Trying Quotes

It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives; they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives.

I'm more interested in melodic things. I think the biggest challenge when you go to play a solo is trying to invent a melody on the spot.

Ever try to have a conversation with someone on drugs? It just doesn't work.

Once you've spent two years trying to wiggle one toe, everything is in proportion.

While most students were trying to draw one beautiful finished piece, I would be in the background drawing dozens of studies at different angles to use later.

Filmmaking is always about keeping the right distance, and it's always a struggle. You struggle for more access. It's a little bit of a seduction process, trying to get more access.

To try and fit reincarnation into a neat mental package is very unwise. You will be very surprised when you discover that it doesn't work out that way. Your illusions will be painful for you.

I'm a snake oil salesman as much as anyone else, but I try to keep something for myself.

The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to picture the new concept in terms of ideas which existed before.

Human minds are limitless, like space. It may be foolish for a person to even try to deliberately affect another person's mind.

Concerning the loved ones who have passed on ... do not try to make me believe that they are doing nothing, merely resting, careless ever. That would imply the condition of Hell, not of Heaven.

When your trying to be an adult in a relationship you seriously don't need to lie or front and try to put on this big picture or pseud like your something that your not.

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

Teaching is only interesting because you struggle with trying to talk about photographs, photographs that work, you see.

There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things better left unsaid. At times I'd much rather talk about other (people's) work.

Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!

You know a one eyed woman, she do the best she can. She search the world over trying to find her a one eyed man.

The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.

George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.

I just always wonder if I'm too obsessive about subjects. I try to avoid that.

I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.

I don't like religion very much. I think it's all about people trying to be very certain about things that are very uncertain.

I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.

Those who speak much are blamed, those who speak little are blamed. In this world there are none who are not blamed. Try not to blame.

I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.

People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.

Now I understand. When you love someone, you have to try things even if they don't make sense to anyone else.

We who run...are different from those who merely study us. We are out there experiencing what they are trying to put into words.

Try everything that can be done.... Learn your own possibilities.

A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

Being an actor is easy, just picture someone in a room and you outside waiting for your cue to go in. Elliot Gould's been trying that for forty years.

It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.

No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.

Success is when you try to achieve your inward vision externally and have it come off the way you see it. Then YOU feel successful about it; that's how success is measured.

To try to be brave is to be brave.

See ye not, Courtesy is the true Alchemy, turning to gold all it touches and tries?

It's really difficult trying to find the line where you don't piss anybody off.

I just feel "One More Try" is better lyrically. "Careless Whisper" was written when I was 17 years old, and I had not really experienced anything that strong in my life, so it was a bit precocious.

We have been actively trying to have New York City host the 2012 Olympics.

If you cannot solve the proposed problem try to solve first some related problem.

There’s part of me that loves words. But sometimes it feels like you’re trying to drive nails with your shoe.

And there is distrust in Washington. I am surprised, frankly, at the amount of distrust that exists in this town. And I'm sorry it's the case, and I'll work hard to try to elevate it.

Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side.

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations we should do so with compassion.

The Jersey mentality is: I work, I drink, I stay up all night, I try to meet a girl, it's a waste of time.

I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.

I know that I've overfed myself trying to prop myself up because I'm exhausted.

Actresses are nightmares. I don't hang out with any of them. That's a problem with my profession. I try not to be like an actress.

I think the diva is kind of a cliche. My definition of a diva is somebody whose talent does not match what they're trying to play, so all this temperament comes out.