Trying Quotes - Page 109

I relax while I work. It's really weird but my job doesn't feel like work at all. That's why I try to do as much as possible. When I'm on the set, learning lines and playing around, I'm relaxed. It's so amazing.

Someone is always going to try to knock you down and take your place. It is up to you to fight for what you want.

To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality.

If only I knew what I wanted I could try to see about getting it.

I'm trying to think of a witty comeback, when Boggs says brusquely, “Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.” I decide to go ahead and like Boggs.

It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent.

And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings.

Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing.

After you have practiced for a while, you will realize that it is not possible to make rapid, extraordinary progress. Even though you try very hard, the progress you make is always little by little.

I think when you talk about competing against others, the problem is that you refer to something that's been done already and try to beat it.

Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence; faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.

Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you’re just a middleman. “ “Don’t try to be the ‘next’. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new. “ “Everyone is not your customer. “ “Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.

Im always trying to improve my skills as an actor. I think it shows in El Gringo; it shows in the new Universal Soldier. You cant rest on your laurels; youve got to keep improving.

Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.

Nationalism is a central ideology for people who are trying to establish their own states in which they can play a dominant role.

I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just trying to get ideas, any kind of ideas that will help our company. Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

Being fooled into trying to make things work out for 'me' is called samsara.

I get asked that a lot and I always go back to my mom's, 'No one has the right to beat you.' I take that to every venue that I'm in. She would say, 'Someone has to be the best in the world, why not you?' I always try to keep that in mind.

To see a promising solution to a dilemma and then just leave it to questionable development at its own pace without trying to aid its implementation would seem a dereliction.

I am not a joiner. Somewhere I once said that people join clubs now for the very reason they once carried them, a need for security. Maybe I'm alone more often than I should be, because I try to find security within myself.

You cannot improve your future if you are not willing to try something new and risk making mistakes and learning from them

There's a couple things you don't talk about in life, and that's race, religion and politics. I try to make sure I don't talk about politics at all.

You don't bring glory or pleasure to God by hiding your abilities or by trying to be someone else. You only bring him enjoyment by being you.

If I don't have at least 4 or 5 failures a month, I feel like I'm not trying hard enough

I don't have any option. I'm not going to be less gay or more pretty. I can't try to have less personality or fewer controversial opinions.