Trying Quotes - Page 369

Be contented with what you possess in life; be thankful for what does not belong to you, for it is so much less care; but try to obtain what you need, and make the best of every moment of your life.

So what’s wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?

I’ve built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself

When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.

When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint - understand what he is trying to do - nine times out of ten he is trying to do right.

Some of the presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.

Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.

If what we are doing with our anger is not achieving the desired result, it would seem logical to try something different.

There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.

I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.

The trouble with us today, there are too many of us who put question marks instead of periods after what the Lord says. I want you to think about that. We shouldn't be concerned about why He said something, or whether or not it can be made so. Just trust the Lord. We don't try to find the answers or explanations. We shouldn't try to spend time explaining what the Lord didn't see fit to explain. We spend useless time.

What I try to write about are the darkest things in the soul, the mortal dreads... The closer I get to the burning core of my being, the things which are most painful to me, the better is my work.

I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

But as the business grows, you get more attention, and then you realize that the whole world is trying to get time from you. Which is amazing. But every time you give it to the world, you give less to what you’re doing.

We're trying to find areas of cooperation with Russia in the area of counterterrorism and the campaign against ISIS.

I love to dream, but I never try to dream and think at the same time.

Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it.

I do 45 minutes of cardio five days a week, because I like to eat. I also try for 45 minutes of muscular structure work, which is toning, realigning and lengthening. If I'm prepping for something or I've been eating a lot of pie, I do two hours a day, six days a week for two weeks.

You can't plan anything, right? You can try.

My books are always tactical, bullet lists, this is what you need to do because I'm trying to appeal to people who are trying to change the world and they need checklists.

I don't concentrate on technical things like where a microphone is placed and things like that. As a producer, I try to keep the initial feeling from when I first heard a song and make sure we do what were initially aiming for.

As I do with most films, I try and find some music that you could use throughout, not just a sampling of lots of different artists.

You never replace a great scholar who retires. If you try to do that, you end up with burnt-out volcanoes.

I know the activists I deal with, we sort of try and check each other to make sure that we haven't gone native, that you come to Washington thinking it's a cesspool, you don't want to end up thinking it's really a hot tub and getting used to it. So that's something one has to keep an eye on all the time.

The more you try to be like someone else, the more you find yourself standing in the way.