Top 100 When You Try Quotes
#1. It was like falling in love - the things that get you are so small, the things that keep you up at night are so particular to you that when you try to explain, the only reward anyone can give you is a dumb polite nod.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#3. When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything.
Shunryu Suzuki
#4. By going along with feelings, you unify your emotional, mental and bodily states. When you try to fight or deny them, you divorce yourself from the reality of your being.
Jane Roberts
#5. Success is when you try to achieve your inward vision externally and have it come off the way you see it. Then YOU feel successful about it; that's how success is measured.
George Lucas
#6. No I just feel a little dizzy. You know, like when you try to read the newspaper in the car and all the lines start waving around and go blurry?"
"That doesn't happen to me"
"Oh.
Catherine Clark
#8. I want to be the kind of person who can do that. Move on and forgive people and be healthy and happy. It seems like an easy thing to do in my head. But it's not so easy when you try it in real life.
Susane Colasanti
#9. One thing I've learnt is you should never fight it. They're natural emotions and when you try and bottle everything up, that's what can make you depressed. Luckily I have fantastic memories [about my parents] and they really help.
Simon Cowell
#10. When you try to do something ten per cent better, you tend to work from where you are: if I ask you to make a car that goes 50 miles a gallon, you can just retool the engine you already have.
Astro Teller
#11. Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it.
Evel Knievel
#12. I've decided I don't want to be a manager. Every time you try to be responsive to your employees, they say you're being reactive and not proactive. And when you try to be proactive, they accuse you of being capricious and arbitrary. So I don't wanna be a manager ...
Larry Wall
#13. The problem is when you try to impose today's standards on people living back then. It's the politically correct thing to do, but it was a different era, a different country then.
Dick Clark
#14. It seems as if when you try to do just one thing and nothing but, you can't do it at all. You do everything better if there's more than one thing.
Nancy Hale
#15. There's so many good books, but I'm always like, "I'm sorry, I have five more Faulkners to read, I can't be bothered." Most of the time when you try, you fall on the wrong one.
Lou Doillon
#16. Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I don't hold on to that .
Diana Ross
#17. Happiness must be a jealous pet. When you try seeking yours out, it tends to keep hidden. But as soon as you turn to help a friend find his, your own happiness comes bounding out of the darkness like some crazed animal.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#18. The trick is, when you try a good pair of jeans on, you may not think they're that great, but you wear them two months, and they become your favorite jeans. They're tricky. You gotta let them live.
Chris Evans
#19. My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
Yanni
#20. the only thing that really gets hurt when you try and change time is yourself.
Douglas Adams
#21. Thomas rolled his eyes. "I never said jack about me being braver than anybody. I'm just sick of hearing people's voices. Yours included."
Minho snickered. "Slinthead, when you try to be mean, it's just freaking hilarious.
James Dashner
#22. The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their own children to drink wine, they gibber like baboons even when you try to speak to them in their own wimpy language.
P. J. O'Rourke
#23. When you try hard to get something, but you gain nothing, this is what's called depression.
Al-Hanouf Halawi
#24. Life can get fucked up fast when you try to be a pleaser. Because people won't ever be pleased, not even if you drop them ass-first into paradise. They like bitching too much.
Charles Frazier
#25. When you try to worry about missteps and all that kind of stuff, that's not the healthiest way to be.
Jeremy Piven
#26. Prophecy is most dangerous when you try to make it happen ... The Pattern weaves itself around you, but when you try to weave it, even you cannot hold it.
Robert Jordan
#27. The problem with always being a conformist is that when you try to change the system from within, it's not you who changes the system; it's the system that will eventually change you.
Immortal Technique
#28. So when you try to squeeze light too much to make sure it's going in only a straight line, it refuses to cooperate and begins to spread out.
Richard Feynman
#29. Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes.
Harvey MacKay
#30. I'm naturally attracted to something I don't understand because when you try to deal with something you don't understand, it opens a door into another world.
Simon McBurney
#31. When you try to bring about behavioral change by an effort of will, you actually do violence to yourself, and the chances are very good that you will not succeed. This is so universally true that you can actually make money from it.
Srikumar Rao
#32. It is only when you try to refine the obvious, and give the distinctions greater precision, that you get into difficulties. For
Mortimer J. Adler
#33. Prayer becomes religious when you try use it for something God never intended.
Andrew Wommack
#34. Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it.
Mia Hamm
#35. When you try to build Heaven on earth you end up building ghetto's of Hell
Dean Cavanagh
#36. When you try to make others happy, happiness will follow you like your shadow forever.
Debasish Mridha
#37. The better your base is, and the more you know from experience, the better off you'll be when you try and make the big move.
Joan Jett
#38. When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.
Nate Silver
#39. When you try to go back and watch improv on tape, it almost never feels as good as it did when a crowd was laughing at it.
Chris Gethard
#40. When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in.
Maureen O'Hara
#41. You can't be two people in your brain, one rock dude and a dad - there's something in the middle of them, and that's really what you are and that's going to make you the best dad - not when you try to be one or the other.
Gerard Way
#42. You are a manipulator when you try to persuade people to do something that is not in their best interests but is in yours. You are a motivator when you find goals that will be good for both sides, then weld together a high-achieving, high-morale partnership to achieve them.
Alan Loy McGinnis
#43. When you try to stop activity to achieve passivity your very effort fills you with activity.
Sengcan
#44. When you try to talk about yourself, you dont know who you are, or what your like, or what your like to other people. And the moment you do it's a formula for yourself, and then you're imitating yourself, and then nobody likes you and they dont know why.
Carol Channing
#45. Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn't catch up, it overtakes ... blotting out the future.
Sarah Dessen
#46. Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.
Usher
#47. I was making sure everyone knew Crabtree was a mediocre receiver. And when you try the best corner in the game with a mediocre receiver, that's what happens. I appreciate that he knows that now.
Richard Sherman
#48. When you try to be a role model, not everybody can relate to some of your highs - awards, championships. But everybody can relate to the lows. Everybody's gotten fired from a job or gotten cut. People learn more about you in those lows than they do in the highs.
Tim Tebow
#49. When you try to do something you've never done before, you risk falling on your face.
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
#50. It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.
Sharon Stone
#51. What I have found is that even when you try to transform existing structures they are so powerful they often overwhelm, seduce, and control you.
Eve Ensler
#52. When you try on something, you have to ask yourself, 'How many ways could I wear this? Could I wear it to work? To dinner or drinks? Will it span the seasons' If you have to think too hard about those questions, then skip it.
Michael Kors
#53. If you don't know how to take care of your own needs, when you try to give to others, you are giving from a bankrupt account.
James Dillehay
#54. It's easy to get buried in the past when you try to make a good thing last.
Neil Young
#55. I know where my game is. I know I'm a power hitter and an RBI guy. I need to get on base for my teammates behind me and just stick with my game. I don't try to do too much. Sometimes when you try to do too much in this game you pretty much can't do anything. And that's pretty much my mentality.
Marco Scutaro
#56. I guess it's going to have to hurt, I guess I'm going to have to cry, And let go of some things I've loved to get to the other side
I guess it's going to break me down, Like fallin when you try to fly,
Sad but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life starts with goodbye
Carrie Underwood
#57. When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything. When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The
Shunryu Suzuki
#58. When you try to grasp the way the Western world is going, you see that we are on a ratchet towards a surveillance state, which is coming to include the whole population in its surveillance. This is our reward for accepting the restraints on the way we live now.
Tom Stoppard
#59. Our contemporary brand of socialism has one fatal flaw. It's too expensive. When you try to shower benefits on so many recipients, you eventually must resort to subterfuge. Foremost among those tricks is money and credit expansion. Inevitably, you debase your currency.
James Cook
#60. Just watch. Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. When you try to take it too far, people turn the other way. I'm just telling you, when you've got a good thing and you get greedy, it always, always, always, always, always turns on you. That's rule No. 1 of business.
Mark Cuban
#61. We can debug relationships, but it's always good policy to consider the people themselves to be features. People get annoyed when you try to debug them.
Larry Wall
#62. Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?
Maxine Hong Kingston
#63. Burnout is what happens when you try to avoid being human for too long.
Michael Gungor
#64. When you try to communicate too many ideas, sometimes you wind up communicating nothing.
Andrew Cuomo
#65. I want to stay in some era and remain there like a stupid idiot and see what happens when you try to pause time and not affect it. Not succeed. Not try to think ahead or think behind.
Ariel Pink
#66. I think the most important trait for an entrepreneur is persistence. When you try to do something new and difficult, you are more likely to fail than to succeed.
Trip Adler
#67. My 'Movember' moustache was never going to be as big as Nigel Mansell's, but I tried my best. The amazing thing is that when you try to grow a moustache, you notice everyone else's. There are some amazing moustaches on the grid.
Jenson Button
#68. Sometimes when you try too hard," Aqamdax explained, "things get tangled, and the only way to untangle them is to let go.
Sue Harrison
#69. Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer.
Frank Herbert
#70. If you really want to be a music producer, stop watching 'Friends' when you get home from school. Start trying to make music. If you're not going to try, then it's impossible. When you try, it's always possible.
Afrojack
#71. When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.
Timothy Ferriss
#72. And do you know what love is? It's when you try to picture your life without someone and you can't.
Aaron Starmer
#73. When You Try To Control Everything, Remember, It's Just A Matter of Time You'll End Up Losing Everything ...
Muhammad Imran Hasan
#74. I don't smoke. Smoking will hurt you when you try to run out a triple.
Pete Rose
#75. When you try to do something bigger and more grandiose, a lot of times it's more apt to fall apart. It's a lot easier to lay down a bunch of singles than it is to get a home run.
Jim Lee
#76. When we want to reach a dream for the second time, you want it to come true, when you try so hard, you are so close to achieving it, it makes things very difficult to live with afterwards.
Guy Forget
#77. When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.
R. Lee Ermey
#78. It's hard to see where we're going since it's now dark, and I wonder if in some ironic twist of fate, we'll soar over the cliff without even realizing it. Like the universe's final joke: you can't plan your death, even when you try.
Jasmine Warga
#79. Perhaps it was only that when you try to put it into words you cannot express it truly, it never sounds as you dream it.
Michael Shaara
#80. I've seen a lot of good things and a lot of the bad of what Hollywood can bring. At the end of the day, I've found that when you try and fit in, that's a way to go crazy; you kind of lose yourself. I'm sometimes the different one at the table, but I don't care.
Drew Sidora
#81. When you try to portray people's lives, you try to make sure you don't portray them as clowns and that you give them a level of dignity. You don't try to change their persona, but you try to understand that they had unique problems, set in a century that you don't live.
Kevin Costner
#82. There's an old military saying that a plan only works perfectly when you try it out on the enemy.
Manel Loureiro
#83. You're insane." He smiled. "I love it when you try to flatter your way into my pants.
Suzanne Wright
#84. You really can't go home again. Sometimes, that's a good thing. Sometimes, when you try, you find out that home isn't really there anymore ... but that it wasn't only in your head before. Home actually existed. Home wasn't just a dream. Sometimes, that's the best thing of all.
Mira Grant
#85. Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.
Brian Tracy
#86. Unhappiness comes when you try to be like everyone else rather than embracing the unique person that you are.
Joyce Meyer
#87. believe that hard work pays off, then you work hard; if you think it's hard to get ahead even when you try, then why try at all? Similarly,
J.D. Vance
#88. Overconfidence is a strong ally. People are always surprised when you try to do things you can't.
Edward W. Robertson
#89. You'll find it-when you try to die- The Easier to let go- For recollecting such as went- You could not spare-you know.
Emily Dickinson
#90. Knowledge is a wealth that cannot be stolen; it will grow when you try to give it away.
Debasish Mridha
#91. Love is like a pane of glass.. It can take harsh beatings from the weather around it ... But if it gets hit in the right place it shatters.. And when you try to pick it up ... You end up getting cut.
Tyler Hoyt
#92. When you try rescuing someone and discover they can't be reached, why would you ever throw that back in their face?
Jay Asher
#93. She wants you to tell her she is just going to be displeased, David. She knows you can't fix everything and it frustrates her when you try. Just tell her it isn't anything you can fix but you will get through it together.
Wilson Harp
#94. Hard work is the only way to go. Strive to be the best you can be and remember that when you try your best, you can't ask any more from yourself, and people can't ask any more from you.
Michael Chang
#95. If you've got short, stubby fingers and wear reading glasses, any relaxation you would normally derive from fly fishing is completely eliminated when you try to tie on a fly.
Jack Ohman
#96. Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday!
Pat Riley
#97. Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusive.
Ze Frank
#98. As long as you hate your enemy, a jail door is closed and a prisoner is taken. But when you try to understand and release your foe from your hatred, then the prisoner is released and that prisoner is you.
Max Lucado
#99. It's astonishing how well the worse reason looks when you try to make it appear the better.
William Dean Howells
#100. I don't like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don't really understand the word 'irony' too much. The irony comes when you try to verbalize the absurd. When irony happens without words, it's much more exalted.
David
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