Trying Quotes

• I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.

  

  Anne Stevenson
  • Work
  • Trying

• Beloved, pursue Jesus and you will experience wisdom in every area of your life. You cannot try to earn, deserve or study to acquire God’s wisdom. It comes by His unmerited favor. His wisdom will give you good success in your career. It will cause you to succeed as a student, parent or spouse.

  

  Joseph Prince
  • Study
  • Parent
  • Students

• Life is a journey. Part of that journey is not just using your talents, but trying to decide what is your gift and then directing your talents to support your gift so you can soar to new heights.

  

  Daniel Burrus
  • Support
  • Journey
  • Directing

• It is the retention by twentieth-century, Atom-Age men of the Neolithic point of view that says: You stay in your village and I will stay in mine. If your sheep eat our grass we will kill you, or we may kill you anyhow to get all the grass for our own sheep. Anyone who tries to make us change our ways is a witch and we will kill him. Keep out of our village.

  

  Carleton S. Coon
  • Men
  • May
  • Age

• Each Desaparecidos's song has a seed that it came from. We're trying to take that and broaden it out and make it resonate with people.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • People
  • Song
  • Seeds

• I am always trying to evolve, so I like to read parenting books and things like that.

  

  Kourtney Kardashian
  • Trying

• Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Trying
  • Writer
  • Reader

• People are supposed to accumulate, I thought, as they get older, but I seem to be sloughing off, like a person wrapped in a hundred layers of cellophane, tearing one layer off at a time, trying to get down to me.

  

  Pam Houston
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• Trying to describe my life and feelings to you is like trying to describe coulours to the blind, or music to the deaf. It's simply not possible.

  

  Tabitha Suzuma
  • Life
  • Music
  • Trying

• I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus.

  

  William P. Young
  • God
  • Trying
  • Santa Claus

• I became obsessed with making more and more tiny things. I think I was trying to find a way of compensating for my embarrassment at having learning difficulties: people had made me feel small so I wanted to show them how significant 'small' could be.

  

  Willard Wigan
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Obsessed

• 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

• I kind of consider myself... I mean, I try to have my comedy be accessible, and if people are paying $30 to see me in a theater and they want to have their picture taken with me, it's not the end of the world. It's one of those things, where I'm not the only comic who does it. A lot of comics do it. If I'm doing a 4,000-seat venue, it might be a little bit of a different task, but it's all good.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • People
  • Mean
  • Taken

• History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

  

  James Joyce
  • Trying
  • History

• To it, more than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had - to this power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it to the best of one's ability, and letting the future take care of itself.

  

  William Osler
  • Trying
  • Care
  • Settling

• Pope Benedict is an amazingly visionary person. What he has done is establish an evolutionary process that will help undo the Reformation. The Anglican Church has been hijacked by modernism, with synods trying to amend the faith and this process will allow traditional Anglicans to be themselves.

  

  Peter Slipper
  • Done
  • Help
  • Faith

• We'll be going to the fish market and a farmer's market this afternoon to get what we need to make and eat dinner as a family. I'm trying to expose my kids to going to a farmers market or the fish market and learning what that's all about.

  

  Emeril Lagasse
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Learning

• For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out.

  

  Lawrence Welk
  • Trying
  • Champagne

• We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.

  

  Rose Schneiderman
  • Mother
  • Couple
  • Brother

• You're part of the problem or the solution. Solution means, in my opinion, to be taking extra time and energy in trying to give back to the world.

  

  Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band
  • Time
  • World
  • Energy

• I'm completely dyslexic - it's the writing part. People read what I've written, and they have no idea what I'm trying to say.

  

  Jonathan Anderson
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Again the pressure pushes me in the chair, shuts my eyes. I notice the dark red tongues of the flame outside the windows. I'm trying to memorize, fix all the feelings, the peculiarities of this descending, to tell those, who will be conquering space after me.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Space
  • Eyes
  • Dark

• People probably have different philosophies about this, but I think that when you're first shaping the play and trying to find a character, the initial actors that develop it end up imprinting on it - you hear their voices; you hear their rhythms. You can't help but to begin to write toward them during the rehearsal process.

  

  Lynn Nottage
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Through the times I've gone through the last couple of weeks - and I'm still trying to help a friend - I got attacked pretty hard through the media, and it hurt and it was devastating, but I really found out who was with me and who was there for me.

  

  Michael Irvin
  • Pretty
  • Media
  • Found

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