Trying Quotes - Page 240

I try to live honestly in every aspect of my life, which can make things a bit more complicated, right?

What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?

I am a believer in trying to treat people properly and trying to respond and making sure that I find the time to be courteous.

Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change. A company that stands still will soon be forgotten. Trying to provoke positive change is a principle we've embedded across the Virgin family for more than four decades.

You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it. You are here to create the world around you that you choose.

You have to realize that your work is done by your body, and if your body is in very bad health, it's not going to work for you no matter how young you are. So, I'm a bit of an athletic coach when it comes to trying to respect my body's needs and tendencies, and when I teach students, I try and persuade them of the same.

The drive for working comes from everyday moments - the thrill of experiencing a young cook succeeding in what they thought was an impossible job, as well as guests being happy. I also love the unknown - discovering new things and trying to make sense of them.

As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace.

If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it.

I just try not to judge. Dont judge me, and I wont judge you.

Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.

I enjoy research as much as writing so I try to make my stories as fact-based as possible, which I think helps them seem more authentic.

They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was.

A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the fellow and knew a little about him and his family, you might just jump in front of his killer and try to stop it. Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know is bad, or amoral, at least. You can’t act if you don’t know.

Sooner or later you'll hear what your heart has always been telling you: stop trying to be who you think you should be - become who you are.

Life is a celebration… I try to enjoy it as much as possible.

When you look at pornography, the women become objects, whereas what I'm trying to do is make the person in the photograph as important as their body. And obviously, I like tits and arse, because I just do. I like the sex of taking photographs.

Sometimes I have no choice but to wear my hair and I try to make it look as normal as possible, but no, there's no chance.

Profanity is the result of a weak mind trying to express itself forcably.

I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves...At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer.

I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.

Don't think about being the number one in the world, try instead to get through today's program as well as you can. Then we will see whether one day you'll end up as number one or number 100.

You cannot control the market, you cannot control the players, you cannot control the clubs. You can try - but we have done our best.

If you try to go for a laugh, it's death to the comedy. Personally, that's how I approach comedy. But I'm no expert.