Trying Quotes - Page 113

Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!

My whole life I've been trying to prove people wrong. I ended up beating everything.

Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold onto something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it’s so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn’t come back. You’re left so alone that you can’t explain.

The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from this.

I'd say to anyone trying to break into the business: Don't just be interested in movies. Be interested in life. Be a person. Be in touch.

I don't pretend to make my photographs speak the truth of what Mexico is all about. But in its villages I can feel the way culture is changing, and it's fascinating to live through it and try to capture it on camera.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

I believe in ghosts because I had a paranormal expierience once that was very personal. Though, every fiber in my being tries to convince me they don't exist.

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

The Past is gone and the future might not even be, the only thing we ever experience is the now, I try to enjoy the minute.

If you try to lose weight by shaming, depriving and fearing yourself, you will end up shamed, deprived, and afraid. Kindness comes first. Always.

I guess, we were people who just dedicated to trying to get better.

Failure isn't something to be embarrassed about; it's just proof that you're pushing your limits, trying new things, daring to innovate.

If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters.

After the years of me trying to figure out what I wanted to do with myself, I knew I had to go back and fix some things. I can't just be super-rich or whatever and not do the right thing.

Fitness is important, but the most important thing is how you adapt and the way you feel physically. To adapt to a new position. To try to change your game.

Always, my mother said, "Be yourself." That is sometimes the hardest thing to do. I try to always remember that and come back to that and have strength in who you are. There is only one you.

Every orchestra I know, every opera house I know, is desperately looking around trying to find new talent, new composing talent, supporting young composers, supporting new ideas, supporting new ways of getting the message across.

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

Watch yourself as you go about your daily business and later reflect on what you saw, trying to identify the sources of distress in your life and thinking about how to avoid that distress.

I'm my own person, and am trying to carve out a career on my own.

I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around.

When you start you're trying to achieve staying alive and getting home. If you can do both of those, then you stand a chance of breaking the record.

With vertical thinking one may look for different approaches until one finds a promising one. With lateral thinking one goes on generating as many approaches as one can even after one has found a promising one. With vertical thinking one is trying to select the best approach but with lateral thinking one is generating different approaches for the sake of generating them.

You're the ruler of the universe. Try to show a little taste!