Trying Quotes - Page 148

If trying harder doesn't work, try softer.

For try as one may to expel nature with a hayfork, it will always come back.

I have learned that trying to guess what the boss or the client wants is the most debilitating of all influences in the creation of good advertising.

Everything... has to be resolved through rhythms. You're constantly massaging each form, trying to get it home, pushing further and further until these all coalesce into a marvellous kind of rhythm that reveals the life of the painting.

Don't fool people to think you are better than who you are. Instead of trying to act changed, pray that you will be changed.

I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.

The past is already past. Don't try to regain it. The present does not stay. Don't try to touch it from moment to moment. The future has not come. Don't think about it beforehand.

Stay true to what you believe in and don't let people try to change that direction. Don't take no for an answer.

Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.

I was always really shy so I'd never try to get a guy's attention.

I'm trying to change the world.

If I never am better then Kanye, in my brain, I'm always going to be trying to be, forever and ever until the day that I die.

There have been situations where the people you're around have one vision for you, and it's like trying on a jacket that doesn't fit.

I always try to set a positive example for my generation and promote confidence.

Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't work, and it annoys the pig.

For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done.

Unhappiness comes when you try to be like everyone else rather than embracing the unique person that you are.

When we look up at the sky, we are trying to find the way to ourselves.

They call me the father of illustrated journalism. What folly! I never thought any such thing. I had a small newspaper, which had been dead for years, and I was trying in every way to build up its circulation. What could I use for bait? A picture, of course.

I focus on the task and try and do it as best we can. And we're constantly evolving it, because it's my way of trying to make sense of all these ambivalent feelings I have.

Not too many players try to bluff me. If there’s going to be bluffing or stealing going on, I’m going to be the one doing to it.

I've never stopped trying to do what's right. I'm not doing it to earn favor with God. I'm doing it because it's the right thing to do.

No mistake or failure is as bad as to stop and not try again.

When you're sending emails, you live and die by your subject line. Making it personal or funny can increase your open rate 10 times or more. At the very least, try to pitch some value rather than pointless bragging. 'Work Faster!' is better than 'Version 10.4 now available!'

The Bible isn’t about people trying to discover God, but about God reaching out to find us.