Trying Quotes - Page 305

If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail.

Thinking of nothing. Trying to think of nothing. Thinking of everything.

It's all about getting the hand of things. Easy does it; take it easy. You'll figure everything out in time. But for right now, just keep trying. Pay attention and avoid the temptation to go further than you're ready. Talk less. And listen more.

I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.

Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act; if it weren't, more women would do it.

My desire was never to be famous. It was to try and create something interesting musically if I could.

I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.

Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better

And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.

In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my life and myself. But even when I do that there's an element of disappearing to a place that's not me. It's "the selflessness of writing". It seldom happens, but when it does it's worth quite a lot.

Shame tells you when you've gone too far. Then you try if it's okay to go too far. And it might be so that shame was right. You can never, never know that.

I mean... if you're raised as a decent human being, killing somebody is against every moral thing you've ever been taught. And so, generally, in combat it's 'krauts,' the 'gooks,' the 'yanks' - whatever you want to do to try and make it so that it's not a human being.

Sometimes the idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder.

I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.

I try to sing whatever the music makes me feel. And we play so much music from the other records at shows that I hope no one will miss the old style too much.

You can't save people from themselves. You can only try to wake them up.

Whenever y'all are in the store from and y'all are trying to decide whether or not to get something, think if you saw me wear it before or not, and if I have, then it's okay.

I've learned that you should only try to be better than who you were yesterday.

I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.

I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.

I'm not trying to say something super complicated. I allow myself to say certain things that mean a lot to me.

People are always trying to tell you how they feel. Some of them say it outright, and some of them, they tell you with their actions. And you have to listen. I don't know what will happen with your lady friend. I think she's a nice person, and I hope you get what you want. But do me a favor: Listen, and don't ignore what you hear.

I'm just trying to get the best sound and have it be consistent and make sense with what I'm going through in my life.

I act most like myself... when I'm in my hometown, Santo Domingo. I try to get there about five times a year.

It's my job to beat whoever the UFC puts in front of me. I don't really care who it is. Whoever they put in front of me, I will just try to go out and beat them.