Trying Quotes

I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.

The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us, and carry out, in our ordinary conduct; the insignficances of daily life are the importances and the tests of eternity, because they prove what really is the spirit that possesses us.

The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.

There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something.

I was remembering the things we had done together, the times we had had. It would have been pleasant to preserve that comradeship in the days that came after. Pleasant, but alas, impossible. That which had brought us together had gone, and now our paths diverged, according to our natures and needs. We would meet again, from time to time, but always a little more as strangers; until perhaps at last, as old men with only memories left, we could sit together and try to share them.

Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you.

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

There are things that have to be done and you do them and you don't talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget them.

Being myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behavior, trying new ways of 'being myself', so that I can see who it is I want to be.

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.

There are things than cannot ever occur with any precision. They are too big and too magnificent to be contained in mere facts. They are merely trying to occur, they are checking whether the ground of reality can carry them. And they quickly withdraw, fearing to loose their integrity in the frailty of realization.

Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

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

I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

You're never a loser until you quit trying.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

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.

All history is just one man trying to take something away from another man, and usually it doesn't really belong to either of them.

When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. But I didn't want to forget... So I realize, that if it's hard for me, how much harder it must be for you."

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before.

Every human being is trying to say something to others. Trying to cry out I am alive, notice me! Speak to me! Confirm that I am important, that I matter!!

I try to be like a forest: revitalizing and constantly growing.

When I am in a painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc, because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try, and keep trying, for there is nothing to lose by trying and a great deal to gain if successful. By all means TRY! Do it NOW!!!

Its kinda nice to be remembered by your peers and your fans, because you can achieve a lot of success and be a creep too! But we try to be nice, just normal people.

This sense of perfection has a built-in contradiction, one that Ram Dass once captured very succinctly by a statement he had heard from his Himalayan guru: "The world is absolutely perfect, including your own dissatisfaction with it, and everything you are trying to do to change it.

It is a human defect—to try to know one's self by the self of another.

We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in a fence, try to look through the cracks in the world.

That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.

I will not know that day has come because I will not stop trying.

Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not to try.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain – and the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatment by which the poet tries to reconcile that pain with the world.

I've learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me. There is a certain anger: it reaches such intensity that to express it fully would require homicidal rage—self destructive, destroy the world rage—and its flame burns because the world is so unjust. I have to try to find a way to channel that anger to the positive, and the highest positive is forgiveness.

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

To know the way, we go the way, we do the way. The way we do, the things we do, it's all there in front of you. But if you try too hard to see it, you'll only become confused. I am me and you are you. As you can see; but when you do the things that you can do, you will find the way. The way will follow you.

It's this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am.

Look out for number one and try not to step in number two.

It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be.

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.

Never, never listen to anybody that try to discourage you.

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.

Art is about trying to find the good in people, and making the world a more compassionate place.

When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.

We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals - and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship.

It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.

Food is a product of supply and demand, so try to figure out where the supplies are fresh, the suppliers are creative, and the demanders are informed.

Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

We all lose sometimes. We fail to get what we want. Friends and loved ones leave. We make a decision we regret. We try our hardest and come up short. It's not the losing that defines us. It's how we lose. It's what we do afterward.

When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.

I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.

We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?

Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.

Rulers who destroy men's freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms. ... They cherish the illusion that they can combine the prerogatives of absolute power with the moral authority that comes from popular assent.

I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language.

I am Opposite of weak Opposite of slack Synonym of heat Synonym of crack Closest to the peak Far from a punk Y'all ought to stop talking And start trying to catch up

A thousand thoughts ran through my mind. Well, at least six or seven, anyway, because a thousand thoughts are a lot. Try counting your own thoughts and see how long it takes you to get to a thousand.

There'll come a moment when you think you can make it, and you'll try.

To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

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.

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.

In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life.

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

I used to try to run five miles every other day, which I worked up to and I was doing it, but I was subjected to my own thoughts for forty minutes without any sensory input, and I couldn't stand what I thought.

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our computer scientists. Computer programs are good, they say, for particular purposes, but they aren't flexible. Neither is a violin, or a typewriter, until you learn how to use it.

You're the ruler of the universe. Try to show a little taste!

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

Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest who does the most of good. Nearly all of our controversies and combats grow out of the fact that we are trying to get something from each other—there will be peace when our aim is to do something for each other. The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow—its contribution to the welfare of all.

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.

I'm going to break one of the rules of the trade here. I'm going to tell you some of the secrets of improvisation. Just remember"”it's always a good idea to follow the directions exactly the first time you try a recipe. But from then on, you're on your own.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

I'm bred for farm work, and for such folk, the only A's you get come from effort. Strife and strain are all the world can offer, and they temper you into something unbreakable because Lord knows they'll try — without let up — to break you.

If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.

Stop trying to impress people with your clothes and impress them with your life.

It's who I am I don't have to try hard

It's not about having things figured out, or about communicating with other people, trying to make them understand what you understand. It's about a chicken dinner at a drive-in. A soft pillow. Things that don't need explaining.

A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness.

Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover over his wounds. The analyst keeps the surface raw, so that the wound will heal properly.

I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.

The dead are silent because they live, just as we chatter so loudly to try to make ourselves forget that we are dying. Their silence is really their call to me, the assurance of their immortal love for me.

Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.

Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.

Chasing meaning is better for your health than trying to avoid discomfort.

If your every human plan and calculation has miscarried, if, one by one, human props have been knocked out, and doors have shut in your face, take heart. God is trying to get a message through to you, and the message is: "Stop depending on inadequate human resources. Let me handle the matter."...

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways of living happily ever after; but defeat is a poor ending to any tale, so she kept trying.

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.

I try to extract something positive from every situation, even if it's just learning not to make the same mistake twice.

This is what it is to be human: to see the essential existential futility of all action, all striving — and to act, to strive. This is what it is to be human: to reach forever beyond your grasp. This is what it is to be human: to live forever or die trying. This is what it is to be human: to perpetually ask the unanswerable questions, in the hope that the asking of them will somehow hasten the day when they will be answered. This is what it is to be human: to strive in the face of the certainty of failure. This is what it is to be human: to persist.

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.

Try as we might to postpone them, days of reckoning inevitably arrive.

I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad.

I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.

Everyone has to do their job. Everyone has to buy into it and believe in what we're trying to do regardless of who's playing and who's not.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.

It is better not to try people, not to force them to desperation. Make them prosper; out of superfluidity, they will be generous. Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters.

I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.

The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.

I'm trying to take culture and put it onstage, demonstrate it is capable of sustaining you. There is no idea that can't be contained by life: Asian life, European life, certainly black life. My plays are about love, honor, duty, betrayal - things humans have written about since the beginning of time.

The day Metallica's over, i'm not going to put an ad looking for another band. I'll put my drumsticks on the shelf and there's 14 other things I wanna try. Metallica's the only band I've ever been and it's the only I ever wanna be in.

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.

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

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous...

[However], the sufferer from depression has no option, and therefore finds himself, like a walking casualty of war, thrust into the most intolerable social and family situations. There he must ... present a face approximating the one associated with ordinary events and companionship. He must try to utter small talk and be responsive to questions, and knowingly nod, and frown and, God help him, even smile.

I told her the world was full of nice people. I'd have hated to try to prove it to her, but I said it, anyway.

Instead of trying to build newer and bigger weapons of destruction, we should be thinking about getting more use out of the ones we already have.

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

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is destroying all hope of tranquility. ... . You have to learn to immerse yourself in the silences between.

It's interesting how people try to redefine God to their liking. They bring him down to their level so they can understand him, then they reject him because he is too much like them.

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

Don't try to change Doofus, let Doofus change you.

Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.

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

Even if there were only two men left in the world and both of them saints they wouldn't be happy. One them would be bound to try and improve the other. That is the nature of things.

I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that celebrates the open hand.

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.

I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was dead and call the police. When she didn't, I would cry. I was always theatrical. I don't think any of my relatives are surprised.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

The only real lawyers are trial lawyers, and trial lawyers try cases to juries.

Selling is the easiest job in the world if you work it hard-but the hardest job in the world if you try to work it easy.

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else.

But one does not forget by trying to forget. One only remembers.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - and never knowing

Talk to them about things they don't know. Try to give them an inferiority complex. If the actress is beautiful, screw her. If she isn't, present her with a valuable painting she will not understand. If they insist on being boring, kick their asses or twist their noses. And that's about all there is to it.

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

The stars know everything, So we try to read their minds. As distant as they are, We choose to whisper in their presence.

When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.

We can't save the past or solve the riddle of love. But to me, it's worth trying.

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful in your own life?

But I could never have done it," he objected, "without everyone else's help." "That may be true," said Reason gravely,"but you had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.

All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.

All I was trying to do was get home from work.

The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you.

I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth.

The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it. ... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.

Trying to prove you're not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you're not mentally ill,' said Tony."

Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by the act of learning all the way.

I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical.

I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.

But by us doing a lot on the road, we were able to afford things like videos on the tours, cartoons that we'd open up the shows with. We were doing that way back when and now it's the hippest thing to do. We're just coming back around, I guess trying to play catch-up.

If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least 10 times.

I don't think ordinary things are very interesting, so I try to imagine a world that is less ordinary.

Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.

Dont try to go too fast. Learn your job. Dont ever talk until you know what youre talking about. If you want to get along, go along.

This,' whispered the Doctor to Romana, "ﾂ亙s going to be like trying to find a book about needles in a room full of books about haystacks.

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

You must not try to be too pure, you must fly closer to the sea.

Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it. At the same time they degrade it by trying to get it free of charge and free of work.

And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages Trying to rid you from my bones...

Try to avoid complaints. Self-pity even when legitimate never fails to undermine your strength.

One gal drank a can of floor wax and topped it off with a cup of Clorox, trying to separate herself from the same world he was in.

I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.

You try to make the world a better place and what does it get you? I mean, Christ, how the hell does one man stand a chance against four billion assholes?

It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that somehow you have to find a way to think that it happened for a reason.

Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.

Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else.

I try to keep my head on straight and take nothing for granted.

It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.

That combination of thought and action defines creative confidence: the ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out.

A big difference exists between trying to manipulate God to give us what we want and cooperating with God so He can give us what He wants.

One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work.

I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. Thats what I try to do.

I try to leave out the parts readers skip.

The more I try to impress people, the more I separate myself from them. Vulnerability attracts love.

The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear.

I don't feel any pressure. I just try to stay calm, follow my game plan, and try not to get overthrown.

Since the Puffy Combs case in New York, I will not try any more criminal cases.

Never try to look into both eyes at the same time. Switch your gaze from one eye to the other. That signals warmth and sincerity.

Dear Skeezie, Today I ran after a boy as he was trying to get away. I tackled him and we both landed in the mud. Do you think I appeared desperate?-Joe Bunch

Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid.

Right now I'm just thinking about school and trying to get those grades and keep them up! In case I become a Norma Desmond when I grow up, I can have something to fall back on!

No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.

Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.

So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.

Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his/her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.

Something deep in my character allows me to take the hits and get on with trying to win.

Try to spend a few moments each day holding a picture of your body and your mind in a state of splendid health.

When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know they're trying. It's terrible! But when you smile, it's so much sexier!

The greatest failure is the failure to try.

Life is very short, try everything you've dreamed about (within the perimeters of sanity and the law) and regret nothing. Oh, and don't forget the sunscreen.

I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.

The trouble with us today, there are too many of us who put question marks instead of periods after what the Lord says. I want you to think about that. We shouldn't be concerned about why He said something, or whether or not it can be made so. Just trust the Lord. We don't try to find the answers or explanations. We shouldn't try to spend time explaining what the Lord didn't see fit to explain. We spend useless time.

In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems.

I just try to concentrate on concentrating.

I try not to make plans. Because, even the best laid plans etc. etc.

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.

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

You feel the music needs something but you don't know what. So you start searching, fitting, measuring, trying. Every time you try another angle. And sometimes that's frustrating, especially if you don't come up with something for three days.

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives.

I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.

My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.

I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy.

I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.

Only when we try to understand one another's suffering can we begin to bring each other joy.

I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.

Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.

Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.

The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.

The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.

I try to do my absolute best for the people who come see me play.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play.

I'm trying to elevate small-talk to medium talk.

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.

When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.

Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.

At the end of the '60s, I was trying to enter the world of comics.

No woman has the right to marry a man if she has to bend herself out of shape for him. She might wish to, but she could never be to him with all her passionate endeavor what the other woman could be to him without trying. Character will dominate over all and will come out at last.

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.

Well, you're either lovers or you're wanting to be lovers or you're trying not to be lovers so you can be friends, but any way you look at it, sex is always looming in the picture like a shadow, like an undertow.

I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself.

Try being my size and going into a public restroom.

I'm taking my time trying to transition because the Aaron Carter you saw back then - now [I'm] a completely different person.

Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn't get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that's okay.

If death is inevitable, one should try to die well.

I'm not trying to be noble. I'm afraid. And the idea of having more love than I've ever had— and knowing I might never have it again— that scares me worse than anything.

I try not to have too much of an ego. I'll do anything.

Understanding the often unconscious nature of genetic control is the first step toward understanding that"”in many realms, not just sex"”we're all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer.

What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself.

Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.

Got nothing to do with trying. You like someone, or you don't. If you're 'trying', you don't.

Einstein said that the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.

I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is.

Trying harder doesn't always equal more success; it leads to more frustration, less satisfaction, and giving up."

The problem is when you try to impose today's standards on people living back then. It's the politically correct thing to do, but it was a different era, a different country then.

There was a vacuum in investigation, and the press began to try men in the most effective court in the country.

I try not to worry about what that's going to look like. If you worry about looking stupid, that's when you look really stupid.

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

I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with being a minister's son. And now I know I'm pretty darn good at playing a woman too.

Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.

Well, I'm still looking for Maurice Ashley. My essential qualities. I think that more than anything, I try to do the right thing, I think about doing the right thing.

Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.

Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?

When you truly give up trying to be whole through others, you end up receiving what you always wanted from others.

The best thing to do is try and make sure you're getting something at your end. We had stretches where we didn't get that.

When you get born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bust a ham trying to get it back, and you are it. They know they can't get it all back but they will get as big a chunk out of you as they can.

A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit, with new values. Our world may have begun that way, but today it is caricature. Our world is a world of things. What we dread most, in the face of the impending debacle, is that we shall be obliged to give up our gewgaws, our gadgets, all the little comforts that have made us so uncomfortable. We are not peaceful souls; we are smug, timid, queasy and quaky.

When we're in the story, when we're part of it, we can't know the outcome. It's only later that we think we can see what the story was. But do we ever really know? And does anybody else, perhaps, coming along a little later, does anybody else really care? ... History is written by the survivors, but what is that history? That's the point I was trying to make just now. We don't know what the story is when we're in it, and even after we tell it we're not sure. Because the story doesn't end.

You're trying your damndest, you strike out and they boo you. I act like it doesn't bother me, like I don't hear anything the fans say, but the truth is I hear every word of it and it kills me.

I'm not trying to be some kind of underground renegade.

I have been going to the gym instead of the bar, trying to get back down to my fighting weight.

I don't try to be a sex bomb. I am one.

By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking.

I like trying to get pregnant, I'm not so sure about childbirth.

After more than two decades of trying to destroy the firearms rights of more than 80 million law-abiding American gun owners - and statistically failing to show any impact on violent crime - the Brady 'Campaign Against Illegal Guns' is yet another crusade whose ultimate goal is to trample the Second Amendment into dust.

Once I start something, I always finish it. They had been trying to get X-Men made for 30 years and they thought maybe if I got involved, it might actually happen.

What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers.

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

There's good directors and bad directors. Some of the critics are really conscientious and really try to do what they can popularize the work or to explain the work and so on. And then there's the critics who just wants to make a reputation by attacking. Those are the ones I'm not keen on.

It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives; they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives.

I really try to say things as they basically are and it so happens that it is a good message that things are getting better, but there are still problems.

You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

Nine years after I had my own accident, I find that in trying to go back to doing those things that I used to do just doesn't fit. Everything seems to just fall apart. I don't know why but I think it is because I am this new creature.

When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

If I had a ghost living on my street. I would try to stay alive, and offer him some meat!

Adding hardware to any computer is hard. The reality is, you're sticking in disks, trying to run installers. We do a very sophisticated installation and de-install but it's invisible to the user and happens almost instantaneously.

Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.

It isn't easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun.

We go where we need to go, and then try to figure out what we're doing there.

Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week.

The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will pile up.

Try to think where you want to put the ball, not where you don't want it to go.

I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.

I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.

It just seems like the whole, overall animation world is trying to go where maybe animation doesn't belong.

Nothing - I mean nothing - and no-one - I mean no-one - will stop me going through to the end, and trying to be ready for the challenge of 2007.

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead - and find no one there.

I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.

The Saints are doing a good job adjusting. I think their focus is on trying to make the best of their season, but also to try and help the people of New Orleans in the process. From everything I've seen and heard they are doing a good job of it.

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges

We may not be able to offer long-term employment, but we should try to offer long-term employability.

A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

By the time you get to your ball, if you don't know what to do with it, try another sport.

You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.

I have always lived beyond my means. I am still trying to live beyond my means, but it is getting harder all the time. I am very rich."

The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything — and it works.

Today, ... anything you can come up with that works is worth trying.

Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about.

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.

Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.

There's a perception that British pies suffer from mediocrity, and historically they have. We're trying to re-educate people about what pie is.

I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

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.

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.

Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.

Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.

Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

I'm still trying to express my truth, my place in the world, my belief.

My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.

I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

What I am trying to do is to unmuddle the metaphysical.

I have a feeling that we have been placed on this earth for a special reason and although I have not fulfilled all my missions, I am trying.

I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

That's the job of our line. Get it deep, cause some commotion, be physical and try to get some garbage goals.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.