Trying Quotes - Page 123

There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not.

It's in the nature of stock markets to go way down from time to time. There's no system to avoid bad markets. You can't do it unless you try to time the market, which is a seriously dumb thing to do. Conservative investing with steady savings without expecting miracles is the way to go.

In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am.

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.

My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras.

If there's any answer, maybe love can end the madness Maybe not, oh, but we can only try.

I try to really understand every aspect of the most high; for me, the most high is Allah... I live my life by Islam.

At the Sahara, the seats are banked and most of the audience is looking down at the stage. Everybody in the business knows: Up for singers, down for comics. The people want to idealize a singer. They want to feel superior to a comic. You're trying to make them laugh. They can't laugh at someone they're looking up to.

When trying to teach someone a boundary, they learn less from the enforcement of the boundary and more from the way the boundary was established.

Wholehearted living is not like trying to reach a destination. It's like walking toward a star in the sky. We never really 'arrive,' but we certainly know that we're heading in the right direction.

But by us doing a lot on the road, we were able to afford things like videos on the tours, cartoons that we'd open up the shows with. We were doing that way back when and now it's the hippest thing to do. We're just coming back around, I guess trying to play catch-up.

Hillary Clinton, President Obama, they're trying to turn the American dream into the European nightmare. We need to rescue the country from socialism.

I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it's never at the expense of the other guy.

I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.

A big difference exists between trying to manipulate God to give us what we want and cooperating with God so He can give us what He wants.

The thing that I have been emphasizing in my own work for the last few years has been the group approach. To try to buy groups of stocks that meet some simple criterion for being undervalued-regardless of the industry and with very little attention to the individual company.

Economics is a very difficult subject. I've compared it to trying to learn how to repair a car when the engine is running.

I'm trying to make people feel welcome and feel valued.

Keep everything simple, don't try anything crazy and all your strikes must be hard! NOTHING WEAK, no jabs or weak attacks.

There's always so much music around me now, it seems like everything has to be something with music, so in my spare time I try not to listen to anything. It's so hard for me to listen to something without trying to see a benefit in it: "Maybe I'll make my own version of that track or maybe I'll do this or that." When I'm off I just don't want to hear anything.

My time is far too valuable for me to spend any of it trying to improve myself.

Problems will always torment us because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the continuing struggle to try and solve them, not from the vain hope of their solution.

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.

Madness such as this, its like trying to stop a fire with the moisture from a kiss