Trying Quotes

Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.

I was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering that the most trying incidents of my life served only to strengthen the union.

Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.

I can lose my temper from time to time, but I try not to lose it on the pitch because it can't help.

I'm trying to make music a sensual expression, not an academic experiment.

Every year I try to make adjustments and learn.

I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything. I just want (the audience) to have an experience that moves them.

Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far.

People are trying so hard to become famous. Johnny Marbles, he tried to throw a pie in Rupert Murdoch's face. What do I gotta do, give Sumner Redstone a wedgie?

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

I am not an expert in this field but I do try to keep up to date with the Bundesliga. And I do follow World Cups and European Championships more closely.

I get a special joy in knowing people feel comfortable if they see me in Wal-Mart or in a no-frills section trying to get something on a discount.

People try to make sense of things, and if they don’t know the answers, they make them up,because for some, a wrong answer is better than none.

When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.

I try to keep my head on straight and take nothing for granted.

Courage is saying maybe what I'm doing isn't working, maybe I should try something else.

My most pronounced writing habit is trying not to write.

The truth is, no matter how trying they become, babies two and under don't have the ability to make moral choices, so they can't be bad. That category only exists in the adult mind.

The way I go about choosing roles is basically by just trying to pick the complete opposite of the last thing I did, or if it has someone else who I really have wanted to work with.

I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is.

I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear; that's what Jesus said to do.

We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.

We all try to forget what hurts us, it is sometimes the only way we can continue.

I resolved to move just a little bit more slowly through the world, to look around myself with greater care, and to try to remain conscious of all that was going on around me at all times.

I have a black look I do not like. It is a mask I try on. I migrate toward it and its frog sits on my lips and defecates.

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?"

You have to find things that are accessible and doable in your busy life and try to fit some time in your schedule to just have time to yourself and be able to recoup and refocus.

Dakin (to Irwin, his teacher): Do you really believe that, sir, or are you just trying to make us think?

I'm trying to teach my girlfriend how to surf. But I just end up yelling at her the whole time. Because I don't know how to surf.

I love Pittsburgh. Most of my family still lives there and I try to get back a couple of times a year.

I can't find my car keys in the morning. Trying to get out of my house is a nightmare. 'Where's my wallet? Where are my keys? I have to go find a missing person.'

I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.

Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant.

If you smash a city when you're trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the access for your own armoured vehicles.

The harder you try to suppress the truth, the more inevitable it is that it will find a way to come out.

I'm trying to feel terrified and alone. And regret every decision I've ever made, drenched in a cold sweat. It's called going to sleep. Maybe you've heard of it.

I think that if you grow up trying to be the best then you have to be competitive because the more you compete, the more someone is there that is a challenge and the more your performance improves.

What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art.

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.

The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In brief, he repeats the Fall.

Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.

I am not an individualist in the Western sense. Collectivism can become oppressive when it tries to dictate; the rights of the two should not clash.

Life can be very deep, but I'm trying to stay at the shallow end.

I fail frequently - I just try to keep it quiet.

I worked, studied, mothered and continued to be an activist. I found that Cuba was much different from the US; its government was genuinely trying to erase racism.

I can assure you that buying leases for x and selling them for 5x or 10x is a lot more profitable than trying to produce gas at $5 or $6 per million cubic feet.

There is hardly anything more confusing than a really strong-willed woman and when you are surrounded by two of them in the midst of trying to save the world, it really adds to some drama!

The biggest task in the morning is to try to keep my headspace from being invaded by the outside world.

A politician is like quicksilver: if you try to put your finger on him, you find nothing under it.