Trying Quotes · Page 52

I've zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give…

— LeRoy Neiman

I tell you all this because it's worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success. You will do…

— Bill Watterson

If you want to kill time, try working it to death.

— Sam Levenson

Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled.

— Antonio Machado

So how does one go about proving something like this? It's not like being a lawyer, where the goal is to persuade…

— Paul Lockhart

The fear of not succeeding becomes replaced with the courage to pursue the things that interest you outside of the career you're…

— Keeley Hazell

I can document this past week [of presidency] we've put out memos from every agency showing what did we do. Try to…

— Barack Obama

I do not agree with this century's fashion of running down the human species as a failed try, a doomed sport. At…

— Lewis Thomas

I guess there's a part of you that always wants to try something a little bit different than what you’ve done before.

— Carly Rae Jepsen

I approach everything the same. I try to make it as real as possible, whether you gotta make people laugh or make…

— Mark Wahlberg

NVC is founded on language and communication skills that strengthen our ability to remain human, even under trying conditions.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

A photo is like a map, a way of giving me a foot into a kind of reality I want... I'm not…

— Peter Doig

I'm always trying to do something active because I love it.

— Nina Agdal

Those who pretend to investigate the transcendental truths of the Being based on pure reasoning fall in the same mistake as someone…

— Samael Aun Weor

And try to remember what we discussed, Susannah. A mediator is someone who helps others resolve conflicts. Not someone who, er, kicks…

— Meg Cabot

All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.

— Ben Affleck

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.

— Anonymous

Rugby has always been a game for all shapes and sizes. You have the superstars and the fast guys who score the…

— Warren Gatland

Whom would you like to put throught a table next? The entire cast of New Moon. They're trying to portray vampires, but…

— Sheamus

Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we…

— Helen Keller

No one is innocent in the tide of history. Everyone has kings and slaves in his past. Everyone has saints and sinners.…

— Diana Peterfreund

It was practically with people with strings. There was no CG involved, it was just painfully taking Collin [Farrell] and Jessica Biel…

— Len Wiseman

I try to write every day. I don't beat myself up about word counts, or how many hours are ticking by on…

— Jonathan Lethem

I always preach this to people, even my teammates and family: 'Always know someone's working harder than you, trying to get that…

— Khalil Mack

When you're young, you need to be silly and be stupid and not be trying to do that when you're 40 in…

— Gin Wigmore