Trying Quotes - Page 183

I always try to look at things as though I were remembering them three years later.

Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that.

When I'm shooting in other cities, I'm just trying to make it look like California.

Life will drag us kicking and screaming to our destiny if we try to escape it.

And just as two wrongs don't make a right, rage against offenders is probably the worst way to try to correct them.

For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers.

Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.

Looking for approval or blaming others or feeling like a victim. Whenever I feel myself doing that I try to stop and see myself as someone who's a creator in more ways than just what the word typically means.

The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to be in the world (of social convention) but not of the world.

For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from it—as if it were quite other than himself—and then trying to grasp it. But a third response is possible. Not withdrawal, not stewardship on the hypothesis of a future reward, but the fullest collaboration with the world as a harmonious system of contained conflicts—based on the realization that the only real "I" is the whole endless process.

I accomplish more when I rest wholly in the labor of Jesus than I do when I frantically try to do the work for Him.

Never seen my friends do more push-ups, trying to challenge Cruises' manhood. It was like, I can be strong, too!

If you don't try and explore genres and have freedom of creativity, you're just wasting your position as a pop band.

I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.

I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.

The seriousness of my situation started to sink in, and again I fought panic. I pushed it down, but it was harder this time, like my insides were an open can of shaken soda and I was trying to keep it from bubbling up out of the top.

I am going to try speaking some reckless words, and I want you to try to listen recklessly.

Try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.

I can't handle the paparazzi. They're everywhere. One of them was in a dumpster trying to take my photo the other day. It was crazy!

I'd love to take a year off and travel the world under the radar. I would love to do it really low key. I wouldn't need to stay in fancy hotels or anything; I just want to explore - but I don't know how I'd do it. Would I shave my head to try and go incognito? Ha ha! I'm not telling.

I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.

Even when there are no results. Things you can and can't do. Things you can and can't win. Even if there's none of that, I'll still try my hardest.

I had never considered marriage, but I had an open mind, and I was to learn after a brief try at it that most open minds should be closed for repairs.

I really want to try to become a great actress when I get older and continue to do what I'm doing now.

The empirical is very important, but merit is inherent and not acquired. A university is massively important because you can see where you stand naturally in the ranks, and try yourself out, but education is just reading and understanding what you read.