Trying Quotes - Page 11

Do what you love and try not to look at what other people occupy themselves with.

One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person's mystery and misery.

I kinda came into my manhood, or what I thought was my adulthood, early. I had to show up, and I had to make sure I had gas money, food money, rent money, clothes money - everything was on me, startin' at that age, so that's what led me to start hustlin', that's what led me to start to try to find ways to fend for myself. And once I did that, I was full-time, bein' in the street, and, bein' in the street, it's cold. It's the way the streets operate, and you have to adapt to that.

As far as cuisine is concerned one must read everything, see everything, hear everything, try everything, observe everything, in order to retain in the end, just a little bit.

Progression, in my opinion, is often identifying shortcomings - whether it's views or the things you're doing in your life, your relationships - and trying to find the places where you improve on those.

The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

When you fall, leap to your feet and try again.

The important thing is to keep trying

You don't have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn't like the way I found America some sixty years ago, and I've been trying to change it ever since.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

Some people chase money. Some people chase fame. Some chase greatness - and that's what I'm trying to do.

You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.

Get in the game. Do the best you can. Try to make a contribution. Learn from today. Apply it to tomorrow.

Loving you is what I’ve learned so easily but trying to forget you is the last thing I could hardly learn.

It would be more interesting to learn from children, than try to teach them how to behave, how to live and how to function.

Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

When I came back to the United States, I decided that if you could use propaganda for war, you could certainly use it for peace. And "propaganda" got to be a bad word because of the Germans using it, so what I did was to try and find some other words so we found the word "councelor of public relations".

Alright...here's the deal. What's happening in this piece is very simple, over here on this side...you see that there is a very scared little kinda guy over there...wanna know why he's scared? Because this guy over here is trying to eat him.

The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.

My dream concept is that I have a camera and I am trying to photograph what is essentially invisible. And every once in a while I get a glimpse of her and I grab that picture.

A dress has no life of its own unless it is worn, and as soon as this happens another personality takes over from you and animates it, or tries to, glorifies or destroys it, or makes it into a song of beauty.

You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate.

If you're not cheating, you're not trying!