Trying Quotes - Page 69

If you haven't had a major fail in your career - face-plant level - you aren't trying hard enough.

I was a little troublemaker. Always trying to get in trouble, always mischief, like throwing rocks at cars when I was younger, all that kind of stuff.

I try to capture reality, nothing else.

Stop trying to impress people with your clothes and impress them with your life.

I have always found it difficult to study. I have learnt almost entirely what I have learnt by trying it out on the dog.

I'm not trying to fall in love on the Jersey Shore. I'm just trying to hook up.

I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.

In charity, every little bit works. You can't change the world. You can't do everything. But you sure try to bring awareness and do as much as you can.

Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.

I know. It's shocking to think that the government would try to stick its nose in our ladyparts.

I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.

May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.

Never stop trying to impress your partner. If you can both stay in that place, when you really want to show the best of yourselves to each other, relationships can become such a powerful team.

The easy bit is picking up a camera and pointing and shooting. But then you have to decide what it is you’re trying to say and express.

When a young writer deliberately tries to create an effect, the result is often a little self-conscious and overdone. But why is it so hard for us to glory in what the writer has tried to do, or even in the very fact that the writer has deliberately tried to do something?

I find that as we really love and accept and APPROVE OF OURSELVES EXACTLY AS WE ARE, then everything in life works. It's as if little miracles are everywhere. Our health improves, we attract more money, our relationships become much more fulfilling, and we begin to express ourselves in creatively fulfilling ways. All this seems to happen without even trying.

Mainiacs away from Maine are truly displaced persons, only half alive, only half aware of their immediate surroundings. Their inner attention is always preoccupied and pre-empted by the tiny pinpoint on the face of the globe called Down East. They try to live not in such a manner that they will eventually be welcomed into Paradise, but only so that someday they can go home to Maine.

It’s nice to be able to try and build the life you want for yourself.

I'm not a risk taker. I don't do plunging necklines or really short skirts. I try to stay as classy as possible and provide a little mystery.

I want to hear from people that SS501 is a group who tries hard every time.

I have had some great successes and great failures. I think every entrepreneur has. I try to learn from all of them.

Wikileaks has - we specialize in bringing the First Amendment to the world, and we were always very surprised one of our biggest battles would be trying to bring it to the United States under an Obama administration.

Religion has always been the picklock of imperialism. Let them try to convert the heathens, and when they fail, we shall send in the French Navy to protect them and our political and commercial interests.

I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence.