Trying Quotes - Page 234

Don't try to be just like some other singer hitting it big - find your own style and be honest in your performances. And never underestimate your audience.

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Don't try to write through it, to force it. Many do, but that won't work. Just wait, it will come.

I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it.

Everybody's out trying to be commercial. I'm not trying to be anything, really.

They rushed to move it forward, uh, and then a lawsuit was filed and we spent many months litigating, rather than trying to come up with legislation and move forward on that front.

Do it, fix it, try it.

Some people like doing crossword puzzles or Sudoku. I love auditioning. On camera, I hated auditioning. But voiceovers I like trying to figure it out, then getting in there and seeing how close you can get.

That combination of thought and action defines creative confidence: the ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out.

Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not to try.

You don't even have to win a championship every year to draw the fans. You just have to show you're really trying.

I try not to lie to people - the only way to control the way you're perceived is to tell the truth.

Emotions kick up. You try not to kick things up, but you go through things you can't help.

I can't do anything with what's happened in the past. I have to just go forward with the most awareness I can going forward and trying to be the best I can be for our team.

I'm responsible for what I am and what I want to be. I'm not trying to live by another's standards.

I would have to work on the song and figure out how they wanted the song done, because they're such high-intensity songs. We figure that out first, then I go back and listen to it and go over and rehearse stuff with it and try to get a feel for the words.

Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity.

I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean

It seems to me morally a decent society will try to take some of the increased benefit and use that to alleviate the pain of the few who are bearing the cost that made it possible.

You've got to try everything once, except those things you don't like, or that involve a lot of effort and getting up early.

The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body.

The notion of a conscious model of oneself as an individual entity actively trying to establish epistemic relations to the world and to oneself, I think, comes very close to what we traditionally mean by notions like "subjectivity".

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself.

As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has got virtually everything it wanted, and its doomsday scenario from the 1970s has come true because of it.

I'll try anything...I'll even try Limburger cheese!