Quotes and Sayings About Trying
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Ive learned never to try and force words to come.
-- Alan Garner -
I've hardly had an avant-garde career ... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.
-- Alan J. Pakula -
I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.
-- Alan Jackson -
You have to be tough-skinned and willing to accept criticism, and at the same time, just try to do music that you like and you are proud of and not just whatever you think it's going to take to get you on the radio.
-- Alan Jackson -
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Science requires a society because even people who are trying to be good thinkers love their own thoughts and theories - much of the debugging has to be done by others.
-- Alan Kay -
The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.
-- Alan King -
I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.
-- Alan Lewis -
He had no chance of beating Schmeichel from there, but it was always worth a try.
-- Alan Parry -
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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.
-- Alan ParsonsSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.
-- Alan Paton -
You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.
-- Alan Rickman -
Above all, in order to gain respect, you need to be true to yourself. There is no point in trying to be brutal if it's not in your nature; there is no point in trying to be suave and sophisticated if it doesn't come naturally.
-- Alan Sugar -
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Don't try to blame the rest of the world. The blame only lies with you. Recognize that immediately.
-- Alan Sugar -
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
-- Alan Watts -
Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.
-- Alan Watts -
Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
-- Alan Watts -
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A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
-- Alan Watts -
But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.
-- Alan Watts -
If someone hates or loves something, then right on. I can't rob them of that. I'm not going to try and change their mind. Something's been triggered in them to react so emotionally.
-- Alanis MorissetteSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody.
-- Alanis Morissette -
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When I get a role, I try to delve as deeply as possible into the character.
-- Alanna UbachSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Almost every collection I do has 200 different references. I don't have two of the same coat, two of the same dress. I have it in one color, in one fabric. I've tried to adapt the culture of couture, and the know-how and the heritage, but I try to update it.
-- Alber Elbaz -
I am always trying to put myself inside: Every dress I do, I think, 'If I were a woman, would I wear it?'
-- Alber Elbaz -
My dream is to be a doctor. I'm almost working in a laboratory, because I'm trying new techniques, new directions and fabrics, new weaving.
-- Alber Elbaz -
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John [Coltrane] was like a visitor to this planet. He came in peace and he left in peace; but during his time here, he kept trying to reach new levels of awareness, of peace, of spirituality. That's why I regard the music he played as spiritual music -- John's way of getting closer and closer to the Creator.
-- Albert AylerSource : "As Serious As Your Life". Book by Valerie Wilmer, 1977.
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Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.
-- Albert Bandura -
Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.
-- Albert Brooks -
I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
-- Albert Camus -
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Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
-- Albert Camus -
But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.
-- Albert CamusSource : Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”