Trying Quotes - Page 167

Living with depression is like trying to keep your balance while you dance with a goat -- it is perfectly sane to prefer a partner with a better sense of balance.

I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.

Love accepts the trying things of life without asking for explanations. It trusts and is at rest.

I've never made a conscious effort to do anything about my psychological side. I just try to think positively and enjoy it.

In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.

Trying to be number one and trying to do a task well are two different things.

A fish does not campaign against fisheries-it only tries to slip through the mesh.

Let us... leave art to the artists, and let us try to use the medium of photography to create photographs that can endure because of their photographic qualities.

A military leader often faces a situation he has to deal with, but because it is his duty, no court can try him.

Above all, in order to gain respect, you need to be true to yourself. There is no point in trying to be brutal if it's not in your nature; there is no point in trying to be suave and sophisticated if it doesn't come naturally.

Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don't try and mean it. Nor prayers. The liturgy is best treated and read as if it's someone announcing the departure of trains.

There is nothing wrong with thought and it can be used whenever necessary. But in every moment you can choose to follow your thoughts or you can recognize that which is not thinking. Don’t try to stop thinking, let it happen. Just recognize that which is not thinking.

I try to pace myself and not work for the sake of working and stick to what inspired me prior to receiving recognition.

All God's creatures are His family; and he is the most beloved of God who tries to do most good to God's creatures.

When you become a band and you've got people who want to be a part of your experience or want to get close to you for what you are, not who you are, you have that challenge of trying to find out who's genuine.

Great music has layers of things to discover. I try to do so every night.

I try to make my mood uplifting and peaceful, then watch the world around me reflect that mood.

Stop trying to make this life into what it cannot and never was intended to be: jennah. Only then will it stop breaking your heart.

If a painting contains no abstraction nor impressionistic elements, it is a kite that will never fly. But if the painting completely breaks the connection between human feeling and the object portrayed, the kite string has been broken. I try to keep the line unbroken.

I'm an unashamed realist, and actually, I try to make whatever the script is the reality of that situation, even though it's fictional.

I’m a student of patterns. At heart, I’m a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything.

The sad truth is that most Christians spend their entire lives trying to score points with Someone who is not keeping score.

People in general want to build somebody up and then try to knock them down. They always root for the underdog.

What I am trying to do is to unmuddle the metaphysical.