Trying Quotes - Page 223

If you're not making some mistakes, it probably means you're not trying hard enough.

When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime.

If you are a happy person, don't spend your time trying to make an unhappy person happy. Near as I can tell, you have to be a magician to pull it off.

I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.

We want to end gender inequality, and to do this, we need everyone involved...We want to try to galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for change and we don't just want to talk about it. We want to try and make sure that it's tangible.

I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult.

Women are hard on themselves. I’m trying to stop focusing on my flaws and appreciate what I love about my body.

I do strive to find projects that are trying to carve out some new space. I enjoy projects that leap away from the crowd a little bit.

The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.

I tried to bang down a lot of doors but Virgin were the only label who believed in what I was doing. I ended up with the label that understood what I was trying to do.

I love nature, but I try to change it a little bit, not copy it.

We're already separated that's official but there's still a window of hope left open that perhaps someday we could give things another try.

I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again.

God is God, He is not tame and domesticated like we sometimes (try to) make Him.

Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

Let go of thought, become still and alert, and don't try to understand or explain.

I feel that when I am painting, it is a form of worship. I see how wonderful nature is and how wonderful art is... and by trying to produce these works of art, I feel that I am just showing my appreciation of these creations.

By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

I'm going to prove the haters and doubters wrong. I like when the doubters try to say that I'm (not still) elite or that I'm too old. I'll use that.

You've got Corey Feldman doing his thing, and the problem is, they're trying to be pop stars. You can't compare Salty to any of the other actors out there playing music

I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit

Whether that's racism, whether it's bigotry, whether it's gender inequality - whatever it is, it's all stemming from "me against you." And, like, how do you stop it? I just want to do my little part in helping try to stop it.

I'd rather deal with Tipper than Bush. He's trying to kill everybody in jail.

When you believe in what you’re doing, that’s the first thing. And you have to be resilient, because people are going to try to knock you down.

Gore is nature's way of saying, "There are too many human beings on the planet, and I'm trying to rectify this any way I can. SARS didn't work, but trust me, I'm cooking up something better. In the interim, please kill lots of yourselves.