Trying Quotes - Page 342

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.

I avoid long layoffs and I try to stay in shape at all times.

I know what I like, and I'm not trying to search for who I am.

All my life I've tried to hide my height. I was taller than everybody else and stood out, so I would slouch and try to hide it.

I think traditional is trying to go more digital and digital is trying to go more traditional. We're meeting in the middle.

I really like individualism based on truth. That's something I try to think about. What do I actually think about that, what do I actually feel right now? As opposed what should I feel.

If you're trying to make something funny, and it doesn't feel like you're always getting something, it doesn't have quite a lot of joy.

I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule and someday I'll try to get around to it.

Grammy asshole weekend in LA. Yuck ... The Grammys = the old guard / old media propping up their puppets trying to convince the outside world, and each other, they're relevant.

I try to do an hour of cardio on the days that I have off, and then I'll do 30 to 45 minutes on show days. That's the first thing I do when I wake up, I have breakfast and then I'll hit the gym.

I assure Romanians that once I return... I will try and generate a sentiment of reconciliation in society. Divisions in society must be stopped, they must be annihilated, because Romania needs all its energy to... integrate into the civilized world.

Joy is a great purifier. It burns away many polluted currents trying to reach us.

I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.

I try to live [the Golden Rule] and I certainly expect it of some particular others. But I'll be damned if I want most folk out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.

I used to try and take things in leaps and bounds. Now I've realized it's got to be step by step.

I'm in a position now where I can play certain roles and when I get older, I won't be able to. So, I don't have a strategy of trying to grow up too quick, I just want to kind of look at everything.

The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.

What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy.

If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music.

But there's no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.

Step up and shake the hand Of someone you can't stand, You can tolerate him if you try!

We bore ourselves in order to earn money that we'll later spend on trying to de-bore ourselves

Sounds of daily life are musical. I try to absorb the intricacies of sounds as if I were listening to music.

The Long Red Road is a story about alcoholism and dysfunction and tragic tale of a man who's trying to drink himself to death on an Indian reservation in Dakota. It was written for me, so it's something I would love to do.