Trying Quotes - Page 159

Truth only seems old fashioned nowadays because we've grown so accustomed to deceit and manipulation. But Truth is eternal, so it can never be old or new. It never 'was' or 'will be.' It just 'is.' It always 'is.' Truth never grows old, and if you believe in it and try to live by it, you will always be, in some ways - the only ways that matter - the youngest, freshest, most energetic rebel on the block.

Paranoid is what people who are trying to take advantage call you in an effort to get you to drop your guard.

Problems arise when you identify with your thoughts and emotions. Try to be a witness to the thoughts instead of being totally identified with them.

Fear of trying causes paralysis. Trying causes only trembling and sweating.

Give up trying to make me give up

I just try to concentrate on concentrating.

The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what it does.

I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always.

Well, the end of another busy day. I can't wait till I get back to bed. If that don't work I'll try to sleep.

I'm not claiming to appeal to the same people that Christina Aguilera or Britney Spears are going to appeal to. I'm not trying to. I'm doing what I want to do.

Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.

Trying to please others before pleasing God is inverting the first and second great commandments.

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic. Never, btw, ask that androgynous paper clip anything. S/he is just a stooge for management, leading you down more rabbit holes of options for things called Wizards, Macros, Templates, and Cascading Style Sheets.

Pushing the envelope' sort of implies that you're inside the envelope with everyone else, and you're trying to find the edges on the outsides.

You see, pops, that's the kind of talk that's ruining the music. Everyone's trying to do something new, no one trying to learn the fundamentals first. All them young cats playing their wierd chords. And what happens? No one's working.

You try to give away what you want yourself.

I'm comfortable with my femininity, and I don't try to change what I look like just because I'm reporting on football at the end of the night.

The only time you're calm, you're centered, you're at peace, is when someone's trying to kill you. And that's just plain twisted.

Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.

I just always expect the best because I'm a competitor and if I'm competing, then obviously I'm trying to be better in everything.

I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is - oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate!

Some people try to paint in my style. Some simply sell pirated copies of my work. Some claim to be my publisher or agent or even my exclusive representative, when they are not.

Einstein said that "the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious." So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?

I'm quite curvy and I just try and exercise whenever I can. I don't do anything hardcore as I'm just not that dedicated.

We spend our lives trying to unlock the mystery of the universe, but there was a Turkish prisoner, Bahá’u’lláh, in Akka, Palestine who had the Key.