D Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with D. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Don't try to imitate other coaches. Be your own person with your own style and do your own thing.”
“Don't try to impress God with your works" or "Don't attempt to please God with your merits" or "Don't try to keep the rules and regulations in order to earn your salvation." He looked around at nearly slumbering collections of utterly casual Christians and wondered, "Who's trying?”
“Don't try to impress people. Always be yourself!”
“Don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present!”
Source: Innovation and Entrepreneurship
“Don't try to lawyer me out of common sense.”
“Don't try to live. Let yourself be lived.”
“Don't try to lose weight. Take delight in gaining fitness.”
“Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.”
“Don't try to make comparisons between your own pictures. Forget what you have done and think only of making the best of what you are doing.”
“Don't try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped”
“Don't try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.”
“Don't try to make me grow up before my time.”
Source: Little Women
“Don't try to outguess what's going on in publishing, and write what you want to write.”
“Don't try to prove anything about yourself to anyone. It isn't necessary. Your worth shines through to others- know your worth.”
“Don't try to reinvent the wheel. Just learn from the guys who have already done it well. You need a mentor, a seasoned coach who is willing to share his wisdom and experience with you. Ask someone who has already been successful to guide you.”
“Don't try to run your life through a single straw. Someone, some event, will cut it off.”
“Don't try to rush progress. Remember -- a step forward, no matter how small, is a step in the right direction. Keep believing.”
“Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled.”
Source: Selected poems
“Don't try to sail your ship now by how the wind is going to be in three days.
You have to sail with the winds are they are now.”
“Don't try to skin your rabbit and keep it as a pet too.”
“Don't try to sneak in through the window. Just come boldly onto stage, like come right through the door with your choice. Kill the judge in your head and just take action.”
“Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.”
Source: The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick: The minority report
“Don't try to solve the entire problem on day one.”
“Don't try to start a career in LA, unless money is all you're interested in.”
“Don't try to steer the boat. Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent. You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear, And if you do speak, ask for explanations.”
“Don't try to steer the river.”
“Don't try to stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom.”
“Don't try to strike everybody out ... stay back and just focus on the catcher's mitt, just throw the ball low in the strike zone.”
“Don't try to tackle a two-hour feature movie as your first project. Cut your teeth on a smaller level and work through the kinks at that level and build your strength as you go.”
“Don't try to take on a new personality; it doesn't work.”
“Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't work, and it annoys the pig.”
“Don't try to teach men how to do anything in public. They can learn in private; in public they have to know.”
“Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.”
“Don't try to tell me what I am because I know what I am not”
“Don't try to touch my heart, it's darker than you think. And don't try to read my mind, because it's full of disappearing ink.”
“Don't try to transport something you don't possess...I want this truth to be incarnational.”
“Don't try to understand it. You won't succeed. Don't try to see it. You can't. Try to live it, and you will be living out of the center.”
Source: Dear Abba: Morning and Evening Prayer
“Don't try to understand life. Live it! Don't try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will know - and all that knowing will come out of your experiencing. The more you know, the more you know that much remains to be known.”
“Don't try to understand me, just be grateful that you felt the warmth of Zaphod Beeblebrox's aura on your wonderstruck face.”
Source: And Another Thing...
“Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-al ready-are.”
“Don't try to watch two teams in one night. Focus on one team, and focus on five or six guys at first.”
“Don't try to win over the haters; you are not a jackass whisperer.”
“Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth”
Source: The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more
“Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.”
“Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.”
“Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.”
“Don't try too hard to be something you're not.”
“Don't try too hard to be young. Be who you are.”
“Don't turn around. 'Cuz you will get punched in the face. Don't make this worse. You've already gone and got me mad. It's too bad, I'm not sad It's casting over. Just one of those things you'll have to get over it.”
“Don't turn around. Don't look back. Keep moving forward. Keep pushing. The pot of gold is at the end of the rainbow, not the beginning.”