Trying Quotes - Page 380

It's so easy to become obsessed with the film industry and recognition that we can forget that we are not saving the world. We are just actors trying to entertain people.

If something inspires you, try and hold on to that inspiration because if you lose that inspiration, what do you have left?

I was always taught that anybody and everything is worth spending time and interest on and there's no reason to pass over anything. So it led me in a route that was just hyper awareness of human beings and care and love. So it's made me at least more open to trying anything, doing everything and experiencing all that I can in this little bit of life that we have.

The man who, despite the teaching of Scripture, tries to pray without a Savior, insults the deity.

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Who among you today is doing the most for your Master's kingdom? I will tell you. Lend me a spiritual thermometer by which I may try the heat of your heart, and I will tell you the amount of your success.

We spend a good part of our lives trying desperately to convince ourselves as well as everybody else that we know more than we really do.

You try for a little happiness, and what do you get? A few memories and a fat stomach!

A university shouldn't be a place of comfort. It should be a place of discomfort because you want to disabuse these kids of whatever prejudices or preconceptions they have when they come. You're trying to get them to think and develop, not be a Johnny-one-note.

Can you have more than one major MISSION pervading your life? NO. That would be like coming to a fork in the road and trying to go both ways by straddling it.

I always make special notes about evidence that contridicts me: supportive evidence I can remember without trying.

I try not to be preachy, I just try to deal with people on their own level, not to try to talk down or up to a person.

I try to really take my art serious, and pay attention to detail.

No matter how much a young man likes to think for himself, he is always trying to model himself on some abstract pattern largely derived from the example of the world around him. And a man, no matter how conservative, shows his own worth by his personal deviation from that pattern.

I've had to spend an awful lot of my life trying to pretend I'm not posh. Although once I open my mouth, I rather let things out the bag.

I think this is something that is naturally built in in people, a need for attention and a need to be special and we are always trying to find a balance.

Lord, what are you trying to teach me?

And if I didn’t, I’d spend the rest of my life wondering who I could have turned into if only I’d had the guts to try.

I don't think about being tired, I don't think about my technique. I just try to break their will.

It takes people a little longer to get in to you when you have a distinct sound - especially if you're not force-feeding singles to pop radio. I try to be as much of an enigma as I can... because I want to be present and have people know what my message is, but then again, I want that mystery. There's a sensuality in the mystery that I think drives people to listen to my music.

If I might make a suggestion,” said Will. “About twenty paces behind us, in the Council room, is Benedict. If you’d like to go back in there and try kicking him, I recommend aiming upward and a bit to the left—

Enough, both of you,' Clary said. 'You can't be complete jerks to each other forever, you know.' Technically,' said Simon, 'I can.' Jace made an inelegant noise; after a moment Clary realized that he was trying not to laugh, and only semi-succeeding.

Try to keep your mind. Try not to eat bad, try not to wake up with too bad of a hangover.

My brother and I used to try to derail a train over and over again. We didn't know any better.

If I'm on a boat I will wave to every breathing thing I pass. If I'm not on a boat I try to avoid every breathing thing I pass.