Trying Quotes - Page 7

Either you allow Holy Scriptures to change you, or you will normally try to use it to change--and clobber--other people. It is the height of idolatry to use the supposed Word of God so that my small self can be in control and be right. But I am afraid this has been more the norm than the exception in the use of the Bible.

Let us choose for ourselves our path in life, and let us try to strew that path with flowers.

Failure is not an option. Failure is necessary...We try. We fail. We learn. We adjust.

Try to reach for a simple, visual phrase that tells you what the picture is all about and evokes the essence of the story

Never give up! All you have to do is try again.

I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda.

Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.

I was wondering myself where I am going. So I would answer you by saying, first, that I am trying, precisely, to put myself at a point so that I do not know any longer where I am going.

What might God be trying to grow in your character or cement in your relationship with Him by keeping you separated from some of the things you want but don’t yet have?

Failure is not the absence of success. Failure is the neglect of trying.

I'm just trying to remember what self-respect feels like. It's a fading memory.

The only people who try to tell you that you can’t do something, are the people who have failed

Lost in this young world, I'm just trying to navigate See the pie sliced, I'm just trying to grab a plate.

Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.

The best advice I can give anybody is to try to understand who you are and what you want to do, and don't be afraid to go down that road and do whatever it takes and work as hard as you have to work to achieve that.

The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work-that is, correctly to describe phenomena from a reasonably wide area.

Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

You can't please everybody. You['d] be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.

Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence

Let us not try to be the best or worst of others, but let us make the effort to be the best of ourselves.

I'm doubtful about the temper of your flamingo. Shall I try the experiment?

Do not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances.

It's not that I'm rebelling. It's that I'm just trying to find another way.

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn't reach the heart.

Don't try to beat the goalkeeper...Tr y to destroy the goalkeeper.