Best asking & trying Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided.”

Trying Problem Running Fear Focus Fields Football Asking Defense Hardest Defenders Football Field

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?”

Trying Doe Art Artist Three Asking Photographer Appropriate Modest

Book:Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

Source: Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values

“That's when I use the word frustrating, when your body breaks down or your body doesn't do the things I'm asking it to do at my age, because I'm trying to keep up with the Joneses.”

Trying Use Body Age Break Asking Your Body Breaking Down Frustrating

Author:Roger Clemens

“People try to reconcile you to a disappointment in love by asking why you should cherish a passion for an object that has proved itself worthless. Had you known this before, you would not have encouraged the passion; but that having been once formed, knowledge does not destroy it. If we have drank poison, finding it out does not prevent its being in our veins: so passion leaves its poison in the mind!”

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“I think sometimes I get carried away, like I'm speaking to an imaginary audience rather than just trying to figure something out for myself. Ideally, I try to balance that - that I'm asking these questions of myself, how does this work, why does this happen, what's going on here.”

Thinking Trying Doe Sometimes Happens Audience Figures Balance Asking Imaginary Carried Away

Author:David Byrne

“Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel. . . not simply working from the given, but toward the given, saying the unsayable and steadily asking, "What do I really feel about this?”

Thinking Feels Trying Given Asking

Book:Robert Penn Warren talking: interviews, 1950-1978

Source: Robert Penn Warren talking: interviews, 1950-1978

“There's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers. I try, I really do, but it's hard for me to accept this way of thinking. I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken.”

Ifs Thinking Way Giving Trying Hard Use Answers Accepting Wonder Taken Asking What If Way Of Thinking Road Not Taken

Book:To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“The act of trying keeps me excited, looking, asking questions and learning.”

Trying Effort Asking Excited Asking Questions

Author:Doug Dawson

“There are quite a lot of people asking for a painting so I'm not able to fulfil all their wishes. And this gives me a lot of freedom, because if I cannot please them at all I don't have to start to try.”

People Ifs Giving Trying Able Wish Painting Please Give Me Asking

Author:Norbert Bisky

“My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.”

People Trying War Facts Helping Fighting Found Father Language Clear Information Brother Asking Revenge Journalist Cycles Disappointed Brothers And Sisters Animosity Exacting Revenge

Author:Naomi Shihab Nye

“Since many people have been asking me to elaborate on why I think "Inglourious Basterds" is akin to Holocaust denial, I'll try to explain what I mean as succinctly as possible, by paraphrasing Roland Barthes: anything that makes Fascism unreal is wrong. For me, "Inglourious Basterds" makes the Holocaust harder, not easier to grasp -- as a historical reality, I mean, not as a movie convention. Insofar as it becomes a movie convention, it loses its historical reality.”

People Thinking Trying Mean Has Beens Reality Loses Easier Harder Asking Historical Denial Fascism Conventions Holocaust Unreal Holocaust Denial Paraphrasing

Author:Jonathan Rosenbaum

“You're just trying to be yourself, and for me, playing soccer is being myself. One day, you're one person on a team. The next thing people are asking your opinion about things you're not an expert on. Because they recognize you, they think you must know something about something - which isn't necessarily the case.”

People Thinking Knows Trying Persons Next Opinion Cases Team One Day Asking Soccer Experts Being Yourself Being Myself Playing Soccer

Author:Brandi Chastain

“When you are engaged in both trying to kill and capture the enemy and get support from the local population, you have to be always asking yourself, "Is what I'm doing keeping that balance?"”

Trying Enemy Support Balance Asking Population Locals Engaged Capture

Author:Hillary Clinton

“When he (Roger Clemens) threw the bat (during Game 2 of the 2000 World Series), I basically walked out and kept asking him what his problem was. He really had no response. I was trying to figure out whether it was intentional or not. I was going to ask him. If it was, then obviously he really no had response. I was more shocked and confused than anything.”

Ifs World Trying Problem Asks Games Figures Asking Series Response Confused Bats Shocked Roger World Series No Response

Author:Mike Piazza

“I have this table in my new house. They put this table in without asking. It was some weird nouveau riche marble table, and I hated it. But it was literally so heavy that it took a crane to move it. We would try to set up different things around it, but it never really worked. I realized that table was my ego. No matter what you put around it, under it, no matter who photographed it, the douchebaggery would always come through.”

Trying Different Matter Moving House Ego Asking No Matter What Tables Heavy I Realized Hated Different Things Marble Cranes Nouveau Riche

Author:Kanye West

“Lack of clarity is the number-one time-waster. Always be asking, 'What am I trying to do? How am I trying to do it.”

Trying Numbers Asking Clarity One Time

Author:Brian Tracy

“You cant legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth.”

Trying Humans Heart Individual Existence Mystery Judging Sitting Tests Asking Confession Human Heart Cant Asking Questions

Author:Athol Fugard

“CEOs of top companies could probably use a dose of not-asking-for-raise behavior and less self-entitlement, rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like.”

Thinking Trying Looks Self Use Order Girl Common Company Fit Behavior Asking Raises Ceo Mold Entitlement Dose Trying To Change

Author:Adora Svitak

“I, as a storyteller, was asking questions no one in science had apparently asked. What happens in a nest of tyrannosaurs? They're precocial, meaning when they hatch, they're ready to feed and move about. My questions are "Hmm, if there's a nest of tyrannosaurs, and there's three siblings that survive, would they try to eat each other?"”

Ifs Trying Happens Moving Three Ready Asking Storyteller Sibling Nests Asking Questions Hmm Three Siblings

Author:Stephen R. Bissette

“I expect that [trying to do the best] of my players today and of my kids. My wife says I shouldn't expect that of my children, but I don't think that's asking too much.”

Thinking Trying Children Kids Today Too Much Wife Player Asking My Wife My Children Do The Best Asking Too Much

Author:Frank Robinson

“Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale faculty. Within the university they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers ... it is a place where the world's hostility to curiosity can be defied.”

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Author:Edmund Morgan

“The inspiration for my novels comes from the depths of a creative well, based on asking myself questions over and over. I try to write something different each time I sit down to write; I try to surprise the readers.”

Writing Trying Wells Different Inspiration Novel Creative Reader Asking Surprise Depth

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“I'm always trying to ask myself both "Who am I as an individual?" and "What are the cultural forces that have made me the person that I am?" How can I understand myself as a cultural creature as well as an individual? I'm really obsessed with that question, and always asking my students to consider it.”

Trying Wells Persons Made Asks Individual Force Students Creatures Asking Obsessed Always Trying

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“I thought one way to try to hold on to the power was to write the script myself. That way, I could say to filmmakers, "I'm not asking you to hire me unseen. I'm just saying, 'Here's my script. Can we work together?'" So that worked out well.”

Way Writing Trying Wells Together Asking Scripts One Way Filmmaker Working Together Unseen Just Saying

Author:Emma Donoghue

“I truly understand that there is a lesson in everything that happens to us. So I tried not to spend my time asking "Why did this happen to me?" but trying to figure out why I had chosen this.”

Trying Happens Figures Lessons Asking Chosen My Time Asking Why

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“One of the reasons I work serially, but also one of the reasons that I try to claim space in painting, is I'm desperately interested in asking: How can a group of images, or even two images, have meaning together?”

Trying Two Reason Together Space Groups Painting Claims Asking

Author:Cynthia Daignault

“A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.”

Source: Morse, John T.Life and letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes

“God generously helps to those who try to do their best without asking God's help!”

Trying Helping Asking Asking God

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I'm going to approach it as trying to do my best, but you can't do everything yourself. That's asking for bad things to happen.”

Trying Happens Approach Asking Bad Things

Author:Mark Mulder

“If you want to understand a difficult or trying person, begin by asking the question: 'What is the wound they are trying to heal?'”

Ifs Want Trying Persons Difficult Asking Wounds Heal

Author:Mardy Grothe

“When you make a film it is like asking yourself a question. When it is finished, you know the answer. Ultimately with all of cinema, we are just trying to learn about ourselves. I have always used the opportunity to make a film to learn more about myself, which I am still doing.”

Knows Trying Stills Film Used Opportunity Answers Asking Finished Cinema

Author:Francis Ford Coppola

“All we are asking for is balance. I would like to think that I could walk into a public library and find not only works by Gloria Steinem but also those of Phyllis Schlafly. I would like to think a teenager could be taught in sex education that a serious alternative to abortion is teenage abstinence, or should pregnancy occur, that adoption might be preferable. I am not trying, as the ad says, to shove religion down anyone's throat. But I do think everyone has a right, and that the Christian voice is being chocked off.”

“People are so afraid of hearing "No" that they often don't even try. You have nothing to lose by just asking! A good friend of mine once told me, "Harv, a closed mouth won't get fed." Open your mouth! Say something if negotiations aren't going the way you'd like.”

People Ifs Way Trying Loses Mines Mouths Asking Hearing Feds Good Friend Say Anything Negotiation Nothing To Lose

Author:T. Harv Eker

“They're not trying to prevent Hollywood from making movies. They're asking that the most powerful image-building machinery in the world stop grinding out killer dykes and twisted homo sex fiends as if sexual orientation had anything to do with criminal behavior.”

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Author:Roger Ebert

“Don't make your audience play Jeopardy. Giving your answer before asking the question puts your audience at a disadvantage. It will also reveal your biases. Make it clear what question you are trying to answer first. Then allow your audience to engage in answering the question too.”

Giving Trying Firsts Play Answers Audience Clear Asking Disadvantages Jeopardy

Author:John Fairclough

“Most of Emily's backstory is written out between New Moon and Eclipse. I'm reading them as we're shooting the films. I haven't read Breaking Dawn yet. It's just too crazy. There's too much going on that you need a map. I just try to focus on one movie at a time. When we were doing New Moon press, people were already asking about Eclipse. I didn't read it until I was ready to go, so that it was fresh and I wasn't jumbled with all this other stuff.”

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Author:Tinsel Korey

“Often what is nearest is hardest of all to see - try asking a fish to define water. Distance opens a door to revelation. When the first great distances of space were conquered by technology, a camera altered the human perspective on the Earth as radically as Galileo did when he proved the sun was the center of the universe. The ecology movement was born from a photographically altered consciousness.”

“Trying to tell an authentic, raw and honest story without making it therapy. Separating myself enough to have perspective while putting myself in the emotional hot seat so that I could make this thing real. Asking for help. Delegating responsibility. Standing up for myself. Fighting the impulse to be sweet and likeable 24/7. Being open to all ideas, but staying true to the spine of the story. Knowing when to let go and when to hold on and fight like hell. Getting out of my own way. Shall I go on?”

“Someone wrote to me asking me to illustrate a missed connection that "hasn't happened yet." This guy has seen the same girl waiting at a bus stop on his morning commute for weeks, and has been trying to find a way to approach her. He thought it would be fun to put up a Missed Connections poster [of my painting] on the corner where she waits and see what happens. It is kind of an intriguing idea but there's something a bit too manipulative about it for my liking. It's a fine line between being creative and stalking!”

“9/11 just seemed to come out of the blue. And there were people asking questions, but then there were no answers. At some point, it just turned into, "We've got to do what we've got to do." And I think those are the moments when you grow, when you get the opportunity to try to figure out, exactly as you said, what price are you paying, and if it's worth that price.”

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Author:Susan Sarandon

“Help me to change the world is an invitation to be authentic, to follow your heart, to be free of superstitions and lies. And I'm not asking you to try to change the world. Don't try: just do it.”

World Trying Heart Helping Lying Asking Changing The World Help Me Superstitions Invitations Follow Your Heart Just Do It

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“I think the whole experience of being a human being on the planet is such a mystery, to be honest. Trying to figure out one's purpose and [asking] "What is it all about?"”

Thinking Trying Humans Whole Purpose Human Beings Mystery Honest Figures Planets Asking Being Honest

Author:Annie Lennox

“The thing I remember the most was not understanding why, if you were doing the right thing, then why did people want to kill you? I remember asking my parents, 'Why is it when people are trying to help other people then they're dying?'”

People Ifs Want Trying Helping Remember Parent Understanding Dying Asking Helping Others Right Thing Doing The Right Thing Understanding Why

Author:Sandra Bullock

“You might want to keep trying to rise, using a path that builds on your natural strengths: sales, analysis, managing people, whatever, and keep asking for honest feedback. When you reach the point at which it feels clear you've topped out, revise your job description or take a step back. Up is not the only way.”

People Way Want Feels Trying Might Jobs Natural Steps Path Clear Honest Asking Analysis Description Feedback Keep Trying Managing People Honest Feedback

Author:Marty Nemko

“It doesn't take billions of dollars or complex medical technologies, and there doesn't have to be a dramatic upending to the current order. It's trying to change the mindset of people who deal with youth to have less judgement and more curiosity. That's asking a lot, emotionally it's asking people to step up and engage more. But what I often heard was that is easier for them to engage emotionally, than to just be angry and judgmental.”

“I witnessed a lot of violence, and I found myself asking the question: Do you ever use violence to try to bring about political change?”

Trying Use Political Found Violence Asking Political Change

Author:Mairead Corrigan

“When I'm working as a director, I might have an idea of my own but I'm also trying to get great ideas out of my actors. Directing is much more psychological - it's a lot like being a general. And you have to be organized. While you're making a film, you have between 2 and 500 people asking you a billion questions.”

People Trying Ideas Might Film Actors My Own Directors Asking Billions Psychological Organized Great Idea

Author:Julie Taymor

“With every movie, we will spend a season of prayer just asking God what's on his heart, and we spent about a year, two years, in prayer, trying to figure out the direction for the next film.”

Trying Years Heart Two Film Next Prayer Figures Seasons Asking Two Years Asking God

Author:Stephen Kendrick

“One of the thoughtful questions we could be asking is, "Have you ever gone to Google and typed in 20 week baby or 20 week fetus? Try it and click on the images." Suddenly your friend will see what a 20-week-old baby looks like in the womb. That image is clearly a unique life.”

Trying Looks Gone Week Baby Unique Asking Thoughtful Google Womb Clicks Fetus Unique Life

Author:Steve Daines

“If you're asking me what I love, it's that point where I'm just scribbling and trying to make myself laugh and trying to outrage myself. Getting in that frame of mind where the more you laugh the more you laugh - I think that's what I'm attempting to do.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Mind Laughing Asking Attempting Outrage Frame Of Mind

Author:Barry Blitt

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