Trying famous quotes

Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.
-- Arthur Freed

#Character #Trying #Different

I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.
-- Arthur Golden

#Sad #Trying #Misery

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid. In the past, whenever I had fallen short in almost any undertaking, it was seldom because I had tried and failed. It was because I had let fear of failure stop me from trying at all.
-- Arthur Gordon Webster

#Live Life #Past #Trying

My dreams kept me trying when I could have quit.
-- Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

#Dream #Trying #Quitting

Remember, before you can be great, you've got to be good. Before you can be good, you've got to be bad. But before you can even be bad, you've got to try.
-- Arthur L. Williams, Jr.

#Trying #Remember #Be Good

I thought I would try my hand at sailing. It was too small and kept sinking, so I decided to try a boat instead.
-- Arthur M. Jolly

#Hands #Sailing #Trying

Problems will always torment us because all important problems are insoluble: that is why they are important. The good comes from the continuing struggle to try and solve them, not from the vain hope of their solution.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

#Struggle #Important #Trying

The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In brief, he repeats the Fall.
-- Arthur Machen

#Fall #Trying #Saint

The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.
-- Arthur Rimbaud

#Long #Suffering #Trying

You want a valve that doesn't leak and you try everything possible to develop one. But the real world provides you with a leaky valve. You have to determine how much leakiness you can tolerate.
-- Arthur Rudolph

#Real #Risk #Trying

I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.
-- Arthur Smith

#Brain #Trying #Students

That's the clarinet I used to use... but it's just a piece of wood, you know, with holes in it and they put these clumsy keys on it and you're supposed to try to take that and manipulate it with throat muscles and chops... and try to make something happen that never happened before. And when you do, you never forget it. It beats sex, it beats anything...
-- Artie Shaw

#Sex #Keys #Trying

They would grow up grappling with ways of living with what happened. They would try to tell themselves that in terms of geological time it was an insignificant event. Just a blink of the Earth Woman's eye. That Worse Things had happened. That Worse Things kept happening. But they would find no comfort in the thought.
-- Arundhati Roy

#Growing Up #Eye #Trying

This is the truth about things: If you take something that isn't yours, it will never belong to you. You can try to hold on to it, but somehow, it will slip through your fingers. If something wasn't meant to be yours, it won't be. No matter what you do to keep it, you will lose it.
-- Aryn Kyle

#Trying #Matter #Fingers

Athletes try to get other athletes out and they should have no false starts.
-- Asafa Powell

#Athlete #Trying #Should

I am trying to attend every training session and do all of my workouts.
-- Asafa Powell

#Workout #Training #Trying

There are those who simply want to live their lives, and feel they cannot live the way they want to in Iran. Others are ideologically motivated: They will stay no matter what and try to change things.
-- Asghar Farhadi

#Iran #Trying #Want

I tend to jot down moments, lines, interactions that don't really make any sense. I try and explain these scattered notes to my close friends, and they become more and more logical. I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve.
-- Asghar Farhadi

#Math #Trying #Lines

I think my motto is to always remain focused on what it is that youre trying to accomplish.
-- Ashanti

#Thinking #Trying #Motto

I have a tremendous amount of respect for military families. To have to worry about your loved ones and still try and live a normal life is extremely hard.
-- Ashanti

#Military #Worry #Trying

I have been in the music industry ever since I was six years old. I have been inspired by so many great artists and of course trying to be original at the same time. I try not to work under boundaries while I'm making music.
-- Asher Monroe

#Artist #Years #Trying

If you can't go where people are happier, try to make people happier where you are.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant

#People #Volunteer #Trying

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

#Change #Laughing #Trying

Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant

#Work #Trying #Relax

I never want to do nudity that’s gratuitous. Girls look so much better in lingerie or a t-shirt and leave the rest up to the imagination. I make it clear that I have a line. Everyone tries to push you, and it’s easy to get talked into doing those things. I’ll just walk off-set. But not everyone realizes they can do that.
-- Ashley Benson

#Girl #Imagination #Trying

I am certainly not perfect. I don't think you should try to be perfect for anyone. When you come to terms with that, then you're OK.
-- Ashley Greene

#Thinking #Perfect #Trying

You can't control the paparazzi. But if you go to Coachella you're going to get photographed. Whereas if you're at home, walking down the street you probably won't. It's something I've learnt to navigate my way around but I try to keep my private life private.
-- Ashley Greene

#Home #Trying #Way

I think the best way to keep a relationship hot is to simply try to make time for each other. That's it.
-- Ashley Madekwe

#Thinking #Trying #Hot

I'm usually pretty good about meeting people. I try to remember they are human, too!
-- Ashley Madekwe

#People #Trying #Remember

I can remember hearing the theme tune to Dallas when I was supposed to be in bed. I would sneak down and try to watch it through the banisters. My mum loved that show.
-- Ashley Madekwe

#Trying #Bed #Dallas

If I feel like someone's trying to bring me down, I just walk away from it.
-- Ashley Tisdale

#Trying #Feels #Walks

I'm not trying to run away from my fans at all. I want them to grow with me.
-- Ashley Tisdale

#Running #Trying #Fans

I'm a very positive person, that's something that's like my character Savannah. She's very positive in everything that she does and I'm the same way in real life. If I feel like someone's trying to bring me down, I just walk away from it. I just ignore it because sometimes when that happens you can get so involved that it does bring down your day.
-- Ashley Tisdale

#Real #Character #Trying

There's never going to be a decathlon that you're going to have 10 events that your satisfied with. You're always, always going to be dissatisfied in something, and that always draws you back to try to retry that the next time you do a decathlon. It's like you go for the perfect 10.
-- Ashton Eaton

#Perfect #Trying #Events

I think great relationships are great partnerships, and those come in all shapes, sizes, forms, ages. The only tip I have for anyone in a relationship or a partnership is work on it when it's good. It's very easy to try to take the break when things are going good, but that's the time you have to keep working on it, because you can keep it good, and that's worth a lot.
-- Ashton Kutcher

#Thinking #Age #Trying

I'm serious when I'm talking to the press because I'm always on guard because I never know what you're going to ask and I never know how you're going to construe my answer, so I try to maintain a pretty even pace when I'm speaking with the media.
-- Ashton Kutcher

#Media #Talking #Trying

I think we've all been in the middle of doing something we cared about, when someone coming in the room and saying 'hello' was annoying. I personally can understand that, as someone who tries to create.
-- Ashton Kutcher

#Thinking #Trying #Saying Hello

One of the things about being on Twitter, for me, is mostly about just being on the pulse of what people are interested in, what people are doing and what people are looking for. I look at entertainment projects and storytelling, and I really try to think about what people want.
-- Ashton Kutcher

#Thinking #People #Trying

Leapfrog innovation - consistent, constant, ridiculous leapfrog innovation - only happens within a dictatorship. Any time you try to do something really innovative, most people aren't going to understand it until after they experience it. So when you're developing in innovation, you have to be a dictator.
-- Ashton Kutcher

#People #Innovation #Trying

I fail frequently - I just try to keep it quiet.
-- Ashton Kutcher

#Trying #Quiet #Failing

I'm trying to see my own country with fresh eyes.
-- Asne Seierstad

#Country #Eye #Trying

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

#Black #Trying #Revolutionary

I can't do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
-- Assata Shakur

#Clouds #Trying #Nine

I have noticed several times that people don't think I know how to behave even when I'm trying as hard as I can.
-- Astrid Lindgren

#Thinking #People #Trying

There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists alone. If you are a true artist, you will have a very finely tuned moral mechanism.
-- Athol Fugard

#Artist #Trying #Moral

It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose.
-- Atom Egoyan

#Important #Trying #Purpose

I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you.
-- Atom Egoyan

#Thinking #Expectations #Trying

Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.
-- Atul Gawande

#Trying #Doe #Genius

Good checklists, on the other hand are precise. They are efficient, to the point, and easy to use even in the most difficult situations. They do not try to spell out everything--a checklist cannot fly a plane. Instead, they provide reminders of only the most critical and important steps--the ones that even the highly skilled professional using them could miss. Good checklists are, above all, practical.
-- Atul Gawande

#Hands #Missing #Trying

Don’t let yourself be. Find something new to try, something to change. Count how often it succeeds and how often it doesn’t. Write about it. Ask a patient or a colleague what they think about it. See if you can keep the conversation going.
-- Atul Gawande

#Writing #Thinking #Trying

Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the original one ... So long as one sees killing as wrong there is no need to waste time with the deterrent argument, since it would be nonsense to try to prevent a theoretical evil in the future by perpetrating an actual one in the present.
-- Auberon Waugh

#Long #Evil #Trying

I can assure you that buying leases for x and selling them for 5x or 10x is a lot more profitable than trying to produce gas at $5 or $6 per million cubic feet.
-- Aubrey McClendon

#Feet #Trying #Buying

You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don't try to hide them. Instead, develop something else.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Trying #Faces #Looks

Work as hard as you can, whatever you do, and try to spread generosity of spirit.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Generosity #Trying #Spirit

I try to get to the beach every day. It brings sanity to my life. I'll just sit and read a book and enjoy the quiet.
-- Audrina Patridge

#Beach #Book #Trying

I done learned my mistake and learned to do what's right by it. You still trying to get something for nothing. Life don't owe you nothing. You owe it to yourself. - Troy -
-- August Wilson

#Mistake #Trying #Done

The truth about not having everything you need, not being fully equipped or qualified or allowed is that these limits are the nebula of creative genius. When you have total freedom i.e: no limits at all. You stop trying to make the best of things
-- Augusten Burroughs

#Creative #Trying #Nebula

The nation is trying to make Chile a country of proprietors, not of proletarians.
-- Augusto Pinochet

#Country #Trying #Chile

For we constantly deal with practical problems, with moulders, contractors, derricks, stonemen, trucks, rubbish, plasterers and what-not-else, all the while trying to soar into the blue.
-- Augustus Saint-Gaudens

#Perseverance #Blue #Trying

That no one, no one at all, should try to search into himself! But the wallet of the person in front is carefully kept in view. [Lat., Ut nemo in sese tentat descendere, nemo! Sed praecedenti spectatur mantica tergo.]
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus

#Views #Trying #Nemo

If you're a fan of hurting others, talking down to, or trying to bring others down, then never call yourself a fan of mine.
-- Austin Carlile

#Hurt #Talking #Trying

When your laboratory explodes, lacing your body with a supercharged elixir, what do you do? You don't just lie there. You crawl out of the rubble, hideously scarred, and swear vengeance on the world. You keep going. You keep trying to take over the world.
-- Austin Grossman

#Lying #Trying #World

If I'd waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started "being creative," well, I'd still be sitting around trying to figure myself out instead of making things. In my experience, it's in the act of making things and doing our work that we figure out who we are.
-- Austin Kleon

#Inspirational #Creative #Trying

Find the most talented person in the room, and if it's not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. Try to be helpful. If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.
-- Austin Kleon

#Trying #Needs #Rooms

If we’re free from the burden of trying to be completely original, we can stop trying to make something out of nothing, and we can embrace influence instead of running from it,
-- Austin Kleon

#Running #Trying #Influence

A lot of people have said that I'm trying to be like Justin Bieber by wearing a hat all the time. But the truth is, I don't like the way my hair looks. It's kind of weird, so I wear a hat all the time to cover it. I've been doing it since I was thirteen.
-- Austin Mahone

#Hair #People #Trying

If you're trying to turn me into something else, it's easy to see I'm not down with that
-- Avril Lavigne

#Trying #Easy #Turn Me

I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.
-- Avril Lavigne

#Motivational #Trying #Trouble

After the horrific massacre Wednesday at the French weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, perhaps the West will finally put away its legion of useless tropes trying to deny the relationship between violence and radical Islam.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#Islam #Trying #Magazines

In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.
-- Ayad Akhtar

#Trying #Denial #Levels

And questions give us no rest. We know not why our curse makes us seek we know not what, ever and ever. But we cannot resist it. It whispers to us that there are great things on this earth of ours, and that we can know them if we try, and that we must know them. We ask, why must we know, but it has no answer to give us. We must know that we may know.
-- Ayn Rand

#Giving #Trying #Answers

There's nothing of any importance in life - except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It's the only measure of human value. All the codes of ethics they'll try to ram down your throat are just so much paper money put out by swindlers to fleece people of their virtues. The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.
-- Ayn Rand

#Money #People #Trying

I read and watch movies. I can't go to the movie theater much anymore, though, because I get recognized. It's worse sometimes if I wear a costume and try not to get recognized. I watch most of my films on airplanes
-- Ayumi Hamasaki

#Airplane #Trying #Watches

The Buddha compared anger with picking up hot coals with one's bare hands and trying to throw them at the person with whom one is angry. Who gets burned first? The one who is angry of course.
-- Ayya Khema

#Hands #Trying #Hot

When you are solving a difficult problem re-ask the problem so that your solution helps you learn faster. Find a faster way to fail, recover, and try again. If the problem you are trying to solve involves creating a magnum opus, you are solving the wrong problem.
-- Aza Raskin

#Creating #Trying #Way

Find a faster way to fail, recover, and try again.
-- Aza Raskin

#Trying #Way #Failing

Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.
-- Azar Nafisi

#Real #Trying #Fiction

I strongly believe that those of us, who are privileged to have wealth, should contribute significantly to try and create a better world for the millions who are far less privileged
-- Azim Premji

#Believe #Trying #World

It can take a few months to get a new 10 minutes. Usually it takes like 10 times of repeatedly trying different variations of a joke until I land on one I think is really good.
-- Aziz Ansari

#Thinking #Land #Trying

When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour. I try to eat at all the weird places, the obscure barbecue joints, burger places. There are a few spots in L.A. that I'm obsessed with - one of them is the Taco Zone taco truck on Alvarado. There are secret off-menu items that are amazing.
-- Aziz Ansari

#Secret #Trying #Joints

Writing your own jokes, you just kind of keep working on something until you think it might work, and then you try it out and hope for the best.
-- Aziz Ansari

#Writing #Thinking #Trying

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.
-- B. B. King

#Growing Up #Men #Trying

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
-- B. B. King

#Trying #Singers #Entertainers

Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.
-- B. D. Wong

#Writing #Empowering #Trying

If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
-- B. F. Skinner

#Change #Age #Trying

Your liberals and radicals all want to govern. They want to try it their way- to show that people will be happier if the power is wielded in a different way or for different purposes. But how do they know? Have they ever tried it? No, it's merely their guess.
-- B. F. Skinner

#People #Trying #Different

Just try to give as much as you can through your daily life to yourself and the people around you.
-- B.J. Penn

#People #Giving #Trying

You must purge yourself before finding faults in others. When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake. This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar

#Mistake #Trying #Way

Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar

#Yoga #Broken #Trying

The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar

#Reality #Trying #Body

Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you,
-- B.K.S. Iyengar

#Perfection #Trying #Elude

You can't win them all but you can try.
-- Babe Didrikson Zaharias

#Baseball #Winning #Trying

Life's philosophy, hm... I just say, 'Do what you do and have fun doing it and try not to be too miserable.'
-- Bam Margera

#Fun #Philosophy #Trying

You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.
-- Banksy

#Cities #Trying #Billboards

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

#Trying #World #Enough

Winston Churchill used to say that we, Americans, try every other option before we finally do the right thing. After everything else is exhausted we eventually do the right thing and I think that's true for Congress as well. And it's important for Americans to remember that politics has always been messy.
-- Barack Obama

#Thinking #Important #Trying

No one nation can or should try to dominate another nation.
-- Barack Obama

#Trying #Should

If there's even one thing we can do - even one life we can save - we have an obligation to try
-- Barack Obama

#Trying #Obligation

If you look at how I've tried to and how I'll continue to try to govern, I'm not driven by some ideological agenda. I'm a pretty practical guy and I just want to make sure that things work.
-- Barack Obama

#Guy #Trying #Looks

I take the Constitution very seriously. The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with [the president] trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that's what I intend to reverse when I'm President of the United States of America.
-- Barack Obama

#America #Trying #President