Trying Quotes - Page 424

Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.

The thought, 'I can't' is a lie. We use it to excuse ourselves from trying.

When you first try to learn to ride a bike, you work very carefully at keeping your balance, and trying to keep one pedal in front of the other, and all that, and all of a sudden, ah, you know, I got it. And that's true of skiing, or it's true of all kinds of things.

We try to equalize before the others have scored.

I gave up that idea of trying to make music that I thought other people would want. I just made music for myself and music for people that I knew.

I always fear with music that it can be too immediate - too geared toward a "get addicted to it and throw it away" mentality. I get so melancholic once I fall out of love with a piece of music, and I try to make music that I think will at least able to grow with me as I get older.

We seem to invest so much time and belief that those things are stable in some way - something to build towards, or something to use to better understand where we come from. So often those expectations are just so out of line with how the universe works. I don't see it as a productive way of seeing the world, so, when I deal with that stuff formally - or when I try to allow it to inspire me - I'm open to it twisting itself up.

If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.

Nobody wants to hear that you will try your best. It is the wrong thing to say. It is like saying 'I probably won't hit you with a shovel.' Suddenly everyone is afraid you will do the opposite.

I had dropped a good design, which I had once bent my thoughts upon, and that was to try if I could not make some of my barley into malt, and then try to brew myself some beer.

That which does not kill you usually circles around and tries again.

I don't need to try to push everyone out of the way and say, "This is how you do it. I actually like not knowing. I trust every lead.

I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.

I'm very active in pushing for net neutrality and an open Internet. There are countless other causes I support personally and privately, but I try to keep my public activism fairly focused.

I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that Im in.

Once you try to do more than your equipment is capable of doing you get yourself in trouble and you start wrecking.

No matter what part of the world we come from, we are all basically the same human beings. We all seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. We have the same basic human needs and concerns. All of us human beings want freedom and the right to determine our own destiny as individuals and as peoples. That is human nature.

If we try to secure the well-being of others, we will, at the same time, create the conditions for our own.

I try to stay in decent shape.

I do tend to be an analyzer. I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden secrets and the subtexts in there.

Make America great again? Right, but now it comes back to us in a completely twisted way. And in some ways they achieve that, or they at least achieve the appearance of that, but now you try and do it again and it's just... it's so out of sync with who we obviously are as a people.

Believing in the Tooth Fairy is easier than trying to figure out how else the money gets under your pillow.

All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.

The life of a model isn't easy. But I try to keep a good head on my shoulders by staying close to my family and old friends. They're my support system.

I think it's easier to identify with guys who are just trying to make a living and working day to day.