Best trying & ifs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I hate fights. I try to talk people out of fighting if I can and if they start I run away.”

People Ifs Trying I Can Running Hate Fighting I Hate Running Away

“If you're trying to be more creative, one of the most important things you can do is increase the volume and diversity of the information to which you are exposed.”

Ifs Trying Important Can Do Creative Information Diversity Increase Important Things Exposed Volume

Author:Jonah Lehrer

“Since the composer has said everything, if you discover everything, it will be enough and you will be a happy man. Don't try to say it's your taste, and because of that you are changing this or that. And I must say this respect is still there.”

Ifs Men Trying Said Stills Enough Taste Composer Happy Man

Author:Kurt Masur

“If you have a problem, try to get help, you can get through it if you get help.”

Ifs Trying Helping Problem

Author:Maureen McCormick

“Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!”

Ifs Trying Stills Facts Feelings Used Parent Mom Proud Band My Mom One Direction

Author:Zayn Malik

“If you try to breastfeed and it's not working, then you don't feel particularly good about yourself.”

Ifs Feels Trying About Yourself

Author:Denise Van Outen

“My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.”

Ifs Trying Downfall Nemesis

Author:Jennifer O'Neill

“One of the ideas I've clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out.”

Ifs Trying Ideas Hard Enough Life Is Work Out

Book:The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

Source: The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

“I really enjoy making sure the kids get a healthy dinner, a good bath and several books... I really like to try and end the day with some quality time with my kids. If not, I feel guilty.”

Ifs Feels Trying Book Ends Kids Enjoy Quality Healthy Dinner Guilty Baths Quality Time

Author:Norah O'Donnell

“It's great if a pilot starts off great and if it doesn't start off so great it's not that big a deal: everybody's baby is born ugly. But you want to know, if given the opportunity: Where are we going? What's the story we're trying to tell?”

Ifs Knows Want Trying Stories Bigs Opportunity Given Born Deals Baby Ugly Pilots

Author:Timothy Olyphant

“Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in endless self deceptions. If he possesses a grain of wisdom he will lay down his arms and name the unknown by the more unknown - ignotum per ignotius - that is by the name of God.”

Ifs Men Trying Stills Self God Names Arms Lays Endless Command Deception Grain Self Deception

Author:Carl Jung

“I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Persons Character Worry Let Me Agents Description

Author:Vanessa Lengies

“But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.”

Ifs Want Trying Done Asks Prove Want Me

Author:Abbey Lincoln

“My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant to political concerns. If you want to understand Muslims, I argued, you need to understand the role of Islam in their lives. Now that seems obvious.”

Ifs Want Needs Trying Firsts Two Shows Seems Political Careers Roles Concern Islam Obvious Divides Relevant Before And After

Author:Daniel Pipes

“I would encourage anybody struggling with their sexuality to go with their heart. If it's not an appropriate time, there will be one later. Never, ever try to rush into anything - do it in your own time.”

Ifs Trying Heart Struggle Sexuality Appropriate Appropriate Time

Author:Danny Pintauro

“I'm always interested in finding the new trend. If you love pizza every day, after 22 years of eating pizza, you want to try sushi.”

Ifs Want Trying Years Findings Eating Trends Pizza Sushi

Author:Jean Pigozzi

“Now, I don't actually know the exact cut-off age where beautiful ceases and "must have-once-been-beautiful" begins. It's true it's not forty-five. I can still get attention when I try really hard, even if it's greatly reduced.”

Ifs Knows Trying Stills I Can Hard Age Beautiful Attention Five Cutting Cease Forty

Author:Paulina Porizkova

“President Obama has been attacking relentlessly. In 2008 he said that if you're out of fresh ideas you use stale tactics against your opponent - you try and make your opponent unacceptable and that's what he is trying to do.”

Ifs Trying Has Beens Said Ideas Use President Opponents President Obama Tactics Attacking Stale Fresh Ideas

Author:Rob Portman

“I don't really talk about my personal life. It's a strange and funny and weird thing. Sometimes you have a conversation with someone and the paparazzi snaps a picture of you and people decide you're dating. If I try to answer everything people say, I would be up all night.”

People Ifs Trying Sometimes Would Be Night Answers Strange Conversation Dating Personal Life All Night Snaps Paparazzi Weird Things Up All Night

Author:Tracee Ellis Ross

“The best thing to do is find one person in your life and try to love them unconditionally. If you've accomplished that, you've accomplished a lot.”

Ifs Trying Persons Best Things Things To Do Accomplished

Author:Guy Ritchie

“You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory' before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.”

Ifs Knows Trying Done Whole Moments Dream Games Memories Whole Life That Moment

Author:Wayne Rooney

“I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.”

Ifs Thinking Men Feels Trying Labels Wizards Rust Tin Tin Man

Author:Ali Smith

“I've found in my own life, if you try to struggle against what the universe is telling you, you set yourself up for more of a battle.”

Ifs Trying Universe Found My Own Struggle Battle My Own Life

Author:Michael Stuhlbarg

“Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive.”

Ifs Thinking Way Trying Wells Persons Life Is Imagine Sincere Compassionate Sincerely Life Is Like Satirical

Author:Curtis Sittenfeld

“People always try to put a title or a symbol on you. If you work in a bank, you are a banker. For me, they see a co-founder of Facebook.”

People Ifs Trying Symbols Titles Founders Bankers

Author:Eduardo Saverin

“I like to be able to control which players I'm working with. Because it doesn't matter how good a coach you are if the guys you're working with think they already know it all. You need a response, you need to feel they're trying. I want players who are always striving to improve.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Needs Feels Trying Matter Able Guy Player Response Strive Coaches Know It All

Author:Gordon Strachan

“People try to get into your life. They try and keep you off-balance, keep you from making good decisions that will empower you - because if your attention field is sharp - you will see if anyone is in your life for ill reasons.”

People Ifs Trying Reason Decision Attention Fields Balance Ill Empowering Good Decision

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Don't listen to voices. If you hear voices talking to you, forget it. Disregard the information, even if it is right occasionally. You are dealing with non-physical forces that are trying to influence you.”

Ifs Trying Force Voice Forget Talking Influence Information Forget It Disregard Physical Force

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's more frustrating. My expectation probably wasn't that I'd play [during the playoffs], but I was just trying to make sure that if there was any chance that it was possible to come back that I was ready and that I'd done everything I could to be ready. It's frustrating, disappointing. But can't really control any of that.”

Ifs Trying Done Play Sports Chance Ready Training Expectations Preparation Frustrating Disappointing Playoffs

Author:Sidney Crosby

“All of the systems that present different worlds, planes of being and energy centers ultimately fail if you try to make them all-inclusive. They are symbolic representations of something that lies beyond the world of thought and analysis.”

Ifs World Trying Different Wisdom Lying Energy Failing Buddhism Planes Analysis Representation Symbolic Different Worlds

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are not as happy as you used to be, chances are you are not meditating properly. You may be trying to skip steps. You are using power incorrectly. Your motives are not pure. You don't vibrate quickly.”

Ifs Trying May Happiness Used Chance Steps Buddhism Pure Used To Be Motive Chances Are Meditating Skip Vibrate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say 'No' at the same time, it sounds like neighing - yet people are perpetually doing it in novels. If they did it in real life they would be locked up.”

People Ifs Writing Trying Real Done Would Be Earth Sound Novel Laughing Real Life Locked Locked Up

Author:Hilaire Belloc

“It's always special when you're young and you have a vision for something you want to do, and somebody takes a moment to connect with you. Now if there are kids on the set I try to talk to them for a bit.”

Ifs Want Trying Moments Kids Young Bits Vision Special

Author:Jeremy Sumpter

“You make something, and you really have fun with it, and you try to put emotion in it, and at the end of the day, you have no idea how the tide is going to fall. You don't know if everyone's going to like it, if everyone's going to hate it, if it's going to be like you're a media darling, or all of a sudden you're a sellout. You have no idea.”

Ifs Knows Trying Ideas Ends Hate Fall Fun Emotion Media Like You No Idea Having Fun The End Of The Day Tides Darling And At The End Of The Day

Author:Regina Spektor

“I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else - God is in this person's life. You can - you must - try to seek God in every human life.”

Ifs Trying Humans Persons Has Beens Drug Vices Disaster Destroyed Certainty Human Life Dogmatic Certainty In Life

Book:My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

Source: My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change

“Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.”

Ifs Way Giving Writing Trying Chance Easier Scene Pages Screens Stuck Staring Finding Yourself Blank Chances Are Blank Pages

Author:Laini Taylor

“The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you.”

Ifs Way Trying Humans Art Matter Earth Force Human Beings Truth Is Degrees Ocean Bigger Boat Rhythm Martial Arts Academic Ninja Wild Places

Author:Rachael Taylor

“So many people always try to help me carry my luggage and help me do things I can do myself. If I can do it myself, I'm going to do it myself. I'm not going to let other people do it for me, and I think that's a big part of where I came from. I'm not a real prissy girl.”

People Ifs Thinking Trying I Can Real Helping Bigs Girl Can Do Help Me I Can Do It Luggage

Author:Carrie Underwood

“If someone gave me the chance to create something, I put myself into it. I just want to try to do something that will last forever and that won't leave people saying, 'Gee, it could have been better, it could've been this, it could've been that.'”

People Ifs Want Trying Has Beens Lasts Chance Forever Could Have Been

Author:Billy West

“And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.”

People Ifs World Way Trying Heart Becoming My Heart Rounds Twists Keep Trying

Book:The diary of a young girl

Source: The diary of a young girl

“I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.”

Ifs Trying Wells Shows Comedy Risk Air Willing Tvs Factors Comedian Tv Shows Improvising Thin Air Risky Business

Author:David Walliams

“If you're from South London you feel like you're always trying to win people over, so perhaps that underdog passion comes through.”

People Ifs Feels Trying Passion Winning Like You South London Always Trying Underdog

Author:Jessie Ware

“I don't have one role that I'm particularly fond of doing, and I don't really look for it to differ all the time, but I will try anything and do anything. If it's a role I connect with, I'll go for it, no matter what's involved.”

Ifs Trying Looks Matter Roles Involved No Matter What

Author:Mae Whitman

“I hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else.”

People Ifs Trying Sometimes Hate I Hate Phones Enormous Get Back Personal Business

Author:Vera Wang

“I don't have any jokes about my divorce or my ex-husband, who is a lovely person. It really is about how I was an idiot trying to push this guy to get married when I wasn't even sure if I wanted to.”

Ifs Trying Persons Wanted Guy Husband Married Jokes Divorce Lovely Idiot This Guy Exes Ex Husband Lovely Person

Author:Jen Kirkman

“Anything you do sustainably feels so good that you're a full-on addict as soon as you try it. If you eat only vegetables and fruits that you grow yourself from your garden, or organic food, it tastes so much better and is so much better for you, you can't really go back.”

Ifs Feels Trying Grows Taste Garden Fruit Vegetables Sustainability Addict Organic Food

Author:Daryl Hannah

“If you are trying to aid people in the process of self-discovery, what you have to do is confound them with so many concepts that are contradictory, yet each make complete sense in its own right.”

People Ifs Inspirational Trying Self Process Buddhism Concepts Discovery Aids Self Discovery Contradictory

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Learn to meditate, practice and don't get frustrated. It will take you years to learn to meditate perfectly. Every time you try, you are growing. It's not as if you have to meditate perfectly to make progress.”

Ifs Trying Years Practice Meditation Growing Progress Buddhism Frustrated

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation is not emptiness. That is a way of trying to talk about something that is impossible to put into words. It is a world of fullness, if anything.”

Ifs World Way Trying Meditation Impossible Buddhism Emptiness Fullness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.”

Ifs World Way Trying Christian Heaven This World Citizens Obstacles Christian Inspirational Godly

Author:Vance Havner

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