Trying Quotes - Page 49

Death can come at any moment. You could die this afternoon; you could die tomorrow morning; you could die on your way to work; you could die in your sleep. Most of us try to avoid the sense that death can come at any time, but its timing is unknown to us. Can we live each day as if it were our last? Can we relate to one another as if there were no tomorrow?

If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.

Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision.

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

You have not failed until you quit trying.

When you start to try to understand everything in terms of words, the understanding of the words becomes the experience, and the experience gets lost.

I'm not doing no more 'Flavor of Loves.' I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page. You can't stay on the same page in order to get to the next chap.

Our intentions attract the elements and forces, the events, the situation, the circumstances and the relationships necessary to fulfill the intended outcome. We don't need to become involved in the details-in fact, trying too hard may backfire. Let the non-local intelligence synchronize the actions of the universe to fulfill your intentions for you.

Somebody threw a book at President Obama. If you're trying to scare a president by throwing a book at him, you're one president too late.

All leadership is appreciative leadership. It's the capacity to see the best in the world around us, in our colleagues, and in the groups we are trying to lead.

Good hitters don't just go up and swing. They always have a plan. Call it an educated deduction. You visualize. You're like a good negotiator. You know what you have, you know what he has, then you try to work it out.

It's not like I go into the studio and say I'm going to try to make music to prove to somebody that I can make music.

Ads are not written to entertain. When they do, those entertainment seekers rare little likely to be the people whom you want. This is one of the greatest advertising faults. Ad writers abandon their part. They forgot they are salesmen and try to be performers. Instead of sales, they seek applause

You never know how a single interaction with a person might affect their life, so you must constantly try to be at your best.

Every pizza is a personal pizza if you try hard and believe in yourself.

People shouldn't dwell on the past. It's enough to try your best in all that you're doing now.

If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.

There's nothing tragic about being fifty. Not unless you're trying to be twenty-five.

Poetry is like a portrait of a moment or person, and the poem is almost like looking at a photograph; it slaps you in the face and kisses you at the same time. Nothing else does that, with that brevity. Songs try to do it, but that's three minutes. A poem, you read it and it kind of changes your life and you don't know how it happened and you can never forget it. It's like the best song lyric, the best line from a film-everything in the world that's short and great put together.

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a speculative undertaking.

If you believe in a dream and have the courage to try, anything is possible

We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.

I found happiness when I realized that as imperfect as I may be, I am the perfect Nick Vujicic. I am God's creation, designed according to His plan for me. That's not to say there isn't room for improvement. I'm always trying to be better so I can better serve Him and the world!

Let us ask... how things work at the level of on-going subjugation, at the level of those continuous and uninterrupted processes which subject our bodies, govern our gestures, dictate our behaviors, etc... we should try to discover how it is that subjects are gradually, progressively, really and materially constituted through a multiplicity of organisms, forces, energies, materials, desires, thoughts, etc. We should try to grasp subjection in its material instance as a constitution of subjects.