"Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things."
Read quote
6 likes
Trying quotes
Trying
18.3K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Trying
Browse quotes that often appear alongside trying — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Trying quotes (page 87 of 917)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school."
Read quote
6 likes
"There is the first satisfaction of arranging it on a bit of paper; after many, many false tries, false moves, finally you have the sentence you recognize as the one you are looking for."
Read quote
6 likes
"Very often, if you think about what's erotic and break it down, as we're feeling the excitement of eroticism, we're feeling fear. We want to try to dominate our fear and get rid of our fear, so we go towards it and have sex with it, basically. That's really sad."
Read quote
6 likes
"In Paris... I achieved a freer attitude toward anti-Semitism, which I now began to understand historically and to pardon. Above all, I recognized the emptiness and futility of trying to "combat" anti-Semitism."
Read quote
6 likes
"It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time."
Read quote
6 likes
"I like to keep a uniform - wear a blazer, try to keep the same colour pants; very tailored, very fitted but still edgy."
Read quote
6 likes
"Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something."
Read quote
6 likes
"The first thing I would do for anyone who's trying to lose body fat, for instance, would be to remove foods from the house that he or she would consume during lapses of self-control."
Read quote
6 likes
"Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative."
Read quote
6 likes
"But you know what I'm trying to say, it's that there's a couple of really dangerous drugs out there and I've lost some friends to them."
Read quote
6 likes
"Wait, wait, wait, wait. Don't try to write through it, to force it. Many do, but that won't work. Just wait, it will come."
Read quote
6 likes
"What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives"
Read quote
6 likes
"When I am writing, I try to do it five hours a day but I spend about two of those just fooling around."
Read quote
6 likes
"When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride."
Read quote
6 likes
"As funny as watching a man in a wig trying to hold down a job on a helipad"
Read quote
6 likes
"I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life."
Read quote
6 likes
"If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?"
Read quote
6 likes
"If you try to delight the undelightable, you've made yourself miserable for no reason."
Read quote
6 likes
"But what if I fail? You will. A better question might be, ‘after I fail, what then?’ If you’ve chosen well, after you fail you will be one step closer to succeeding, you will be wiser and stronger and you almost certainly will be more respected by all of those that are afraid to try."
Read quote
6 likes