Trying Quotes - page 4

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. (Frank Capra)
Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, the never get around to doing what they want to do. View quote
Kathleen Winsor
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. View quote
Ella Fitzgerald
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore, I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication. View quote
Groucho Marx
I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to. View quote
Harry S. Truman
The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it. View quote
Andrew Jackson
If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps. View quote
James Thurber
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process. View quote
Salma Hayek
A man should live forever, or die trying. View quote
Spider Robinson
Time That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him. (Herbert Spencer)
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. View quote
Cicero
I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children. View quote
John Ruskin
I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect, and how best to contribute in this world filled with contradiction, disparity, and inequality, even passion and opportunity. View quote
Frank Gehry
I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing. View quote
John Cage
The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture. View quote
Norman Mailer
With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive. View quote
Gao Xingjian
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. View quote
Henry Miller
A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in. View quote
Henry Miller
We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. (Marian Wright Edelman)
You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be. View quote
Maya Angelou
Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write War and Peace in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve? View quote
Morrissey