Trying Quotes - Page 184

As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them.

You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.

Try to be better than yourself.

I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's brilliant.

The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear.

I do whatever pushes me hardest. It's coming at me and I try to... it's like uninvited guest and I have to wrestle them out the door or through the window - get them out and get over with them quickly.

We should try our best to pour out all the burdens in our spirit by prayer until all of them have left us.

When you get in situations where you cannot afford to make a mistake, it's very hard to do the right thing. So if you're trying to do the right thing, the right thing might be to eliminate the cost of making a mistake rather than try to guess what's right.

If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a joke: Hey, I cut you deep, but now let me put a couple of stitches in you.

You can't make a woman happy. That's like trying to cure a fatal disease. The goal is to treat the symptoms so you can comfortably live with the illness.

Have a philosophy of investment and try to follow it.

Try not to let your emotions affect your judgement.

Once Congress establishes that one person can live at the expense of another, it pays for everyone to try to do so.

The Internet has a lot of solutions. I found an insane way to trap chipmunks - it was too crazy not to try.

Try till you succeed...if you don't succeed once, then destroy all evidence of the fact that you tried!

Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.

But on the road that I'm on I must continue; if I do nothing, if I don't study, if I don't keep on trying, then I'm lost, then woe betide me. That's how I see this, to keep on, keep on, that's what's needed.

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

When you are through trying to improve, you are through.

A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.

Repression forces your mind to be more deeply entrenched in those things from which you are trying to escape.

Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.

With my work, I try to delve into the several layers that compose the edifice of history, to take the shadows cast by this model of uniform development to try and understand what lies behind it.

When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.

I keep trying to find ways to shift the viewer's attention away from the object they are looking at and toward their own perceptual process in relation to that object. The question for me always is: how can I make you aware of your own activity of looking, instead of losing your attention to thoughts about what it is that you are looking at?