Trying Quotes - Page 703

What we were also trying to do is vary the tone slightly across the season of Black Mirror, because there are six stories this time around, so you don't want it to just be the devastating, bleak-em-up.

I think you set up certain standards. I've always kind of believed in the Neil Pert way of making records where I'm trying to step it up every time I do something. You're trying to better yourself. You're also trying to make your audience or your listeners more interested. So, if you can up it, I think that's important.

If we don't try, we don't do and if we don't do why are we here on earth?

For a sampler, you could try my short story collection "Wireless". Which contains one novella that scooped a Locus award, and one that won a Hugo, and covers a range of different styles.

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

One might better try to sail the Atlantic in a paper boat, than try to get to heaven on good works.

I'm always experimenting and trying different things. That's what keeps it fun and encourages growth.

The stars know everything, So we try to read their minds. As distant as they are, We choose to whisper in their presence.

Those who try to "break on through to the other side" not only cannot predict what they may find there, but are themselves too often broken in the process.

I think Donald Trump is trying to use populist rhetoric to cover up a right-wing agenda.

I think it is important to begin with a statement in your speech that grabs the attention of the audience. I try to make my opening line 15 words or less.

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble

The man who attracts attention is the man who is thinking all the time, and expressing himself in little ways. It is not the man who tries to dazzle his employer by doing the theatrical, the spectacular.

I've tried to be a better person... I've tried, and tried and tried! You know how hard I've tried! Tell me how I've tried..." "Nice try... Five cents, please!

It's a mistake to try to avoid the unpleasant things in life... But I'm beginning to consider it.

I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture.

I had set about trying to make myself more polished than a country boy would be.

Trying hard and working hard is its own reward. It feeds the soul. It affirms your will and your power. And it radiates from you, lighting the way for all those who see you.

I cannot see that any rational American. . . could conceivably try to fulfill the major national purposes of the United States through the United Nations. It would be comparable to the United States seeking to pass its legislation through the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

There was a little man, and he had a little soul; And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!

That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.

I love to try to understand first principles and be guided by that. But then, enrich them, because they won't last forever, just like everybody thought Newton had all the answers. And you probably read that, in the last of the 19th century, Harvard and others were discouraging people from going into physics because we have all the answers. And right after that, of course - we have - all this stuff is thrown out the window. And now we have whole new answers.

Just keep trying things, without really understanding the underlying fibers of well-being, or peace or civility, then you're just going to stumble from one disaster to another.

Research is an organized method of trying to find out what you are going to do after you cannot do what you are doing now. It may also be said to be the method of keeping a customer reasonably dissatisfied with what he has. That means constant improvement and change so that the customer will be stimulated to desire the new product enough to buy it to replace the one he has.

My approach is always to try to be straight with people, especially about what my party can achieve.