Trying Quotes

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

The things that led me to run for office - trying to figure out how we create an economy where everybody's got a fair shot and if you work hard, you can achieve your dreams.

I can't help but note that God is being useful to a lot of people trying to do harm to one another.

We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.

Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes

I've been up, down, trying to get the feeling again. All around, trying to get the feeling again. The one that makes me shiver, made my knees start to quiver.

Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.

The worst thing ever that you have to explain your joke because I was very disappointed trying to explain why the joke is funny for the interrogator.

I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.

Teachers try to make us feel lower than themselves, maybe because this is because they feel lower than outside people. One teacher told me to get out of the room and never come back, which I did.

I always try to work with people who are better than me, so I can learn more.

It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.

I do have that mindset - that most good art comes from some turmoil, from someone trying to come to some equilibrium, or come up and get a breath.

I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.

If the Masters offered no money at all, I would be here trying just as hard.

I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.

The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.

I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.

I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.

That's how I always try to start my thoughts. I write them down first, eventually it turns into a poem, and if I feel like composing something to it, then I do that.

I certainly know German colleagues in the US who try to be Americans, try to melt into Americanism, even before they get married and become American citizens. But I've never tried that.

Don't try to help people to 'not die', help them to enjoy life!

Advice I would give to anyone trying to find their own personal style: don't copy anybody, just be yourself, and make your own trends.

There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.

I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.

Just sing it. Don't prove you can sing it. I know you can, you know you can. So just do it, because if you try to prove it, you'll lose.

I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I'd get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

If a leader's actions don't back up his or her words, those who are trying to follow will first grow confused.

I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.

I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at least a moral belief.

There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go.

If arithmetic overflow is a fatal error, some fascist pig with a read-only mind is trying to enforce machine independence.

To me, Texas is Austin, a bunch of cool people trying to make a difference.

You have to be as light as you can be and not get weighed down and stuck in your emotion, stuck in your body, stuck in your head. You just want to always be trying to elevate somehow.

Evil cannot be "treated" -- nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matters not why the evil is in play. Society has no obligation to try to rehabilitate evil.

I'm not trying to keep anybody happy.

The only difference between your abilities and others is the ability to put yourself in their shoes and actually try.

I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.

Try being my size and going into a public restroom.

Try to think where you want to put the ball, not where you don't want it to go.

I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.

As a comic, I've heard gunshots while I'm trying to get to sleep. I've performed where people wanted to do you harm after the show because of something you said.

Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are.

I really try to say things as they basically are and it so happens that it is a good message that things are getting better, but there are still problems.

In my career the push has always been to take another step, to try something new.

I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me.

I just try to do things on stage that I think the audience would enjoy. And I try to draw on and add to acts that I've enjoyed watching.

I don't consciously try to make things difficult as much as I try to make them a little different. I like all kinds of laughs. I tried to make a show that elicit groans, guffaws, chuckles, boos.

I think controversy has this allusion of being controversial but it's totally not, which is why I'm trying to get away from it because it's just easy and automatic.

I'm the type of person, I cross the bridges once I get to 'em. I don't try to plan my life three, four months in advance, because you don't know if tomorrow's promised to you.