Try Quotes
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I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck.
Francis Bacon
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I try to get as close as I can to cleaning out my inbox every night.
Adam Grant
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We try to preach innovation. We provide resources; we invite speakers in from universities to talk about new ideas.
Irwin M. Jacobs
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I mean, accidents happen. You learn from them and you try to make sure they don't happen again.
Joe Lieberman
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You might try a different fix, a stronger shot, a harder mix. But they wouldn’t get you, baby, and if everyone you know said you ought to let me go, you’d tell ’em they were crazy, so crazy.
Carly Pearce
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The times you impress me the most are the times when you don't try.
Joni Mitchell
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Don't ever try to be somebody you're not.
Jeremy Davis Paramore
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Try to see the good in others. When you're tempted to judge someone, make an effort to see their goodness. Your willingness to look for the best in people will subconsciously bring it forth.
Marianne Williamson
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If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
Sophocles
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We aren't particularly talented. We try harder!
John Graham Mellor The 101ers
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Look out for number one and try not to step in number two.
Jack Roy
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If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Abraham Lincoln
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I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.
Mike Tyson
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Sometimes bad things happen when you try to do something good.
Diana Peterfreund
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It's intimidating to try and pull your home together if you don't have an interior designer.
Jaclyn Smith
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I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can’t wait for the chance to try again.
Abby Sunderland
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We figured they'd try it again, and they did. Only this time, instead of staying with our men, we switched off.
Champ Bailey
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Day and night I try, in my studio with its six two-thousand watt suns, balancing between the extremes of the impossible, to shake loose the real from the unreal, to give visions body, to penetrate into unknown transparencies.
Erwin Blumenfeld
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Thinking, when you first try it, is very difficult.
Charles Willeford
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Try not be resentful or jealous of other people's success. Know that your path as a performer is going to be very different than others. Try your best not to compare.
Erica Schroeder
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Why try to pursue what is completed?
Mikhail Bulgakov
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When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately.
Pablo Picasso
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I try to get a vision of the future, and then I try to figure out where the discontinuities are.
Nolan Bushnell
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You just have to try and keep on grinding and hope that things will turn around eventually.
Annika Sorenstam