Trying Quotes

• I'm slightly influenced by sport in that I like the idea of trying, like an athlete, to keep absolutely ready. That's an emotional thing, almost. I don't mean physically, although I play tennis. But you try to keep yourself ready.

  

  Colm Toibin
  • Emotional
  • Athlete
  • Tennis

• I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I used to want to be a writer. I invalidated myself; it’s a mistake for me. ... There’s just a lot of stuff that really moves me, and I don’t know how to express it, and I just want to try to do the best I can and surround myself with good people who don’t invalidate me.

  

  Cat Power
  • War
  • Moving
  • Mistake

• When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing.

  

  Catherine Ponder
  • People
  • Soul
  • Attention

• The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.

  

  Allard K. Lowenstein
  • Trying
  • Question
  • Worth

• We need to stop trying to restrict access to lifesaving cancer screenings, birth control, and well-woman exams.

  

  Elizabeth Esty
  • Control
  • Stop
  • Cancer

• In the past I've always been the type of person to try and fit a square peg in a round hole. I can be very tenacious like that. But since I've had my daughter, I've found that I like the way life unfolds when I give the universe some space to guide me. It took me until my forties to realize that.

  

  Natasha Gregson Wagner
  • Past
  • Giving
  • Daughter

• She knew what it felt like to stand in front of someone and ask them to love you, to try to pull them to you by the sheer force of your desire, a force so strong it felt as though you were going to die from it.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Strong
  • Desire
  • Force

• If my sense of security lies in my reputation or in the things I have, my life will be in a constant state of threat and jeopardy-a fear that these possessions may be lost, stolen, or devalued. If I'm in the presence of someone of greater net worth, fame, or status, I feel inferior. If I'm in the presence of someone of lesser net worth, fame or status, I feel superior. My sense of self-worth constantly fluctu-ates. I don't have any sense of constancy, anchorage, or persistent selfhood. I am constantly trying to protect and insure my assets, properties, securities, position, or reputation.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Fame
  • Protect
  • Reputation

• I'm in East L.A., like Mount Washington, Highland Park. There's a little strip that they're gentrifying, trying to make a hip spot, but you go there, and it's just kind of barren. Nobody hangs out anywhere in L.A. There's no loitering in L.A., so I don't know what to do with myself.

  

  King Tuff
  • Trying

• I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.

  

  Sheryl Crow
  • Great
  • Song
  • Goals

• I'm not trying to make excuses for David Seaman, but I think the lights may have been a problem.

  

  Kevin Keegan
  • Thinking
  • May
  • Problem

• I know what I want. I try and convey that at the beginning and set that out, but within those parameters, I'm very happy for them to experiment and try things and give it a go. To me, it's important.

  

  Dan Mazer
  • Important
  • Experiments
  • Parameters

• When I look for what I'm going to listen to I go backwards. I'm always going the other way you see. Most people are trying to figure out 'how do I get in the fast lane going that way?'. I'm going in the other direction. I wanna find the oldest thing to do.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • People
  • Trying
  • Player

• Realize that the Silence offers an ever available and almost unlimited opportunity for awakening the highest conception of Truth. Try to comprehend that Omnipotence itself is absolute silence; all else is change, activity, limitation. Silent thought concentration is therefore the true method of reaching, awakening and then expressing the wonderful potential power of the world within.

  

  Charles F. Haanel
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Silence

• I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had received from our users and the number of people that were interested in using the software.

  

  Shawn Fanning
  • People
  • Support
  • Difficult

• What is it about maps and globes that seems to require our undivided attention? I've spent hours looking at maps of places I will never see and maps so old that they are a record of nothing but the faintest glow of the past. Perhaps they turn us into gods, letting us look down at the insignificant drones that occupy the earth. Or maybe they simply feed off our hunger to go off into the unknown. Venturing off to places where people don't chain themselves to tedious jobs and financial debts but places of imagination, mystery and freedom Perhaps they're just trying to tell us something.

  

  Dan Kieran
  • People
  • Past
  • Earth

• I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American.

  

  Emmanuel Jal
  • Trying
  • American
  • English

• I have several things that I'm working on and trying to put together. It's hard to say exactly what's next. I think I know what it is, but until I'm actually doing it, I never want to say because things change.

  

  David Robert Mitchell
  • Thinking
  • Together
  • Change

• If things are ever to move upward, some one must take the first step, and assume the risk of it. No one who is not willing to try charity, to try non-resistance as the saint is always willing, can tell whether these methods will or will not succeed.

  

  William James
  • Moving
  • Risk
  • Saint

• I try to make all my work as honest as possible. I want the audience to feel like they're watching two people talking-having a conversation-as opposed to watching actors fake it. I want the audience to get lost in the fact that this is so good it could be real.

  

  Danny Burstein
  • People
  • Real
  • Being

• As soon as you think you have a firm idea you allow it to dissolve and you let go of it, particularly when it comes to a stylistic or aesthetic identity. In fact, you only really find out what it is when you deconstruct it; so, yeah, that's a sort of collage sensibility of having a lot of voicings coming from all over the place and not necessarily trying to shape them or try to commodify them. It keeps you in the living language... an opportunity to not be governed so much by intellect.

  

  Daniel O'Sullivan
  • Thinking
  • Opportunity
  • Identity

• I went down to Houston and I stopped in San 'Antone, I passed up the station for the bus. I was trying to find me something, but I wasn't sure just what... man, I ended up with pockets full of dust.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Travel
  • Dust
  • Bus

• Painting someone's portrait is, of course, an impossible task. What an absurd idea to try and distil a human being, the most complex organism on the planet, into flicks, washes, and blobs of paint on a two-dimensional surface.

  

  David Cobley
  • Ideas
  • Painting
  • Humans

• Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist

  

  Sean Lennon
  • People
  • Mean
  • Artist

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