Quotes on Trying

Reasoning based on cost has been strenuously resisted; it violated the Hippocratic Oath, was associated with rationing, and derided as putting a price on life... Indeed, many physicians were willing to lie to get patients what they needed from insurance companies that were trying to hold down costs.

Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.

I am in competition with no one. I have no desire to play the game of being better than anyone. I am simply trying to be better than the person I was yesterday.

It seems the more I try to connect with the world, I am feeling more alone than I ever have felt before

I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn't necessarily cater to most of them.

Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don't think so. Don't condemn them. Any fool can do that. Try to understand them. Only wise, tolerant, exceptional people even try to do that.

If you try to delight the undelightable, you've made yourself miserable for no reason.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

Where those two energies [male and female energies] intersect, all creativity is possible. We already have divine creative energy within us. And what is the most powerful of these energies? The energy that patriarchy and misogyny constantly try to repress. The divine female sexual energy. The creative energy of the female. That is why I worship divine sexual female energy.

This is how it works _x000D_ You peer inside yourself _x000D_ You take the things you like _x000D_ And try to love the things you took _x000D_ And then you take that love you made _x000D_ And stick it into some _x000D_ Someone else's heart _x000D_ Pumping someone else's blood.

Nine to five is how ya survive, I ain't trying to survive _x000D_ I'm trying to live it to the limit and love it alive

Society is made up of individuals. The thoughts and actions of each individual influence the culture of that society. Instead of waiting for others to improve, we should try to improve ourselves. Once our attitude has changed, we will be able to perceive goodness throughout world. If there is a positive change in us, it will also be reflected in others. It is only what we give that we can hope to get back.

If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant. . . then you're in deep trouble.

I do small things. I try to do good things every day. _x000D_ If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.

There is no cultivation of patience when your pattern is to just try to seek harmony and smooth everything out. Patience implies willingness to be alive rather than trying to seek harmony.

There is a vast territory between what we're trying to leave behind, and where we want to go - and we don't have any maps for that territory.

We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.

I think as a company, if you can get two things right--having a clear direction on what you are trying to do and bringing in great people who can execute on the stuff--then you can do pretty well.

Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.

If you want to be unhappy, uncomfortable, and insecure, just spend your life trying to do something that is not right for you. It is just like trying to wear shoes that don't fit.

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.