Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeremy Jones

In all aspects of my life, I try to reduce my impact on the earth - that includes snowboarding, as well.

Jeremy Jackson

My mission in life is to try and get to a point where my insides world is not affected by the outside world.

Jeremy London

I don't need to hang out in a posse and try to act cool.

Jennifer Hudson

You're not living if you don't go out and try things for yourself.

Jennifer Hudson

I try to dress a little casual before my photo-shoots. I can be comfortable before I go into my... transition.

Jeff Bridges

You prep, you prep, you prep. And on the day that you film, you let all of that go. I try to achieve emptiness as much as possible - the Zen thing - to let the deal come out of that nothing.

Jeff Bridges

My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me.

Jeff Bridges

It can kind of screw up things if you're trying to overwork something.

George William Russell

Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side.

George S. Patton

Do not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances.

George Saunders

As a writer I'm essentially just trying to impersonate a first-time reader, who picks up the story and has to decide, at every point, whether to keep going.

George Saunders

It's one thing to be a perfectionist when you're alone, but when you're trying to make it work in an ensemble that's a whole different deal.

George Saunders

In my case, when I am trying to be "kind" I often default in a sort of toothless loving-all stance that is, actually, not kind, because it is not truthful.

George Saunders

I know that my only chance at any kind of depth or profundity is to linger within the story, trying to make it distinguish itself.

George Saunders

If you at least try to do the things that excite you, it will make you a more expansive and present person - you’ll feel, at the end of your life, that at least you took the shot.

George Saunders

I've seen time and time again the way that the process of trying to say something dignifies and improves a person.

Jean-Claude Juncker

Those who are saying that Mario Draghi is in the camp of those trying to push Greece outside the Euroarea, are wrong.

Jean Paul

For no one does life drag more disagreeably than for those who try to speed it up.

Jim Garrison

It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaign to discredit my investigation, nor to waste time trying to prove negatives.

Jerry Spinelli

Hey, this is it—right now!—the time when you find out who you are and what you can do. And how will you ever know if you don't try new stuff?

Jerry Seinfeld

I like to try anything... You have to do the experiments to find out what the formulas are.

I don't know what I was trying to get out of a tenor - but it never really satisfied me until one day I picked up my alto and I said, 'Where have you been?' and I said right here for now on!

Jeffrey Gitomer

Sell yourself before you try to sell your company or your product.

Jeffrey Eugenides

and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world

Jeff Koons

I don't like being naïve about the market, and I always try to make things as great as I can. Then I hope that there's an audience that enjoys them, and that hopefully those things get protected.

Jim Elliot

Missionaries are very human folks, simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt somebody.

Jim Bakker

You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.

History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what do do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.

Jennifer Lee

Don't lose faith in what you are trying to do, even though you will get pummeled emotionally left and right. There are a lot of NOs to any YES. And that's OK.

Jennifer O'Neill

My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.

Jennifer Lynch

Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.

Jennifer Lawrence

I'm trying not to change.

Jeff Francoeur

I'm a different hitter than Chipper Jones. He goes up looking for certain pitches to hit. I go up there looking for something over the plate and try to hit it hard.