Trying Quotes - Page 309

Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't have 'Augie March' here. But I love writing about Chicago, and I love being there and imagining lives in Chicago. I hope to set something there in the future, but it's intimidating.

You listen to people so that you can imagine them, and you hear all the terrible and wonderful things people do to themselves and to one another, but in the end the listening exposes you even more than it exposes the people you're trying to listen to.

There is no try. There is only do.

Pagers are my life--I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.

To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.

I have added some ploughmen to the landscape form the park pales which is a great help, but I must try and warm the picture a little more if I can... but I look to do a great deal better in future. I am determined to finish a small picture in the spot for every one I intend to make in future. But this I have always talked about but never yet done - I think however my mind is more settled and determined than ever on this point.

A difficult form of virtue is to try in your own life to obey what you believe to be God's will.

It's too difficult to start right from scratch and try and be funny out of the blue.

You play with everything you've got. I'm not a lover of cheap tricks. I've always loved playing with people, but there's no rule about it. You try everything you can.

Get the big point of your advertisement into your headline. Use your headline as a hook to reach out and catch the special group of people you are trying to interest.

The best players I've coached make really hard things look easy. Like you may say, well, that was easy, and then, well, go try it. You think it's so easy, go ahead and do it.

Trying harder doesn’t always equal more success; it leads to more frustration, less satisfaction, and giving up.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

The quicker, the louder, the applause with which another tries to gain you over to his purpose - the bitterer his censure if he miss his aim.

When I create a false reality, I always try to create a plausible structure to help convince people.

I'm not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody's throat: 'You're going to do it my way.' I'd rather show by example and live my life and have people say, 'You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He's got peace and joy, and he seems content.'

There's a lot of negative things trying to pull people down, and I think people respond when you tell them that hey, there are good things up ahead.

I'm for everybody. You may not agree with me, but to me it's not my job to try to straighten everybody out. The Gospel is called the good news. My message is a message of hope, that's God's [message] for you. You can live a good life no matter what's happened to you.

Benji usually tries to match his hair with his underwear, and you know how he had the pink hair for a while well we caught him in a pink thong one day!

Because I have a girlfriend, I try and take the straight and narrow path, which is good because it prevents VD.

It's tricky when I'm constantly traveling and adjusting to new time zones and trying to also keep up with my workouts.

I train like a pro-athlete, not like an actor who's just trying to look pretty.

I'm trying to be expressive on my instrument and conduct as I'm improvising. So I'm conducting with the melodies and the rhythms that I play. And so it's a very organic way. It's a lot like Charles Mingus played, cuing people in from what you play and how you play it rather than standing in front of a band, conducting and pointing.