Trying Quotes - Page 99

I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.

Trying to force things only disturbs your goals. Forcing will not help. Everything happens in its right time.

Train hard and try new things; everything you do outside of the cage counts as experience inside the cage.

Instead of agonizing about the things you can't change, why don't you try working on the things you can change

Try a hard problem. You may not solve it, but you will prove something else.

I always try to look at conflicts from as many different angles as is humanly possible, and in a lot of ways there is no one answer.

Be yourself. Because if people don't like you as you are, they're not going to like you as somebody you're trying to be.

I try to be the best man I can for the day.

It's impossible to satisfy everyone, and I suggest we all stop trying.

Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do.

I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.

My husband once said he'd never met anybody who walked so fast and ran so slowly. As I said, it's a little hard for me to try new things, and this was me facing a fear that I'd had my whole life. Since I had no experience running, I felt like a failure before I'd even begun.

Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.

You should do it against the clock. Say you are going to do 30 laps in 15 minutes. Then you try to do it each day a little faster. That is putting demands on the body, and that is how you build up. You keep up your energy instead of going downhill.

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

To the extent I can, I try to maintain a laser focus on what needs to get done from a priority standpoint. And not just from an urgency standpoint, but from a value-added standpoint. So where can I add the most value? Where is my time best spent?

What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.

I spend a lot of time out there. I've got a lot of family that lives in Inglewood and surrounding areas. So I'm right in the hood, every time I go there I go see my peoples. I rep real hard for the people that I see that are the counterparts of what I'm trying to do out here, out there.

The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.

I feel like I try to keep learning every time I step off a runway, I try to get better with each one.

As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland... because you're going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things.

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

The method of trying to conquer hatred through hatred never succeeds in overcoming hatred. But, the method of overcoming hatred through non-hatred is eternally effective. That is why that method is described as eternal wisdom.

Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.

I dont regret anything. I am proud to try a challenge even if I do not exceed.