Trying Quotes
What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?
I try to live honestly in every aspect of my life, which can make things a bit more complicated, right?
Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this.
When you don't know what to do, try something; if that doesn't work, try something else.
It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can.
I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.
I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.
I'll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can.
Keeping your body in shape is a spiritual discipline. Its not just about losing a few pounds, wanting to live longer, or trying to look nicer.
I'm looking forward to getting in Reliant and trying to get a win there. That's a great venue and a wonderful race.
That's kind of the mission statement for the label: to try to do great music that touches people's hearts.
It was like trying to break up with the color orange, or Wednesday, or silent e. It was the most passionate and tumultuous relationship I'd ever known.
I have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people.
Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.
You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not that tired.
Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office?
By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking.
I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential.
There's no more of an excuse for blaming other people or the world for at least not trying what you should be trying.
It’s funny now, trying to socialise with people. There’s this cautiousness about people which I just find really weird.
Most artists try to break your heart, or they accidentally break their own hearts.But I find the quietness in the ordinary much more satisfying.
Yes, and many times it's frustrating, because I'm simply part of the show, and I'm not in the creative end of it, who goes out with detectives and tries to find these things out.
We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.
I'm not in this business to win a popularity contest, I just want to be a good actor. Well, you've failed at being a good actor. Why not try for the popularity contest?
I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time.
The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.
I do not have a daily routine, but each morning, I try to spend an hour in bed, visualizing positive outcomes for my life, health, and career.
We should respect each other as rational beings by trying to achieve our goals through reason and persuasion rather than threats and coercion.
We got touring with the Stones, and people were trying to keep up with Keith. He's like a human machine with a constitution of iron, and they all thought they could do the same.
We need to stop spending so much of our time trying to make the right decisions and instead start spending our time making decisions and then making them right.
If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that.
I'm going to try really hard not to be bossy, but I've only done stand-up comedy and then my own show where you're the total boss of everything!
You have forgotten the One who doesn't care about ownership, who doesn't try to turn a profit from every human exchange.
I am dissatisfied with everything I have ever written and regard it all only as a preparation for that one work which probably I don't have it in me to write but which I hope I can go on trying for.
If I don't get the service or if I don't the ball in the box, where I want it, I start drifting into midfield. I go and look for the ball. I try to be important for the team in other areas.
You can't make a movie for everybody. You can't go into it trying to alienate people, but you have to assume that you're going to.
Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.
When it becomes hard for me not to eat bad food, I try to think about what I have to do and what is ahead of me and what I want to achieve.
I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!
I had been reading this book about Zen Koan philosophy, and it was talking about the right here and the right now, and how important it is, and I was really trying to get there in my life.
Extending the language of film sometimes starts with just trying to show one true thing.
No matter what you're trying to do there will be noise in the market... Before the race starts, I'm already focused on the victory.