Trying Quotes

• Maybe other writers have perfect first drafts, but I am not one of them. I always try to get the book as tight as I can, but you reach a point as the author where you have lost all perspective.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Book
  • Perfect
  • Perspective

• The biggest difference between people is between those who are trying to do the right thing - whether or not they succeed - and those for whom the only question is how much they can get away with.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Trying
  • Differences
  • Succeed

• If asked whether I am finally letting God love me, just as I am, I would answer, 'No, but I'm trying.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Trying
  • God Love

• In the new covenant, God doesn't want us to be blessed when we obey the law and cursed when we fail. Doesn't such a system sound awfully similar to the old covenant? Grace is the undeserved, unmerited and unearned favor of God - the moment you try to merit the free favors of God, His grace is nullified.

  

  Joseph Prince
  • Moments
  • Blessed
  • Grace

• Both teams want to win and they want to do everything possible. You don't think about the fatigue factor. You're just trying to grind it out to get the win.

  

  Paul Pierce
  • Thinking
  • Team
  • Winning

• I feel like you have to pull from some personal experiences [to acting]. At least that's how I work sometimes. It's just easier that way. And I try it as best as I can and kind of dissolve myself and become a character, not me, or just blur the lines.

  

  Michael B. Jordan
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Acting

• The reality is that fulfillment, success and all of these good things comes from trying to help those that we care about to achieve those things. How can I help somebody I care about find the job they love? How can I help somebody I care about find happiness in their work? And when we commit to service it actually biologically and anthropologically is more likely to lead to our own success and our own happiness.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Reality
  • Care
  • Achieve

• I think classic films are classic for a reason. It's always sketchy to redo one, especially if you're trying to make it contemporary. That's really just not the way to go.

  

  Nia Long
  • Reason
  • Film
  • Classic

• If you set up an environment where failing is encouraged then you want to try everything. It's obviously the best way to work.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Trying
  • Environment
  • Failing

• Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Trying
  • Way
  • Fool

• We're always trying to stay on the cutting edge but also, at the same time, do something that's real. We're never going to do something that's not us.

  

  Howard Dwaine Dorough The Backstreet Boys
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Cutting

• Trying harder doesn’t work for me. Slowly I’ve learned to pray for God’s help and He has become my greatest love and desire.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Desire
  • Helping
  • Praying

• I try to just make what I want to make or what I would want to see. I try not to think about the audience too much.

  

  Sofia Coppola
  • Audience
  • Directors
  • Filmmaking

• We stay away from pop culture almost all the time, you know. That's sort of a rule. You won't really hear people on our show talking about Beyoncé or Adele. We try to make it a little bit more timeless.

  

  Jill Soloway
  • People
  • Trying
  • Culture

• I have to match wits with the ads. Like, there's pop-ups that, like, move around and you have to chase them like it was a video game or something. And then there's ads where, like, you know, the X to, like, close the ad screen is so kind of small that you can't find it and you have to actually go looking for it. And so I spend all my energy - instead of, like, absorbing what the advertiser wants to communicate to me, I spend my energy trying to figure out how to defeat the ad.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Energy
  • Kind
  • Moving

• We spend a lot of time trying to keep all that stuff very private. In this day in age, it's impossible. It's out in the ether and people send stuff to my house all the time. People show up at my house sometimes.

  

  Scott Eastwood
  • People
  • Age
  • House

• When we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sincerity by trying to show what we will do if we are wrong.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Believe
  • Doubt
  • Successful

• I wouldn't want to play a character that knew everything and knew where to go. It is much more interesting playing a character that is vulnerable trying to be strong. It makes for better TV.

  

  Missy Peregrym
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Interesting

• I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Running
  • Shadow
  • Fit

• I'm always attracted to people who interest me. They've got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They're interested in people.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Trying
  • Interesting
  • Interest

• Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round about 1894. With their jangling keys, nasty suits, revolting beards, moustaches and tinted spectacles, estate agents roam the land causing perturbation and despair. If you try and kill them, you're put in prison: if you try and talk to them, you vomit. There's only one thing worse than an estate agent but at least that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed. Estate agents. Love them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Trying
  • Home
  • Mad

• Be the Inner Spirit that is you. And relish in the creative moment. But don't try to hold to anything that has been created in the moment - including your body. And when you find that place, there is peace beyond description. Because then you accept that you are the eternal being that you are.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Moments
  • Spirit
  • Creative

• I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it.

  

  Helen Keller
  • World
  • Trying

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