Trying Quotes

From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.

It's not me trying to act or pose in a certain way. It's a lifestyle - like a suaveness or a swag, per se.

You can't be afraid to get back up and try again, and you really can't do that unless you acknowledge the failure.

Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself.

Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life.

That everything is on fire, slow fire, and we're all less than a million breaths away from an oblivion more total than we can even bring ourselves to even try to imagine.

You can't make positive discoveries that make your life better if you never try anything new.

I try to have a real close connection with my fans. That's extremely important. They are the ones that have been there from the beginning and proved everyone else wrong.

I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can't play to them.

Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition.

You should work at everything you do and try to perfect it as best you can.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

I try to dumb down out there. They tell you to stay within yourself, so that's what I do. Mentally, I'm not gonna out-think myself too often.

What you try to become is a bringer of magic, for magic and the truth are closely allied and movies are sheer magic ... when they work, it's, well, it's glorious.

Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.

Long as I remember, rain been comin' down; Clouds of mystery fallin', confusion on the ground; Good men through the ages, trying to find the sun; And I wonder, still I wonder: Who will stop the rain?

I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.

The motivation sometimes comes when you least expect it. I try to keep an open mind.

I always try to make myself as widely understood as possible; and if I don't succeed, I consider it my own fault.

Remember that the reader's attention is yours for only a single instant. They will not use up their valuable time trying to figure out what you mean.

If you don't second-guess yourself, then you are not trying to get better.

If you are going to try and change things, you had better have your wits about you.

The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs.

Once you achieve one goal, you should be looking forward to trying to build onto the next thing, and not just getting comfortable with what you're doing.

More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.

I been trying to clean up my act with my children for a long time. And I pretty much got them all talking to me now. And they accept me as a humanoid again.

Don't try to describe the ocean if you've never seen it.

If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.

Don’t try to be an artist. Find the thing within you that needs to be expressed. You might find it is art.

Success is not something you pursue. What you pursue will elude you; it can be like trying to chase butterflies. Success is something you attract by the person you become.

You should try to get what you want in life and try not to be limited.

Very few things are as dangerous as a bunch of incentive-driven individuals trying to play it safe.

I feel very fortunate to be healthy, so I try to take advantage of it.

During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you.

Don't lose faith in what you are trying to do, even though you will get pummeled emotionally left and right. There are a lot of "nos" to any "yes." And that's OK.

I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.

Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors

The harder you try to control your girlfriend the further you'll drive her away, so stop acting like a dumbbell.

I'm trying to tell the story in the most clear, concise, and truthful way, taking those everyday words and phrases and capturing them in a way that they become something else.

Slow down. Stop trying to do everything now, now, now. Hold up the people behind you for all you care, feel them kicking at your heels but maintain your pace. Don't let anybody dictate your speed.

I try not to tell students where to shoot, when to shoot, or what to shoot. I feel finding the picture is the most important part of being a photographer. The actual shooting is of lesser importance.

It's one thing for Hillary Clinton to adopt some anti-Wall Street language to try to appeal to progressives.

Try not to write the parts that people skip.

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.

Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.

I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else.

The best advice is to take it easy, respect speed limits and do not try to make up time lost in the tailbacks on the open road.

I try to make music that's really real. I've always liked music that makes me feel something. I'm not a brain first, music second person.

I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.

You should never try to make a record and say it's for the radio, you should just make it, and then if it happens to be that, that's what it happens to be.