Trying Quotes

Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.

Lets take flight simulation as an example. If youre trying to train a pilot, you can simulate almost the whole course. You dont have to get in an airplane until late in the process.

The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.

If you are old and you wish to be young again, if only for a moment, try and identify a dragonfly.

Don't be afraid of failure, be afraid of not trying in the first place.

Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs.

However you try to define meditation, it’s not that.

Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.

If you don't come walking back to the pits every once in a while holding a steering wheel in your hands, you're not trying hard enough

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.

If i'm not trying my best, I might as well retire.

Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try.

If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.

A chance to try your technique is in one instant never to be regained, so try it without hesitation.

You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.

Well, I've never really been one to try to be politically correct. I just feel truth is truth, and sometimes I probably offend some people.

I'm just trying to keep things simple, and just be a little more offhand and not get so deep into things. Enjoy what you got right now, because who knows what's going to happen tomorrow.

I am interested in reconstructing symbols. It's about connecting with an older knowledge and trying to discover continuities in why we search for heaven.

Having a Republican candidate speak at the NAACP convention is like trying to build a house starting at the roof. If you don't have a foundation, the roof isn't going to stand.

Where is Wood?" said Harry, suddenly realizing he wasn't there. "Still in the showers," said Fred. "We think he's trying to drown himself.

I do NOT accept the ephemeral nature of this moment. I'm going to extend it FOREVER! Or at least I'm going to try.

The best way to deal with excessive thinking is to just listen to it, to listen to the mind. Listening is much more effective than trying to stop thought or cut it off.

Don't try to be what you're not. If you're nervous, be nervous. If you're shy, be shy. It's cute.

The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and impoverished taste.

I still eat sushi, though I'm trying my best to have my last sushi roll.

When your mind is focused and made up you don't make excuses. You try. If you fail you try again.

Remember, don't try to build the greatest wall that's ever been built. Focus on laying a single, expertly-placed brick. Then keep doing that, every day.

When you fall, leap to your feet and try again.

the best leaders try to train their followers themselves to become leaders. ... they wish to be leaders of leaders.

So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the stars; amen.

Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is more becoming?

High ends, high spending. We just trying to end life on a high note.

All men are created equal. Now matter how hard they try, they can never erase those words. That is what America is about.

I found the material that people hated the most and used the most. So, I was going and try and see if I could play with it sculpturally.

Stop trying, stop struggling; begin to be calm, to trust in the higher laws of life, even though you do not see them; they are still there.

We do not know why we are born into the world, but we can try to find out what sort of a world it is - at least in its physical aspects.

When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album.

I try my hardest to do what I have to do to make my team win.

That s the problem I ve been choosing male names. You are a she! [To Saphira, while trying to choose her name.]

I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain and be ashamed of things you think are wrong with me.

We're better than Metallica. We're better musicians, better players. Put it this way, they can try to walk onstage after an Iron Maiden show if they want.

Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.

Everyone is trying to jump on the biomimic bandwagon. But a cork floor is not biomimicry. Neither is using bacteria to clean water.

We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.

Don’t try to capture a man in one synthetic portrait, but rather in lots of snapshots taken at different times and in different circumstances.

If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.

I felt like high school for me was like a big whirlpool of me trying to figure out what was OK for me to do.

Coming off the last turn, my thoughts changed from 'One more try...one more try...one more try...' to 'I can win! I can win! I can win!

You have to become the 'first of yourself' instead of trying to become the second of anyone.