Trying Quotes - page 7

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. (Jean Cocteau)
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on. View quote
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed. View quote
C. S. Lewis
A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying. View quote
John Burroughs
There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream. View quote
Colum McCann
He told me once that there is no better faith than a wounded faith and sometimes I wonder if that is what he was doing all along - trying to wound his faith in order to test it - and I was just another stone in the way of his God. View quote
Colum McCann
Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are. View quote
Diana, Princess of Wales
If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful. View quote
Michael E. Porter
Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable. View quote
Martha Beck
I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do. View quote
Martin Seligman
I didn't have to scramble up and down the ladder from despair to euphoria anymore, trying to convince myself that life was either painful and terrible or joyous and wonderful. The simple truth was that life was both. p 214. (Melody Beattie)
They always said on TV you could do anything you wanted, but here I was trying to do something and it wasn't working. I would never be able to do it. View quote
Ned Vizzini
But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance. View quote
Norton Juster
Everybody in recovery smokes. If you don't like smoking, don't even bother trying to get sober. Just stay drunk. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out. View quote
Oliver James
The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces. View quote
Peter Arnett
We are all advertising, all of the time. If you want to sell your car, what do you do? You clean and polish it and make it the best you can. Some people bake bread when they are trying to sell their house because the smell adds a friendly feeling. Even the priest, with all his or her fervour, is advertising God. Everybody is selling. View quote
Paul Arden
You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process. View quote
Randall Munroe
I mean, we're all trying to find out who the hell we are, aren't we? View quote
Robert Ludlum
It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people, we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps. View quote
William Boyd
I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction, and that once I start listening to what my subconscious is trying to tell me, I can work out the problem and get moving again. (Walter Jon Williams)
Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor. View quote
Fred Saberhagen
In our study of psychopathology, we began as sadists trying to produce abnormality. Today, we are psychiatrists trying to achieve normality and equanimity. View quote
Harry Harlow
Forget about trying to compete with someone else. Create your own pathway. Create your own new vision. View quote
Herbie Hancock
To me, searching for perfection isn't anywhere near as interesting as trying to find your own voice. View quote
Charlie Trotter