Trying Quotes - page 3

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it. (Sandy Koufax)
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. View quote
Jack London
So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others. View quote
Elijah Wood
I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Live is never dull. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music. View quote
Gustav Mahler
To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. View quote
Winston Churchill
Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume. View quote
Arthur Miller
Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from. View quote
Arthur Miller
I would like people to recognize in looking at my story that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you. It's not the environment, it's not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It's what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it. View quote
Ben Carson
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window. (Peter Drucker)
We're not trying to entertain the critics ... I'll take my chances with the public. View quote
Walt Disney
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. View quote
Thomas Edison
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them. View quote
Henry Ford
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve. View quote
Max Planck
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish. View quote
Michael E. Porter
For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50 years, the pharmaceutical industry is treating you for everything. View quote
Pierre Dukan
As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace. View quote
Rene Cassin
The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition. View quote
W. Chan Kim
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation. (Eileen Caddy)
In our family, you don't get a childhood. We're too busy trying to dominate the world. View quote
Gordon Korman
I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest. View quote
Graham Hancock
Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are. View quote
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Men do not fail; they give up trying. View quote
Elihu Root