Trying Quotes

• Listening is a rare happening among human beings. You cannot listen to the word another is speaking if you are preoccupied with your appearance, or with impressing the other, or are trying to decide what you are going to say when the other stops talking, or are debating about whether what is being said is true or relevant or agreeable. Such matters have their place, but only after listening to the word as the word is being uttered. Listening is a primitive act of love in which a person gives himself to another’s word, making himself accessible and vulnerable to that word.

  

  William Stringfellow
  • Giving
  • Listening
  • Appearance

• There was a period in my life when I was trying to write standards: songs that everybody recorded. I did a pretty good run of it.

  

  Leon Russell
  • Life
  • Good
  • Pretty

• I think there is quite a continuity over my 25 years of doing music, and I'm always trying to break away from it.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Years

• In the end, what I'm trying to say as a person who does all this travel and fashions these images is that you arrive at an approximate location but never one destination.

  

  Kehinde Wiley
  • Trying
  • Travel

• I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show', I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson.

  

  John Oliver
  • Trying
  • Daily

• I was trying to maintain a facade of infallibility, which is exhausting. Like, I used to wear tons of makeup because I had bad skin. I couldn't go out in public without makeup on.

  

  Mike Posner
  • Trying
  • Bad
  • Makeup

• If I were trying to avoid embarrassment, I wouldn't have stumbled my way through 'Dancing with the Stars.'

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Trying

• We all have one other world we live in: our public world. Some people call it our public persona. This is the world where someone who doesn't know you privately, personally, or professionally hears your name and has some opinion about you one way or another. So the question becomes: where is integrity rooted? Some people think it's rooted in their public life. They spend all of their time trying to spin their public image. It's not rooted there, however. It's simply revealed there. People who lack integrity will have it revealed publicly.

  

  O. S. Hawkins
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Integrity

• In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • People
  • Trying
  • Song

• I cannot significantly improve on the assertion that it simply is proper for us, as intelligent members of the universe, to try to look after our fellow creatures, and evil for us to do otherwise.

  

  Colin Tudge
  • Universe
  • Evil
  • Intelligent

• It's not that I'm trying to write another '7 Years' or a new version of 'Mama Said.' Songs just kind of come out of nowhere, and you need to catch them when they do.

  

  Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham
  • Trying

• I started in the theater world in New York City - and indie films - and I love the feeling of your head coming together and trying to tell a simple story, a small story, and just getting that vibe of storytelling without all the craziness of big budget.

  

  Andre Royo
  • World
  • Together
  • Feeling

• If you're trying to diet, what do you do? You grab your two friends and say, 'We're going to the gym; let's do this together.' Money shouldn't be any different. If you're trying to make progress, if you're trying to save more, we really need to be able to get support.

  

  Alexa Von Tobel
  • Different
  • Money
  • Friends

• I try to count the blessings rather than the problems.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Trying
  • Problem
  • Blessing

• I regret behaving badly when I was younger. I did not know any better at the time. The thing is that the incidents that I caused were not funny... Youth is wasted on the young. It is better to have the wisdom of an old man in a young body... I was a bit foolish and teased people, trying to be funny.

  

  Jim Broadbent
  • People
  • Time
  • Funny

• As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace.

  

  Rene Cassin
  • World
  • War
  • Enough

• I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.

  

  Peter Morgan
  • High
  • Interesting
  • Fall

• Leaving southern Sudan as a child was terrifying. It was 1985, and my family and I were trying to escape to Khartoum, the capital in the North, to safety.

  

  Alek Wek
  • Family
  • Leaving
  • Safety

• I've spent my whole career trying to stay out of any box that anyone could put me in. 'I'm going to do a play now.' 'Now I'll do a musical.' That was my instinct. So I don't feel boxed in. But 'African-American woman' is part of my identity. I don't want to relinquish that - especially as a mother, helping my daughter find her identity.

  

  Audra McDonald
  • American
  • Mother
  • Career

• I'm trying to photograph an old offshore oil city that is lying in decay in the Caspian Sea, but I've been having a hard time getting there.

  

  Edward Burtynsky
  • Time
  • City
  • Sea

• Trying to say something is all you got in life.

  

  Ty Segall
  • Life
  • Trying

• I always thought that life is full of stories and characters that feel like literary stories and characters. So when I started making documentaries, they weren't humble empirical things, just following people around. I was always trying to impose a story.

  

  Pawel Pawlikowski
  • People
  • Life
  • Humble

• The country is suffering from musical-chairs syndrome. We all dance around for a bit and then when we try to sit down again, somebody doesn't have a chair. We're running scared; we want ours.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • Country
  • Running
  • Suffering

• I've always claimed that success in writing - provided of course one had what it takes to make a writer - is like success in marriage, largely a question of good sportsmanship, of keeping on keeping on, of giving one's best and trying, everlastingly trying to make that best, better.

  

  Emilie Loring
  • Writing
  • Success
  • Sportsmanship

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