Trying Quotes

• I think in France, for example, we can say whatever we want about the French, but going out and dining is more about the intellectual moment to share with the people you dine with than trying to figure out what the chef did with that little piece of salmon or lobster and all that.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Moment
  • Chef

• I went to my first drum n' bass rave when I was 16 and remember being terrified. Looking around, trying to figure out how to dance to this music, watching some girl in some hot pants, trying little ways to learn her movements.

  

  Kathleen Anne Brien
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Girl

• I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do.

  

  Martin Seligman
  • Trying
  • Positive
  • Psychology

• I didn't want to say "No" because I didn't want people to think I'm not nice. And that, to me, has been the greatest lesson of my life: to recognize that I am solely responsible for it, and not trying to please other people, and not living my life to please other people, but doing what my heart says all the time.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Time
  • Today
  • Ideas

• Food-wise, I'm trying to eat a lot of fruits. I take vitamin pills. For me, that's helpful. Luckily, if I don't go to the gym for two weeks, I'm not feeling it yet, but everybody is warning me, 'Just wait a few more years. You'll feel it.'

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Feeling
  • Food
  • Wise

• I try to live my life to the best, but I just always preach that you should just work hard and do your best.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• In the past, I've been a workaholic. I'm trying not to be anymore.

  

  Lauren Shuler Donner
  • Trying
  • Past

• I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's much more fun, especially in a comedy. You don't want to be some earnest guy who's just trying to do the right thing but can't. I want to be doing the wrong thing intentionally.

  

  Jack Coleman
  • Fun
  • Guy
  • Comedy

• But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.

  

  Abbey Lincoln
  • Prove
  • Saying
  • Madonna

• Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Art
  • Yourself
  • Fool

• I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. I"m trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Writing
  • Truth
  • Fancy

• Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.

  

  Zendaya
  • Love
  • Remember
  • Human

• I had all these singles come out within a two-month period, and then nothing for almost two years. You start to feel a little irrelevant. You realize how many people there are trying to be songwriters and how competitive it is and how political things can be.

  

  Julia Carin Cavazos
  • People
  • Political
  • Period

• It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already.

  

  Sofia Coppola
  • Ends
  • Seems
  • Difficulty

• I believe that entrepreneurs play an unmatched role and the accelerating pace of innovation is transforming the face of global challenges. You must think about the solution differently when you're trying to impact 1 billion people rather than affecting 1 million people.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Believe
  • Innovation

• I saw myself as a teacher's pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher's pet, but that didn't mean that I was trying to pull one over.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Myself
  • Teacher
  • Pet

• I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, ‘don’t try to fly too high,’ or whether it might also be thought of as ‘forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Moral
  • Forget
  • Jobs

• Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Words

• When a problem first arises, try to remain humble and maintain a sincere attitude, and be concerned that the outcome is fair.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Trying
  • Attitude
  • Humble

• If I could, I'd be a recluse. I do want to be one. I'm trying really hard. But it's a difficult thing to pull off in this job.

  

  Chris Lowe Pet Shop Boys
  • Trying
  • Job

• It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • God
  • Play
  • Lonely

• Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

  

  Johannes Brahms
  • Bad
  • Health
  • Jealousy

• I was 12 years old when I first moved to New York, and at that age, you're trying to find yourself. It was hard being so different from everyone I was around, and I felt that nobody could really understand me because everyone was American, and I was this little English girl with an accent.

  

  Ella Mai
  • Different
  • American
  • Age

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