Trying Quotes

Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.

In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.

Leadership is tested not by one's capacity to survive politically but by the ability to make tough decisions in trying times.

The moment passes. There is no point in regretting irreversible decisions—one has to live with them, and we try.

I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, 'Relax!

I guess there's a vulnerability in seeing a female character trying to get out of something really drastic.

It's really hard to stay healthy over the long term of making a movie so that's why those things matter when you're trying to keep your health, literally.

Oh, the shortcomings and inconsistency of the average human being, especially when this human being is a man trying to manage women's affairs!

Really it is very wholesome exercise, this trying to make one's words represent one's thoughts, instead of merely looking to their effect on others.

Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel - as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I can - then I am nothing. Let me feel guilty ... don't try to educate me ... don't protect me.

No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.

Haven't you picked up on the irony of life by now? Things only just happen when you're not ready. When you're ready, you start trying, and gadamn I feel like trying right now.

I don't really want to do the Hollywood thing, I think you ought to try to say something with your movies.

When you try to do something you've never done before, you risk falling on your face.

You were trying to tell me something and I was trying to tell you something else. We didn't trust each other and that was reason enough to make each of us right.

I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.

Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.

I try to leave out the parts readers skip.

I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them.

I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.

I try not to look at it that way. Being white. I don't wake up every day and look in the mirror, 'Oh. I'm white.'

Because I'm very petite, I try not to wear things that have a heavy pattern because I feel like they overtake you.

Anyone who tries to deny #ClimateChange looks a little bit bonkers.

I hope my head doesn't get very big. I'm just going to keep my feet on the ground, stick to friends and family and try to lead a normal life.

I try to keep myself as sane and as grounded as possible by surrounding myself with normal people, such as all the friends that I've had from when I was little.

Don't try to understand me, just be grateful that you felt the warmth of Zaphod Beeblebrox's aura on your wonderstruck face.

As an artist, you're always trying to reach a new height, do something new, try something you haven't done before, and push your boundaries.

Most women got this thing called compassion. It doesn't make them foolish, just more forgiving. More capable of trying and hoping things worked out.

Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week.

I've got the opportunity of a lifetime. Some great things are happening because of momentum and I'm just trying to seize the moment.

People think that if you're sexy you have no brains, and if you have brains you aren't in touch with your sexual side. I'm trying to tell people, 'You can have it both ways.'

For the first two years of a child's life, we spend every waking hour tryibg to get the child to communicate. Then we spend the rest of our lives trying to figure out how we can reverse the process.

Everybody has this fond association with the car from Back to the Future, but most people have never seen one. I've seen people drive off the berm trying to take pictures. It ends up being dangerous.

I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.

A picture can be an answer as well as a question but if you can't answer your question try to question your question... There can be questions without answers but no answers without questions.

I really started trying to get my act together in August of 2002.

It's becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we're trying to get new groups of people talking.

I am trying to find out why a subject does look so marvelous, and trying to make that sensation manifest on a flat surface.

I was trying to help you, so I was beating wrong.

I cannot give it to you, so try to watch me.

One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.

I'm super down with being irresponsible. I'm just trying to make sure my lack of responsibility no longer hurts people.

I'm trying to fight typecasting as hard as I can, while I have time.

One gal drank a can of floor wax and topped it off with a cup of Clorox, trying to separate herself from the same world he was in.

I pretend I am a princess,so that I can try and behave like one.

It's a pretty crazy task to try to describe God "quickly." Everything starts with a healthy fear of Him.

Most filmmakers can't afford to try something out that doesn't work.

When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you.

There is no more dangerous illusion than the fancies by which people try to avoid illusion.