Trying Quotes - Page 244

Everything is possible if you try enough so if something doesn't work out, you're not trying enough.

Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up.

The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas.

I try not to name too many labels - not because it's not cool, but because it starts getting political.

Half the world cries Half the world laughs Half the world tries To be the other half

I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God's making it in reality.

Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.

I don't expect everybody to like me. If you try to please everybody, by changing your position and your personality, every time you do that you lose a little bit of yourself.

My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity.

The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.

How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.

Nothing is more difficult than trying to correct history.

That's what I've been trying to strive for - to draw a clear picture, to open up a new dimension.

You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.

I try to make women feel more powerful without losing their femininity.

I like refried beans. That's why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time. You don't have to fry them again after all.

It is very much the theme of our President, President Thabo Mbeki, whose passion is for Africa to work together, and for Africans to get up and do things for us. We are trying as women to do things for ourselves.

A lot of people wanted to try to make me the white Nicki Minaj. That’s not what I’m trying to do. I love ‘hood’ music, but my talent is as a singer.

Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young.

The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society.

The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because nobody ever tries to ban the other kind.

I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.

The fear of not getting the reward becomes the fear of rejection. The fear of not being good enough... is what makes us try to change, what makes us create an image.

I've always thought that the act of playing the guitar was the act of trying to make a point of playing the guitar.