Quotes and Sayings About Trying
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A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
-- A. A. Milne -
The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis. God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!
-- A. B. Simpson -
In trying to avoid one sin I've committed another.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
-- A. J. Liebling -
I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.
-- A. J. McLean -
I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
-- A. S. Byatt -
Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.
-- A.C. Grayling -
It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.
-- A.J. Ayer -
Above all am I convinced of the need, irrevocable and inescapable, of every human heart, for God. No matter how we try to escape, to lose ourselves in restless seeking, we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God.
-- A.J. Cronin -
If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.
-- Aaliyah -
I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.
-- Aaron Hoopes -
Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.
-- Aaron Levie -
The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.
-- Aaron Levie -
Good satire goes beyond the specific point it’s trying to make and teaches you how to think critically. Even after your favorite cartoonist retires or [Stephen] Colbert wraps it up, you’re not left believing everything they’re telling you.
-- Aaron McGruder -
I try to be as courteous as possible and sometimes try to tell my fans that as much as I appreciate their support, there are times where I need to be able to have an uninterrupted dinner or not have to take a bunch of pictures or just be able to do some of the normal things.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
-- Aaron Spelling -
I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.
-- Aaron Stanford -
I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.
-- Aaron Taylor-Johnson -
I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.
-- Aaron Taylor-Johnson -
I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
-- Aaron Taylor-Johnson -
It's an organic thing that I try not to analyze too much, because I worry that it will go away.
-- Aasif Mandvi -
But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.
-- Abbey Lincoln -
I'm trying my hardest to get you so wrapped up in me you never leave.
-- Abbi Glines -
Listen to me, Blaire. If you try to go anywhere I will chase you down. I will become your shadow.
-- Abbi Glines -
Don't be sorry. Just try not to let him touch you. When he touches you I see red. I can't take it. I don't want to see him or anyone else touch you
-- Abbi Glines -
It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
The seriousness of my situation started to sink in, and again I fought panic. I pushed it down, but it was harder this time, like my insides were an open can of shaken soda and I was trying to keep it from bubbling up out of the top.
-- Abby Sunderland
