Trying Quotes - Page 255

I feel that any man that tries, any man that comes out with something we like, is a good man. A man doesn't have to be Leonardo Da Vinci to be sincere.

If you try to shoot me, I will have to shoot you back and I promise I will not miss.

I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time, I felt like I was just scamming people.

I'm always tempted to say, 'Nah, that won't work.' But I think you should be willing to try ideas out before saying no. Be open-minded.

You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.

When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.

The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.

Looking for a gem, we are sometimes dumb enough to try to hold on to a lump of coal, convinced that it will turn into a diamond in our lifetime... but all it does it get sh*t all over you until you burn it and use the energy for something else.

Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table.

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.

If you feel you can't trust anyone, then try trusting in yourself.

I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.

Happily for us, the fundamental Christian message concerns not what we ought to do, but what God has done and what God is willing to do. In fellowship with Him and with others who are likewise trying to be like Him, we can be lifted up above our native possibilities.

Starbucks trying to build a different kind of company around the balance of profitably and benevolence. A social conscience. And that isn't a program it has to be a way of life.

The success of the Starbucks has been based on this balance between profitability and a social conscience. Everywhere we're doing business, were trying to manage the business through the lens of humanity.

A mediator is an impartial outsider who tries to aid the negotiators in their quest to find a compromise agreement.

I'm a social writer in the sense that I want to record, but not in the sense of trying to change people's minds.

I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us.

A theory is scientific only if it can be disproved. But the moment you try to cover absolutely everything the chances are that you cover nothing.

I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.

I actually try and work before my mind is telling me what to do.

Try claiming God's blessings instead of merely longing for them.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

Now I wonder whether I have sufficiently realized that during all this time God has been trying to find me, to know me, and to love me. The question is not 'How am I to find God?' but 'How am I to let myself be found by him?' The question is not 'How am I to love God?' but 'How am I to let myself be loved by God?'