Try Quotes

Don't try to be what you're not. If you're nervous, be nervous. If you're shy, be shy. It's cute.

I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that.

I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day.

I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.

Part of keeping space open is not to try to choose a form - to spend more time thinking about content, and let form take care of itself.

I try to manage my day by my circadian rhythms because the creativity is such an elusive thing, and I could easily just stomp over it doing my administrative stuff.

I try to do something the audience might not have seen before. Like if I'm gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her like a girl has never been kissed. Like maybe I would kick her legs out from under her and catch her right before she hits the ground and then kiss her.

I never went to college when I was young and am looking forward to giving it a try... at age 65!

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

I just keep fighting and try to be the last one standing.

We try to be as much involved in our product as possible, because then it's us.

I've come to understand my role. On some level, I provide the context for them to shine. I also know my role is the steward of the songs, and the center point, the artist that the stuff all revolves around. But I really try to honor that.

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.

When they ran out of cadre men they gave me my very own platoon and said, 'Here are 63 men, try to keep as many of them alive as you possibly can.' That was one of the more harrowing experiences of my life.

You just try to be nice to everybody and treat them all the same. Treat them how you would want to be treated.

Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it's a really liberating feeling to experience what it's like to not care.

The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing.

Don't try to be the next Rachael Ray or Bobby Flay, we already have those people. We want someone who is going to make their own mark on 'Food Network.'

I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute.

What I learned most was how to tell a story in 15 seconds or 30 seconds or 60 seconds - to have some kind of goal of what to try to do and make it happen in that time.

If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.

I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating.

I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.

I have always said I will try to answer questions honestly. I don't want to change that about myself. I think people appreciate that about me.

That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.

Don't try too hard to be something you're not.

There's been a lot of role reversal going on in the band. The roles people have been playing for a long time will always be there, but everybody's willing to try on different outfits.

If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money.