Quotes by Trying Don't let tradition paralyze your mind. Be receptive to new ideas. Be experimental. Try new approaches. Be progressive in everything you do. David J. Schwartz mindtryingideas I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues. What we're trying to do is play rock 'n' roll, but other people call it different things. David Johansen tryingpeoplethinking [T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help. David Foster Wallace stupidtryingneeds When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e., the verbal information I'm trying to convey) is only one part of it. Another part is stuff about me, the communicator. Everyone knows this. It's a function of the fact there are so many different well-formed ways to say the same basic thing, from e.g. "I was attacked by a bear!" to "Goddamn bear tried to kill me!" to "That ursine juggernaut did essay to sup upon my person!" and so on. David Foster Wallace juggernautwritingtrying If you do not want what I want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong. Or if my beliefs are different from yours, at least pause before you set out to correct them. Or if my emotion seems less or more intense than yours, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel other than I do. Or if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, please let me be. I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up trying to change me into a copy of you. David Keirsey designgiving-uptrying There is one thing that very reliably try to trumps the food supply and that is food demand. At the end of the day, the business of business is business and they are just trying to keep the customers satisfied, it depends what we want. The problem in our current mess is we want all the wrong stuff. Why do we want the wrong stuff? Because taste buds are very malleable little fellows. They learn to like what they know. We're bathing our taste buds in too much sugar, too much salt, too much processed food all day long. That's what they know and crave. David Katz problemtryinglong Brad [Dourif] would tell himself that he was not intentionally trying to mimic Jack Nicholson in any way. I think that actually bothers him a little bit. I just think maybe they have similar voices. David Kirschner voicetryingthinking Say the whole point of love is to try to get your fingers through the holes in the lover's mask. To get some kind of hold on the mask, and who cares how you do it. David Foster Wallace who-carestryinglove-is When we try to find our sense of security, value, worth from our work, we'll find ourselves anxiety-ridden and burdened. David Kim securityanxietytrying My work is about making candy for the eyes. It's about grabbing your attention. Even though my work is appearing in magazines I am trying to make a large picture. I want my photographs to read like a poster. David LaChapelle eyetryingattention When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself. David Leavitt silenceendstrying A tip for generalists who try to read economic research papers: If you get to a section that's incomprehensible, don't give up. Just skip to the next section. David Leonhardt dont-give-upgiving-uptrying Somebody threw a book at President Obama. If you're trying to scare a president by throwing a book at him, you're one president too late. David Letterman presidenttryingbook Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough. David Levithan writingtryinglove-is We love and we feel and we try and we hope. David Levithan feelstrying What I'm doing here is pointing out an irony: Here you have an institution that has systematically protected pedophile priests and then you have an innocent Michael Jackson, who California spent millions of dollars trying to prosecute and could not do it because it was complete bulls - t. David LaChapelle bullscaliforniatrying For the love of God, folks, don't try this at home. David Letterman comedyhometrying to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one level of a text to another. The text unveils itself before us, but never allows itself to be possessed; and instead of trying to possess it we should take pleasure in its teasing David Lodge curiositydesiretrying I change as the times change. I'm a reflection of what's around me without trying at all. David Lee Roth reflectiontrying Sometimes you get really bitter about how the prettiest images don't typically end up attached to the most interesting music. But I just take that as a challenge to try to do something cool. David Longstreth challengestryinginteresting«188189190191192193194195196197198»
