Quotes by Trying A Composer who hears sounds will try to find a notation for sounds. One who has ideas will find one that expresses his ideas, leaving their interpretation free, in confidence that his ideas have been accurately and concisely notated. Cornelius Cardew leavingtryingideas To try deliberately for self-actualization is like trying very hard to fall asleep or to have a good time. Cornelius Plantinga selftryingfall I was trying to cheat death. I was only trying to surmount for a little while the darkness that all my life I surely knew was going to come rolling in on me some day and obliterate me. I was only to stay alive a little brief while longer, after I was already gone. Cornell Woolrich rollingdarknesstrying I had that trapped feeling, like some sort of a poor insect that you've put inside a downturned glass, and it tries to climb up the sides, and it can't, and it can't, and it can't. Cornell Woolrich glassesfeelingstrying When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds. Corrie Ten Boom succeedfailingtrying God dealt with our whole situation on the cross; there is nothing left for you to settle. Just say to Him, 'Lord, I cannot forgive and I will no longer try to do it; but I trust that You in me will do it. I can't forgive and love; but I trust that You will forgive and love in my place and that You will do these things in me.' Corrie Ten Boom forgivingand-lovetrying I'm afraind of losing my sense of trying to always be better. I love competition against myself. Cory Arcangel competitionlosingtrying It is okay not to like someone, but it is never okay to try and degrade, humiliate, or dehumanize them. Cory Booker degradeokaytrying Open platforms and experimental amateurs eventually beat out the spendy, slick pros. Relying on incumbents to produce your revolutions is not a good strategy. They're apt to take all the stuff that makes their products great and try to use technology to charge you extra for it, or prohibit it altogether. Cory Doctorow technologystufftrying It's really annoying when you're trying to get to know someone and she doesn't pay attention to you because she's obsessed with her phone. Cory Monteith phonestryingattention I see the people in the tabloids, the ones that get bad press, who have kind of gone off the edge, and I try to study them so that I don't do that. It seems like they lost focus at some point - that's the one thing they all have in common. Cory Monteith focustryingpeople I'm trying to see if I can speak about our society today, but I cannot speak about the theme, because it's a bit difficult. I'm just starting to work on that. Because we live in a kind of world which has drastically changed in the last years. We speak about globalization, and how it's become the reason for everything. It has a kind of deep meaning. To be everywhere and to be nowhere at the same time. You think to globalize, you think, the Earth, it's your country. No, it's not your country. It's not easy to catch it in a cinema. It's too huge. Costa-Gavras tryingcountrythinking Aging gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another. Courteney Cox agingone-thingtrying Sometimes there are four or five cameras in front of your face moving all over the place, and you have to try to see the person in between the cameras, and a sane person would go, "I can't do this." Courtney B. Vance camerastryingmoving And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it. C.P. Cavafy shapeswanttrying From all I did and all I said let no one try to find out who I was. C.P. Cavafy saidtrying Try to keep them, poet, those erotic visions of yours, however few of them there are that can be stilled. Put them, half-hidden, in your lines. C.P. Cavafy eroticvisiontrying The only good excuse for not succeeding is DEATH! Unless you're trying to be a ghost. Then it's LIFE! Craig Benzine succeedghosttrying I'd choose truth over cake but I'd try to find a way to get both to be honest. Craig Benzine caketryingway It's better to have won & lost than to have won, stopped trying, & descended into alcoholism. Craig Benzine alcoholismlosttrying«160161162163164165166167168169170»
