Trying Quotes - Page 395

The torch of liberty is hot; warms those who hold it high; burns those who try to extinguish it.

A long time ago, I stopped trying to look at projects as genre exercises.

Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.

The right really wants to punish you for having an opinion. And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.

If an artist is one who spends his life trying to define his being, I guess I would have to call myself an artist.

Every song youre trying to find something that going to connect in different ways but for me the songs that Im really drawn to are inspirational, songs that lift you and that everybody can relate to no matter where youre from.

I don't have any of the answers, son. Never did. All I can do is keep asking the questions. Keep trying to make sense of why people do what they do.

My whole life I've been trying to prove I'm not just yesterday.

If there's one thing I've learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it's listening. Listen to the other side of the story first.

We come. We go. And inbetween we try to understand.

As writers, we're always trying to connect with the audience on a visceral level. We usually do that through drama, through emotion or through humor.

There is but one failure in life and that is the failure to try.

The business (and person) who tries to be everything to everyone ends up being nothing to anyone.

Failure is not having the courage to try, nothing more and nothing less.

The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.

If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.

Very rarely are you going to see the large shareholder or CEO of a corporation march into a newsroom and say, "Cover this story, don't cover that." It's a much more subtle process. The professional code adapts, but what we try to see, is how commercial and corporate pressure shape both the professional code and the sorts of things that are considered legitimate journalism and illegitimate journalism.

I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist.

Authenticity is critical to leadership. That means trying to be yourself - this involves some self-disclosure, admitting what you don't know and being willing to ask questions.

I use the music almost as a compass in some kind of quasi-romantic way. I try and go to places that I'm intrigued by, and I take this music with me, using my name at the front.

When you get born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bust a ham trying to get it back, and you are it. They know they can't get it all back but they will get as big a chunk out of you as they can.

I wonder how appropriate it is to try to 'argue someone into the kingdom.' Many apologists hotly deny any such charge, but I don't believe them. The tenor of almost all apologetics literature makes it plain that this is their intent.

Abel's sacrifice was accepted by God because it was made according to God's instructions. Cain, however, tried to approach God in his own way and was rejected by God (Genesis 4:3-5). From that point on, Cain became a symbol of those who try to approach God on their own terms.

I knew that my father was going to die of heart disease, and I was trying to make a heart for him.

If you spend too long trying to avoid death, you will be dead in at least one way.