Trying Quotes - Page 59

You have to find a group that really desperately cares about what it is you have to say. Talk to them. They have something I call otaku. It's a great Japanese word. It describes the desire of someone who's obsessed to, say, drive across Tokyo to try a new Ramen noodle place 'cause that's what they do, they get obsessed with it.

You know it's all right to be wrong, but it's not all right not to try.

If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant. . . then you're in deep trouble.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

You have to minimize your losses and try to preserve capital for those very few instances where you can make a lot in a very short period of time. What you can't afford to do is throw away your capital on suboptimal trades.

I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

Everyone has to do their job. Everyone has to buy into it and believe in what we're trying to do regardless of who's playing and who's not.

You can't stop me in bump. And you definitely can't stop me playing off. You just try to contain me and stop me from getting a lot of catches.

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

Whatever I do, I do with the greatest love that I have in me. Try this, and you will see that you do not become fatigued at all. Love is one of the greatest stimulants to the will. Under the influence of love the will can do almost anything.

When you make up your mind to do good things, you will accomplish them if you use dynamic will power to follow through. No matter what the circumstances are, if you go on trying, God will create the means by which your will shall find its proper reward.

I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm just trying to prove something to myself.

And what a bizarre time we're in, Jan, when a judge will say to little children that you can't say the pledge of allegiance, but you must learn that homosexuality is normal and you should try it.

Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others.

If you can't think because you can't chew, try a banana.

Chasing meaning is better for your health than trying to avoid discomfort.

It’s a very interesting thing to try to be your absolute best—not a percent better or a percent worse than that.

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.

It's very easy to make something that is new. So we are trying to make things that are better.

I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter and I'm sort of reporting.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

In the attention economy, anyone trying to connect with an audience must treat the user's time as the ultimate resource.

In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' ease but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonging and even magnifying patients' dis-ease.

I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.

If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.