Trying Quotes - Page 389

Success is achieved and maintained by those who keep trying with positive mental attitude. What you try for is up to you.

I read papers, try to watch news programs on television, but, as a rule, recorded. During the day I have no time for that, so I watch something taped. As for the newspapers, I try to get through them every day. Additionally, of course, I look through news bulletins.

What I'm always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.

Seeing that I am so busily occupied with myself just now, I want to try to paint my self-portrait in writing.

There are no limits to your understanding, only those that are due to trying to understand with the mind.

I really do try to let the identity or voice inside come out.

If a psychiatrist would analyze [the lyrics], I'm sure they'd come up with something interesting. I really don't try to twist them. I don't want to slash things.

In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according to what we know and, where we aren't absolutely sure, what might be most likely to have happened, within the generally accepted rules of evidence and sources.

They try to make you think they care about what you do but they don't. They don't want you to act a certain way. So you're easy to understand. So you won't pose a threat to them.

Try to sleep. Tomorrow’s coming, whether we worry about it or not.

The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together.

If you would try out a preacher, send him to preach to farmers: if he cannot make the grade there, let him reconsider his call - or maybe he needs to be converted.

Beware of being a religious poseur, trying to live up to a dramatized version of yourself.

One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.

Want to continue to try and break the barrier between male and female. If you want to do that, that's fine. At our shows, it's like a Halloween party, which isn't a bad thing. I'd like to see more of it actually.

Instead of of being so metaphorical with the rhyme, I was encouraged to go straight at it and hit it dead on and not waste time trying to cover things.

The media tries to do what they do. You can't stop. You gotta get money.

I go - I trace depression back to things. So I go, ok, I look back and I say my self-esteem was affected because of my skin and because my family had no money and I was ashamed of how poor I was. And I look at all of that and I was trying to hide myself. And so I felt like I was less than I was. And so that then leads to you being depressed. And I work on these things.

It's sad. There's a lot about this industry that a lot of people don't know about and don't find out about. There are a lot of tough things and trials and stuff that you're faced with. Sometimes, God has other plans for people. Sometimes bands can't stick through it. It depends on the situation. Keep praying for the bands that you like, seriously, because a lot of things will try to get in the way of being together. We've been blessed with not deal with those yet, but if we ever did...?

Anything a wife should do, I'm terrible at. Anything a mistress should do, I'll try.

I'm from a Lebanese-American family. And I've been had lot of contacts and - with Arab-American community, especially Arab-American filmmakers and actors and so forth. It's a community that, a minority that really hasn't been heard from enough. And so many of the stories that are told about Arab-Americans these days are just negative portrayals in the news, but also in television and film. So we're - we set out to try and offset some of those stereotypes.

My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart - I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade.

I don't like second place; I'm out there trying to win everything.

Men may or may not be better drivers than women, but they seem to die more often trying to prove that they are.