Trying Quotes - Page 258

I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.

I try my best for everything. If I don't feel happy, I don't do it.

Photography is more than a window for me. Photography is more like a space that tries to capture situations.

Concerning the loved ones who have passed on ... do not try to make me believe that they are doing nothing, merely resting, careless ever. That would imply the condition of Hell, not of Heaven.

Try for a record of emotion, rather than a piece of topography.

I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame.

Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away.

When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal.

If You Want to Send a Message, Try Western Union.

I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck.

I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.

We have to get out of the mind-set of saying, "No matter how hard we try, we will have accidents," and into "We will not have accidents."

I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.

In my community everyone seems to listen or have an interest in what I have to say, what I'm wearing, or what I'm doing. They just follow what I do, I don't tell them to. I just try to lead by example.

There is no way to turn off this global economy, nor should one try. Every previous expansion of global capitalism has led to greater prosperity across the world.

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.

Reasoning based on cost has been strenuously resisted; it violated the Hippocratic Oath, was associated with rationing, and derided as putting a price on life... Indeed, many physicians were willing to lie to get patients what they needed from insurance companies that were trying to hold down costs.

I got the part [in Into the Forest], I started taking ballet again to try to regain my strength back. I actually love that it was changed to Crystal Pite's modern dance. And I wouldn't even really call it modern dance because it feels like it's in its own genre.

The only time a lazy man ever succeeds is when he tries to do nothing.

People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it.

I cannot give it to you, so try to watch me.

Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?

Life does not hurt nearly as much if we have learned to listen to ourselves and to recognize how fully and richly we are trying to tell ourselves the truth.

Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.