Try Quotes

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.

It's the level that allows us each to live our own chosen lives. But I notice not everyone agrees with the primary importance of that level, and I try to account for how they don't.

I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.

In Spain and Italy I would not have a life among the fans. Everyone wants to touch you, own you and approach you. I try to be as kind as possible to all my fans, but in those countries I could not do it. There they ask too much from you.

When you raise issues with the President, try to come away with both that decision and also a precedent. Pose issues so as to evoke broader policy guidance. This can help to answer a range of similar issues likely to arise later.

There are a lot of other terrorist targets we ought to be focusing on. Well, there is Syria, for example, which is pumping through - because of Iran, is pumping weapons on into Hezbollah and so forth - which is then producing a lot of agony in Palestine and in Israel. We ought to be doing a bit to try to stop that.

I talk to student-athletes. I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes. You need to get an education, keep your hands clean and try to represent the university.

I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.

I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do.

Never, never try to scope the market.

Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.

But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths.

I don't think it makes any sense to try to get anyone to not talk.

I think it's a mistake to rely too much on any one economic factor. It's why investors try to spread their portfolio round.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Well, I'll keep on auditioning and one day maybe I'll go to LA and try out for films there.

I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit.

Never, never listen to anybody that try to discourage you.

I always try hard to arrange all media in a way so that it expresses what I want - this is not limited to one medium alone and varies from case to case.

I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.

When I do an album I try to find a producer that's excited about something that they want me to sing, and I check with the record company to find out what they think they can sell - which is their No. 1 priority.

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.

I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.

I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream.

My parents made us do everything, try everything.

Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far.

I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize.