Trying Quotes - Page 18

There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.

Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant.

I'm not trying to influence anyone else; I'm not saying, "Do what I do." I think it's a little pretentious to say, "I'm a role model"; I would never say that, and I don't think of myself that way.

Even those who make mistakes, we must try to help them. But we can only help them if they are ready to be helped.

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.

We try so hard to hide everything we're really feeling from those who probably need to know our true feelings the most. People try to bottle up their emotions, as if it's somehow wrong to have natural reactions to life.

I’m trying to make other people recognize something of themselves rather than me.

Don't try to be what you're not. If you're nervous, be nervous. If you're shy, be shy. It's cute.

We've got goals we're trying to reach, and "Overtime" is the only way to do it, and "Champion" is the only thing we're tryin' to be.

Begin with art, because art tries to take us outside ourselves. It is a matter of trying to create an atmosphere and context so conversation can flow back and forth and we can be influenced by each other.

However you try to define meditation, it’s not that.

Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?

An addiction is anything we do to avoid hearing the messages that body and soul are trying to send us.

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity.

Believe in God, it's only one God. F*** all that religion s***. Believe in one God, and do right. Try your best to do right, we ain't perfect. Just do that and everything will be straight.

For me giving up is way harder than trying.

What man loses by the social contract is his natural liberty and an unlimited right to everything he tries to get and succeeds in getting; what he gains is civil liberty and the proprietorship of all he possesses.

Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody.

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.

I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.

Remember, don't try to build the greatest wall that's ever been built. Focus on laying a single, expertly-placed brick. Then keep doing that, every day.

I gotta big mouth, I can't help it, I talk from my heart, I'm real, whatever comes comes. But my controversy problem, it's not my fault, I try to find my way in the world you know, I try to be somebody instead of just make money off of everybody. So I go down paths that haven't been traveled before and I usually mess up, but I learn, I come back stronger.

In the midst of an ordinary training day, I try to remind myself that I am preparing for the extraordinary.