Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dean Kamen

Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

One has to get through a big pile of mail every day. I don't pass my letters on to a secretary; rather, I try to take care of all of them myself.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Certainly one must try everything, but only to become more certain what God's way is.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.

Elbert Hubbard

There is no failure except the failure of trying.

Eleanor Roosevelt

it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I can't tell you how to succeed, but I can tell you how to fail: Try to please everybody.

Eduardo Chillida

To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

Edsger Dijkstra

In the software business there are many enterprises for which it is not clear that science can help them; that science should try is not clear either.

Edsger Dijkstra

Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine problems, and always try to work as closely as possible at the boundary of your abilities. Do this, because it is the only way of discovering how that boundary should be moved forward.

Edward Abbey

Women: We cannot love them all. But we must try.

Eddy Curry

It is hard to try and find a rhythm when you're only out there for short spurts, but it's fine,

Eddy Arnold

I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.

Atom Egoyan

It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose.

Atom Egoyan

Try to produce your own films, avoid directing for hire.

Atul Gawande

Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.

Aristotle

Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.

Ben Hogan

If the Masters offered no money at all, I would be here trying just as hard.

Alexei Sayle

As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

Wendell Berry

We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

When you think about the word 'quintessentially', it's about trying to get to the very essence of something.

Becky G

It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!

David Selby

Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show.

David Friedman

I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

Anna Paquin

Sookie is always in distress, it wouldn't be 'True Blood' if someone wasn't trying to kill her.

Alice Oswald

It's a question of trying to take down by dictation what's already there. I'm not making something, I'm trying to hear it.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I'm always exploring other people: trying to figure out myself, trying to figure out everyone.

When I go in there, I'm trying to make plays,

will.i.am

If my mind's not trying to fix something or create something, I don't know what to do. It just throws me off.

Ville Valo

Play as well as you can; that's it, as opposed to creating these odd paranoias, trying to be something you're not.

Loretta Sanchez

The Vietnamese and the Republicans are, with an intensity, trying to take this seat from which we have done so much for our community - to take this seat and give it to this Van Tran, who is very anti-immigrant and very anti-Hispanic.