Trying Quotes - Page 54

Watching people reach a higher level of consciousness. A fixation. For a few moments in their lives, they transcend and become lost in the fantasy of it all. As a DJ, I'm trying to create the opportunity for this to happen.

Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own, who wish like you for a more just and human world.

Those who try to make room for sex as mere casual enjoyment pay the penalty: they become shallow. At any rate the talk that reflects and commends this attitude is always shallow. They dishonour their own bodies; holding cheap what is naturally connected with the origination of human life.

In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.

He made you feel like you knew him. I think that honestly, 2pac was the greatest songwriter that ever lived. He made it seem so easy. The emotion was there, and feeling, and everything he was trying to describe. You saw a picture that he was trying to paint.

Try for a goal that's reasonable, then gradually raise it.

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

Try to decide how good your hand is at a given moment. Nothing else matters. Nothing.

Don't try to drive the homeless into places we find suitable. Help them survive in places they find suitable.

Whatever it is that you're passionate about, whatever it is that you absolutely love, and whatever it is that you would get up out of bed every day and do for free, you should try to figure out a way to make money at it and give it a shot.

It's easier to throw sticks on the campfire than to try to restart it when it goes out.

The only time we fail is when we stop trying.

I am not concerned with simply surviving. I am very concerned about improving. I start each day by examining yesterday's work and looking for areas where I can improve. I am always trying to draw the characters better, and trying to design each panel somewhat in the manner a painter would treat his canvas.

I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.

Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.

Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.

To get to the finish line, you'll have to try lots of different paths.

Take the probability of loss times the amount of possible loss from the probability of gain times the amount of possible gain. That is what we're trying to do. It's imperfect, but that's what it's all about.

Whenever one tries to suppress doubt , there is tyranny .

I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions.

We all lose sometimes. We fail to get what we want. Friends and loved ones leave. We make a decision we regret. We try our hardest and come up short. It's not the losing that defines us. It's how we lose. It's what we do afterward.

I'm left handed and I'm playing a right handed kit... That's why everyone thought, 'Wow, he's a genius,' but all I was doing was trying to play backwards... It's one of those mad accidents, you can't learn it.

Nearly always when actors are approached by the beauticians, they try to avoid the dabs that the beauticians put on their faces. They dodge them.

I am gonna try again and again, because the moment I give up, is the moment I fail.