the social and personal value of what they're trying to do and achieve.
I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.
No one should ever be afraid of failing; it's being afraid to give it your all in trying that I urge against.
I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.
I just try to put as much logic into what I'm doing as possible and try to have fun with it.
I was a hop-around. I hung out with the rockabilly crew, the guys who were trying to be rappers, the funny kids.
Films don't cause violence, people do. Violence defines our existence. To shield oneself is more dangerous than trying to reflect it.
Trying to manage a project without project management is like trying to play a football game without a game plan.
Establish a closing ritual. Know when to stop working. Try to end each work day the same way, too. Straighten up your desk. Back up your computer. Make a list of what you need to do tomorrow.
I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium.
And I know now that all the time I was trying to get out of the dust, the fact is, what I am, I am because of the dust. And what I am is good enough. Even for me.
I have a lot of road rage. Mostly with the rickshaw and cab drivers trying to cut me; it's the traffic. Grrrr!
The Internet "browser"... is the piece of software that puts a message on your computer screen informing you that the Internet is currently busy and you should try again later.
Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.
My sister accommodates me, never reproaches me with her doctrine, never tries to change me. She accepts and loves me, despite our differences.
Part of the challenge of Most Wanted is trying to become the most notorious street racer on the pavement.
It's a very tempting thing to try and relive your glory days when you get a little older and you worry that people have forgotten all about you.
How do you compete against a true fanatic? You can only try to build the best possible moat and continuously attempt to widen it.
It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.
I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don't have any real knowledge.
If you speak in a different accent, you begin to move in a slightly different way. You think in a slightly different way. It's part of trying to find what makes a character.
If you think humans are meat-eaters then try eating the animal raw like every other meat-eater on the planet. If something is not palatable in its raw state then you probably shouldn't be eating it.
The worst thing you can do is to try to cling to something that's gone, or to recreate it.
Failures, repeated failures, are sign-posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something (and it works).
If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going.
It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.