Famous Quotes & Sayings

Natalie Portman

I'm trying to use whatever attention is focused on me and divert it to something that really deserves the attention and try and sort of stay out of the way of the rest of the stuff.

MyAnna Buring

I always joke that I'm a British actress trying to break into Scandinavian TV.

Taylor Swift

One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

Taylor Swift

When you see something bad happening out in the world, you should try to help in whatever way you can.

Taylor Swift

I love trying to beat what I've done so far.

Taylor Swift

It’s okay to wonder how you could try so hard and still get stomped all over. Just don’t let them change you.

Tavi Gevinson

I try not to do anything I don't like, so I stay motivated pretty easily.

Tony Romo

You just work at it. You just keep grinding away, keep trying to get better, and if you got the ability, one day you have a chance.

Tony Robbins

If the results don't scream: "Do this again!" Try something new.

Tony Robbins

When you feel you have good although incomplete expertise, start trying things. If it's not working, try something else; maintain an experimental mindset.

Tony Robbins

The most important thing is what you already do. It's being authentic. It's being curious, trying to discover gifts.

Malcolm Turnbull got a majority in the parliament that he is trying to ignore and lock his own members of parliament into positions that they don't hold, and sometimes into positions that we know he doesn't hold. It's no wonder the public's started turning on him.

Simone de Beauvoir

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

Simone Weil

We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.

Simon Sinek

The value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails.

Simon Sinek

We must all try to empathize before we criticize. Ask someone what's wrong before telling them they are wrong.

Simon Sinek

So much of starting a business or affecting change is the confidence and courage to simply try.

Simon Mainwaring

Since most corporate competitors have the same problems with sustainability and social reputation, it's worth trying to solve them together.

Rick Riordan

If possible, try to avoid pushing each other over the edge, as that would cause me extra paperwork.

Thomas Carlyle

Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.

Tony La Russa

We never quit trying. I know that's kind of corny, but the fact is we never quit trying. The dugout was alive even when we were behind. And sometimes it works.

Tommy Lee Jones

I try as hard as I can for everything to be different from one movie to the next.

Tommy Hilfiger

Trying too hard to follow every trend. You want to look fashionable and put-together, not like you hit every sale rack this season.

Tom Welling

Take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work.

Tom Welling

I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.

Tom Waits

I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else.

Tom Shippey

Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define it.

Tom Skerritt

I'm currently trying to direct my own material.

Steven Spielberg

When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.

Steven Gerrard

Don't try to beat the goalkeeper...Tr y to destroy the goalkeeper.

Steve McConnell

Trying to apply formal methods to all software projects is just as bad as trying to apply code-and-fix development to all projects.

Steve Miller

We're trying to increase the efficiency of students to learn from current instruction.

Steve Martin

Always do business as if the person you're doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he's not, you can be pleasantly surprised.