Try Quotes - page 3

About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. (Edsger W. Dijkstra)
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. View quote
Thomas Edison
I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else. View quote
Sachin Tendulkar
I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it." View quote
Katherine Dunham
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself. View quote
Sidney Sheldon
If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'. View quote
John Lennon
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear. View quote
James Thurber
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. View quote
Graham Greene
Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough & that makes all the difference. View quote
Paulo Coelho
If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal. (Paulo Coelho)
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it. View quote
George Eliot
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
I try to make concrete that which is abstract. View quote
Juan Gris
Being superficially different is the goal of so many of the products we see... rather than trying to innovate and genuinely taking the time, investing the resources and caring enough to try and make something better. View quote
Jonathan Ive
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself. View quote
Georges Clemenceau
Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills. View quote
O. Henry
If you don't want to be replaced by a machine, don't try to act like one! View quote
Arno Allan Penzias
There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot. View quote
John Cage
Always try the problem that matters most to you. View quote
Andrew Wiles
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. (Louisa May Alcott)
The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it. View quote
Emil Cioran
Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin. View quote
Tori Amos
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. View quote
Maya Angelou
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. View quote
Maya Angelou