Trying Quotes

Sometimes it's nice to try different instruments because they have a different sound to offer and therefore your approach changes a little bit. But, I always come back to the piano.

Gratitude helps us stop trying to control outcomes. It is the key that unlocks positive energy in our life. It is the alchemy that turns problems into blessings, and the unexpected into gifts.

While I am rehearsing a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

Every morning, I wake up trying to be the best mom and the best role model for my kids in a healthy diet and active lifestyle.

You will never see my sons in parties. We keep to ourselves and try to do whatever we have to do.

Freaky monsters were trying to kill us," Sabrina said. "Should I have just died out there so you could keep your clubhouse secret?" "Absolutely!" the prince said.

I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.

I don't think you can bury words. I think the more you try to dismiss them, the more power you give to them, the more circulation they have.

If it turns out that my best wasn't good enough, at least I won't look back and say that I was afraid to try; failure makes me work even harder.

Failure is acceptable. but not trying is a whole different ball park.

I don't go out and just try to score. I score because there is an opportunity to score.

I do not have a problem, I enjoy gambling, but I think people are trying to make it seem like I have a problem, because people really don't know.

I've always thought that the act of playing the guitar was the act of trying to make a point of playing the guitar.

I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.

The First Amendment was designed to protect offensive speech, because nobody ever tries to ban the other kind.

Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young.

A lot of people wanted to try to make me the white Nicki Minaj. That’s not what I’m trying to do. I love ‘hood’ music, but my talent is as a singer.

Why did we get together? Because God wanted us to do it. We were just trying to do what God wants us to do. We didn't feel like we had much of a choice.

They are still trying to bomb with artillery and rocket-propelled grenades to hit the Republican Guard who are controlling Saddam International Airport.

You are the somewhere you are trying to get to.

You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.

That's what I've been trying to strive for - to draw a clear picture, to open up a new dimension.

Nothing is more difficult than trying to correct history.

The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.

My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity.

I don't expect everybody to like me. If you try to please everybody, by changing your position and your personality, every time you do that you lose a little bit of yourself.

Have you been tormented with fears and doubts? Bombarded with temptation to sin? Try praising the Lord, and watch Satan flee.

The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.

Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.

Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up.

The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas.

Everything is possible if you try enough so if something doesn't work out, you're not trying enough.

I try to be bad, but nobody will let me.

I think that this stage in my life is really, for a lot of reasons, pretty incredible. Being a solo artist and trying to take these bold steps on my own.

& I think I like him better with the fitted cap on He aint even gotta try to put the mack on

If you've got red hair, try washing it in cranberry juice. And, if you're blonde, a champagne rinse can work wonders.

Acting for me is not a business, it's about trying to make pieces of art that I believe that I feel proud of. And it's the journey of that.

I'm one of those people who always tries to overachieve. I want to do more. I want to do bigger things.

I try not to read best-dressed lists or anything like that.

I'm just who I am. I don't try to change myself for other people.

Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things. - Humbug

It's difficult to oppress people who have a sense of identity and unity, he says. Our struggle is about being seen as human beings trying to earn our daily bread.

There is nothing wrong with trying to exploit the natural human tendency to become impatient when forced to play a boring position.

I mean, we're always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.

No, but it’s not because I’m getting older that I’m trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I’m getting.

I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.

Trying to remember, I have learned, is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, like trying to hold back the monsoon.

The only still center of my life is Macbeth. To go back to doing this bloody, crazed, insane mass-murderer is a huge relief after trying to get my cell phone replaced.

You're trying to create a screenplay and your screenplay is there to give you a structure, rigidity, situational awareness, who the characters are, what do they want, what's the shape of the thing.

We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets.