Trying Quotes - Page 91

I'll always try to go the safest route, but once someone strikes you or puts their hands on you then it's on, at least for me.

People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they’d never admit in normal conversation.

The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.

If you are trying to think ahead musically, it is not going to help you. It is better to ignore what is happening melodically and just look at the little dots coming at you and the corresponding colors and try to do it at the right time.

I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying journey rather than one which shows the marks of battle.

I think that when you're taking pictures with my principles, you can try anything. Dare to do a lot of things - dare with sexuality, dare to break taboos as long as it remains photogenic. As long as I find an elegance and beauty in it, I am not afraid to tackle anything.

Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

It's very hard to get out of this hold, that's why you either have to scoot backwards, move forwards, or try to get up.

I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I'm not sure I like it enough.

Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.

Like all other Black revolutionaries, Amerika is trying to lynch me.

If you can neither accept it or change it, try to laugh at it.

I love to read, and so I've been reading everything I can, not intensely, but I love to read so I read "Origin of Species" by Darwin and I can't make head or tail of E=MC squared by Einstein, but I try to baffle my way through that.

You just have to try and keep on grinding and hope that things will turn around eventually.

You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can't.

Carl Sagan always used to say that when he was trying to explain something to someone, he would go back to that time when he didn't understand it, and then he would retrace his thought steps so that he could make it absolutely clear, and that's one of the infinite number of things I learned from him.

He used to say to his melancholia patients: "You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription.Try to think every day how you can please someone.

Anyone who thinks science is trying to make human life easier or more pleasant is utterly mistaken.

I learned ... that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one way street, isn't it?

Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.

There is one guaranteed formula for failure, and that is to try to please everyone.

Whatever I did lyrically or vocally, just to try and get better at everything.

"Life is like a sewer - what you get out of it depends on what you put into it." It's always seemed to me that this is precisely the sort of dynamic, positive thinking that we so desperately need today in these trying times of crisis and universal brouhaha.

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

I always want to do different things. I'm always obsessed with trying to do different things.