Trying Quotes - Page 189

If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.

I want to give colors intoxication, fullness, excitement, power by trying to forget Impressionism.

I always had a dream about trying to make a movie that had no dialogue in it, that was just music and pictures. I still haven't done it yet, but I tried to get close in the beginning.

The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role is from my own experience, the more I try to deepen it.

Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

One cannot tell when he is going to be healed, so do not try to set an exact time limit. Faith, not time, will determine when the cure will be effected.

When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately.

It's a guy thing, playing the guitar. Being a female and trying to go to the same auditions as the guys, it's pretty hard.

A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.

Everyone's so timid and afraid to insult anybody, but in the end, it's like we're all trying to please everyone. In the end, we please no one.

The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable.

No woman has the right to marry a man if she has to bend herself out of shape for him. She might wish to, but she could never be to him with all her passionate endeavor what the other woman could be to him without trying. Character will dominate over all and will come out at last.

If I persist, if I continue to try, if I continue to charge forward, I will succeed!

Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.

In my trailer, I work out with free weights and do situps and push-ups. I'm just trying to stay lean and active looking.

I have one mascara that I use religiously, and I refuse to try anything else, and if they discontinued it I would probably cry. Cover Girl lash blast, in the orange tube.

The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I decided against a professional piano career when I was younger.

When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being "Homo sapiens" was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious when I try.

I love the studio. It's my place to escape and to create and to try anything.

For me, I was literally trying to stay afloat. I never actually thought I would get my own sketch show. So the idea that one day I would have my own show is pretty wild. But once I got it, I thought, 'Yeah, this is exactly what I always wanted to do.

I'm realizing for the first time, your life goes on while you're trying to pursue this career. I saw my career as everything. But you have this life, too. Living your life fully, you come to know yourself better. You'll find the place for it.

I am not a Luddite. I am suspicious of technology. I am perfectly aware of its benefits, but I also try to pay attention to some of the negative effects.

Have you ever had one of those days when something just seems to be trying to tell you somebody?

The lyrics aren't simple, either. They're extremely difficult because I'm trying to say complicated things in as few words as possible.