Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edsger Dijkstra

Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine problems, and always try to work as closely as possible at the boundary of your abilities. Do this, because it is the only way of discovering how that boundary should be moved forward.

Edward Abbey

Women: We cannot love them all. But we must try.

Eddy Curry

It is hard to try and find a rhythm when you're only out there for short spurts, but it's fine,

Eddy Arnold

I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.

Atom Egoyan

It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose.

Atom Egoyan

Try to produce your own films, avoid directing for hire.

Atul Gawande

Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.

Aristotle

Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.

Ben Hogan

If the Masters offered no money at all, I would be here trying just as hard.

Ed McBain

I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.

Elizabeth David

I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again.

Elizabeth Bowen

[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.

Elena Anaya

I never go to a gym unless I have to for a role, a contract. I try to take care of myself as a human being, not because I have to be in front of the camera.

Deepak Chopra

Feel the world, instead of trying to understand the world.

Dionne Warwick

I try to be cognisant of when and how and what I eat and get as much rest as I possibly can, as that helps the vocal cords.

Dave Morin

If I learned one thing working at Facebook: If users are trying to use your app in a certain way, get out of their way and let them.

Dave Mustaine

Dude, if you want to be a great musician, you have to try heroin. You'll see. It's like being back in the womb.

Dave Ramsey

The world will try to tell you that you need stuff to be somebody. Don't listen

She's leery of trying new things, new people. That's something that has to be worked on.

Zach Duke

Nothing is a given. Anything can happen. I'm just getting my work in and trying to get better.

Fred Hoiberg

Right now, I'm trying to make a decision.

Scott Gomez

Right now, basically, you are kind of trying out,

Sylvia Hatchell

She was tired. And we were trying to get some more rebounds.

She was always trying to make the world a better place even while she was sick.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

I'm not a 'guitarist.' I'm trying to be a bassist.

Taron Egerton

I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.

Dick Wolf

The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits.

Dick Van Dyke

When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.

Diane Lane

I try not to be overly analytical.

Dennis Farina

I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.

Denis Johnson

What could be lonelier than trying to communicate?

Deborah Roberts

There is no sin in delegating. The sin is trying to do it all.

Dee Dee Myers

There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and his Administration try to accomplish.