Trying Quotes

I write every day when I'm at home - trying to catch up with correspondence.

I think I'm still trying to find my feet as an actor. And I know it ain't brain surgery, but it confuses me and it comes between me and my sleep a lot.

I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes.

Each simian had a much different body suit, so besides trying to define class across species, there was a definite attempt to dress each group in different styles.

I've found my place in life, that I'm passionate about, my talents and my passion have merged, and I'm trying to do the best that I can.

Part of the challenge of the Barack Obama campaign was to try to neutralize that white backlash, and of course, he was masterful in doing that.

I do this for her and my family. This is my way of paying my mom back by going after my goals relentlessly and trying to win that Oscar one day.

I'd choose truth over cake but I'd try to find a way to get both to be honest.

We don't think of ourselves as do-gooders or altruists. It's just that somehow we're trying our best to be run with some sense of moral compass even in a business environment that is growing.

There is no harm in dreaming of becoming the world's best player. It is all about trying to be the best. I will keep working hard to achieve it but it is within my capabilities.

Advice is like cooking-you should try it before you feed it to others.

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.

Set-backs in efforts to implement an ideal do not prove that the ideal is wrong...

Let us try to recognize the precious nature of each day.

I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself.

Meditation is hard. You are constantly trying to focus on one thing, usually your breath, and your mind is going to go berserk.

Don't be so busy trying to make a living that you're too busy to make a life.

Try everything, because you're never sure what you're going to be great at.

It's the challenge of trying to evoke any kind of sympathy for a role that ordinarily we would say, "Oh, this is a bad guy" and dismiss him.

I've been ignoring my feelings lately. That works pretty well. Might also settle for less this week, just to try it out.

I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.

I try personally not to be nostalgic.

I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.

I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.

Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.

I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.

There's no downside to traveling the world and making money. I'm doing something I love. A lot of people have sucky jobs, but I have a good one, and I'm not trying to lose it any time soon.

For one thing, I like to walk when I play golf. Now I don't walk the whole way, but I try not to be the driver when in a cart.

That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible

Another well-known Paris landmark is the Arc de Triomphe, a moving monument to the many brave women and men who have died trying to visit it.

Please try not to be such a wiener-head.

There are times when I feel like I'm a traveling minister. I'm trying to go out and get kids to pick-up yard sale instruments and change the world.

I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.

I'm trying to keep my personal life personal. It's very hard for me because I'm a very honest person.

Well, as far as film, either you're making a film or you're making videos. Digital capture is always trying to emulate the range and look of film. I believe personally that film has more.

Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?

The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.

Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this century.

All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.

Don't let tradition paralyze your mind. Be receptive to new ideas. Be experimental. Try new approaches. Be progressive in everything you do.

I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.

I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.

As a teenager, I was really trying to have fun 24 hours a day. I didn't start thinking until I was 20 or 21. I was doing regular goof-ball stuff.

No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try.

I am a serious artist in my own right, in the sense that I've spent my entire life being an artist and trying to be an artist and making work.

In my better moments, I think of apathy as purpose's sleep. In my worse moments, when I'm trying to fix it or get rid of it, I call it feeling lazy, depressed, or useless.

Corporatism trying to redeem itself through charity is akin to a serial killer offering to pay a fine for his crimes.

Our society nurtures the illusion that all the rewards go to the people who are perfect. But many of us are finding out that trying to be perfect is costly.

There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers.

I don't think it is worth trying to look 10 years younger through surgery.