Trying Quotes - Page 80

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

The moment is freedom. — I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

I still feel thirty, except when I try to run.

'God is Love' means that He tries constantly to block your route to destruction.

I'm just trying to rid the world of all these fevered egos that are tainting our collective unconscious.

Don't try to impress people. Always be yourself!

It's who I am I don't have to try hard

That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.

Tired of trying to sort them out, you relax for a second, then your head drops and you sit up with a jerk, Where are you? What are you doing here? Oh yes, of course, you are somewhere in the middle of the North Atlantic, with hungry waves below you like vultures impatiently waiting for the end.

I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

I wouldn't trust a man who wouldn't try to steal a little.

When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I'm going to do a big scene that's dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.

You can outwork anybody. Try it, you will find out that you can do it.

A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.

A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.

The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.

Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or elections.

The Principle of Power gives us just what we ask of it; if we only undertake little things, it only gives us power for little things; but if we try to do great things in a great way it gives us all the power there is.

I try to take what voice I have and I give it to those who don’t have one at all.

I'm using my own person in pieces, but I'm trying to turn my person into a nonperson in the sense of a person without will, without volition. I'm subjecting myself to a scheme.

Unless you already have a name well known in at least one stratum of society, I don't think trying to do things yourself will be easy - if at all possible.

Dressing well is a kind of good manners, if you ask me. When you're standing in a room, your effect is the same as a chair's effect, or a sculpture's. You're part of someone's view, you're part of that world, and so you should dress well. I find it's a show of respect to try to put on your best face and look as good as you can.

This is my philosophy on all life, not just when it comes to love. All the best things are terrifying, but that's why they're the best things. Nothing worth having comes easy. You have to be afraid to want it, afraid to lose it, afraid to try. If you feel that, then you know you're on to a winner.